MADRID—Spanish authorities said they were investigating what they called a possible “terrorist” incident after a machete-wielding man attacked several people at two churches in the southern port city of Algeciras, killing at least one person. The man attacked clergymen at two different churches—San Isidro and Nuestra Senora de La Palma, around 300 meters (1,000 feet) […]
NEW YORK—A man accused of attacking police with a machete near New York’s Times Square on New Year’s Eve was intent on committing a jihad against government officials and shouted “Allahu akbar” before striking one officer in the head and attempting to grab another officer’s gun, prosecutors said Wednesday. Trevor Bickford, who was shot by […]
A 19-year-old man has been arrested on attempted murder charges, New York City authorities said on Jan. 2. Trevor Bickford of Wells, Maine, was taken into custody and charged with attempted murder of a police officer and attempted assault, a New York City Police Department (NYPD) official confirmed to The Epoch Times on Jan. 2. […]
A man attacked three NYPD police officers with a machete on New Years Eve in New York City near Times Square celebrations, injuring two, officials said in an early Sunday morning news conference. New York Police Department Commissioner Keechant Sewell told reporters Sunday that the suspect, 19, tried to slash an officer with a machete […]
PRAGUE—Police in the Czech Republic’s capital have arrested a student over the machete killing of a teacher at a Prague vocational school, officials said Thursday. The suspect, a student from the school, was detained after a search that involved hundreds of officers, police said. They did not reveal the suspect’s age or provide details about […]
Police in Florida are searching for a man suspected of killing his wife and 10-year-old daughter in a vicious attack with a machete. Noel A. Chambers, 57, has been the subject of a manhunt by police since investigators found the mutilated bodies of the victims at a Miami Gardens residence on March 30, the Miami Herald […]
A Texas grandmother and her husband fended off two alleged robbers wearing clown masks and armed with a machete. They used a child’s scooter. The confrontation took place in Texas City in the early morning hours of Feb. 1, according to KTRK-TV, as Aretha Cardinal and her husband Joseph Nelson were sitting outside their home […]
GAUTIER, Mississippi—An interstate highway through Mississippi was shut down for hours on Jan. 30, after a truck driver with a machete sparked a standoff with police, but the incident ended without injuries when he was finally arrested. The standoff ended about 1:35 p.m. and Interstate 10 in Mississippi reopened soon afterward, Jackson County Sheriff Mike […]
A man who was wielding a machete at a train station platform in London was tasered and detained by police on Jan. 14. In a video taken from a nearby train at Tulse Hill station, the man can be seen waving the large weapon as he walked across the platform. “Oh my God, he’s got […]
A member of the notorious MS-13 street gang has been charged with murder after Nassau police officers recovered a buried body in East Meadow, New York. Carlos Benitez-Hernandez, 21, of Uniondale, was one of five or more MS-13 gangsters who brutally hacked to death a young man using machetes in August 2017, News12 reported. Benitez-Hernandez […]
