Police were forced to confront and kill a knife-wielding maniac in New York City on Friday, just days after a different maniac went on a stabbing rampage, killing one person and wounding another in Times Square.
The man was first seen walking on the Brooklyn Bridge cables around 3:30 a.m., and responding officers scaled the bridge to try to convince him to come down to safety, according to NYPD’s Emergency Services Unit (ESU) Assistant Chief Gerard Dowling. This led to a standoff during which the man lunged at them and made threatening statements, The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/09/04/us-news/nyc-cops-shoot-knife-wielding-man-who-charged-at-them-on-brooklyn-bridge/">reported</a>.
“He stated, ‘I want to die, I want you to kill me, I have a bomb, you’re not going to make me do something bad to the cops,’” Dowling told reporters.
Officers urged the man to drop his weapon and come down, attempting to reason with him for nearly one hour. Eventually, the knife-wielding man began to descend the cables and lunged at one of the officers when he was within three feet of him.
“At that point, a member of ESU who was on the roadbed of the bridge discharged his weapon one time, striking the man,” Dowling said.
The man was rushed to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead. All Brooklyn-bound lanes of the bridge were then shut down for peak hours of the Friday morning commute. 
This incident was preceded by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-bank-executive-killed-in-times-square-stabbing-spree">another knife attack</a> in New York City on Monday. Erin Piacenti, a young wife and new mother who had just returned from maternity leave to her VP position at Bank of America, was stabbed and killed by a mentally disturbed woman. Another unidentified man was also injured and taken to the hospital. He was released from the hospital on Tuesday.
Police fatally shot the attacker, 49-year-old Pamela Cisneros, who was armed with two kitchen knives.
Cisneros, from Queens, had previous outbursts related to her mental state, according to NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch. She refused repeated commands to drop the knives when officers confronted her near an NYPD substation.
“During the encounter, she told the officers, ‘I’m not dropping anything. I would rather kill both of you.’ She repeated, ‘I will kill you,’” Tisch said during a press briefing.
Several weeks before that, there was another stabbing near Times Square in which a man was stabbed in the head during an argument inside a subway station.

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A pair of criminal illegal immigrants in Tulsa, Oklahoma, threw a Good Samaritan trying to come to their aid out of their moving vehicle, The Daily Wire has learned.
The victim told authorities he pulled over to help the men on Monday because he thought they ran out of gas, the Tulsa County Sheriff&#8217;s Office <a href="https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19KxnPw7cW/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. When the man approached, the two Mexican illegal immigrants — 35-year-old Jose Esparza-Becerra and 37-year-old Juan Torres — allegedly threatened him and told him to get into their vehicle before demanding money and assaulting him.
As the illegal immigrants drove away, the victim was thrown out of the vehicle and was left with a fractured foot, <a href="https://okcfox.com/news/local/two-held-on-ice-detainer-after-deputies-investigate-good-samaritan-attack" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to Fox 25.
Esparza-Becerra had a previous arrest on June 1, 2025, for domestic violence, aggravated assault on a family member — strongarm, aggravated assault on a non-family member with a weapon, and armed robbery, a Homeland Security spokesman told The Daily Wire. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deported him four days later.
He first crossed the border illegally in 2013, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said. It is not clear when he returned to the United States.
Torres crossed the border illegally in 2006, according to DHS. He later racked up charges for aggravated assault on a non-family member with a weapon and armed robbery.
Local authorities were able to find the suspects in their latest alleged crime using <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-weighs-in-on-controversial-flock-cameras" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Flock cameras</a>, the controversial surveillance technology that tracks license plates and car details, the sheriff&#8217;s office said. The cameras have been the center of a recent national debate, with politicians on both sides of the aisle arguing that they&#8217;re an invasion of privacy.
The illegal immigrants are being held at the Tulsa County jail on charges of armed robbery and assault and battery with a deadly weapon.
ICE also lodged detainers with the local jail, requesting the accused be transferred to federal custody if they are released. The sheriff&#8217;s office is likely to comply after recently entering into an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bbzl7QUPVs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">agreement</a> with ICE to arrest and detain illegal immigrants on federal authorities&#8217; behalf.
&#8220;Under President Trump and Secretary Mullin, ICE is targeting the worst of the worst. Nearly 70% of ICE arrests are of illegal aliens charged or convicted of a crime in the U.S.,&#8221; the Homeland Security spokesman said. &#8220;Our message is clear: if you come into our country illegally and break our laws, we will find you wherever you are, we will arrest you, and we will deport you.&#8221;

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California&#8217;s serial butt-sniffer has struck again — and police have once again placed him behind bars.
Calese Crowder, 39, is a registered sex offender who apparently gets a thrill from sneaking up behind unsuspecting women and smelling them — specifically, their posteriors. He was <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/08/31/us-news/californias-serial-butt-sniffer-accused-of-striking-again-as-disgusting-picture-emerges/?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=nypost">identified</a> on surveillance video from at least two Southern California stores on Friday, and police apprehended him a short time later.
The first call hit the Glendale Police Department around 3:30 p.m. local time, and cops were dispatched to a location in the 1500 block of Glenoaks Boulevard. The report indicated that a suspicious man had been seen crouching in the aisles, and police said that he appeared to be &#8220;sniffing someone out.&#8221;
Officers were just finishing up at that scene when they were called to another location in the same vicinity — and the report was almost exactly the same: a suspicious-looking man crouching in the aisles and appearing to smell people as they passed by him.
After reviewing surveillance footage from both locations, police identified Crowder. They were able to track him down a short distance from the second location and placed him under arrest for violating the conditions of his parole.
Crowder was previously arrested for a similar crime in 2025, when police caught him behaving strangely as he wandered around the women&#8217;s department at a Nordstrom Rack in Burbank&#8217;s Empire Center. Burbank police stated at the time that Crowder had been &#8220;engaging in lewd behavior by inappropriately sniffing her buttocks.&#8221;
At the time, Crowder was already on parole — for a number of similar charges dating back several years — and was charged with violating those conditions. He was ordered to serve 135 days in the Los Angeles County Jail — for that parole violation — in September of 2025.
In 2023, after a similar incident at a Barnes &amp; Noble, Crowder was arrested, and it was confirmed that he had failed to follow a court order to register with local police as a sex offender. At that time, a Fox News digital <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-barnes-noble-sniffer-arrested-again-failed-register-as-sex-offender">report</a> confirmed that he&#8217;d been arrested 43 times in Los Angeles County alone since 2005.
&#8220;As a component of a previous arrest and sentencing Crowder was ordered to register as a sex offender,&#8221; Glendale Police said at the time. &#8220;Glendale Police confirmed that he had not registered as a sex offender with our department and was in violation. He was arrested again today.&#8221;
Michaela Witter, who captured the Barnes &amp; Noble encounter and shared it to TikTok, blasted the system that allowed Crowder to be released just three days after his initial arrest: &#8220;Is this real? I think he maybe spent three days in jail … They can&#8217;t do anything until he&#8217;s done something really bad to someone, and I&#8217;m honestly scared that that person is gonna be me.&#8221;
Crowder is currently being held pending his next hearing.

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A Bank of America executive was identified as the victim who was killed by an “emotionally disturbed” woman who went on a stabbing rampage in New York City’s Times Square on Monday.
Erin Piacenti, Bank of America&#8217;s 32-year-old vice president of Business Selection and Conflicts, was killed in the stabbing, the U.S. banking giant confirmed on Tuesday.
“We are shocked and deeply saddened by the tragic loss of our colleague. She was a valued teammate who will be greatly missed. Our hearts go out to her family and all of her loved ones,” the company said in a <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/bank-america-vice-president-killed-times-square-stabbing-bloomberg-news-reports-2026-09-01/">statement to Reuters</a>.
Piacenti died at a hospital from her stab wounds, according to Bloomberg. Authorities said the stabbing spree appeared to be random.
Piacenti had served as Bank of America’s vice president of business selection and conflicts for nearly two years, according to her LinkedIn profile. Piacenti earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania and graduated from Fordham University School of Law. She and her husband had just celebrated their second wedding anniversary last month, The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/09/01/us-news/victim-stabbed-to-death-in-times-square-rampage-was-vp-at-bank-of-america-just-celebrated-2nd-wedding-anniversary/">reported</a>.  
Police fatally shot the attacker, 49-year-old Pamela Cisneros, whom they described as emotionally disturbed after she stabbed Piacenti and a man during a knife attack in Times Square on Monday, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/police-kill-knife-wielding-woman-after-times-square-stabbing-spree?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=10&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Police+Kill+Knife-Wielding+Woman+After+Times+Square+Stabbing+Spree">The Daily Wire</a> reported.  
The attack unfolded around 4:30 p.m. near West 42nd Street and Seventh Avenue. Cisneros, from Queens, had previous outbursts related to her mental state, according to NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch. 
The male victim, who has not been identified, was reportedly hospitalized in critical condition. Videos posted on social media show the knife-wielding woman lunging toward several NYPD officers as they repeatedly order her to drop her weapons. Officers tased her as she continued to move toward them.
Cisneros <a href="https://abc7ny.com/post/times-square-shooting-person-shot-police/19771286/">reportedly</a> appeared to be emotionally disturbed and was armed with two kitchen knives. She refused repeated commands to drop the weapons when officers confronted her near an NYPD substation.
“During the encounter, she told the officers, ‘I’m not dropping anything. I would rather kill both of you.’ She repeated, ‘I will kill you,&#8217;” Tish said during a press briefing.
A photo <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/08/31/us-news/nypd-shoots-knife-wielding-woman-accused-of-stabbing-two-people-in-times-square/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=nypost">captured</a> by the New York Post near the scene showed an officer holding a kitchen knife recovered from the area. In videos posted to social media, the woman identified as Cisneros wore jeans, a pink shirt, and a brown bag over her shoulder, and appeared to be gripping a large knife in each hand. 
Police have not provided any information about her motive, but they do not believe that it was an act of terrorism. 
The incident <a href="https://pix11.com/news/local-news/man-stabbed-in-the-head-at-times-square-subway-station-nypd/">comes</a> just weeks after another stabbing near Times Square in which a man was stabbed in the head during an argument inside a subway station.

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A West Virginia man who used the online alias “MrChildPorn” has been charged with possessing child pornography.
Authorities nabbed 20-year-old Garrett Highlander after he allegedly boasted online about his “large cache of child porn.” Highlander appeared to operate in plain sight, using “MrChildPorn” as his username on Discord. In other channels, he used the name “MrToxix,” authorities said.
According to investigators, Highlander sent child sexual abuse material to other Discord users through shared chats and direct messages. After receiving 48 cyber tip reports, troopers uncovered “numerous chat conversations” in which Highlander allegedly searched for sexually explicit images of children and asked other users “if anyone was willing to trade ‘cp’ with him.”
When state troopers <a href="https://www.wsbtv.com/news/trending/man-with-user-name-mrchildporn-accused-sharing-illicit-images-children/BIMSH5WJCVCUFP5RAXEF2CWFCM/?utm_term=Autofeed&amp;utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1787761112">executed</a> a search warrant, Highlander reportedly claimed that he had made the statements merely “to be inflammatory” and that he found it funny to troll and “rage bait” other members of the online communities.
However, after searching “MrChildPorn’s” devices, the state troopers found child porn. He later admitted to participating in “chat servers … in which young, often juvenile females were groomed or talked into self-harm,” but insisted that he was merely a bystander and was “never involved in this activity.”
Highlander was arrested and was being held at West Virginia’s North Central Regional Jail on a $100,000 bond. On Wednesday, he <a href="https://mcrsearch.courtswv.gov/Inquiry/CaseDetail?q=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">posted</a> bond and is scheduled to be back in court on Monday, August 31.

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When I was growing up, the adults in my life warned me about making excuses. Politicians today, however, seem to have no problem justifying theft, especially when the victims appear to be billion-dollar corporations.
While their justifications appear compassionate, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) are merely setting the stage for anarchy through the abolition of police and prisons throughout the country.
Last Thursday, New York State Assemblywoman Emily Gallagher defended people who steal basic necessities such as toothpaste and soap.
“People who are stealing things like toothpaste, people who are stealing things like soap, and that means if you are stealing those things, you need them,” the Democratic Socialist politician said at a press conference outside Manhattan Criminal Court. “And we are choosing to protect billion-dollar companies, like CVS and Walgreens, over the people who are struggling to get by.”
If Gallagher thinks stealing toothpaste will hurt billion-dollar corporations, then she should think again. An increase in petty theft will hurt law-abiding customers. It’s simple economics.
Businesses set prices based on supply and demand. If people steal goods from stores, decreasing supply, stores will naturally need to raise prices in response to the shortage. Politicians like Gallagher, however, refuse to acknowledge this economic principle.
Gallagher, along with her fellow advocates, insists that thieves are in such desperate need of toothpaste that their “biological need” justifies their actions.
“So I would say that the true crime is that there is such incredible wealth disparity in this city that there are people who can be thrown in jail simply for having a biological need,” Gallagher said at the press conference.
Surely New Yorkers in dire need of soap can get some at their local food bank or homeless shelter. Stealing from stores is a drastic measure that should not turn into the norm. Holding people accountable for their actions not only protects the thousands of jobs sponsored by billion-dollar companies, but it also ensures prices remain level for law-abiding customers.
Gallagher and other New York politicians are calling out Mayor Zohran Mamdani to follow through on his campaign promise to end “broken windows policing.” These “quality of life crimes,” as Democrats like to call low-level crimes, range from stealing a bar of soap to fare evasion.
While Democratic politicians may have a legitimate point when they argue that police should prioritize apprehending more serious offenses, it does not mean law enforcement should turn the other cheek for petty theft. 
Economics aside, what is really concerning about Gallagher’s take is that following the trajectory of her wishes could lead to the abolition of police and prisons. DSA politicians campaign on the promise to do just that.
The DSA’s website links to the Defund The Police <a href="https://defundpolice.org/?link_id=1&amp;can_id=04a644b1fe7888611278bf5b3bcff6d1&amp;source=email-community-resource-hub-training-follow-up&amp;email_referrer=email_1418256&amp;email_subject=community-resource-hub-training-follow-up">homepage</a>, which clearly states: “#DefundPolice means divesting from institutions that kill, harm, cage and control our communities, and investing in violence prevention and interruption, housing, health care, income support, employment, and other community-based safety strategies that will produce safer communities for everyone.”
Step one of abolishing the police is taking away their power to police. That starts with politicians like Gallagher, who claim police have better things to do with their time than doing their job.
Dr. Frances Gill, a member of the DSA’s National Political Committee, acknowledged the organization’s goal to abolish the police. In <a href="https://www.nbclosangeles.com/video/news/politics/newsconference/newsconference-far-left-wing-of-democratic-party-securing-more-wins/3927413/">an interview</a>, NBC4’s political reporter Conan Nolan asked Gill how a rapist would get punished under a system with no police and prisons.
“I really want to avoid getting kind of caught into these hypotheticals and talk more about the reality that we’re actually facing right now, which is that we’re spending absolutely outrageous amounts of money on police and policing,” Gill said in the interview. “And we’re not spending money on things that actually make people safe and feel safe, which is things like actually well-lit streets.”
Tell that to a woman who just got assaulted and see how she reacts. The DSA wants to abolish the police, and it starts with a false sympathy toward those who want soap and toothpaste.
Humans are great at finding excuses for silly little things. Let’s not allow “the dog ate my homework” to become “the dog stole the toothpaste.”
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Christina Lewis is a journalism fellow with the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. She graduated from Hillsdale College, where she studied history, politics, and journalism. You can follow her work on X @By_Christina.

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You&#8217;re walking around a major city late at night. It&#8217;s supposed to be safe.
Suddenly, the entire street is filled with teenagers, disproportionately black, beating the living hell out of each other.
Welcome to teen takeovers, the hot new social media trend that is upending law and order and decency.
But if you comment on it, you are a racist.
Victimhood isn&#8217;t just a drug that intoxicates people with the feeling that they could get away with anything; it is used as a shield against criticism and against decency. This is how our idiot society works.
I was unfamiliar with teen takeovers until I was browsing online. My staff made me aware of this.
It is insane.
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Videos from Milwaukee, Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago, Atlanta, and Brooklyn show gigantic mobs of young people, almost all black, running through the streets, wailing on each other, and taking over intersections.
Heather Mac Donald wrote in <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/teen-takeovers-streets-us-cities-looting">City Journal</a>:
<blockquote>Takeovers are organized on social media, with anonymous flyers summoning mass gatherings. The exact location may remain undisclosed until the last minute. The notices sometimes draw on gangster rap and Black Power imagery, featuring masked men and raised fists. Others are less ominous. A flyer for a teen “trend” (another label for the phenomenon) on a South Shore Chicago beach this spring called for “no drama” and showed a cartoon figure with its naked butt thrust out in twerking stance.
Not all takeovers devolve into violence, but when they do, social media again snaps into play. Dozens of phones are held aloft in the hope of making a viral video. Violence has acquired a performative, specular quality, as though staged for maximum circulation online.</blockquote>
Detroit&#8217;s Memorial Day ended with a 16-year-old and a 14-year-old getting shot. In Edmond, Oklahoma, an 18-year-old was killed, and 22 were injured. In Florida, they were in Clearwater, Tampa, and Orlando; in North Carolina, they showed up in Charlotte. They occurred in Delaware. Children&#8217;s carnivals in Illinois, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Houston have been canceled in response to mass disorder.
Cities are now proposing new tactics and laws to eliminate the so-called teen takeovers.
When it comes to these teen takeovers, which are reminiscent of the flash-mobbing that happened for years, there are two issues.
The first is teen criminality. The second is how society reacts to teen criminality. These two issues reinforce one another.
A 2023 study from the Institute for Family Studies showed that a huge percentage of this stems from single motherhood. The total crime rate in cities with high levels of single parenthood is 48% higher than in those with low levels of single parenthood.
When it comes to violent crime and homicide, cities with high levels of single parenthood have 118% higher rates of violence and 255% higher rates of homicide.
I would suggest the vast majority of teenagers participating in this sort of criminality don&#8217;t have a dad in the home. Well over 50% of all black kids in America are growing up in a home with no dad.
That is not because of racism. That is because of government-driven welfare policy over the last 60 years.
The government is not a replacement for a father. The government cannot organize late-night teen get-togethers and pretend they are the same thing as a sleepover with your friends while your dad is at home.
When the government tries to be your parents, it makes things significantly worse because it acts as a permissive parent that lets you do whatever you want.
This is not a racial issue. It&#8217;s a cultural issue. But here is what brings us to the second issue: If you comment on bad behavior by teenagers, and those teenagers are predominantly young black males, ages 15 to 34 — a demographic wildly overrepresented among violent offenders — you are deemed a racist, even if you are not talking about race.
That&#8217;s the get-out-of-jail-free card, which brings us to the second part of this conversation: what society ought to do with teen criminality.
A normal society&#8217;s reaction to all criminality is quite simple. You punish the perpetrator. It doesn&#8217;t matter who&#8217;s doing the crime or whether they&#8217;re black, white, brown, or green.
The reaction of a broken society is that we can&#8217;t punish certain types of criminals, or even notice that the crime is happening, or even cover it in the news because it might cause racism.
This is a massive societal vulnerability. And guess who preys on that massive societal vulnerability?
The people who like to violate society&#8217;s rules.
This is where the conversation always gets sensitive. So I&#8217;m going to define some terms so we&#8217;re living in the land of logic, not the land of feelings.
That’s because whenever anyone talks about race in America, immediately everyone goes to racism and the accusation that you&#8217;re engaging in racism by even acknowledging a problem.
According to the great economist-philosopher Thomas Sowell, there are three types of discrimination. Only one of them is the really bad type that you&#8217;re thinking about right now.
The first is type I-A. This is when we judge things and people based on differences in quality. You judge each person as an individual, regardless of what group that person is a part of. That&#8217;s fine. It is the kind of discrimination you do every day, such as going to a restaurant and discriminating between menu items. You&#8217;re determining which one is better, which one is worse, which one you want, and which one you don&#8217;t.
Type I-A discrimination is a totally anodyne type of discrimination where you are judging a thing or person by its individual qualities.
Type I-B discrimination is when individuals are judged by empirical evidence about the group they&#8217;re part of, despite no animosity or aversion toward particular groups. This is where you don&#8217;t have any information about the person standing in front of you, but you know the group statistics about a person who fits those characteristics.
Sowell says that&#8217;s not morally wrong. That is you operating on the basis of information you have, not operating as though you are blind to information that you have. We do that all the time too. If you take it out of the realm of race, then it makes perfect sense.
Type II discrimination is the bad type of discrimination. This is treating people negatively based on arbitrary aversions or animosity. In this case, you have no basis for treating someone badly. The group identity you&#8217;re thrusting on someone doesn&#8217;t exist, or you have a bizarre version of that group identity that is not backed by data.
Type I-B is the one that makes us uncomfortable, because we&#8217;ve taught people that noticing group differences is a problem. If you notice them, then you are immediately categorized as Type II.
I understand the impulse. We don&#8217;t want to judge people based on immutable characteristics that have no bearing on behavior. But these are two separate types of discrimination. One makes sense, and one does not. Type I-B is not Type II.
Here&#8217;s an example that has nothing to do with race.
A woman is walking down the street at 1 a.m. A young man, no race mentioned, is coming toward her, walking down the street wearing a hoodie. She crosses the street.
If there had been a young woman walking down the street in the same hoodie, the first woman wouldn’t have crossed the street. Is that because she&#8217;s a sexist, or is that because she&#8217;s operating on the data that she has, which is that men are typically more likely than women to inflict violence on women late at night walking down the street?
It may turn out that the dude in the hoodie is actually a mathematician at MIT and the lady is a serial killer. But without individual data, she has to operate on the group data she has.
What we have trained people to do in Western civilization — to have an abundance of caution and a fear of our own innate racism — is to be moronic. Now you are a racist or a sexist if you make a decision based on group data in the absence of individual data. If you do Type I-B discrimination, you are somehow the bad guy.
This is what villains prey on. A villain would act in ugly, antisocial, criminal ways, but when you point it out, he would say that you&#8217;re only judging him that way because you&#8217;re engaging in Type II discrimination — baseless, evidence-free discrimination.
But you&#8217;re not even engaging in Type I-B discrimination. You&#8217;re engaging in Type I-A discrimination. You&#8217;re judging them as an individual. You&#8217;re saying, “You did a criminal thing. You should go to jail. And anyone who does criminal things should go to jail.”
This is not racist. But we have taught a huge swath of Americans that if they accuse you of racism, they can get away with literally anything.
This has become extremely common in everyday life.
Everyone ought to play by the rules, and it is not racist to say so.
And it is disgusting to charge people with racism for saying that.

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Authorities revealed that the illegal immigrant accused of killing the mother of a young child in Virginia grabbed a weapon and filled a bottle with gasoline before the fatal stabbing.
Salvadoran national Alexis Antonio Cedillos-Campos, 19, allegedly murdered Carmen Lizet Puch, 42, at a park in Great Falls, Virginia. During a press conference Wednesday afternoon, authorities shared that Cedillos-Campos and Puch worked together at a local restaurant and were involved in an &#8220;intimate relationship.&#8221;
Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis said the two planned to meet at the park on Monday morning. The night before the killing, Cedillos-Campos left the restaurant armed with a fixed-blade knife, black latex gloves, and a water bottle that he later filled with gasoline, all of which he took from the business, Davis said, adding that it was &#8220;all very premeditated.&#8221;
&#8220;He ended up siphoning gasoline out of his motorcycle. He filled the water bottle with gasoline after he dumped the water,&#8221; Davis said.
Authorities believe Cedillos-Campos fatally stabbed Puch inside her car before dumping her body in the parking lot.
&#8220;We know that our killer stabbed our victim repeatedly and eventually doused her in gasoline and tried to set her on fire. He was unsuccessful in the attempt to burn our victim,&#8221; he said.
The suspect confessed to the murder after his arrest in Prince George&#8217;s County, Maryland, Davis added. He is charged with second-degree murder, according to police.
Just before 7 a.m. on Monday, a jogger in the park discovered Puch&#8217;s lifeless body near her 2011 Honda Civic, according to 7News.
Cedillos-Campos crossed the border illegally near El Paso, Texas, in April 2024 and was quickly released into the United States, despite telling federal agents he wasn&#8217;t afraid to return to his home country, law enforcement sources told The Daily Wire.
In a statement Wednesday, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security accused Biden administration officials of &#8216;hand-delivering&#8217; Cedillos-Campos to Fairfax County before they &#8220;recklessly unleashed millions of unvetted illegal aliens into American communities and abused the law to do so.&#8221;
The spokesperson also called out Democratic Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger for turning her state into a &#8220;hotbed of illegal alien crime&#8221; by adopting sanctuary policies.
&#8220;During her first days in office, Governor Spanberger signed executive orders banning state cooperation with ICE as well as terminating 287(g) state and local agreements. We are urging Governor Spanberger to put her community first and turn over this criminal illegal alien to ICE,&#8221; the spokesperson said.

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Disturbing Details Emerge After Illegal Immigrant Kills Mother Of Young Child

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An illegal immigrant from El Salvador is accused of fatally stabbing a Virginia mother before dumping her lifeless body near a jogging trail in Great Falls, Virginia, The Daily Wire has learned.
Police in Fairfax County said Wednesday that authorities had arrested 19-year-old Alexis Antonio Cedillos-Campos in connection with the homicide of Carmen Lizet Puch. Cedillos-Campos crossed the southern border into El Paso, Texas, in April 2024 and was quickly released into the United States, law enforcement sources told The Daily Wire.
At the time of his border crossing, Cedillos-Campos said he did not fear returning to his native country of El Salvador, but he was released anyway, sources said.
A jogger discovered Puch&#8217;s body just before 7 a.m. on Monday near her 2011 Honda Civic, which was parked in the lot at Difficult Run Park along Georgetown Pike near Old Dominion Drive, according to 7News.
&#8220;In Great Falls, it’s probably one of the safest places ever in the world,&#8221; Clare, who was out hiking with a friend Tuesday, said. &#8220;To have something happen like that feels personal, scary.&#8221;
Authorities said more details would be provided Wednesday afternoon.
&#8220;There is no immediate indication that this was a random act,&#8221; Capt. Jason Chandler said during a news conference on Monday.
Puch was the mother of a young daughter and worked with Cedillos-Campos at Bitez restaurant in Herndon, according to NBC Washington. Cedillos-Campos allegedly stabbed Puch while she was inside her vehicle.
Abdul Anwari, the owner of Bitez, said he and his employees were shocked after learning of Puch&#8217;s murder, NBC Washington reported.
“I don&#8217;t know if you can process something like this. It&#8217;s not something you expect. It&#8217;s not something that anyone would ever want to happen,” he told News4. “But you know, we&#8217;re still taking it [a] minute at a time.”
Anwari said a fundraiser has been set up to support Puch&#8217;s surviving daughter.
“We have a GoFundMe account set up, but we&#8217;re actually doing, we are personally donating to the family as well,” Anwari said. “But anyone in the community that can help, obviously, this is going to go directly to the family, and as far as I&#8217;m concerned, it should go to the daughter and make sure that she&#8217;s OK.”
Puch&#8217;s family members, who live in New Jersey, immediately drove to Virginia after learning of her killing to take care of her daughter, according to NBC Washington.

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Illegal Immigrant Fatally Stabbed Mother And Left Her Lifeless Body In Park, Police Say

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A black man wearing a Chucky-style mask <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/08/18/us-news/philadelphia-man-wearing-chucky-mask-allegedly-targeted-six-people/">asked</a> a female jogger if she was ready to die before chasing her through Center City Philadelphia as she screamed for help, police said.
Philadelphia <a href="https://www.phillypolice.com/news-blotter/wanted-suspect-for-assault-in-the-9th-district-video-3/">police</a> say the masked suspect spent about 15 minutes early Wednesday morning targeting at least six people at random near Philadelphia City Hall. The suspect remains at large.
The incidents began shortly after 5:20 a.m. on August 12, Philadelphia Police Capt. Jason Smith said.
The suspect first walked into a Dunkin&#8217; Donuts wearing a distinctive white, Chucky-style Halloween mask with black hair. Staff refused him service because he was behaving erratically, according to police. He then began approaching people nearby while holding a cell phone in front of them and appearing to record the encounters.
One of those people was a 40-year-old woman jogging near 1500 JFK Boulevard. Smith said the masked man stopped in front of her, held his phone toward her face, and asked, “Are you ready to die?”
When she looked startled, he asked the same question again. She ran off, screaming for help as the suspect chased her, police said. She injured her leg while trying to escape.
During the encounter, the suspect kept one arm concealed behind his back, according to police.
No weapon appears in the surveillance video, but police say the suspect is wanted on charges including possession of an instrument of crime, terroristic threats, harassment, assault, reckless endangerment, and intimidation.
A woman named Jameka saw what was happening and tried to warn the jogger from across the intersection. She later confronted the suspect herself and kicked him in the chest.
“He just seemed so disoriented about what his goals actually were,” she said. “I had bags. He wasn’t reaching for those. It didn’t seem like he had a clear goal to like actually get in La Colombe to do anything, so I was like OK, well, let’s see if you can fight, and he couldn’t.”
The suspect eventually fled into SEPTA Suburban Station.
Police describe him as a black male between 16 and 20 years old with a medium complexion, standing about 5 feet 8 inches tall with a thin build. He was carrying a black-and-blue plaid backpack.
Investigators believe he approached multiple people that morning, although police said only the jogger has formally reported an incident as of their latest update.
“It’s really unsettling just trying to get to work and have a kid like this actively terrorizing women,” said Kate Egan, who works at a nearby coffee shop. “I really hope he is caught.”
Police have produced footage and still images of the suspect, including video showing him briefly lowering the mask.
Anyone with information is asked to call Philadelphia Police at 215-686-TIPS or submit a tip through the department&#8217;s website. Law enforcement has warned members of the public not to approach the suspect.

Black Man In Chucky-Style Mask Chased, Threatened Woman With Death

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In just one year, Baltimore went from being ranked the third-most dangerous city in the United States — with murders averaging nearly 300 per year over the past decade — to looking like a completely different city in 2026.
From January to August, 60 people were murdered in Baltimore, but just four years ago, that number was about 160 in the same timeframe. The White House attributes the drop in crime to the “relentless efforts” of President Trump. Lauren Bis, a spokeswoman for the White House, told The Daily Wire. 
“In Baltimore and across the nation, violent crime is reaching record lows — including the murder rate reaching a 125-year low,” Bis said.
It’s not just Baltimore; nationwide murder rates have fallen 18.1%, rape has dropped 7.6%, robbery has fallen 18.5%, and aggravated assault is down by 7.2% since 2025. Trump’s Department of Justice has directed federal prosecutors to crackdown on crime and pushed them to pursue higher charges. 
After former Attorney General Pam Bondi was sworn in last year, she <a href="https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/justice-dept.-releases-slate-of-memos-from-attorney-general-bondi">signed</a> 14 memos, including one that renewed enforcement of the federal death penalty, which was halted under the Biden administration. Other memos urged prosecutors to “charge and pursue the most serious, readily provable offense” and focus on immigration enforcement, human trafficking, transnational organized crime, and “protecting law enforcement.”
The Trump administration also worked to secure the border and deport illegal immigrants. In Baltimore alone, ICE officials arrested Edwin Sanchez Montiel, an MS-13 gang member and illegal alien from El Salvador whose criminal history included murder. Federal immigration officers also arrested Franklin Chavarria and Julio Gonzalez-Cortez, both illegal immigrants convicted of murder.
In its violent crime crackdown, the Trump administration streamlined processes with states. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said she <a href="https://www.blackburn.senate.gov/2025/9/crime/trump-s-crime-crackdown-has-been-a-huge-success-here-s-how-congress-can-support-it">worked</a> with the FBI and the Department of Justice to “surge resources to Memphis, where federal law enforcement have apprehended gang members who have plagued the city with violent crime.” 
Bis added that Trump is working to correct policies from “defund-the-Police Democrats.” 
“President Trump promised to make America safe again and the data proves he has done just that. Unlike Defund-the-Police Democrats who release violent criminal illegal aliens into our communities and want cashless bail, President Trump is on the side of law and order and will continue to deliver safe neighborhoods for American families,” she added. 
“Defund the Police” statements have become so unpopular that many Democrats and democratic socialists are running away from their past radical statements as midterm elections approach. 
&#8220;I have a local city councilman that has this saying, &#8216;Woke 1 was crazy.'&#8221; Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFwAnMLBSOw">said</a> in an interview with ABC, adding, “What’s important is that we have to assess what a candidate is saying now.”
Michigan Democratic Senate Candidate Abdul El-Sayed walked back his statements on defunding the police and deleted past posts on the issue on X. At the Democratic National Committee meeting on Saturday, the DNC <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dnc-formally-adopts-resolution-calling-for-abolishing-ice">adopted</a> a resolution urging congressional Democrats to abolish ICE. The vote is nonbinding and does not change the party platform for 2028.
The reform measure, sponsored by DNC Chairman Ken Martin, drew broader support in committee than the abolition proposal.
 &#8220;The one thing that unites Democrats, regardless of their position on reform versus abolish or whatever other ways to change what&#8217;s happening, is people believe that what ICE is doing right now and CBP [U.S. Customs and Border Protection] and the federal government should stop. There has to be a better way,&#8221; <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/dnc-votes-back-eliminating-ice-trump-expands-deportations-12327959">said</a> Martin.

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In the span of four months, Lindsay Clancy, the woman who took her three children to the basement of their home and strangled them to death one by one, was prescribed 13 different medications. 
&#8220;I really don&#8217;t like the way I feel on the Remeron and I know that I can&#8217;t stick with taking it,&#8221; Clancy told psychiatric nurse practitioner Rebecca Jollotta through her patient portal in December 2022. &#8220;I started having very intrusive thoughts that I never had before.&#8221; 
Remeron&#8217;s generic drug name is mirtazapine, an antidepressant. It was one of the 13 medications Clancy was prescribed before she killed her 5-year-old daughter, 3-year-old son, and 8-month-old son on January 24, 2023.
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In another message to Jollotta, she wrote, &#8220;I also just feel concerningly numb right now, like I have no emotion whatsoever. I feel like I&#8217;m going to die, and I don&#8217;t care. What do I do about this?&#8221;
Jollotta testified in court that she told Clancy her symptoms would &#8220;get better.&#8221;
&#8220;I said, &#8216;Even though they feel terrible, remember that there are symptoms of an illness that is very real and very treatable. This is going to get better.&#8221;
Weeks later, Clancy would murder her children and attempt to commit suicide by throwing herself out of her home&#8217;s second-story window.
Jollotta is one of the medical professionals who was sued by both Clancy and Clancy&#8217;s now ex-husband for allegedly overmedicating Clancy. Jollotta denies the allegations.
Clancy has admitted to killing her children, but her defense team is arguing she should not be held criminally responsible because she was suffering from postpartum psychosis, a mental illness that includes hallucinations and delusions.
A note that was last edited on Clancy&#8217;s cellphone the day before she strangled her children read, “I was the healthiest, happiest mom. I worked out every morning, meditated, and took care of myself so I could be the best for my kids. Until prescription medication stole me from my own body. It began with a touch of postpartum anxiety.”
Prosecuting attorney Shanan Buckingham argued that Clancy &#8220;acted intentionally, rationally, and swiftly&#8221; to kill her children. Clancy waited until her husband was out of the home before committing the act. Buckingham added, &#8220;This is not a public debate about women&#8217;s mental health and how the medical system treats women. This case is about this defendant, Lindsay Clancy.&#8221;
Before the murders, Clancy <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/see-it-what-lindsay-clancy-searched-online-days-before-killing-her-3-children">made</a> several searches on the internet.
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<li>What to do when a psychiatrist overprescribed</li>
<li>Lamictal / “Zolafi” [Zoloft])</li>
<li>Can bipolar disorder be temporary?</li>
<li>Can benzos reveal bipolar disorder?</li>
<li>What is mania?</li>
<li>How long are detox programs?</li>
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One of her final searches before she killed her children was the phrase, &#8220;Can you treat a sociopath?&#8221;

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