​NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!. The son of a victim of the accused Gilgo Beach serial killer has filed a lawsuit against Rex Heuermann and members of his family over the alleged torture and dismemberment of his mother – just days before he is expected to plead guilty to the brutal killings of seven women.. On Monday, attorney John Ray filed a wrongful death lawsuit on behalf of Benjamin Torres, the only child of Valerie Mack, according to court documents obtained by Fox News.. The civil filing alleges that Mack’s death deprived Torres of his “mother’s care, guidance, protection, nurture, society and economic support.”. ACCUSED GILGO BEACH SERIAL KILLER REX HEUERMANN EXPECTED TO PLEAD GUILTY IN MURDER CASE: REPORTS. Mack, a 24-year-old from Philadelphia, vanished when her son was just 6 years old in 2000. Her partial remains were discovered in Manorville, New York after a group of hikers stumbled upon a suspicious black bag that November.. According to the lawsuit, Mack was “tortured ferociously” before allegedly being killed and dismembered by Heuermann.. REX HEUERMANN’S FAMILY KEPT GRUESOME PIECE OF EVIDENCE, SOURCE SAYS. As a result, Torres is seeking unspecified “recovery for the wrongful torture and murder of Valerie Mack, for the terror, restraint, pain, mutilation, and dismemberment inflicted upon her before and after death, for the concealment and mutilation of her remains, and for the profound and prolonged harm thereby inflicted,” the lawsuit said.. EX-WIFE OF ALLEGED GILGO BEACH KILLER STILL DEFENDS HIM, BUT DAUGHTER SAYS HE ‘MOST LIKELY’ DID IT. The suit also aims to seek compensation from Heuermann’s ex-wife, Asa Ellerup, and daughter Victoria Heuermann stemming from profits made from the Peacock documentary, “Gilgo Beach Killer: House of Secrets.”. The family received over $1 million from the documentary, according to Newsday.. FOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME TEAM ON X. “Asa Ellerup and Victoria Heuermann at some point in time knew of, concealed, deliberately ignored, or consciously avoided learning of material facts concerning the assault, murder, dismemberment, concealment, and disposal of Valerie Mack,” the lawsuit added.. SIGN UP TO GET TRUE CRIME NEWSLETTER. The lawsuit also addresses New York’s two-year deadline for wrongful death lawsuits to be filed, arguing the limit should be waived for Torres due to his age at the time of his mother’s murder and authorities’ delay in identifying her remains.. SEND US A TIP HERE. Heuermann was charged with Mack’s death in late 2024, marking the seventh and final victim prosecutors say he killed between 1993 and 2010.. LISTEN TO THE NEW ‘CRIME & JUSTICE WITH DONNA ROTUNNO’ PODCAST. He is expected to plead guilty to all seven counts of murder as part of a plea deal offered by Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney. He is due back in court on Wednesday.. LIKE WHAT YOU’RE READING? FIND MORE ON THE TRUE CRIME HUB. Heuermann is accused of killing Mack, Megan Water  

​NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!. Washington, D.C. authorities arrested nearly a dozen juveniles over the weekend in connection with a series of “teen takeovers,” in which swarms of youngsters were taken into custody for allegedly brawling in the streets and assaulting police officers.. The incidents began around 8:30 p.m. Saturday, when police responded to multiple disturbances within the southwest area of the city, FOX 5 reported.. Investigators said various large groups of teens gathered between the Navy Yard curfew zone and the Wharf, located just blocks away from the designated curfew zones established by authorities for the weekend.. WILD BODYCAM VIDEO SHOWS COPS STORM CHAOTIC TEEN ‘TAKEOVER’ AS BUSINESSES TRASHED: ‘THEY COME TO FIGHT’. “They’re coming from Maryland, they’re coming from Virginia, they’re coming from all over just to be disrespectful here in Ward Six, we’re like some ‘Meeting Zone,’” one local resident told FOX 5.. The first fight broke out in the 1300 block of Canal Street, where officers took a 17-year-old boy, a 15-year-old girl and a 12-year-old girl into custody, the outlet reported.. Just minutes later, a second fight started near First Street and N Street SW, resulting in a 15-year-old boy being arrested for allegedly assaulting a police officer.. TEEN MOBS SWARM DOWNTOWN IN CHAOTIC TAKEOVER—FIGHTS ERUPT, CARS TARGETED BEFORE CURFEW CRACKDOWN HITS. Another large altercation broke out in the same area around 9 p.m., in which multiple juveniles began attacking officers, the outlet reported.. The fight resulted in the arrests of two girls, aged 15 and 16, for allegedly fighting in public.. VIRAL ‘TAKEOVER’ CHAOS ERUPTS AS TEEN BRAWL BREAKS OUT, MULTIPLE ARRESTS AFTER MALL MELEE CAUGHT ON VIDEO. Additionally, two 14-year-olds, one boy and one girl, were taken into custody on charges of assaulting a police officer, fighting and resisting arrest, FOX 5 reported.. GOT A TIP?. Video taken by a bystander in the area shows a mob of juveniles throwing punches on the street, with one group surrounding an officer before scattering in different directions.. FOLLOW US ON X. Ultimately, authorities arrested eight teens in connection to the fights over the weekend, according to the outlet.. “The parents need to get more involved, you know,” one resident told FOX 5. “Kids are going to be kids, but the parents really, really need to focus on what their children are doing.”. GET BREAKING NEWS BY EMAIL. The brawls came as the Department of Parks and Recreation hosted evening events geared toward teens Friday and Saturday, while also enacting five juvenile curfew zones throughout D.C. over the weekend.. CLICK HERE FOR MORE US NEWS. The order reportedly restricts anyone under the age of 18 from gathering in unsanctioned groups of nine or more in public spaces, with a separate citywide curfew being enacted nightly from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m.. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP. Currently, the Juvenile Curfew Seco  

​NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!. Boston officials spent the years after George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter protests pushing a mental health-first response model meant to reduce the role of police in psychiatric emergencies. But that strategy came under scrutiny Saturday after police said a man in crisis stabbed an officer.. The city’s flagship approach built on the long-running Boston Emergency Services Team, or BEST, a partnership that Boston police say has been in place since 2011.. After the 2020 unrest, however, City Hall moved to expand and elevate that model. In April 2021, Boston launched a pilot explicitly aimed at increasing the role of mental health workers and decreasing the role of police in crisis calls.. The policy shift was on display on Saturday.. CLICK HERE FOR MORE US NEWS. Police Commissioner Michael Cox said officers were called around 10:45 a.m. after a man reported that four armed people outside his apartment near Northwestern University wanted to harm him.. Officers could not find anyone matching that description, but spoke with the caller through the door and then requested EMS and a mental health clinician, through the BEST program, after concluding he was in immediate need of psychiatric help.. GOT A TIP?. According to Cox, EMS and the clinician spent roughly 35 to 45 minutes talking with the man from outside the apartment and trying to persuade him to come out for treatment.. FOLLOW US ON X. Instead, police said, he suddenly emerged carrying a sword, stabbed a Boston officer in the arm and knocked the clinician to the ground.. “One or more officers fired a Taser and their firearm at the individual, bringing the person to a halt,” the commissioner said. “EMS immediately provided medical attention. Unfortunately, the person succumbed to the injuries.”. GET BREAKING NEWS BY EMAIL. The person has not been immediately identified.. The officer stabbed was given a tourniquet on scene before being taken to the hospital. Several officers and two EMS clinicians were also taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, according to Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden.. “Today serves as a reminder of the dangers inherent in this work and the sacrifice our members make every day. Members of Boston EMS show up to save lives — not to be assaulted. No one should face violence for simply doing their job,” Boston EMS said in a statement.. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP. “Our thoughts are with our injured members, the Boston Police officers, and everyone affected by today’s incident.”. Boston Police are investigating.. Fox News Digital reached out to the police and mayor for comment.  

​NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!. A massive six-alarm blaze tore through a California warehouse early Tuesday and authorities said an employee is in custody, FOX 11 reported.. Video from the scene showed flames ripping through the roof of the Kimberly-Clark consumer goods facility in southern Ontario, Calif., as smoke billowed into the dark sky.. Crews responded around 12:30 a.m. to the roughly 1.2 million-square-foot facility where flames were already tearing through the roof when first responders arrived, according to KTLA.. NEW SURVEILLANCE VIDEO SHOWS PENNSYLVANIA GOVERNOR’S MANSION ARSON ATTACK. San Bernardino County Fire said the Ontario Fire Department was battling a six-alarm warehouse fire involving paper products, with assistance from multiple neighboring agencies. Police also used drone footage to assist operations.. The warehouse contained paper products such as tissues and other consumer goods, helping the fire spread rapidly, FOX 11 reported.. FIREBUG BUSTED WITH HOMEMADE MOLOTOV COCKTAILS AFTER 36-HOUR BLAZE-SETTING STREAK: POLICE. By about 5 a.m., firefighters shifted to a defensive strategy, positioning ladder trucks around the building and dousing the structure from above as the hours-long fire continued to burn, KTLA reported.. About 20 employees were inside the warehouse when the fire broke out, but all escaped without injury, according to FOX 11.. Ontario Fire Department Deputy Chief Mike Wedell said that while the building’s internal sprinkler system was operational, the fire grew “exponentially very quickly,” forcing initial interior crews to retreat and adopt a defensive strategy, FOX 11 reported.. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP. Fire officials said the incident is being investigated as an arson case and that one suspect is in custody, the outlet reported.. “At this point, we do have a subject of interest,” Ontario Fire Department Deputy Chief Mike Woodell told KTLA. “That individual has been brought into custody, arrested, and taken to the police department. The individual is awaiting questioning by Ontario Police Department detectives who are en route.”. Fox News Digital reached out to Ontario’s police and fire departments for comment.  

​NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!. FIRST ON FOX: The Department of Education has launched an investigation into a Massachusetts public school district for allegedly allowing students at K-12 schools to use bathrooms and locker rooms based on their self-defined gender identity, rather than biological sex, while forcing students to integrate and preventing parents from changing the policy.. Westford County Public Schools’ (WPS) policy surrounding “Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Students” allows students to use restrooms and locker rooms of the opposite sex while forcing other students who object to leave, according to America First Legal (AFL), which originally filed the complaint that prompted the investigation.. “America First Legal is committed to ensuring that children are protected from leftist Indoctrination,” AFL President Gene Hamilton told Fox News Digital in a statement. “We will not allow our girls to be silenced or harmed by WPS’s ‘gender identity’ policy. The Department of Education’s investigation rightfully sends a clear message to schools across the country: Title IX will not be sacrificed on the altar of gender ideology.”. VIRGINIA SCHOOL DISTRICT VOTES TO KEEP GENDER BATHROOM POLICY, DEFYING DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION DIRECTIVE. The same policy allegedly allows girls to enter boys facilities as well, forcing students who disagree with the policy or may be of the opposite sex to leave the bathroom or locker room.. “Prior Administrations regularly misinterpreted Title IX to pander to political ideology and police ‘misgendering’ despite not having sound legal grounds,” Department of Education spokesperson Amelia Joy told Fox News Digital in a statement. “With today’s actions, the Trump Administration is upholding the law and righting years of wrongs.”. The policy, which appears to have been removed from the WPS website, also included policies surrounding gender identities, pronoun usage, and defines terms like “gender nonconforming.”. TRUMP ADMIN DETERMINES SJSU VIOLATED TITLE IX WITH HANDLING OF TRANS VOLLEYBALL PLAYER BLAIRE FLEMING. When the policy was being debated prior to its implementation in March 2025, WestfordCAT reported that one school board committee member said that staff could also be affected by not allowing the use of opposite sex facilities based on gender identity.. “I know that we have students, possibly staff, that this impacts,” WPS committee member Tom Laflamme said. “They are real people who are harmed by taking no action. The policy may not be perfect because we are humans, but it makes a statement that they matter to us.”. The policy was implemented after President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled: “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism And Restoring Biological Truth To The Federal Government” on his first day in office, Jan. 20, 2025.. TRUMP ADMIN CRACKS DOWN ON OREGON AND VIRGINIA FOR DEFYING TITLE IX AND WOMEN’S SPORTS EXECUTIVE ORDER. The executive order