A Durham man charged with hiding the death of his elderly mother has been in and out of jail for decades. He's also previously been convicted of a strangulation death.

A quiet Saturday afternoon was upended with gunfire at the Cornwallis Road apartment complex where the four-year-old girl was shot. The child’s mother, 24-year-old Vintasia Sowell, was arrested shortly after the incident. She is charged with felony child abuse and assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury.

Six college students in Massachusetts were accused of luring an active-duty service member whom they falsely described as a sexual predator to their campus, where a group of more than two dozen people chased and assaulted him,

A mother charged with shooting her own 4-year-old child in Durham over the weekend appeared in court Monday.