Deliberations Resume In Newark Schoolyard Slayings Trial
Alexander Alfaro faces 17 counts including murder, felony murder and robbery.
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Alexander Alfaro faces 17 counts including murder, felony murder and robbery.
Alexander Alfaro faces 17 counts including murder, felony murder and robbery. His trial began on March 1.
Alexander Alfaro claimed he was coerced into giving a confession, saying a Newark police detective told him to make a false statement when he was arrested two weeks after the murders.
There is explosive testimony from one of six men charged in a 2007 triple murder in a Newark schoolyard.
Muzzammil Hassan expressed deep regret as he was given the maximum sentence when he appeared before Erie County Judge Thomas Franczyk in Buffalo Wednesday.
A northern New Jersey man accused of fatally stabbing his ex-wife 84 times last summer and covering her face with a Halloween pig mask has been indicted on murder and weapons charges
Prosecutors contended Alexander Alfaro wielded a machete during the attack.
The sole survivor of the Newark schoolyard murders took the witness stand Wednesday. On trial was Alexander Alfaro, accused in the killings of three friends and the attempted murder of a fourth in August of 2007.
Bergen County prosecutors said the 24-year-old called police from a movie theater to say that he had killed the woman and wanted to turn himself in.
Was it murder or suicide for hire? That's the question in a Manhattan courtroom where Kenneth Minor is facing murder charges.
After slashing his stepfather to death with a kitchen knife, 23-year-old Maksim Gelman headed to the home of a female acquaintance, killed her mother, then waited patiently for hours for the young woman to come so he could kill her too, police said.
The alleged madman accused of going on a stabbing rampage in New York City was indicted Friday by a grand jury on 13 counts.
The woman accused of killing her estranged husband with a chemical used to kill rats said she didn't do it. Investigators said the crime might have gone unnoticed if not for a quick-thinking nurse.
Psychiatrists say a New Jersey mother was legally insane when she suffocated her 4-year-old daughter and tried to kill another daughter.
The four women were prostitutes in their 20s, advertising their services online, living on the margins of society and not likely to be immediately missed. They appeared to share similar middle-class childhoods, but it is the way they lived their adult lives that has authorities chasing a serial killer.
A handcuffed Muzzammil Hassan was escorted from the Buffalo courtroom by a half dozen court officers after a strident appeal to Erie County Judge Thomas Franczyk that failed to change the judge's mind.
Police Commissioner Lawrence Mulvey credits better police intelligence for some of the success.
The trial starts this week for a 29-year-old New York man accused of killing a husband and wife at their Connecticut jewelry store in 2005.
Opening statements in the second-degree murder trial of Muzzammil Hassan were scheduled to start Tuesday in Erie County Court in Buffalo.
The Lakewood, New Jersey community is reeling with shock after the senseless death of a beloved police officer.
Potential jurors are being asked whether they have issues with the Pakistan-born Hassan's ethnicity, or the fact that he's Muslim and may claim self-defense.
A Portuguese male model has been charged with murder in the slaying of a celebrity Portuguese television journalist, who was found castrated and bludgeoned to death in a New York City hotel, police said Monday.
Prosecution and defense lawyers expected it would take longer than usual to seat 12 jurors for Muzzammil Hassan's trial because of media attention the case has received since February 2009.
Two teens have been killed in separate early morning incidents. Police responding to a call shortly before 1 a.m. Sunday at West 186th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue found a 16-year-old boy with head trauma and stab wounds to his torso.
A Bronx man has been arrested in the killing of his wife inside the couple's apartment last month.
