A nursing student in Texas who was just days away from graduating was stabbed to death by her roommate after an argument over their cats, authorities say.

Chester Lamar Grant, 40, is facing a murder charge in the April 26 death of 23-year-old U.K. native Tamilore Odunsi in Houston. Cops responded shortly before 4 p.m. to an apartment on the city’s southside for a welfare check. Officers knocked on the door but received no answer. Then they walked around to the back of the apartment where they found blood on the concrete patio. Cops entered the apartment and found Odunsi in the kitchen suffering from numerous stab wounds. Officers also discovered Grant in the bedroom with at least one stab wound. The victim was pronounced dead while Grant was taken to the hospital with critical injuries.

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Houston police told local CBS affiliate KHOU the two had been roommates for just a couple months and were in a spat over their cats. The argument escalated and Grant allegedly stabbed Odunsi before trying to take his own life. Police took Grant to the Harris County Jail on Saturday. He is being held on a $500,000 bond.

Odunsi’s family started a GoFundMe account for the woman known on TikTok as Tami Dollars or TD.

“Tami was a beautiful soul, full of light, ambition, and kindness,” the fundraiser reads. “She was just 23 years old. A devoted Christian, she was a God-fearing young woman who found strength and joy in her faith. She had a deep love for her church community, where she was actively involved and always eager to serve others with humility and grace.”

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She dreamed of becoming a nurse and wanted to work with children in her new career.

Odunsi was set to graduate from nursing school just a few days before her murder, her family said. Her death is “an unimaginable loss at a moment that should have marked the beginning of a bright and promising future.”

Grant is slated to appear in court on Monday.

A Georgia man “violently squeezed” his daughter to death and then tried passing off her injuries as a result of the two of them “playing” together, telling authorities he was “tossing her in the air and catching her.”

Khaliq Woods, 29, was found guilty of felony murder, aggravated battery and first-degree child cruelty for the 2019 death of his infant daughter, Kamila Woods, at their home in Duluth, the Gwinnett County District Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday.

Prosecutors outlined the case against Woods in a press release Tuesday, announcing that he was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole.

Jurors deliberated for 10 hours before finding him guilty.

A 57-year-old Florida man hid behind an apartment building and waited for a man on an ATV to drive by before he shot him to death following a complaint about him riding in the complex, authorities say.

Ralph Francis Hensel stands accused of first-degree murder in the death of 32-year-old Ja’Keem Williams. According to a probable cause arrest affidavit, the leasing office manager at the Bay Pointe apartments in Winter Garden, an Orlando suburb, called police just before 4 p.m. to complain about a man riding an ATV in the complex. Just a minute later, another call came in to report that someone had been shot.

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Cops arrived on scene and found a resident completing CPR on a man later identified as Williams. But it was “apparent he was deceased,” the affidavit said. Witnesses told officers they saw Hensel, armed with a gun, walk from the leasing area toward Williams as he drove the ATV. Hensel shouted something at Williams, but witnesses could not make out what he was saying. Shortly after that, the witnesses heard two loud bangs.

Hensel allegedly walked back to the leasing office and said “I killed him.” Cops on scene took Hensel into custody and recovered a gun nearby. Surveillance video confirmed that Hensel was allegedly the shooter. It showed him walking from the leasing office and around a nearby building with his firearm, where he stood “lying in wait,” according to police. Hensel then shot Williams as he rode past, cops said.

Detectives also reviewed the 911 call from the office manager with a man in the background saying “that motherf—er’s dead,” according to the affidavit.

Local CBS affiliate WKMG said it knocked on the door of Hansel’s apartment. The woman who answered was the leasing manager that initially called 911. She told the outlet she lived with Hansel but declined to speak further because the complex’s owners told her not to speak publicly about the case.

A Kansas man allegedly shot his mother and aunt after he was evicted from their home — and then fled to Missouri, where he reportedly confessed to the crime at a pharmacy.

Luke Anthony Howard, 34, was being held in custody in Missouri’s Clay County on $5 million bond, according to reporting from KCTV, a local CBS affiliate. He is awaiting extradition to Johnson County in Kansas, where the county’s district attorney said Howard murdered his mother, Valerie Howard, 63, and his aunt Joyce Austin, 71. According to court documents obtained by KCTV, Howard had been living with the two women and was given an eviction notice by Austin before he allegedly shot them.

Cops in Texas first thought Natalie Navarro, then 17, was the victim of a kidnapping after they found a man shot to death in August 2023 in the Dallas suburb of Garland. But after issuing an Amber Alert, police learned she was no victim but a suspect complicit in robbery and murder.

More than a year later, Navarro, now 19, pleaded guilty to murder in the death of 21-year-old Arturo Peña and a judge sentenced her to 40 years in prison with 485 days credit for time served, according to court records.

Garland cops were dispatched just after 10 a.m. on Aug. 29, 2023, to the 300 block of West Oates Road in Audubon Park, according to a press statement. The call was about a man possibly passed out in a vehicle. But officers arrived to find that he had suffered a gunshot wound.

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As Law&Crime previously reported, Detectives identified the victim as Peña, a resident of Mesquite. He had been reported as missing to Dallas cops two days earlier. It turns out he was the victim of a ruse. Peña and Navarro met online, and she lured him to the home where her boyfriend, Yordy “Jordy” Martinez, then 21, was waiting to rob him. Investigators believe Martinez shot and killed Peña during the robbery.

After finding Navarro, detectives were able to ferret out the truth and obtained murder warrants on both her and Martinez. Navarro has been in jail ever since but Martinez remains on the lam. Peña’s family voiced concern at the time Martinez could have fled to Mexico, according to local Fox affiliate KDFW. But police in Laredo, a Lone Star State city on the Mexican border some 450 miles southwest from the scene of the murder, said in March that Martinez may be in the area.

A Florida mom who was arrested after her 14-year-old daughter was found dead in a bathtub has been charged with her murder.

Kelsey Glover, 35, is being held at the Osceola County Jail without bail after being charged with the premeditated murder of her daughter Giselle. As Law&Crime previously reported, Glover was originally charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and battery after allegedly attacking her roommate.

New details from Glover’s arrest warrant revealed more of what happened to her daughter on the day she died.

Cops in Florida have arrested a 27-year-old man for allegedly shooting a U.S. Army veteran to death after a dispute at a gas station last year.

Kendrick Jerrod Anderson is facing a second-degree murder charge for the November 2023 slaying of 60-year-old Gregory C. Reed in Ocoee, a suburb of Orlando. Ocoee police announced Friday in a press release that detectives arrested Anderson after a year-long investigation.

According to a probable cause arrest affidavit, a Publix grocery store employee called 911 around 8:30 p.m. on Nov. 9, 2023, to report an accident involving a Ford SUV where someone died. Officers and paramedics responded to the scene and found that the driver, later identified as Reed, had been shot several times. First responders rushed him to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

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Publix surveillance video showed the SUV coming from the adjoining BP/Circle K gas station before making an abrupt right turn and crashing into a parked vehicle. A witness at the gas station said he and his girlfriend were sitting in front of the gas station when he saw the SUV and a Mercedes enter the parking lot about the same time. The driver of the Mercedes was trying to pull into a pump, but nearly collided with Reed’s SUV. In response, Reed honked his horn, the witness reportedly told cops. According to the witness, Reed and the two people in the Mercedes were shouting “what, what” back and forth, allegedly sizing each other up.

After the Mercedes parked at the pump, Reed went to the exit to leave the gas station. That’s when the passenger of the Mercedes got out of the car, walked up to Reed’s SUV and allegedly fired five shots, striking Reed multiple times. The Mercedes then drove away.

Reed was wearing a Domino’s Pizza T-shirt at the time of his death and his boss told detectives he had just gotten off his shift as a delivery driver prior to the murder.

Jurors convicted a young Indiana man for murdering his entire family amid a spat over him leaving home without permission.

Raymond Ronald Lee Childs III, then 17, was charged as an adult. His first trial ended in a mistrial after a witness asked him why he committed the act. This second trial ended with jurors finding him guilty in Marion County of six counts of murder, one count of attempted murder, and one count of carrying a handgun without a license, records show. Sentencing is set for Jan. 7, 2025.

That attempted murder charge is regarding his younger brother, the sole survivor of the Jan. 24, 2021, tragedy. That teenager managed to escape with gunshot wounds to the leg and arm, leading to investigators finding the murder scene on Adams Street. There, they found six slain victims: Kezzie Childs, 42, Raymond Childs, 42, Elijah Childs, 18, Rita Childs, 13, Kiara Hawkins, 19, and Kiara’s unborn son, identified by authorities as “Baby Boy Hawkins.”

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As authorities have said, the shooting happened amid a spat over whether Childs III could stay the night at his girlfriend’s home.

A 17-year-old boy in Texas is being charged as an adult after he allegedly murdered the stepfather of the girl he started stalking because she rebuffed his advances.

The Houston Police Department on Friday announced detectives arrested Cristian Gasca Martinez for murder in the death of 37-year-old Osvaldo Casas. Gasca Martinez allegedly shot Casas shortly before 12:30 a.m. Aug. 10 in the 600 block of Loper Street in southeast Houston. Cops responded to the scene and found Casas suffering from several gunshot wounds. Paramedics pronounced him dead on scene.

Police said at the time that Casas confronted a “suspicious” person on his street before the shooting. Further investigation determined that Gasca Martinez had been pursuing a romantic relationship with Casas’ 16-year-old stepdaughter, but the girl told him she was not interested, a complaint says. Gasca Martinez allegedly began stalking the girl. He kept calling the girl despite her asking him to refrain from doing so and she had to block his number, according to a courtroom report from local CBS affiliate KHOU.

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He also reportedly posted threats on social media that included posting photos of him holding a gun. Gasca Martinez then shot Casas “in retaliation for being rejected” by the girl, the complaint said.

In a GoFundMe page, the victim’s wife Judith Molina said her husband died “while bravely protecting our family.” Making matters even more tragic was the fact that Molina and Casas were expecting a baby boy. Casas’ family laid him to rest on Aug. 20. Three days later, Molina gave birth to a baby boy.

“Osvaldo was overjoyed at the thought of meeting his baby boy and becoming a father to a son,” she wrote.

A woman who murdered her parents and then feasted on their finances for several years after hiding them in “makeshift tombs” at their own house will spend the next several decades in prison.

On Friday, Virginia McCullough, 36, was sentenced to spend at least 36 years behind bars before she is eligible for parole, according to a press release issued by the Essex Police Department in east England.

By the time the killer was apprehended, however, her guilt was never in doubt. She readily admitted to the crime — and seemingly relished the latest of several unfortunate turns when finally caught.

“Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy,” the murderess told arresting officers in September 2023. “I know I don’t seem 100% evil.”