Author: Voxtrend News
Early Sunday morning in Lincoln County, North Carolina, a devastating wrong-way collision on U.S. Highway 16 near NC 73 claimed the lives of two men and left a child fighting for recovery. At approximately 12:40 a.m., a 2006 Acura RSX being driven northbound in the southbound lanes collided head-on with a 2014 Nissan Altima. Both vehicles burst into flames after the impact. The driver of the Acura was identified as 32-year-old Rashann Jakeem Curmon of Charlotte; he died at the scene. A child who had been a passenger in his vehicle was transported to a nearby hospital with injuries described…
Shortly after 12:50 a.m. this Sunday, a routine traffic stop on northbound Interstate 93 in Canterbury, New Hampshire, turned into a fatal high-speed chase. Troopers say a 20-year-old Saugus, Massachusetts man refused to stop after being spotted by a trooper for speeding near Exit 12. Instead, his blue 2020 Honda Civic accelerated into the night. The pursuit escalated rapidly. State police estimate the vehicle was reaching speeds up to 120 mph as it wove northward on the highway, unable — or unwilling — to heed the trooper’s commands. As the Civic approached Exit 18, the driver attempted the off-ramp but…
In the small earliness just after 3:45 a.m. in Jackson Township, Cambria County, what should have been a quiet spring dawn instead ended in tragedy. A pickup truck parked along Heritage Lane became the site of a fatal shooting, and the victim has been identified as 55-year-old Robert E. Hagen Jr. of the community. Coroner Jeff Lees confirmed that Hagen was discovered inside his truck with a gunshot wound to his upper torso, suffering massive blood loss by the time first responders arrived. The death has been officially ruled a homicide. Investigators arrived at the scene after police were called, and the resulting investigation…
Early Sunday in Durham County, a routine driver swap turned tragic when 24-year-old Brijette Basden lost her life and her sister, Asrael, was critically shaken in a multi-vehicle crash on I-40. The sisters had briefly pulled off to the left shoulder near Page Road around 4:45 a.m. to exchange driving duties. What followed was a chain of events none could have foreseen. They had exited the car — a Ford Fusion parked, in part, on the roadway — when a 2003 Toyota Camry barreled down the far-left lane and struck both women and their vehicle. The force of that impact…
Late Friday morning in a quiet Spring neighborhood, the sounds of pool equipment and laughter were replaced by terror when 69-year-old Kathy Brown was found dead inside her home on Hannover Forest Drive — reportedly the victim of a breakdown and gunfire involving her 27-year-old stepdaughter, Dakayla Dailey. It was just after 10:45 a.m. when a service worker tending to the backyard pool heard five rapid gunshots coming from inside the house. Deputies from the Harris County Precinct 4 Constable’s Office responded to the 21300 block of Hannover Forest Drive and found Brown in the kitchen with multiple gunshot wounds. Her stepdaughter, Dakayla…
On July 1, the morning sun was just starting its rise over the industrial lot on Mayo Shell Road in Galena Park when 36-year-old Gbemisola Akayinode pulled into work at a mineral plant. In the back seat of her Toyota Camry sat her nine-year-old daughter, Oluwasikemi Akayinode, alive—but for how long? With a weakened sunshade at the windshield, the windows partially down, and some water by her side, the little girl was left alone inside a locked vehicle with the midsummer heat closing in. For eight long hours, investigators say Gbemisola left Oluwasikemi alone while she worked her shift. It wasn’t until…
At around 1:18 a.m. this Sunday in Findlay Township, Pennsylvania, tragedy struck when 26-year-old Summer Cartrette of Aliquippa was driving eastbound in the westbound lanes of I‑376 (commonly called the Parkway West) near mile marker 54 and collided head-on with another vehicle. Emergency crews responded swiftly to the scene near the interchange serving Pittsburgh International Airport, where investigators say Cartrette’s vehicle — a Toyota Camry — crashed into the opposing vehicle, then continued east before coming to rest in the center median. She was transported to area hospital, where she succumbed to her injuries. The driver and a passenger from…
Late Saturday evening, 26-year-old Nohelis Gonzalez Umbria of South Bend lost her life in a devastating traffic accident on Old U.S. Highway 20 in Elkhart County. The crash occurred around 8:30 p.m. as rain had left the roads slick, and investigators say the sequence of events rapidly spun out of control. According to the Elkhart County Sheriff’s Office, a 24-year-old man from South Bend was driving a Honda Fit westbound when it veered off the roadway onto the wet shoulder. In an effort to recover, the driver overcorrected and the vehicle crossed the centerline, directly in front of an eastbound…
On a late afternoon on September 12, 2023, 31-year-old model and real-estate hopeful Maleesa Mooney was discovered dead in her downtown Los Angeles apartment—stuffed into her own refrigerator, her body bound and battered. Her life, full of vibrancy and connection, had been cut shockingly short. Just days earlier, Maleesa had begun something that looked hopeful. She had recently met Magnus Daniel Humphrey, a 41-year-old man from Minnesota, through mutual friends. Friends recall they were inseparable almost immediately: laughing, taking selfies, talking future, with one friend even quoting Maleesa saying, “I’m gonna marry him.” But behind those happy snapshots started to lie cracks. Maleesa…
It was meant to be a relaxed Wednesday evening, but for 18-year-old Dynasty Battle and her companions, the night spiraled into shock and heartbreak. Around 10:50 p.m. on October 15, 2025, inside an apartment in the 900 block of North 9th Street in Lafayette, Indiana, a moment of careless handling of a firearm turned fatal. According to investigators from the Lafayette Police Department, Dynasty had been inside the residence when her friend, 20-year-old Grace Fultz, pointed and waved a small-caliber pistol at others in the apartment. At some point, the gun discharged, and the bullet struck Dynasty in the chest.…