Tag Archives: Teen
Delphi murders: Here's what we know about unsolved killings of two teen girls in Indiana
Palestinian teen killed by Israeli fire in border clashes: Gaza ministry
A Palestinian teenager was shot dead by the Israeli army Friday during renewed clashes on the Gaza border, the health ministry in the Palestinian enclave said. A ministry spokesman said Maysara Abu Shaloof, 15, was “shot in the stomach by the (Israeli) occupation east of Jabalia,” referring to a demonstration site in northern Gaza. At least 48 others were taken to hospital with a variety of injuries from clashes at several spots along the border, the ministry said without elaborating.
Teen found in Kentucky is not missing boy Timmothy Pitzen: FBI
DNA testing confirms that the teen found in Kentucky on Wednesday who claimed to be Timmothy Pitzen is not him, according to federal investigators.
Teen says he is Illinois child missing for eight years
Hopes were raised on Wednesday that an Illinois boy missing since 2011 may have been found in Kentucky, after local police agencies were asked to help track down a teen’s claim that he is Timmothy Pitzen, who was last seen with his mother eight years ago. The police department in Sharonville, Ohio, was one of numerous agencies that received a request from authorities in Kentucky to help search local motels for men who the teen said had been holding him, Sharonville Police Chief Steve Vanover told Reuters. A police report filed by a Sharonville detective summarized a dramatic story of escape from kidnappers, which Vanover said was told to Sharonville police by officials in Campbell County, Kentucky.
Teen found in Kentucky claims he is boy missing since 2011, DNA test results awaited
Pitzen went missing eight years ago at the age of six, after his mother, Amy Fry-Pitzen, pulled him out of his suburban Chicago school and took him on a trip to a zoo and a water park. “You will never find him.” Her words rang true until Wednesday, when a woman in Newport, Kentucky, found a teenager wandering lost and scared. The boy said he had been held captive for seven years by two white men he descried as “body-builder types,” until he escaped and ran across a bridge from Ohio into Kentucky.
Protests after white Pittsburgh cop found not guilty for killing black teen
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania was the latest U.S. rocked by demonstrators upset over a not-guilty verdict for a white police office who shot an unarmed black teen. Conway G. Gittens
'Hope that man never sleeps': Mom of black teen Antwon Rose slams white police officer's acquittal in son's killing
The Latest: Defense expert supports cop who shot black teen
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Latest on the homicide trial of a white Pennsylvania police officer in the shooting of an unarmed black 17-year-old (all times local):
Ex-cop says he thought he saw a gun when he shot black teen
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A white former police officer said Thursday he thought a weapon was pointed at him when he shot and killed an unarmed black teenager outside Pittsburgh last summer.
Mosque massacre funerals resume with teen laid to rest
A teenager who dreamed of playing in goal for Manchester United was among the latest victims of New Zealand’s twin mosque massacre to be buried as funerals resumed Thursday. Hundreds of mourners, including many schoolchildren, gathered for an emotional farewell to Sayyad Milne, a 14-year-old football-mad youngster who was among the 50 people who died in last Friday’s rampage by a white supremacist. Sayyad’s father John Milne said his son was gunned down while praying at Al Noor, the first of the two mosques attacked last Friday allegedly by Australian national Brenton Tarrant.
