​NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!. A Haitian illegal immigrant who was caught and released by the Biden administration in 2022 was arrested after allegedly bludgeoning a mother to death with a hammer on Friday outside a gas station in Fort Myers, Florida, in broad daylight.. Rolbert Joachim, 40, is charged with second-degree murder and criminal damage to property, according to Lee County Sheriff’s Office jail records.. Surveillance footage appeared to show Joachim smashing the woman’s car windshield, approaching her, and repeatedly hitting her in the head with a hammer — killing her in broad daylight, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).. The woman, whose identity has not yet been publicly released, was reportedly a store clerk inside the gas station.. SUSPECT IN FATAL NEW JERSEY HIT-AND-RUN CRASH IS ILLEGAL ALIEN, FUGITIVE: DHS. She was also the mother of two teenage daughters, according to a report from local outlet Gulf Coast News.. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) assisted the Fort Myers Police Department in tracking down and arresting Joachim on Mango Street in Fort Myers.. Joachim first entered the U.S. in August 2022 and was released into the country under the Biden administration, according to DHS.. A federal judge issued a final order of removal against him later that year, but he was granted Temporary Protected Status — which expired in 2024.. “This illegal alien barbarically hit this woman in the head multiple times with a hammer,” DHS acting assistant secretary Lauren Bis wrote in a statement. “This heinous murderer was RELEASED into the country by the Biden administration. Not only did the Biden administration release him into the country, but they then gave him temporary protected status. Their reckless immigration policies cost this woman her life.”. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP. ICE has lodged a detainer against Joachim, and he will be deported regardless of the outcome of the case.. “The arrest of this criminal is an example of how ICE and local authorities can work together to swiftly bring criminals to justice and make our communities safer,” Bis said.  

​Prosecutors released a haunting black-and-white photo showing 7-year-old Athena Strand moments before her abduction and death at the hands of FedEx driver Tanner Horner while delivering her Christmas present. The image, released on Tuesday, shows Athena behind Horner on the day she was strangled in Texas in November 2022; she appears uneasy as Horner concentrates on the road ahead. Horner, 34, a former delivery driver accused of kidnapping and strangling Athena after hitting her with his van during a delivery, admitted to capital murder in a Tarrant County courthouse on Tuesday morning. After jurors were seated, Judge George Gallagher asked for the plea; “Guilty, your honor,” Horner replied, and the judge accepted.

Horner admitted to abducting Strand while delivering a package to her father’s home in Paradise, a town of fewer than 500 people about 60 miles northwest of Dallas. Her body was found on December 2, two days after she was reported missing, less than 10 miles from the home. Authorities said Horner was delivering a package of Barbie dolls that were intended to be Strand’s Christmas present. Athena was set to return to Oklahoma with her mother after the holidays and had been staying with her father, Jacob Strand, and stepmother, Ashley Strand, in Wise County.

According to the arrest warrant, Horner told investigators that he strangled the 7-year-old after accidentally hitting her with his van while delivering at her father’s home. He said Strand wasn’t seriously hurt after he hit her while backing up, but he panicked and put her in his van. On Tuesday, Ashley Strand testified about the immediate aftermath when she realized her stepdaughter had vanished. She recalled thinking perhaps she was hiding somewhere. The only thing she noticed as unusual on the property was a Walmart package containing Barbie dolls that had been ordered for Athena as a Christmas present and had been left in front of an abandoned trailer on the property.

Athena was reported missing, and an Amber Alert was issued, triggering 72 hours of searching. Wise County’s former Sheriff Lane Akin testified that the search efforts for the 7-year-old were a grassroots effort with community members standing shoulder to shoulder if she was found.  

​NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!. NASA unveiled the first-ever photo of Earth from the far side of the moon after a flyby Tuesday, taken by the Artemis II astronauts that President Donald Trump hailed in a phone call as “modern-day pioneers.”. The historic image, taken for the very first time by human beings from this exact perspective, was compared by NASA to the iconic “Earthrise” photo taken by astronaut Bill Anders from the Apollo 8 mission nearly 60 years ago.. NASA dubbed the photo “Earthset,” as a callback to the 1968 photo.. “Humanity, from the other side,” The White House wrote in a post sharing the photo on X. “First photo from the far side of the Moon. Captured from Orion as Earth dips beyond the lunar horizon.”. NASA CHIEF JARED ISAACMAN SAYS ARTEMIS II WOULD NOT BE POSSIBLE ‘IF IT WASN’T FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP’. Trump took a call with the astronauts on the Artemis II mission late Monday, saying: “Today you’ve made history and made all of America really proud. Incredibly proud.”. “Humans have really never seen anything quite like what you’re doing in a manned spacecraft. It’s really special,” Trump added. “I want to personally salute and congratulate Commander Reid Weissman, Pilot Victor Glover, Mission Specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen.”. NASA reported that the Earthset photo was captured through the window of the Orion spacecraft around 7 p.m. ET on Monday during a flyby of the moon, without giving any of the four Artemis II crew members specific photographer’s credit.. ARTEMIS II ASTRONAUT TELLS TRUMP WHAT COMMUNICATION BLACKOUT WAS LIKE: ‘I SAID A LITTLE PRAYER’. NASA described the view from the photo as a “muted blue Earth with bright white clouds sets behind the cratered lunar surface.”. “The dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime,” NASA wrote. “On Earth’s day side, swirling clouds are visible over the Australia and Oceania region.”. The Orion holds 32 cameras, according to NASA. Fifteen cameras are fixed to the spacecraft, and 17 are handheld by crew members.. ASTRONAUT VICTOR GLOVER PRAISED FOR SAYING MOON MISSION IS ‘HUMAN HISTORY,’ NOT ‘BLACK HISTORY’. Artemis II Mission Specialist Christina Koch remarked upon the beauty of the Earth from the crew’s unique vantage point, calling it “special.”. “The thing that changed for me, looking back at Earth, was that I found myself noticing not only the beauty of the Earth, but how much blackness there was around it and how it just made it even more special,” Koch recalled.. The Artemis II astronauts begin their journey back to Earth Tuesday, with the crew expected to travel a total of 695,081 miles total from launch to splashdown. Their mission is projected to be over 4,000 miles further from the Earth than Apollo 13.. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP. The Artemis II capsule is projected to make its West Coast splashdown early Friday evening off the coast near San Diego.. “Your mission paves the way for America’s return to the lunar surface very  

​NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!. Chinese government officials are alleging that a University of Michigan researcher was questioned by U.S. law enforcement shortly before his death on campus last month — a claim U.S. authorities have not confirmed.. Danhao Wang, a research assistant in electrical and computer engineering, died in March after an incident inside the George G. Brown Building, according to the university.. The University of Michigan Police Department said officers responded around 11 p.m. on March 19 to a report of a person who fell inside the building. An assistant research scientist was found after falling from an upper level and was later pronounced dead.. Police said the case is being investigated as a possible act of self-harm and that there is no indication of an ongoing threat to the campus community.. FEDS CHARGE 3 IN $2.5B SCHEME TO SMUGGLE US AI TECH TO CHINA USING DUMMY SERVERS. Chinese officials, however, have publicly raised concerns about the circumstances leading up to Wang’s death.. In a statement issued March 30, the Chinese Consulate in Chicago said a Chinese scholar died “the day after being questioned by U.S. law enforcement personnel,” adding that officials, acting under instructions from Beijing, had protested multiple times to U.S. government agencies and the university.. The consulate said it had contacted the scholar’s family “at the earliest opportunity” and was assisting them, while accusing the United States of “overstretching” national security concerns to “groundlessly interrogate and harass Chinese students and scholars.”. AUTHORITIES REVEAL CAUSE OF DEATH IN KILLING OF RETIRED COLLEGE PROFESSOR. It also warned of a “serious chilling effect” and advised Chinese nationals in the U.S. to exercise caution in interactions with law enforcement and contact Chinese diplomatic missions if they encounter similar situations.. The consulate did not identify the individual.. During a March 27 press briefing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said China had protested the case and accused the United States of “groundlessly interrogat[ing] and harass[ing] Chinese scholars and students,” calling for a full investigation.. U.S. officials have not confirmed that any such questioning took place.. GOT A TIP?. In a statement to Fox News Digital, the FBI’s Detroit field office declined to say whether it had any contact with Wang.. FOLLOW US ON X. “As a matter of longstanding policy, the FBI neither confirms nor denies the existence of any investigation or investigative activity involving specific individuals,” the bureau said.. University of Michigan police told Fox News Digital they would not be releasing additional information beyond their public statement, citing the ongoing investigation.. GET BREAKING NEWS BY EMAIL. The allegations were first reported by Michigan Advance, which said federal agencies declined to comment on whether Wang had been questioned prior to his death.. CLICK HERE FO  

​NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!. An alleged illegal immigrant gang member wanted in connection with a murder investigation in El Salvador was shot Tuesday by federal agents in California after authorities claim he tried to run over an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer with his car.. ICE Director Todd Lyons told Fox News the shooting unfolded after ICE agents conducted a targeted vehicle stop in Patterson, California, to arrest Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez, a suspected 18th Street Gang member wanted in El Salvador for questioning in connection with a murder.. Mendoza Hernandez was allegedly flagged by the National Targeting Center, according to a senior federal law enforcement source.. As agents approached the car, officials said Mendoza Hernandez allegedly weaponized his vehicle in an attempt to run over an officer.. ICE HEAD SAYS AGENTS FACING ‘CONSTANT IMPEDIMENTS’ AFTER MIGRANT SEEN RAMMING CARS WHILE TRYING TO FLEE. “Following their training, our officers fired defensive shots to protect themselves, their fellow agents, and the public,” Lyons said.. Mendoza Hernandez was taken to a local hospital.. The extent of his injuries and current condition have not yet been released.. ICE ACCUSES HONDURAN ALIEN OF RAMMING LAW ENFORCEMENT VEHICLE BEFORE AGENT SHOOTS OUT TIRES. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)’s Sacramento field office said it is responding to the incident, which it said involved ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).. “We are conducting a thorough investigation,” FBI Sacramento wrote in a statement. “… [We] are grateful for the Patterson community’s continued patience and support.”. The Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Office said it is assisting with the investigation.. The department noted local law enforcement were not involved in the incident.. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP. The incident happened months after Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed Jan. 7 by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, prompting nationwide protests.. Following the shooting, officials said Good was attempting to ram federal agents with her car during an anti-ICE protest.. Patterson, California, is located about 70 miles southeast of San Francisco, just off Interstate 5.. The rural city is known for farming almonds, apricots and other crops.. Fox News’ Michael Chin and Bill Melugin contributed to this report.