#8 - Jayana Tanae Webb Pennsylvania state troopers responded
to a call about a man walking along the southbound passing lane of Interstate-95, in Philadelphia,
on March the 21st of 2022. The two officers, later named as Martin Mack and Branden Sisca,
were reportedly escorting the individual to their patrol car when all three of them were suddenly
struck by an oncoming vehicle. The collision sent the men over the median and into the path
of northbound traffic. Emergency medical personnel rushed to the scene, but both the officers
and the man they’d been assisting were pronounced dead a short time later. The driver of the vehicle
that had hit them was taken into police custody and charged with over a dozen counts, including
third-degree murder. The suspect, identified as 21-year-old Jayana Tanae Webb, reportedly had a
blood alcohol content of more than twice the legal driving limit at the time of the fatal crash. In
the aftermath of her arrest, it emerged that she’d previously boasted about driving while intoxicated
on her Twitter profile. In a post uploaded about 2 months prior to the incident, Webb had written
“If you ask me, I’m the best drunk driver ever”. She was denied bail during an arraignment hearing
held the day after her arrest. #7 - Dakkari McAnuff
In March of 2014, Los Angeles police were made aware of an alarming social media post
uploaded to a Twitter account that belonged to 20-year-old local man Dakkari McAnuff. He
had posted a picture of a rifle being pointed out of a window in the direction
of city streets. The caption reportedly read, “100 retweets and I’ll shoot someone walking”.
McAnuff subsequently posted a second tweet with a photograph depicting a man bleeding on the ground
as a police car approached the scene, although it was later determined that the picture had been
fabricated and no one had actually been harmed. The LAPD was able to find the location at which
the picture had been taken, tracking it to an apartment in the 700 block of 9th Street
in the city’s downtown area. Upon searching McAnuff’s residence, investigators discovered
the weapon shown in the Twitter post, which was ultimately determined to be an air rifle.
Following McAnuff’s arrest, the social media post was taken down by Twitter and his account was
suspended indefinitely. According to subsequent updates on the case, investigators had learned
that McAnuff’s series of threatening social media posts had been part of an elaborate prank
devised by him and his friends. The young man was eventually released without charges being pursued.
#6 - Mahek Bukhari
A car chase in Leicestershire, England, ended with cousins Mohammed Hashim Ijazuddin and Saqib
Hussain being driven off the road by a group of three women, on February the 11th of 2022. The
pair’s vehicle was reported to have been ripped in half as a result of the crash, and they were
both pronounced dead at the scene. Local police arrested TikTok star Mahek Bukhari, her mother,
and another woman, who was named as Natasha Akhtar, in connection to the deadly incident.
22-year-old Bukhari, a fashion influencer with a social media following of over 128,000,
uploaded a darkly ironic video to her TikTok account about a month prior to her arrest.
During the clip in question, Bukhari was shown casually confessing that she’d killed someone,
to which another user responded by saying that they loved her anyway. According to the BBC,
the trial associated with the case was scheduled to begin in September of 2022.
#5 - Alyza Alder
Two days after she’d arrived in Honolulu, in May of 2020, Arizona resident Alyza Alder started
posting photographs of herself on various beaches in Laie and Hauula to her social media accounts.
At the time, Hawaii had a strict 14-day self-quarantine order in place for all visitors,
which 18-year-old Alder had openly defied by traveling across the state. Local police were
notified of Alder’s social media posts, and she was consequently arrested for violating
the state’s COVID-19 mandates. It subsequently emerged that, in addition to her beach trips, the
teen had been working at a restaurant in Laie. It meant that Alder had been in contact with others
during the period in which state regulations stipulated that she should’ve been quarantining
by herself. Officers showed up at the restaurant to take Alder into custody on May the 20th. She
faced charges of violating the state's quarantine rule and unsworn falsification to authority,
and her bail was reportedly set at $2,000. #4 - Amy Hill Eller
In October of 2020, the Hanceville Police Department, in Alabama, was alerted to a social
media post made by a local resident who claimed that his wife and children had been approached
by 3 men who’d threatened to kidnap them. The alleged incident was said to have occurred while
23-year-old Amy Hill Eller and her kids were out shopping in the Cullman County city of Hanceville.
Eller’s husband described the purported kidnapping plot in a social media post that subsequently
went viral. The post detailed how the Ellers had contacted the police to file an official report
of the incident, and that an officer had since followed up with them. Suspicions began to arise
after the Hanceville police publicly stated that they hadn’t received a call about Eller’s supposed
run-in with kidnappers as the widely-shared social media post had suggested. The following morning,
the couple went to the police station to file a report, which they claimed had already been done,
and an official investigation into Eller’s claims was consequently launched. Detectives reviewed
video surveillance footage, phone records, and GPS tracking information in their effort
to corroborate that the alleged incident had, in fact, occurred. Investigators ultimately
determined that there was no evidence to substantiate Eller’s claims and they subsequently
issued a warrant for her arrest. She was taken into police custody and charged with
false reporting to law enforcement. #3 - Lorraine Graves
On the night of March the 13th of 2021, Oklahoma man Eric Graves, aged 30, was fatally shot inside
an apartment in Tulsa. Upon their arrival at the scene, local police reportedly found a
second victim who’d sustained a non-fatal gunshot wound to the arm. Law enforcement
launched an investigation into the shooting, which ultimately led them to arrest a pair of suspects,
identified as brothers Jayden and Gabriel Hobson. On July the 14th of 2021, the Tulsa
Police Department uploaded a Facebook post in which they asked the public for information
regarding the whereabouts of 24-year-old Lorraine Graves. Although it wasn’t reported how the latter
was related to the shooting victim or what she was specifically accused of doing, the post did detail
how she’d been identified as a suspect in the ongoing investigation and was being charged with
accessory to murder. Shortly after the post was uploaded, Graves commented on it herself, glibly
asking about the potential reward money for her capture. Within 24 hours of her taunting reply,
investigators tracked her location and took her into custody. Subsequent reports indicated that
Graves’ bond was set at $500,000. Today's topic was requested by
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comments section below. #2 - Tara Fares
On September the 27th of 2018, Instagram influencer and former “Miss Baghdad” Tara Fares
was gunned down in broad daylight while driving her Porsche through Iraq’s capital city. As shown
by CCTV footage, 22-year-old Fares had been shot three times through her car window by a gunman
who subsequently fled the scene on a motorcycle. The former beauty queen was taken to a hospital,
where she was ultimately pronounced dead a short time later. In the wake of the incident,
there was widespread speculation as to the true circumstances behind the influential young woman’s
killing, with the overarching narrative being that it had been part of an assassination plot. Iraq’s
Interior Minister stated that the individuals responsible for the shooting were members of an
extremist group who had “received dishonorable discharges from different armed factions”. Many
people rejected the government’s determination regarding the motive for Fares’ murder,
and it was theorized that she’d been targeted due to her outspoken stance on freedom and religion.
The young woman, who had more than 2.6 million social media followers at the time of her death,
had an online presence that was perceived as provocative. She regularly posted pictures of
herself in scantily-clad outfits that showcased her various tattoos. Fares’ social media posts
openly challenged long-standing cultural norms present in Iraqi society, and many therefore
believed that she was killed by elements who didn’t approve of what would’ve been regarded as
taboo behavior. Some even suggested that the assassination had possibly been orchestrated
at the behest of Iraqi leadership. #1 - Darrell Brooks Jr.
Darrell Brooks Jr. made international headlines with his shocking attack
on the Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on November the 21st of 2021.
He drove an SUV directly into a crowd of dozens of parade goers at approximately 40 miles per hour,
killing 6 and injuring 62 others. Brooks, aged 36 at the time, was arrested and charged with six
counts of first-degree intentional homicide and an additional 77 other charges in connection to
the unprompted onslaught. Shortly after news of the tragedy circulated online,
several disturbing posts from Brooks’ social media profiles emerged as well. The man had previously
written a number of social media posts in which he openly and repeatedly called for
violence against white people. In an upload from June of 2020, Brooks encouraged his followers to
“knock white people out”, and also voiced his support for the controversial group known as the
Black Hebrew Israelites. The police reported that each of Brooks’ 6 victims were, in fact, white,
leading many to extrapolate that his attack on the Waukesha parade had been racially motivated.
Brooks’ initial trial took place in February of 2022, with the defendant pleading not guilty to
all charges levied against him. The defense team filed a motion for the trial to be held
in a different Wisconsin county, arguing that it would be difficult to find an impartial jury
in Waukesha given that many local residents knew people directly affected by the attack.
The legal proceedings were ultimately rescheduled for October of 2022,
although the new trial’s venue hadn’t been selected as of the latest updates on the matter.
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