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Mehki M. Teachey was just 25 when gunfire ended his life in Norfolk early Sunday. Police got the call around 12:30 a.m. on October 11. Officers found him on the side of a building in the 800 block of East Little Creek Road. He had a serious gunshot wound. He died right there at the scene.

Teachey lived in Newport News. He was young and had years ahead of him. His family now faces a sudden empty space where he used to be. Friends and relatives are left holding memories that hit harder than before.

The shooting happened near several businesses close to Sewells Point Road. No one has been named as a suspect yet. Detectives are still working the case. They want anyone who saw or heard something to call the Norfolk Crime Line.

Bilal Muhammad from Stop The Violence came to the area later. He talked with people who live nearby. One young man told his family to get down on the floor when the shots rang out. Muhammad said the sound of repeated gunfire was hard to hear in a place where people live and work.

He has seen many scenes like this. It never gets easier. A life is gone and there is no winner. Families grieve. Neighbors look for answers. The pain sticks around long after the police leave.

Muhammad pointed out that Norfolk has seen more homicides this year than last. He wants people to step up and get involved. Talk more. Watch out for each other. Work on problems before they turn deadly.

Teachey’s name is now part of that hard list. His loved ones will feel the loss every day. The rest of the city can choose to remember what happened and try to stop the next one.

Police in Aurora, Missouri, say Amy Rinkler made her daughter practice false stories about the girl’s father until the lines were perfect. The 40-year-old mother now sits in the Lawrence County Jail on a child abuse charge. The trouble grew out of a long custody battle that stretched from 2024 into 2026.

Aurora officers opened the file in April after a child abuse call came in. The girl told them her mother ordered her to claim the father had hit her, kicked her, and cursed at her. None of it was true, she said. Rinkler kept the made-up lines in a folder and drilled them into the child late at night and on weekends.

Mistakes brought hits and insults. The girl said her mother called her stupid over and over. Counselors found the child in a bad emotional state. She stared at the floor, stayed silent, and would not let anyone touch her. One counselor tied the trauma to pure fear of facing her mother and sister after the forced coaching.

Custody workers had noticed problems earlier. Statements from the girl and her sister sounded almost the same. Officials believed the mother had pushed both versions. Rinkler denied every part of it. She said she never coached the girl, never threatened her, and never owned any folder of fake claims.

She went into the Lawrence County Jail on Wednesday and remains held with no bond. Court is set for October 19. Aurora is a small city in Lawrence County in the southwest corner of Missouri near Springfield.

The girl told investigators she felt safe only at her father’s home. That detail stayed front and center in the police reports. Officers treated the rehearsals and the threats as the core of the case while the court process moves ahead.

Amy Rinkler faces a child abuse charge after police say she threatened to kill her daughter if the girl would not lie about her father. The case sits in Lawrence County, Missouri, right in the middle of a tough custody fight. Aurora police got the first report in April and started digging into what happened between 2024 and 2026.

The girl told officers she never felt safe at her mother’s house. She said Rinkler hit her and warned she would die if she refused to accuse her father of hitting, kicking, and cursing at her. Those claims about the father were not true, the girl said. She had to practice the made-up story from a folder full of written statements. Practice sessions ran late at night or on weekends.

If the girl messed up the lines, her mother hit her, cursed at her, and called her stupid. Counselors who talked with the child said she looked terrible. She kept her head down, would not look anyone in the eye, stayed quiet, and pulled away from any touch. One counselor linked that fear straight to the pressure of seeing her mother and sister again after the forced lies.

People working on the custody case had already grown suspicious. The statements from the girl and her sister matched almost word for word. Officials thought the mother had shaped both stories. Rinkler told police she never coached anyone, never made threats, and never kept any folder of fake statements.

Officers booked her into the Lawrence County Jail on Wednesday. She stays locked up with no bond set. Her next court date is October 19. Aurora sits in Lawrence County in southwest Missouri, part of the Springfield area.

The girl said she felt safe at her father’s place. That contrast stood out during the interviews. Police kept the focus on the threats and the rehearsals that left the child shaken. The case keeps moving through the local courts while the family waits for the next hearing.

Ernesto Rodriguez died early Saturday from gunshots inside an apartment at the Country Club Apartments. The place sits in the 400 block of Aaron Lane in East Lampeter Township. Tobias John Allen Click, 29, of Harrisburg, pulled the trigger.

Click had dated Rodriguez’s girlfriend before. He forced his way in and shot Rodriguez. Then he kept the woman and her four children inside with him.

Police from East Lampeter Township started the investigation. Pennsylvania State Police joined in. They charged Click with first-degree murder, burglary, kidnapping, abuse of a corpse and more while he was still alive.

Click left the apartment and ended up in Cumberland County. Officers found him there with a gunshot wound he gave himself. He went to Penn State Health Holy Spirit Medical Center in bad shape.

The Cumberland County Coroner’s Office said he died at 8:25 a.m. Sunday. The self-inflicted wound killed him.

The woman and the four children survived the hours they spent held there. Rodriguez did not. Authorities have not put out anything else on the timeline or the scene.

The apartment complex is in Lancaster County, east of Lancaster city. That is where the shooting and the holding of the family took place.

Tobias John Allen Click is dead. The 29-year-old from Harrisburg shot Ernesto Rodriguez to death early Saturday inside an apartment at the Country Club Apartments in the 400 block of Aaron Lane. He then held Rodriguez’s girlfriend and her four kids inside that same place.

Click was the woman’s former boyfriend. Police say he broke in and fired the shots that killed Rodriguez. The woman and the children stayed trapped with him for a time after that.

East Lampeter Township police and Pennsylvania State Police worked the case together. They charged Click with first-degree murder, burglary, kidnapping, abuse of a corpse and other counts before he died.

State police found Click later in Cumberland County. He had a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Crews took him to Penn State Health Holy Spirit Medical Center with life-threatening injuries.

The Cumberland County Coroner’s Office pronounced him dead at 8:25 a.m. Sunday. Injuries from the shot he fired into himself caused it.

Rodriguez never got the chance to fight back in any real way. The girlfriend and the four children made it out of the apartment after Click left. No more details have come out from the departments involved.

East Lampeter Township sits in Lancaster County in southeastern Pennsylvania. The whole thing started and ended over one weekend.

Ann Mannix was found dead inside her home on Strawberry Circle along with her daughter and husband. Sources say her husband Kevin shot her and their daughter before turning the gun on himself. The call came in at 5:03 p.m. Sunday.

Marin County deputies answered a report of shots fired. The person who dialed 911 had already left the house. Inside they found the three bodies. No one else was hurt.

Ann built a long career with the San Francisco Police Department. She became the first woman on the SWAT team and the first to lead it. In 2018 she was named deputy chief of Field Operations. The year after that she headed Special Operations.

Kevin Mannix had retired from the department eight years earlier. He finished as a sergeant after 27 years on the job. The family home sits in the Strawberry community near Mill Valley.

Authorities say the case is still early. They have not put out a full public account yet. There is no threat to the rest of the area.

Friends and former coworkers are left with the news of three deaths in one afternoon. The house on Strawberry Circle is quiet now. The sheriff’s office continues its work.

The community of Strawberry is unincorporated land in Marin County. It lies just north of San Francisco in the Bay Area. That is where the shootings took place.

Kevin Mannix shot his wife Ann Mannix and their daughter at their home on Strawberry Circle. Then he shot himself. It happened Sunday afternoon in Marin County. Deputies got the call at 5:03 p.m. on October 11.

A person inside the house called 911 about shots fired. That caller got out before help showed up. When deputies went in they found three people dead. Sources say Kevin did the shooting.

Ann Mannix spent years climbing the ranks in the San Francisco Police Department. She made deputy chief of the Field Operations Bureau in 2018. The next year she took over the Special Operations Bureau. She was the first woman to join the SWAT team and later lead it.

Kevin Mannix put in 27 years with the same department. He retired as a sergeant in June 2018. The couple lived in the Strawberry area near Mill Valley.

The sheriff’s office is still looking into what led up to the shootings. They say there is no danger to anyone else in the neighborhood. The investigation is just getting started.

People who knew the family are trying to make sense of it. Three lives ended in one house on a quiet street. The details keep coming out slow.

Strawberry sits in unincorporated Marin County north of San Francisco. It is a regular residential spot. Now it is the place where this all went down.

Darren Dahleiden waited at the stop sign on County Road 485 in the dark early hours of Sunday, October 11. The 24-year-old from Plano sat in his BMW and looked toward State Highway 205. He pulled out anyway.

Darryl Cloyd came north on his 2019 Harley-Davidson at that same moment. The 61-year-old Lavon man rode through the Collin County intersection around 1:20 a.m. The BMW clipped the rear driver’s side of the bike hard.

The force threw the motorcycle sideways. Cloyd hit the ground and never recovered. Ambulances carried him to a local hospital where staff declared him dead.

Dahleiden climbed out of the damaged BMW with only minor hurts. He went to the hospital too but left in better shape than the man he struck.

Troopers from the Texas Department of Public Safety sealed off the crossing of Highway 205 and Road 485. They measured the damage and talked to the surviving driver. Their first finding called it a clear failure to yield the right of way.

The intersection sits in a calm stretch outside Lavon, northeast of Dallas. Drivers treat it like any other quiet country crossroads until the moment someone misses the stop.

No extra details have surfaced about speed or distractions. The investigation stays open while the wreckage gets cleared and the reports get finished.

Darryl Cloyd rode his 2019 Harley-Davidson north on State Highway 205 just after 1:20 in the morning on Sunday, October 11. The 61-year-old from Lavon headed home through Collin County under dark skies. Traffic stayed light at that hour near the edge of town.

Darren Dahleiden sat in his BMW at the stop sign on County Road 485. The 24-year-old from Plano waited to pull onto the highway. He moved forward without the right of way. The front of his car met the rear driver’s side of the Harley.

The hit sent the motorcycle spinning across the pavement. Cloyd went down hard. First responders found him and rushed him to a nearby hospital. Doctors there pronounced him dead a short time later.

Dahleiden walked away with only minor injuries. Medics took him to the same area hospital for checks. He left the scene under his own power after treatment.

Texas Department of Public Safety troopers arrived quick. They marked the skid marks and broken parts still scattered at the crossroads of Highway 205 and Road 485. Their early report pointed straight to a failure to yield.

Folks who live around Lavon know that spot well. It sits just outside the quiet neighborhoods northeast of Dallas. Cars and bikes pass through every day without trouble until one wrong second changes everything.

Cloyd’s ride ended on a road he likely traveled many times before. Investigators keep working the case. No more facts have come out yet about what led the BMW driver to pull out when he did.

An 82-year-old Mineral Wells man lost his life in a Jack County crash Sunday. Gary Higginbotham was on his motorcycle when it collided with an SUV. The spot was the crossing of U.S. Highway 380 and U.S. Highway 281.

Around 6 p.m. on October 11 the Harley-Davidson Road King Classic moved west on U.S. 380 near Jacksboro. The 2021 Nissan Xterra traveled north on U.S. 281. Both vehicles reached the intersection at a critical moment.

Investigators found the motorcycle entered U.S. 281 and did not give the right-of-way. The SUV struck the bike. Higginbotham died at the scene from the crash injuries.

He wore a helmet that day. Sgt. Katrina Johnson of the Texas Department of Public Safety described the preliminary look at the wreck. The case stays open as troopers dig deeper.

The location is south of Jacksboro in Jack County. That area lies northwest of the big Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. Clear roads and evening light framed the sudden stop of the ride.

The failure to yield stands out as the main point in the early report. Higginbotham’s long life ended in that brief moment on the highway.

Texas DPS keeps working the investigation with no end date set yet. The simple facts of the two paths crossing tell the story of what happened.