Cops Seek Vehicle In Violent Murder Of Teen

Police in Georgia are looking for a silver four-door passenger car that may be connected to the violent and tragic murder of 16-year-old Hannah Truelove last month.

Patch reports that the car -- a late 90s Chevrolet or Dodge -- was last seen near the Gainesville apartment complex, around where Truelove was killed in the woods on Aug. 23. She may have been inside the vehicle that day.

Few other details are available. Hall County Police say they've narrowed down the case to several persons of interest, but no names have been released. They believe that Truelove knew her killer.

Truelove's father, Jeff, spoke to Channel 2 News for the first time on Friday.

"I can't understand it. I mean, who can do that to somebody? It's so brutal," he said.

He said that his daughter had just moved to her mother's house at Lake Lanier apartment complex a month before she was found dead by a neighbor. He thinks the killer may be someone who rode a bus to school with her.

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Hannah's tweet on Aug. 12.

Hannah's tweet on Aug. 18.

Just days before her disappearance, she tweeted cryptic messages implying that someone was following her.

"I got me an uglyass stalker," she tweeted on Aug. 12.

Anyone with information regarding the vehicle or with further information about the case is asked to call the Hall County CID tip line at 770-503-3232, or the GBI tip line at 800-597-8477.

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4 Killed, 13 Wounded In Shootings On Another Violent Night

Four people were killed and more than a dozen others wounded in shootings Friday evening into Saturday in Chicago, continuing the trend of surging gun violence in the United States' third-largest city.

One day after 13 people were wounded in shootings over a half-hour in Chicago, at least another 17 people were shot as the city experienced a violent start to the weekend, the Chicago Tribune reports.

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Lucian Dreux, 17, the youngest of the four fatalities overnight, was gunned down early in the evening near the intersection of 79th Street and Drexel Avenue in the city's South Side Chatham neighborhood, the Tribune reports. He was pronounced dead at 6:25 p.m.

According to the Chicago Sun-Times, the boy had been standing with a 42-year-old woman around 5:42 p.m. when someone riding past them on a mountain bike opened fire. The woman was shot in the thigh and taken to Stroger Hospital in good condition.

Just minutes later and about seven miles north, around 5:45 p.m., Noah Cruz, 30, was shot in the chest in the 3000 block of South Wallace Street in Bridgeport. He was pronounced dead shortly thereafter at Stroger Hospital, NBC Chicago reports.

Another of the overnight fatal shootings took place mere blocks from President Obama's Chicago home around 2:30 a.m. Saturday, CBS Chicago notes. Stephin Williams, 23, was fatally shot when two men approached his car in the 4900 block of South Drexel in the city's Kenwood neighborhood and announced a robbery.

Williams, who was with his girlfriend in the car, confronted the men and was shot multiple times, the station reports. He was pronounced dead at 3:10 a.m. at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

Phillip McCall, 34, was shot six times in the 8800 block of South Prairie Avenue in the city's West Chesterfield neighborhood about 8 p.m. Friday, according to the Tribune. He died at Stroger Hospital.

Among those wounded by gunfire was a 15-year-old girl listed in critical condition Saturday, ABC Chicago reports. The Sun-Times has a full listing of non-fatal shootings Friday night into early Saturday in Chicago.

Previously, 19 people were shot Thursday night into early Friday in Chicago, 13 of the shootings which took place over the course of 30 minutes. The previous weekend, the city tied its highest number of homicides in one day this year when six people were killed on Aug. 18. That weekend also saw at least 36 additional non-fatal shootings citywide.

As of Aug. 20, homicides in Chicago this month already surpassed August 2011 numbers. As of the end of July, homicides this year at up about 27 percent over the previous year.

Gun violence in Chicago was the subject of a recent segment on HuffPost Live, which featured a panel of activists and journalists including Father Michael Pfleger of St. Sabina Church weighing in on what has been a violent summer in the Windy City.

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Former Notre Dame Student Charged With Killing His Dad In 'Violent' Struggle

Former Notre Dame student Patrick Mikes Jr. was arrested on Wednesday night and charged with killing his father after a "violent encounter" in the basement of the family's home in Troy, Michigan, say police.

The 21-year-old senior psychology and pre-med double major, who has not been a student at the school since August 2, was arrested at a restaurant after DNA blood analysis evidence from the home showed that his blood was found with his father's, "indicating a struggle between the two men," reports WSBT-TV.

Mikes Jr. has initially told investigators that his father had never returned from a bike ride on July 27. But the elder Mikes's riding shoes and helmet - as well as the blood evidence - were found in the family home, casting doubt on the son's story.

After a lengthy search by dozens of investigators and 12 police dogs, the police found Mikes Sr.'s body and his bicycle in a cornfield on Friday, just 30 feet from where the previous day's search had been halted, reports the Detroit Free Press. The cornfield is about 62 miles from the family's home.

Mikes Jr. was also seen on surveillance video buying a large quantity of cleaning supplies on July 27, police told Clawson Patch.

“We are confident that Mr. Mikes Sr. was killed by his son,” Capt. Bob Redmond told the Oakland Press.

Mikes Jr. is being held without bond in the Oakland County Jail. His attorney entered a plea of not guilty on Wednesday.

"There are no psychological problems, no past criminal behavior," said his attorney, Christopher Andreoff, reports the Detroit News. "He has led a very wonderful life."

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