​NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!. A Walmart employee was fatally stabbed during a late-night shift in a seemingly random attack, and the man told police he believed he was killing a “demon” that had been stalking him.. Officers were dispatched at about 10:58 p.m. Tuesday to reports of a man stabbing a female employee inside the Walmart Supercenter on U.S. 65, the Conway Police Department said.. Officers arrived within roughly a minute and encountered the suspect, later identified as 37-year-old Zeddrick Ross, still armed with a knife.. Police said officers issued multiple commands for the man to drop the weapon, but he refused and advanced toward an officer. One officer fired a single shot that missed the suspect, and a second officer deployed a Taser.. FOLLOW US ON X. The victim, identified by police as 32-year-old Jordanne Drinkwater, was given emergency aid by officers and medical personnel but died at the scene.. CLICK HERE FOR MORE US NEWS. Ross was then taken into custody and was booked into the Faulkner County Detention Center. Police said that no one else was injured.. GOT A TIP?. Investigators said Ross was not employed by Walmart, did not know Drinkwater and had no known interaction with her prior to the attack, in what police described as an apparently random act of violence. The investigation remains ongoing.. According to the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, which cited a police affidavit, Ross told a detective he had been pursued by what he described as a “demon” and armed himself with a knife for protection.. The newspaper reported that Ross said he believed he was confronting that figure when he stabbed Drinkwater multiple times, later telling investigators he realized she did not resemble the person he thought had been following him.. GET BREAKING NEWS BY EMAIL. The affidavit revealed that Ross told police he had stolen the knife earlier and had gone to the store intending to obtain another weapon.. An officer who discharged a firearm during the encounter has been placed on administrative leave, a routine step following an officer-involved shooting, the department said.. Drinkwater, who went affectionately as Puff to friends, was described as an “amazing human being.” Sam Slaughter, who knew Drinkwater for nearly 10 years, told KATV that she heard the news of her friend’s death when another friend texted her.. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP. “I called him and I said, ‘You’re kidding. It’s not—not, not Jordan, not Puff, right? Like, that’s not Puff, right?’ And the world stopped,” Slaughter told the outlet.. “I never met somebody as, as, as pure as Jordan. It was just I don’t—I didn’t understand. I still don’t understand why it had to be her. She helped change my entire life for the better—everything from staying sober to the way I think about the world and how it works and not putting more hate into it and just trying to do better. She was an amazing human being. She’s going to be s  

​NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!. Two admitted murderers — including one who is an illegal immigrant — will serve just five years in prison each under a plea deal with a progressive Virginia prosecutor.. Maldin Anibal Guzman and Wis Alonso Sorto-Portillo pleaded guilty to the 2024 mob killing of Nicacio Hernandez Gonzalez, who was found dead with trauma to his body in Fairfax County, according to police.. Both men pleaded guilty to second-degree murder by mob and were sentenced to 25 years in prison, with 20 years suspended, leaving five years to serve, Fox News has learned. A judge accepted the plea agreements.. Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano secured the guilty pleas, reducing potential decades-long sentences in a case his office said lacked key physical evidence.. ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT ACCUSED OF GROPING GIRLS AT VIRGINIA HIGH SCHOOL FACING NEW CHARGES. Descano’s office defended the agreement, telling Fox News the deal was “the only way to ensure that the defendants were incarcerated.”. “There was no DNA or any physical evidence at the scene. All witnesses in this case were terrified to come forward or assist with prosecution,” the office said.. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed that Guzman is an unlawfully present Honduran national who entered the U.S. illegally in 2018 and was ordered removed by an immigration judge in 2019.. ICE said it lodged multiple detainers against Guzman between 2022 and 2023, but the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center declined to honor them and released him from custody.. The agency also said Guzman has prior convictions, including burglary and assault, before his arrest in the 2024 killing.. ICE said it has no record of interaction with Sorto-Portillo.. Hernandez Gonzalez was found dead in a wooded area in the 9500 block of Route 29 in Oakton just after 3 p.m. on July 20, 2024, according to Fairfax County police.. Detectives arrested Guzman, 27, and Sorto-Portillo, 45, both listed as having no fixed address, and initially charged them with malicious wounding by mob. A third suspect, Wilmer Adli Guzman, 20, was later arrested in Washington, D.C., police said.. ILLEGAL MIGRANT BABYSITTER ACCUSED IN 5-YEAR-OLD ATTACK NOW FACES MAJOR CHARGES. Descano’s office has pursued a reform agenda since he took office in 2020, including ending requests for cash bail and implementing sentencing policies aimed at reducing incarceration, according to his office’s website.. The case comes as Fairfax County has seen multiple homicide cases involving illegal immigrants this year, according to reporting cited by federal officials.. The Department of Homeland Security highlighted the trend on social media, calling on Virginia leaders to change policies they say allow illegal immigrants accused of violent crimes to remain in communities.. The county’s illegal immigrant crime problem has not abated: of four murders this year, three were allegedly committed by illegal immigrants, accor  

​NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!. Federal immigration authorities have detained the president of Wisconsin’s largest mosque, alleging he concealed a past conviction involving attacks on Israeli targets and lied on his U.S. immigration application.. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested Salah Salem Sarsour, a leader of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee, in a targeted operation earlier this week, according to the Department of Homeland Security.. In a statement released Thursday, DHS said Sarsour is a Jordanian national who was previously convicted in Israel for throwing a Molotov cocktail at the homes of Israeli armed forces and attempting to possess weapons and ammunition.. The agency alleges he failed to disclose that history on immigration forms and improperly obtained lawful permanent resident status in the United States.. MAMDANI TELLS TRUMP ADMIN ANTI-ISRAEL ACTIVIST SHOULD ‘REMAIN IN NEW YORK CITY’ AMID DEPORTATION CASE. “Salah Salem Sarsour is a terrorist convicted for throwing Molotov cocktails at the homes of Israeli armed forces. This illegal alien from Jordan lied on his green card application to gain legal status in the U.S.,”said DHS Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis.. Fox News’ Brooke Taylor reported that, according to ICE, Sarsour eventually became a green card hold in 1998 under President Clinton after lying on his application.. In a statement to FOX 6 Milwaukee, ICE said it worked with the U.S. Marshals Service to arrest Sarsour.. The Islamic Society of Milwaukee has also created a fundraising page to support Sarsour.. GOT A TIP?. “Br. Salah is being targeted on the basis of his Palestinian and Muslim background, and his advocacy for Palestinian rights,” the fundraiser says, in part. “We know this fight for Br. Salah is part of a larger trend of attacks on immigrants that whittle away at democratic norms and legal protections for everyone. That is why this fight is a fight for all of us.”. Sarsour has been the board president of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee, the largest Islamic organization in the state, for five years.. FOLLOW US ON X. At a crowded news conference, boisterous supporters chanted to free Sarsour.. “He was targeted because of one thing, because he dared stand up to the Israeli army,” Othman Atta, one of Sarsour’s attorneys, told the crowd. “And he was not a U.S. citizen.”. GET BREAKING NEWS BY EMAIL. A diverse group of religious leaders in attendance called Sarsour a valuable community member.. “This appears to be just the latest example of how this administration seeks to silence opposition and intimidate those who speak and act differently,” said the Rev. Paul D. Erickson, bishop of the Greater Milwaukee Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.. CLICK HERE FOR MORE US NEWS. Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson called Sarsour’s detainment “an outrage.”. “He is a legal permanent resident. There is no substantive evidence he has done anything wrong,” Johnson said Thurs  

​NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!. RIVERHEAD, N.Y. — A suspected child rapist from Guatemala who could have been released without bail under New York law was instead sent to Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in a move that skirted the state’s sanctuary policies while keeping him off the streets for months before prosecutors secured an indictment, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office.. “Two progressive reforms…had to be navigated deftly to hold the defendant responsible for his alleged horrific crimes,” District Attorney Ray Tierney said in a statement.. Due to the state’s controversial policies, prosecutors weren’t even allowed to ask the judge to set cash bail or bond on the initial charge of endangering the welfare of a child, according to the DA’s office.. And because of the state’s 2020 “Protect Our Courts Act,” ICE agents could be subject to prosecution if they arrested the suspect at the courthouse following his no-bail release.. IGNORED ICE DETAINERS ‘PUT LIVES AT RISK,’ DHS SAYS, TARGETING NEWSOM, PRITZKER, HEALEY. “Incredibly, up in Albany right now there are new sanctuary laws currently under consideration that would have prevented us from even talking to federal immigration authorities,” Tierney said. “My message to our state legislators and governor is simple – stop protecting the rights of alleged child rapists at the expense of child victims.”. Carlos Aguilar Reynoso, 27, has now been indicted for the alleged rape of a 5-year-old girl he was supposed to be babysitting while her mother was at work on Feb. 1. Her injuries were severe enough to require surgery, according to prosecutors.. FOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME TEAM ON X. Police arrested Reynoso the next day — before the crime lab finished testing the evidence. So he was initially only charged with endangering the welfare of a child.. Tierney’s office and the Suffolk County Police Department found a loophole. They released Reynoso with only a desk appearance ticket, rather than bringing him to court — and that allowed them to coordinate his immediate arrest by ICE for allegedly entering the U.S. illegally.. SIGN UP TO GET TRUE CRIME NEWSLETTER. He was in ICE custody for 11 days while DNA testing was underway. When the results came in, they showed a match between Reynoso and samples collected from the 5-year-old victim, according to Tierney’s office.. It would be more than a month before his March 23 arraignment on five charges, including three felonies: sexual assault of a child, first-degree rape and first-degree sex abuse.. SEND US A TIP HERE. He remained in ICE custody the whole time.. In a statement, ICE’s New York Enforcement Removal Operations field office director, Kenneth Genalo, said the case shows how Empire State’s sanctuary laws expose helpless victims to “unnecessary harm.”. LISTEN TO THE NEW ‘CRIME & JUSTICE WITH DONNA ROTUNNO’ PODCAST. “Had there not been coordination in this case, this depraved criminal — who b  

​NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!. Federal prosecutors piled new charges Thursday on an illegal immigrant accused of killing a Loyola University Chicago student because the feds “have no faith” in the state’s justice system, according to a local criminal defense attorney.. “Blue cities historically are lighter in their prosecutions. We have already heard that this person was of diminished capacity, so we are probably going to see some defense in regard to that,” Donna Rotunno told Fox News Digital. “My guess is the feds wanted to jump in so they can have some control over the fate of the defendant.”. Jose Medina-Medina, 25, was arrested after he allegedly killed 18-year-old Loyola University Chicago student Sheridan Gorman on March 19 in the early morning hours. The Department of Homeland Security said that Medina-Medina is an illegal immigrant from Venezuela who first entered the U.S. in 2023, when he was apprehended but released into the country under the Biden administration.. Federal prosecutors on Thursday charged Medina-Medina with illegally possessing a firearm, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in federal prison. The firearm Medina-Medina allegedly used to kill Gorman was illegally purchased around February 6, 2008, from a Federal Firearms Licensee in Montgomery, Alabama, according to a charging document.. FOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME TEAM ON X. “Given the senseless, cold-blooded nature of the murder of a young student with a bright future ahead of her, the Chicago U.S. Attorney’s Office will take no chances that this illegal alien perpetrator will be released back into our community,” said U.S. Attorney Boutros.. SIGN UP TO GET TRUE CRIME NEWSLETTER. SEND US A TIP HERE. In addition to the federal charges, Medina-Medina also faces state-level charges of murder, attempted murder, aggravated assault, aggravated discharge of a firearm, and illegal possession of a weapon.. During a detention hearing for Medina-Medina, prosecutors revealed that Gorman was with her friends at a Rogers Park pier when she looked around a lighthouse and saw Medina-Medina there. Gorman then walked back towards her friends and mouthed “there’s a man behind the lighthouse,” at which point Medina-Medina began chasing them.. Prosecutors said Gorman was shot in the upper back while the group of friends ran away from Medina-Medina. Her friends kept running until they found a place to hide, then went back to check on Gorman, who was unresponsive.. LISTEN TO THE NEW ‘CRIME & JUSTICE WITH DONNA ROTUNNO’ PODCAST. While Medina-Medina was in Colombia, he was shot in the head, which resulted in the loss of a portion of his brain and skull, leaving him to relearn basic functions, his attorney said. Medina-Medina’s attorney said that he has the brain development of a child and cannot read or write.. Medina-Medina’s attorney also said that he suffers from epilepsy and still has bullet fragments lodged in his brain. The murder suspect turned himself in at the Te