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Bryan Arellano Ponce was just 19 when deputies found him unconscious in a car on Spinks Road. It was Monday evening, October 12, around 6:24 p.m. Randolph County Sheriff’s Office got the call about someone out cold inside a vehicle in Asheboro.

While they headed that way, word came he had a gunshot wound. First responders were already working on him hard. They could not save him. Bryan was pronounced dead right there at the scene.

He lived in Asheboro. At 19 most folks are still figuring out work or school or just hanging with friends. His life stopped cold that night in the car.

The sheriff’s detectives say they have a person of interest. No arrest yet. The case is still open and they are digging into what happened.

Folks around here know Spinks Road is a regular stretch. Now it is the place where a young man from town lost everything. Bryan’s family and friends are left with the sudden hole that comes when someone that age is gone.

Deputies treated it as a homicide from the start. Life-saving steps were tried but fell short. The gunshot did the damage that ended things.

Anyone who saw something or knows more can call the Randolph County Sheriff’s Office or Crime Stoppers. The probe keeps moving so answers can come for the people who cared about Bryan.

Nineteen years does not feel like enough time. Bryan Arellano Ponce’s name is now tied to that quiet road and the night the shooting took him.

Tralaun Barlow, 31, walked into the AutoZone at 14835 Puritas Avenue in Cleveland on Sunday afternoon with a gun in hand. Police say he meant to rob the place. It was October 11, right after 3 p.m.

Workers were there doing their jobs. One of them was 61-year-old Adam Colon Caraballo. Court records show Barlow ordered them to hand over money.

Adam tried to put a stop to it. Barlow swung the gun and hit him. Then he fired several shots. Adam went down hard.

While Adam lay hurt, Barlow turned to another employee. He took cash and a cell phone. He left the store and got in a car.

Adam made it to the hospital but did not make it. The gunshot wounds killed him. Police moved fast. Witnesses and store cameras gave them what they needed.

License plate readers tracked Barlow’s car all the way to Akron. Officers pulled him over that same night. He is charged with aggravated murder. Investigators also look at him for a gas station robbery in Lakewood earlier that day.

The whole thing started as a robbery and ended with a man dead. Barlow sits in custody. The store and the people who worked with Adam deal with the fallout.

Adam Colon Caraballo showed up for his shift at the AutoZone on Puritas Avenue in Cleveland like any other Sunday. The 61-year-old man knew the place. He worked there. Folks around him counted on him.

Just after 3 that afternoon on October 11, a 31-year-old named Tralaun Barlow walked in with a gun. He wanted money. Court papers say he demanded cash from the people behind the counter.

Adam stepped in. He tried to stop what was happening. Barlow hit him with the firearm first. Then he shot Adam more than once. Other workers watched it go down.

Adam got taken straight to the hospital. Doctors could not save him. His wounds were too bad. He died that day.

Barlow kept going after the shots. He grabbed money and a cell phone from another employee. Then he ran out and drove off.

Police talked to everyone who saw it. They used cameras that read license plates. Those tools pointed them to Akron. Officers stopped Barlow there just a few hours later. He faces an aggravated murder charge now.

Adam leaves behind people who cared about him. His coworkers and family are left picking up the pieces. The store on Puritas Avenue sits quiet for a bit after what happened. A regular workday turned into something nobody expected.

Monroe County prosecutors filed two counts of criminal homicide Tuesday against 27-year-old Metallica Rose Harrison following a fatal stabbing at a Pocono resort.

Pocono Township police began investigating the deaths after dispatchers received a call from Harrison around 3:00 p.m. Monday stating she wanted to die.

Officers responding to Room 2030 at Great Wolf Lodge found 36-year-old Charles Harrison and his three-year-old son dead inside the suite.

Court records show both victims suffered fatal chest wounds inflicted by kitchen knives brought into the room from outside the resort.

Hotel surveillance footage showed the family checking into the Scotrun property on September 21 and extending their stay through October 13.

Security cameras captured the couple returning to their room from the resort arcade around 11:20 p.m. Sunday, with no one entering or exiting afterward.

Detectives who attempted to interview Harrison at St. Luke’s Hospital reported that she refused to answer questions after receiving her Miranda rights.

Investigators confirmed finding no defensive wounds on Harrison, and the Monroe County District Attorney’s Office approved the double homicide charges before Magisterial District Judge Daniel Kresge.

Police reassured resort guests that the stabbing was an isolated domestic incident with no ongoing threat to the community.

A family getaway to a popular Pocono Mountains waterpark resort ended in a double homicide inside Room 2030 on Monday afternoon.

Pocono Township police officers rushed to Great Wolf Lodge in Scotrun shortly after 3:00 p.m. following a frantic 911 call from 27-year-old Metallica Rose Harrison.

First responders arrived at the second-floor hallway and found Metallica Harrison bleeding from self-inflicted wounds near the open doorway of the room.

Officers pushed past the doorway and discovered her husband, 36-year-old Charles “Chaz” Harrison, dead on a mattress on the floor with multiple knife wounds to his chest.

Nearby on a separate mattress, police officers located the couple’s three-year-old son dead from what appeared to be a single knife wound to his chest.

Crime scene investigators recovered two knives inside the bathroom, including a large butcher knife on the floor and a smaller knife on the sink counter.

Resort management told detectives that neither knife belonged to the property or matched the standard kitchen items provided in guest suites.

Police noted that Metallica Harrison apologized during her 911 call, stated her family was gone, and never asked dispatchers for medical assistance for her husband or child.

Paramedics transported Metallica Harrison to St. Luke’s Hospital–Monroe Campus in Stroudsburg, where she told an escorting officer that she was supposed to have a happy family.

Former gang leader Duane “Keffe D” Davis will spend at least four decades behind bars after receiving a sentence of 40 years to life on Tuesday.

A Clark County jury found the 63-year-old guilty of first-degree murder with a deadly weapon following a high-profile trial in August.

The court order closes a major chapter in one of the nation’s most notorious cold cases stemming from the September 1996 ambush in Las Vegas.

Shakur, who sold over 75 million records worldwide, died six days after gunmen opened fire on his car near the Las Vegas Strip.

Judge Carli Kierny rejected defense leniency requests, stating that taking a life carries permanent legal consequences regardless of how many years have passed.

Investigators spent decades gathering evidence on the street gang conspiracy that led directly to the fatal shooting.

Court records confirm that Davis received credit for time already served while awaiting his trial and formal sentencing hearing.

The ruling delivers long-sought legal accountability for the family, friends, and millions of fans who have followed the case since 1996.

A Las Vegas judge sentenced 63-year-old Duane “Keffe D” Davis to 40 years to life in prison Tuesday for orchestrating the fatal 1996 drive-by shooting of rap icon Tupac Shakur.

The long-awaited sentencing follows a landmark first-degree murder conviction handed down by a Nevada jury in August.

Shakur was just 25 years old and at the height of his legendary music career when gunfire struck his vehicle on September 7, 1996.

The award-winning artist, actor, and activist fought for his life in a local hospital for six days before succumbing to his injuries.

During Tuesday’s court proceedings, Judge Carli Kierny directly addressed the defendant before issuing the maximum penalty.

“You don’t get to take a man from his family,” Judge Kierny told the courtroom. “You don’t get to take his very life, his whole future from him, and just walk away from it. Especially when that man is Tupac Shakur.”

Prosecutors successfully proved that Davis directed the gang-related hit, obtained the murder weapon, and sat inside the vehicle from which the deadly shots were fired.

Davis remains the only person ever formally charged and convicted in connection with Shakur’s death.

Former street gang leader Duane “Keffe D” Davis received a 40-year prison sentence in Las Vegas following his conviction for the 1996 murder of rap superstar Tupac Shakur.

The 63-year-old defendant, who confirmed plans to appeal the verdict, was found guilty of murder with a deadly weapon after a jury trial in September.

Investigators initially secured a detailed account of the drive-by shooting when Davis sat down for a secret police interview back in 2008.

At the time, federal and local authorities offered Davis a proffer agreement that protected him from criminal charges in exchange for information about the killing of Christopher Wallace.

However, Davis later wrote a 2019 memoir titled Compton Street Legend and gave numerous public interviews taking credit for providing the murder weapon.

Trial judges determined that Davis forfeited his legal protections by publicizing those details for commercial gain, opening the door for murder charges.

Prosecutors established that Davis sat in the front passenger seat of the white Cadillac while his late nephew, Orlando Anderson, fired the fatal shots from the back seat.

Anderson denied any involvement in Shakur’s death before he was killed in an unrelated shooting in 1998.

The conviction brings legal closure to a major 1990s cold case that lingered without an arrest for almost thirty years.

A Nevada judge handed down a 40-year prison sentence to former gang leader Duane “Keffe D” Davis for his role in the 1996 murder of hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur.

A Clark County jury convicted the 63-year-old former South Side Compton Crips leader in September on one count of murder with a deadly weapon.

The conviction marked the very first criminal prosecution in a famous cold case that remained unsolved for nearly three decades following the Las Vegas drive-by shooting.

Shakur was just 25 years old and at the peak of his music career when gunmen opened fire on his car on September 7, 1996.

Prosecutors proved that while Davis did not pull the trigger himself, he acted as the ringleader who organized the hit and handed the weapon to his nephew, Orlando Anderson.

Key evidence presented in court included Davis’ own recorded statements and written admissions from his 2019 memoir, Compton Street Legend.

Davis originally disclosed his involvement during a confidential 2008 police interview regarding the murder of rapper Christopher Wallace, also known as Notorious B.I.G.

That proffer agreement shielded Davis from prosecution until he chose to publish details of the crime in his book and discuss them in media interviews.

A judge ruled that Davis violated his immunity deal by going public, allowing prosecutors to use his recorded police interview against him during trial.

Defense attorneys argued during the trial that Davis exaggerated his story and made up the details to profit off book sales, but jurors rejected that argument after reviewing the evidence.

A 35-year-old father survived a self-inflicted gunshot wound after allegedly shooting his two young sons inside a car Sunday afternoon.

Family members identified the suspected shooter as Adolfo Gramajo, though police have not officially confirmed his identity.

Los Angeles Police Department officers arrived at Venice Boulevard and Catalina Street shortly before 1:00 p.m. following reports of gunfire.

Investigators determined Gramajo shot both of his sons before turning the firearm on himself in an apparent murder-suicide attempt.

Emergency personnel transported Gramajo to a local hospital, where medical staff treated him for his injuries.

His two sons, four-year-old Jimmy Gramajo Bonilla and eleven-year-old Osmani Gramajo Bonilla, died from gunshot wounds to the head.

Neighbors and local residents set up a makeshift memorial with candles, flowers, and balloons on the sidewalk near the crime scene.

Detectives from the LAPD Juvenile Division are continuing their investigation into what led up to the tragic shooting.

Police are asking anyone with information about the incident to contact Detective Wilfredo Ortiz or submit tips anonymously through Crime Stoppers.