Chris Perez

A Utah man allegedly spent hours pummeling his grandmother while holding her hostage, with cops saying he also choked the 80-year-old by shoving a finger down her throat and disabled her Life Alert.

A California woman is learning to walk and speak again after she was nearly killed by two random kids , ages 7 and 4, who allegedly took their parents' car and plowed into her while she was walking a dog.

A young California mom who was 16 weeks pregnant and had a 6-year-old daughter was shot in the head while sitting in a car with her sister, who also got shot in the throat. The 22-year-old mother was taken off life support on Friday after she was declared brain-dead.

A 20-year-old California man claims he rushed to his mother 's defense during a fight she was having with his father , grabbing an "edged weapon" in the process and fatally stabbing his dad with it, cops say.

A 21-year-old Washington state man was shot three times during a street takeover and then filmed and ignored by bystanders as he bled out in front of them and begged for help, his family says.

An Ohio couple allegedly encouraged their kids to fight other children at a cemetery, leaving several children injured in the melee. Cops say one of the adults even jumped in.

Two high school sweethearts from Arizona were killed alongside their two young sons — just months into their marriage — when a pickup driver slammed into the family head-on as they drove home from visiting relatives over Labor Day weekend, cops say.

A Wisconsin nurse took away oxygen from a hospice patient and made him suffer for roughly 90 minutes after finding the 75-year-old on the floor, according to police. She allegedly told another staffer, "It's easier to do death paperwork than falls paperwork" and "I was hoping he would die during my shift."

A dad and his juvenile son were allegedly attacked while trying to leave a state fair, with two young men beating them with brass knuckles and stomping them out during a fight over blocking traffic.

A father and his juvenile son were allegedly attacked while trying to leave the Eastern Idaho State Fair, with two young men beating them with brass knuckles and stomping on them during a dispute over blocking traffic.