Category: True Crime

Pakistani Social Media Star Strangled by Brother In‘Honor Killing’

  

Qandeel Baloch, one of Pakistan’s most famous and controversial social media stars, has been strangled to death in what police are calling a case of so called “honor” killing in the city of Multan in the country’s province of Punjab.

Azhar Akram, Multan’s chief police officer, told CNN that Baloch was killed by her brother in her family’s home after he had protested at the “kind of pictures she had been posting online.”

After going on the run, the brother was later arrested and confessed on a video that police showed at a news conference.
Baloch’s father Muhammad Azeem reported her death to the police.

Baloch, 25, was from the Punjabi town of Kot Addu and had risen to fame due to the brazenly sassy, and increasingly political, videos that she had started posting on Facebook.

Her videos were not very different from thousands others shared by 20-something social media celebrities around the Internet — she pouted like a kitten into the camera, discussed her various hairstyles and shared cooing confessions from her bedroom about her celebrity crushes.

Baloch pushed boundaries
Yet in Pakistan, her flirty antics were unusual, pushing the boundaries of what’s acceptable of women in Pakistan. 

According to the World Economic Forum’s 2015 Gender Gap Report, Pakistan was second to last on the list of 145 countries with regards to gender disparity.

Read more: Pakistani Social Media Star Qandeel Baloch Strangled by Brother in So-Called ‘Honor Killing’: Police — KTLA

Photo Of Fatal Wreck Goes Viral After People Claim To See Spirit Above Victim’s Body

A chilling photo taken at the scene of a fatal motorcycle crash in Kentucky is getting a lot of attention online. 

According to Lex 18 News, the crash occurred in Powell County, Kentucky, on Tuesday evening. A motorcyclist was seriously injured after crashing on Highway 15 near Stanton. He was transported to the hospital where he later died.

Saul Vazquez of Mount Sterling, Kentucky, says he witnessed the photo while in his truck and took a picture of the accident.

“Zoom in and pay attention to the shadow just off the top of the state trooper hat. All I say is I hope everyone involved is okay!!” 

Many people believe the photo shows the motorcycle driver’s spirit leaving his body. Regardless, it’s certainly sparking a lot of conversation.

Vazquez told Lex 18 News that the picture has not been altered.

The photo has been shared thousands of times in less than 24 hours after Vazquez posted it.

LA Police Commission to Decide If Fatal Shooting Of Woman In Alley Was Justified

The Los Angeles Police Commission is expected to decide Tuesday whether an officer followed the department’s policies for using deadly force last summer when he shot and killed a woman in a South L.A. alley. 

Redel Jones, 30, was fatally shot by a Los Angeles police officer in August 2015 after she allegedly moved toward officers with a knife. 

As hundreds of demonstrators descended on downtown Los Angeles, the city’s Police Commission on Tuesday faulted two LAPD officers for their tactics leading up to the killing of a black woman in South L.A. last year, but found that the fatal shooting did not violate the department’s deadly force policy.

The board’s decision touched off protests outside the LAPD’s downtown headquarters that quickly moved across the street to City Hall, where activists pounded on the glass doors and decried how police officers use force, particularly against African Americans. In the year after Redel Jones’ death, her name has been chanted at meetings, written on signs carried at protests and spread on Twitter as a hashtag.

Jones, 30, was killed after Los Angeles police say she moved toward an officer while holding a knife. The LAPD has said Jones matched the description of a woman who robbed a nearby pharmacy about 20 minutes earlier, prompting officers to pursue her into the alley.

But a woman who said she saw the August 2015 shooting from her car questioned why police opened fire, telling the Los Angeles Times that Jones was running away from the officers and never turned toward them.