A 15-year-old boy has been charged with murder in the death of a pastor and leader of the United Methodist Church who was fatally shot during a carjacking in Memphis, Tennessee. The Tennessee-Western Kentucky Conference of the United Methodist Church says the Rev. Autura Eason-Williams was shot Monday afternoon outside of her home. She was found in her driveway with multiple wounds. Memphis police said Eason-Williams was taken to a hospital, where she died. The killing shocked the United Methodist Church community in Memphis. Church members attended a vigil for Eason-Williams on Monday night.

A man drove his vehicle into a family as they walked near Glacier National Park then began shooting at them with a shotgun, killing one man and mortally wounding a toddler. Authorities said Tuesday that after the assailant ran out of ammunition, he took out a knife and continued the attack before one of the victims managed to kill him. Killed in the Sunday night violence in the tourist town of East Glacier in northwestern Montana were David Siau, 39, of Syracuse, New York, and Siau’s 18-month-old daughter, McKenzie. The Glacier County Sheriff's Office says the assailant had been in a prior relationship with the woman who killed him and that he had mental health issues.

An elections director in Washington state's most populous county says her office is asking the sheriff’s office to investigate people who posted signs near ballot boxes warning voters they were “under surveillance.” The Seattle Times reports King County Elections Director Julie Wise blasted Tuesday what she called an effort to scare voters. The signs were posted near ballot boxes in Seattle and suburban locations, and included a scannable QR code that linked to a King County Republican Party website and a form encouraging people to submit “incident reports." King County Republicans chair Mathew Patrick Thomas said he was disbanding the its so-called election integrity committee whose members were involved in planting the signs.

A New York man working at a filming location for the TV series “Law & Order: Organized Crime" has been shot and killed. Police say Johnny Pizarro was found at about 5:15 a.m. Tuesday in front of a residence in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to the head and neck. The 31-year-old Queens resident was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead. Police were investigating. A spokesperson for NBC confirmed that Pizarro was a crew member for the series and said that no filming was going on at the time of the shooting.

Officials say a former East Texas deputy pleaded guilty to a civil rights violation for punching a restrained detainee in the chest repeatedly with a shock gun. Former Van Zandt County sheriff's deputy David Yager pleaded guilty Tuesday to a charge arising from a February 2021 assault on a detainee. The man was in a restraint chair with one arm free when he banged his food tray against a cell door, then knocked a shock gun from Yager's hand. Angered, Yager assaulted the detainee until another deputy persuaded him to stop. He faces up to 3 1/2 years in prison.

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit alleging the University of Wisconsin System reinstated former Badgers receiver Quintez Cephus without seeking input from a woman who accused him of sexual assault in 2018. A UW-Madison investigation found that Cephus likely assaulted her and the university expelled him. A jury acquitted him of charges, however, and he was readmitted to the school. The woman alleged in her lawsuit that the university shut her out of the reinstatement decision, violating federal gender equity laws. But U.S. District Judge William Conley ruled Tuesday that the woman didn't provide enough evidence that the laws were violated. Cephus currently plays for the Detroit Lions.