'I Should Kill You': EMT Who Stabbed, Choked Girlfriend In Mount Vernon Assault Gets Prison
A former EMT who brutally attacked his partner and threatened to kill her in Westchester County has been sentenced to prison, prosecutors announced.
Mount Vernon resident Eric Graham Parker, 55, was sentenced Thursday, April 16, to two years in prison followed by three years of post-release supervision in Westchester County Court, the Westchester County District Attorney's Office announced on Friday, April 17.
The conviction stems from a violent domestic assault on July 14, 2024, inside the couple’s shared apartment.
Prosecutors said Parker followed the victim into a bedroom, pi…
Three Arrested After Stabbing At Atlantic City Resort: Police
Two Newark residents and a Maryland man were arrested and charged after a man was stabbed and a woman assaulted at a resort in Atlantic City, authorities announced Wednesday, April 15.
At 10:37 p.m. on Sunday, April 5, officers responded to the Showboat Resort and and located a 38-year-old Severn, Maryland woman who had been assaulted, Atlantic City police said. She was transferred to a nearby hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
The stabbing victim, Quheem Whitehead, a 38-year-old Newark resident, later arrived at a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
After a…
Mass Man Stabbed Wife 28 Times In East Hartford Home, Left Body For Daughter-In-Law: Jury
A Massachusetts man has been found guilty of fatally stabbing his estranged wife at a Connecticut home in 2023.
Wilkid Valcinord, 60, of Chicopee, was convicted of murder on April 2, 2026, following a jury trial in Superior Court in Hartford, according to Hartford Judicial District State’s Attorney Sharmese L. Walcott.
Prosecutors said the case centered on a planned attack that crossed state lines.
Evidence showed Valcinord drove from Chicopee to East Hartford on the night of June 17, 2023. Investigators said he went there with the intent to kill his wife, Andra Brown.
Hours later, the sc…
Plainfield Man Gets 6½ Years For Raping Students At NY High School: DA
A Connecticut man who worked inside a New York high school now faces years behind bars for abusing two teenage students.
Reid Kappler, 32, of Plainfield, was sentenced last week in Ulster County Court, New York, to six-and-a-half years in prison, followed by 10 years of supervised release, according to the Ulster County District Attorney’s Office. Kappler pleaded guilty in January to three counts of third-degree rape.
Prosecutors said Kappler abused two students, ages 15 and 16, at Saugerties High School during 2023 and 2024. At the time, he worked as a custodian and wrestling co…
Germantown Man Who Opened Fire On Officer Struck In Shootout, Hospitalized, Arrested: Police
A Maryland man who fired shots at a police officer during a wild pursuit is behind bars, officials confirmed.
Germantown native Andre Duvall is facing charges after a shootout ended with him suffering a gunshot wound and being arrested for attempted murder, according to the Montgomery County Department of Police.
Shortly before 5 p.m. on Tuesday, March 24, officers were patrolling the area of Contour Road in Montgomery Village following community complaints of criminal activity including aggravated assaults, robberies, thefts, drug activity, disorderly conduct, and other public nuisance cri…
