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No charges will be filed against a homeowner who shot and killed Nicholas Anthony Donofrio, a 20-year-old USC student who accidentally tried to enter his house. No charges will be filed against a homeowner who shot and killed a 20-year-old University of South Carolina student who accidentally tried to enter the wrong house on the street where he lived and was mistaken for a burglar, police said Wednesday. The Columbia, South Carolina, Police Department said that after an investigation, and consulting with prosecutors from the Fifth Circuit Solicitor's Office, the fatal shooting of Nicholas Anthony Donofrio early Saturday morning was deemed a "justifiable homicide." "This is a heartbreaking case for all involved," Columbia Police Chief W.H. "Skip" Holbrook said in a statement. "Our lead investigator has diligently worked to gather all the facts surrounding this incident. He has also maintained contact with the Donofrio family throughout the in...

Andrew Lester, the Missouri man who is charged in the shooting of teenager Ralph Yarl, is set to appear in a Kansas City courtroom on Thursday for a preliminary hearing. Andrew Lester, the Missouri man who is charged in the shooting of teenager Ralph Yarl, is set to appear in a Kansas City court room on Thursday morning for a preliminary hearing after the judge ordered the evidence in this case to be partially sealed. Yarl, who suffered a traumatic brain injury after the shooting, is expected to testify in the case during a hearing on Friday, his family confirmed to ABC News. Lester – a homeowner in Kansas City, Missouri – shot Yarl in the head and in the right arm on the evening of April 13, according to police, after the teenager mistakenly arrived at the wrong address – Lester's home – to pick up his twin siblings. Lester, 84, was charged with one count of felony assault in the first degree and one count of armed criminal action, also a felony, Clay County prosecuting attorney...

Three children were killed in a New Orleans house fire that was allegedly set by their father, police said. Three children were killed in a house fire in New Orleans early Wednesday morning that was allegedly set by their father following an apparent domestic dispute, police said. The father -- identified by police as Joseph Washington Sr., 29 -- was apprehended following a manhunt Wednesday and faces multiple charges including second-degree murder, according to New Orleans Deputy Superintendent Ryan Lubrano. "We are here because of the tragic and senseless, horrific deaths of three young children last night in a domestic violence situation," New Orleans interim Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick said at a press briefing Wednesday. A fire truck outside of a house fire that left three children dead in New Orleans, Oct. 18, 2023. WGO The children's mother called 911 at 11:55 p.m. Tuesday night to report that their father intended to burn down their house, New Orleans poli...

The wife of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is set to be released from her California halfway house on Wednesday, according to prison records. The wife of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is set to be released from her California halfway house on Wednesday, after being sentenced for helping run the Mexican drug cartel in which her husband was the boss, according to prison records. Emma Coronel Aispuro was sentenced in November 2021 to 36 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to money laundering and conspiring to distribute cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana for import into the U.S. She was also ordered to pay almost $1.5 million in fines. Emma Coronel Aispuro, the wife of Joaquin Guzman, departs after the trial of Mexican drug lord Guzman, known as "El Chapo", at the Brooklyn Federal Courthouse, in New York, Feb. 12, 2019. Brendan Mcdermid/Reuters, FILE Aispuro was moved from a federal prison in Texas, to a halfway house in Long Beach, California, in June...

Former President Donald Trump has arrived at a New York courthouse ahead of his arraignment on criminal charges stemming from a hush money payment to a porn actor during his 2016 campaign NEW YORK -- Former President Donald Trump arrived Tuesday at a Manhattan courthouse ahead of his arraignment on criminal charges stemming from a hush money payment to a porn actor during his 2016 campaign. Trump pumped his fist as he exited Trump Tower minutes earlier, then traveled in an eight-car motorcade down a highway along the East River to the downtown courthouse, where's he expected to surrender to authorities. He’s expected to be fingerprinted and processed, and his mug shot may be taken — a remarkable reckoning after years of investigations and an extraordinary moment in U.S. history. The booking and appearance before Judge Juan Merchan should be relatively brief — though hardly routine — as Trump learns for the first time the charges against him. Trump will plead not guilty, according t...

A University of Idaho graduate who previously lived in the off-campus house where four students were killed is speaking out to ABC News. A University of Idaho graduate who previously lived in the off-campus house where four students were killed is speaking out to ABC News. "It's definitely an old, creaky house ," said Cole Alteneder, who graduated in 2022 and lived in the house during his junior year. "You can't walk up any of the stairs or on any of the floors without everybody in the house knowing it." Moscow Police monitor the residence where four University of Idaho students were killed in Moscow, Idaho, Nov. 30, 2022. Lindsey Wasson/Reuters, FILE MORE: Parents of slain Idaho student desperate for answers: 'Where are you? Who are you?' Three of the current residents -- roommates Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen and Xana Kernodle -- as well as Kernodle's boyfriend, Ethan Chapin, were all stabbed to death in the house in the early hours...