Police in Florida arrested a 29-year-old man after he allegedly stabbed his ex-girlfriend to death in her car in Miami.

The Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office said in a press release it began investigating shortly before 4 p.m. Saturday when the grandmother of a 3-year-old flagged a deputy down in the area of Southwest 144th Street and Southwest 134th Avenue. The girl had been walking alone in the residential complex. She had what appeared to be dried blood on her face and clothing, cops said.

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Deputies went to the girl’s home in search of her mother but she wasn’t there. During a search of the area, cops found the mother’s vehicle and found her unresponsive with apparent stab wounds. Paramedics responded to the scene and pronounced the woman, later identified as 24-year-old Maria Camila Garcia-Molina, dead.

Through “investigative means,” cops arrested 29-year-old Joy Chandra Nath on charges of second-degree murder and child abuse.

Local NBC affiliate WTVJ obtained an arrest report that further detailed the incident. It said deputies found Garcia-Molina’s body covered in blankets in the passenger seat of her car. She suffered from stab wounds on her neck, torso and other extremities. Deputies reportedly believe the girl was with her mother at the time of the murder. The girl told deputies that her mother was hit in the head and was sleeping, according to the affidavit. It did not appear the girl suffered any physical injuries in the incident.

A Connecticut man is behind bars following the drowning death of his 7-month-old baby boy last fall, authorities say.

Angel Marcus Rodriguez, 29, stands accused of one count of manslaughter in the second degree as well as two counts each of risk of injury to a minor and two counts of second-degree reckless endangerment, according to the East Haven Police Department.

Those charges stem from Angel Josiah Rodriguez’s death — and the alleged harm that could have befallen the boy’s 3-year-old brother.

The incident occurred late in the evening on Oct. 6, 2024, at a house on Redfield Avenue in East Haven — a medium-sized town located a few miles east of New Haven and part of the broader metro area.

A Michigan man who accidentally left his 3-year-old son to die inside of a hot car for several hours last summer may, in the end, avoid significant jail time altogether, a judge ruled this week.

In January, Chad Martin, 36, pleaded guilty to one count of leaving a child in a vehicle causing death.

On Thursday, the judge overseeing the case sentenced Martin to spend nine months in the Kalamazoo County Jail — with two favorable conditions. First, the sentence is delayed to start until February 2026. Second, the judge also scheduled a conference for December of this year that could lead to the sentence being jettisoned entirely.

Regardless of his time behind bars, however, the defendant was sentenced to three years of probation that began this week.

A 22-year-old New Hampshire man stands accused of beating his girlfriend’s 23-month-old son to death when he was alone with the boy and she was grocery shopping.

Annthoni Bliss is charged with second-degree murder in the January 2024 death of Luca Hudson, the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office said in a statement. The Keene Police Department and medical personnel responded the morning of Jan. 14, 2024, to an apartment for a young child in medical distress. They arrived to find Luca unconscious and not breathing. Paramedics rushed him to the hospital where he died three days later, just a month shy of his second birthday.

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A year-plus long investigation led to charges being filed against Bliss, who had started dating Luca’s mother about a month prior to the incident after knowing each other for several years, a probable cause arrest affidavit said. The medical examiner determined the cause of death to be blunt force trauma to the head and the manner of death homicide.

Bliss and the boy’s mother denied doing anything to hurt Luca. Bliss had been staying at his girlfriend’s apartment along with Luca and the boy’s older brother, cops said. Detectives noted that Luca showed no signs of injury in the days leading up to his death.

Through interviews and reviewing surveillance footage, investigators believe the abuse happened the night before cops responded to the apartment when Luca’s mother made a nearly hour-long trip to the grocery store, according to the affidavit. In text messages between her and Bliss while she was out, the defendant made no mention that anything may have been amiss. He said Luca’s older brother had fallen asleep.

“How’s shopping baby,” Bliss allegedly texted her.

“going to check out now,” she responded.

“Okay my love,” Bliss texted.

Almost a year after a North Carolina woman was found stabbed to death in her home, one of her former classmates allegedly confessed to the crime while in jail.

According to an affidavit filed on March 20, Brandon Braxton, 33, was charged with the murder of Whitney Hurd, 32, who was found dead in her home on July 14, 2024. Braxton, who was in custody at the Mecklenburg County Jail on an unrelated charge, reportedly submitted a grievance on March 3 with a note that read, “I killed Whitney Hurd.” Detectives confirmed through video surveillance that it was Braxton who wrote the note. Braxton, who has a long list of arrests in North Carolina, was named as a person of interest in the case and has now been formally charged.

A 67-year-old grandmother in Hawaii will not be going to jail in connection with the death of her 9-year-old granddaughter, who weighed only 45 pounds when she starved in 2016 while in the woman’s care.

Hilo Circuit Court Judge Henry Nakamoto on Thursday ordered Henrietta Stone to serve a sentence of 10 years of probation over the death of young Shaelynn Lehano-Stone, authorities announced. Nakamoto handed down the sentence over the staunch objection of the Hawaii Office of the Prosecuting Attorney, who sought the maximum sentence of 20 years for Stone.

“There aren’t words to describe my disappointment and frustration in the outcome of this case. Shaelynn and our community deserved much better. Her death was caused by the three people, who she should have been able to trust the most,” Prosecuting Attorney Kelden Waltjen said in a statement released after the sentencing hearing. “We will not let this result discourage our ongoing efforts to protect our keiki.”

“Keiki” is a Hawaiian word that means “child.”

Stone in February 2024 pleaded no contest to one count of manslaughter for her role in Shaelynn’s death. She had originally been charged with one count of second-degree murder.

Shaelynn’s parents, Kevin Lehano and Tiffany K. Stone, also previously pleaded guilty to manslaughter and were sentenced to 10 years of probation, records show. Notably, the victim’s grandmother was her legal guardian at the time of her death.

A 17-year-old Florida girl is behind bars after she allegedly stabbed her boyfriend to death just days before Christmas while they were allegedly “horseplaying” with a knife in a parking garage.

Court records show Jahara Malik is facing a charge of manslaughter with a deadly weapon in the Dec. 20 death of 17-year-old Yahkeim Lollar in Miami. She’s at the Miami-Dade County jail on a $50,000 bond. According to an arrest affidavit obtained by local ABC affiliate WPLG, Miami police responded to a report of a stabbing in the parking garage at Lollar’s apartment complex in the 6100 block of Northwest Sixth Court. Paramedics rushed him to a hospital where he died.

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Per the affidavit, Malik was set to go shopping with a friend on the day in question. Before she left, she was looking for the pepper spray she typically used for protection but could not find it so she grabbed a knife instead, the affidavit reportedly said. After shopping she went to meet with Lollar in the parking garage. The two were “horseplaying” and she somehow ended up stabbing him in the chest.

Surveillance video allegedly shows Malik dropping the knife in the parking garage. A portion of Malik’s statement to police was reportedly redacted from the affidavit. A medical examiner deemed the death a homicide a few weeks later.

The parents of a young Wisconsin man have sued Walgreens and pharmacy benefit manager OptumRx over their son’s death from an asthma attack after his medication price rose from $66 to $539.

Cole Schmidtknecht, 22, had lived with chronic asthma since he was an infant, his parents Shanon and William “Bil” Schmidtknecht said in a lawsuit filed in federal court. To combat the condition, Cole used a daily steroid inhaler as preventive medication. However, when the cost of his inhaler unexpectedly rose beyond what Cole was able to afford, he went without the medication for several days, according to the lawsuit.

Cole then suffered a severe asthma attack and died.

In the 35-page complaint filed on Jan. 21 against OptumRx, Inc., Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc., and Walgreens Pharmacy, Cole’s parents explain that OptumRx is a “Pharmacy Benefit Manager” or “PBM”— one of a number of entities “that act as middlemen between health insurers, prescription drug companies, and pharmacies.”

The family further alleged that Optum is one of the nation’s three largest PBMs and is responsible for servicing drug prescription claims for over 66 million Americans.