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Police: Northport man shoots blindly into neighboring apartments, thought someone was 'after him'

25-year-old Mikequen Whitsett was arrested Friday morning after he allegedly fired blindly into two occupied apartments neighboring his own because he thought someone was 'after him.' ( Tuscaloosa County Jail )   A Northport man was arrested early Friday morning after allegedly firing blindly through the walls of his apartment and sending bullets into neighboring residences.  Lt. Kip Hart, the assistant commander of the Tuscaloosa County Metro Homicide Unit , said investigators were called to the Saddlewood Apartments on Deerfield Lane in Northport around 3 o' clock Friday morning when residents there reported their homes had been shot into.  Hart said officers found two apartments bullets had ripped into, both of which were occupied. The victims said the shots came from an adjacent apartment, so investigators went next door to find the occupant of the residence in question.  Inside was 25-year-old Mikequen Jaquon Whitsett , a woman and three children, Hart said.  W...

Police release identity of man killed in Zionsville shooting; witnesses report seeing two white cars

ZIONSVILLE, Ind. -- Police released the identity of a man killed in a deadly shooting in Zionsville. Officers were dispatched to the 1300 block of Quail Run Court  at Quail Run Apartments Friday morning around 5:45 a.m. after residents heard shots fired in the area. Chief Robert Knox said officers were on the scene within a minute. Police found the victim, later identified as 30-year-old Terrell Scott, of Indianapolis, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds . Two vehicles were seen leaving the area during the time of the shooting. One was a white Chevrolet Impala and the other was a white Honda Accord . In the meantime the search for the killer and police can’t say if the shooting was a random act of violence or not. “It’s way too early to speculate on something like that,” said Zionsville police chief Robert Knox . Chief Knox says the apartments where the shooting took place are not known to be a trouble spot in the small town. “A lot of good people live there. I can’t explain t...

Dad of N.J. girl killed by neighbor wants to attend funeral

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Devastated relatives will say their final farewells to little AbbieGail Smith next Monday — and her Jamaican father hopes to be among them. "I want to see my daughter for the last time, please, one last time before she goes down into the earth," distraught dad Kenroy Smith , 50, told the Daily News Monday , breaking down with emotion. The 11-year-old New Jersey girl vanished from her mom's Keansburg apartment last Wednesday and was stabbed to death by an upstairs neighbor who dumped her body in a hiding spot on the property, prosecutors said. The medical examiner confirmed that Smith died from a stab wound to the neck. 11-year-old girl found dead behind New Jersey apartment complex Accused killer Andreas Erazo , 18, was arrested hours after her body was found Thursday. He was charged Friday with first-degree murder and illegal weapons possession . "I want to see the perpetrator. I want to see him brought to justice and would like to confront hi...

Laura Lippman Reveals the Stunning Cover of Her Next Book, Sunburn, Plus an Excerpt

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Fans of best-selling crime novelist  Laura Lippman  will want to be sitting down for this announcement. Lippman’s next book, Sunburn ( William Morrow ), may come out in February 2018, but you can start reading it now. That’s right—Lippman, author of the acclaimed Tess Monaghan series , has exclusively shared the jaw-dropping cover of Sunburn for the very first time with  Parade , and she’s also giving us a sneak peek at the first few chapters. (Spoiler alert: We’re already hooked on Lippman’s newest characters, and you will be too.) When you’re done staring at the gorgeous cover, read on for an excerpt from  Sunburn . OneJune 11, 1995Belleville, Delaware It’s the sunburned shoulders that get him. Pink, peeling. The burn is two days old, he gauges. Earned on Friday, painful to the touch yesterday, today an itchy soreness that’s hard not to keep fingering, probing, as she’s doing right now in an absentminded way. The skin has started sloughing off, soon those narrow shoulders won ’t b...