Police arrest last suspect in savage attack on elderly, handicapped woman
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MONTREAL (CP) - The fourth and final suspect in the savage attack of a 64-year-old disabled woman has been arrested and will face charges including conspiracy and aggravated assault,
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Near the end of her short life, Shayla Stewart, a diagnosed manic-depressive and schizophrenic, assaulted police officers and was arrested for attacking a fellow customer at a Denton Wal-Mart where she had a prescription for anti-psychotic medication.
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ATLANTA, Nov. 22 -- Authorities said police were searching for a man who sold drugs to an undercover agent when they burst into the home of an elderly woman, sparking a shootout in which three officers were wounded and the woman was killed.
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A suspected serial killer has been arrested in the deaths of five women in the city in just over a month &#151; and he is also connected to an assault on a woman whose dog ran the attacker off, police said.
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By ANNE M. PETERSON PORTLAND, Ore. - When Susan Kuhnhausen returned home from work one day earlier this month, she encountered an intruder wielding a claw hammer. After a struggle, the 51-year-old nurse fended off her attacker by strangling him with her bare hands.
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Police have arrested a former psychiatric patient suspected in the deaths of two caregivers &#151; one decapitated and the other with her throat slit &#151; at a psychiatric hospital in southwest France, authorities said Monday.
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Six people, all white, including a mother and son and a mother and daughter, have been arrested in connection with the alleged abduction of the 23-year-old black woman
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A 71-year-old woman is left bruised and shaken after a robbery ordeal at her County Antrim home.
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MONTREAL (CP) - A 64-year-old disabled woman was recovering in hospital on Tuesday after a savage attack that has provoked fear and outrage in the city.
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TYLER, Texas - A 73-year-old used car salesman allegedly ended an argument with a customer by pulling out a machete and whacking the man's arm, according to police.  Robert Parker was arrested Monday night on charges of aggravated assault after the incident.
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A man arrested in Montenegro in the killing and dismemberment of an elderly woman in New York City in 1990 is also suspected in similar slayings of women throughout Europe, police in this tiny Balkan country said Thursday.
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NEW YORK - Margaret Johnson might have looked like an easy target. But when a mugger tried to grab a chain off her neck Friday, the wheelchair-bound 56-year-old pulled out her licensed .357 pistol and shot him, police said.
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TYLER, Texas - Carjacked at knifepoint while pumping gas, a 75-year-old woman didn't give in without a fight. Mary Gean Smyth opened the door of her sport utility vehicle and doused the assailant in gas. "I'm sure he was burning like mad," Smyth said of the Tuesday carjacking.
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An investigation is launched after an elderly disabled woman who was being taken home was left forgotten and strapped inside a minibus for four hours.
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A former psychiatric patient was yesterday arrested for questioning about the macabre double murder of a nurse and auxiliary nurse at a mental hospital in Pau in the French Pyrenees at the weekend.
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A woman confronted by police outside a homeless shelter is the latest example of someone who died after being shocked with a Taser, an electric stun gun designed to help officers subdue violent suspects without nightsticks or guns.
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An attack in which a woman was mauled by a dog in a city street leads to an appeal for help by a council.