Author: Voxtrend News
It was supposed to be a quiet Christmas afternoon in Montgomery County, Texas. But for one family, holiday peace shattered when their 15-year-old daughter didn’t return from a short walk with her dog. That simple act of stepping outside sparked a parent’s worst nightmare—and an extraordinary rescue driven by a father’s quick thinking. The teen had only been gone a short time before worry set in. Using a phone-tracking app, her father followed the digital trail to a chilling location: a secluded, wooded spot roughly two miles from their home. He didn’t call police and wait. He drove straight there…
EVANSVILLE, Ind. — The grief of losing their son turned into legal trouble for De’Jon Darrell Fox Sr. and Chardnae Cleveland this Christmas week. The Indianapolis couple, still reeling from the fatal shooting of their 19-year-old son, De’Jon Fox Jr., at Kentucky State University earlier this month, now face felony intimidation charges in Vanderburgh County, Indiana. � Court records show that on Dec. 25, just one day after their son was killed in the campus shooting, police arrested Fox, 38, and Cleveland, 37, on accusations they made threatening posts online aimed at Jacob Bard — the Evansville man initially charged…
It sounds like a scene pulled from a holiday movie. But for 12-year-old Tristen Taylor, it was real life, and it unfolded fast inside his family’s home in Medford, New York. On Tuesday afternoon, December 23, Tristen was home alone when the quiet broke. He heard glass shatter in the kitchen. Moments later, he heard footsteps. Someone was moving from room to room inside the house. Tristen did not freeze. He did not try to hide inside. He made a quick decision that likely saved him from harm. He climbed out of his ground-floor bedroom window and slipped outside without…
CASTLE ROCK TOWNSHIP, Minn. — Tayah Giles, a 26-year-old mom of two, was fatally shot on Christmas Eve at a rural home near Farmington. Her fiancé, identified by family as DeMarco Jones of Saint Paul, was found seriously injured and rushed to a hospital after deputies answered gunfire calls just after 2:20 p.m. on Dec. 24. � Neighbors and relatives described the scene on 250th Street West, just off Highway 3, as shocking and heartbreaking. When Dakota County Sheriff’s deputies arrived, they found Giles dead at the home and Jones with life-threatening wounds. Law enforcement says the public faces no…
STREETER, N.D. — On the quiet morning of December 24, a head-on collision on State Highway 30 shattered the calm three miles south of Streeter, claiming the lives of two long-haul truck drivers and leaving a third person in serious condition. What should have been another routine holiday run turned into a devastating tragedy that has left families and neighbors alike struggling to make sense of the loss. � At about 8:30 a.m. on Christmas Eve, a northbound 2026 International semi-truck driven by 39-year-old Abdullahi Mohamud of Moorhead, Minnesota, veered into the path of a southbound 2025 Kenworth truck driven…
In a quiet afternoon at the Karen L. Johnson DMV in Wilmington, what started as a normal day turned into tragedy. Rahman Rose, a 44-year-old local from the city, walked in pretending to be just another customer. He headed straight for the reception desk where Cpl. Matthew T. “Ty” Snook was helping out on overtime. Without warning, Rose pulled out a handgun and shot Snook from behind. It happened fast, around 2 p.m. on December 23. Even as bullets hit him, Snook didn’t think of himself first. He shoved a nearby DMV worker out of the line of fire and…
The small town of Pahokee is reeling from a devastating loss. Joshua Jones, a 39-year-old local man, lost his life in a high-speed dirt bike accident on Christmas evening. It happened right in the heart of the community, turning a day of joy into one of deep sorrow.Jones was riding his 2021 Yamaha YZ450F dirt bike north on Lake Avenue. The bike wasn’t meant for the road—it had no license tag and was deemed unroadworthy by authorities. He was zooming along at a high rate of speed, not wearing any safety gear. That’s when tragedy struck around 5:38 p.m. At…
It all started as a routine attempt to pull someone over, but it quickly spiraled into a chaotic scene that left a man dead behind a local big-box store. Just before the sun began to set on Thursday, what many residents expected to be a quiet evening of post-holiday errands was shattered by the sound of sirens and gunfire. A police pursuit that began miles away ended in a final, fatal confrontation in the back lot of the Lake Worth Walmart, leaving the community shaken and investigators searching for answers. The driver of a battered red pickup truck, who authorities…
As the morning fog hung low over the quiet mountain town of Wallace on Friday, the usual peace was shattered by a sound no one ever wants to hear. Just after the work day began, a gunman walked into the lobby of the Shoshone County Sheriff’s Office and opened fire. The chaos sparked a terrifying hours-long standoff that left the community reeling and three people wounded before the shooter was eventually killed. It all started around 2:30 p.m. inside the sheriff’s building on Bank Street. Witnesses say the lobby, usually a place for routine paperwork and public business, quickly turned…
It was supposed to be a routine hand-off, the kind of Friday morning scene families go through every day across North Carolina. But at the Edible Arrangements shop in a busy Mint Hill shopping center, things took a terrifying turn that no one saw coming. Two local police officers, who were just there to make sure a child custody exchange went smoothly, ended up in the fight of their lives after a suspect identified over police scanners as David Caldwell allegedly opened fire. The quiet of the morning was shattered just before 11 a.m. when the situation at the Matthews-Mint…