The third person charged in connection with an EKU student’s death faced a judge Monday.

18-year-old Aaron Stailey told a Clark County judge he understood the charges against him.

Stailey and Lamont Wilkerson are charged with murder and burglary in the killing of Amber Caudill. She was struck and killed by a stray bullet during a home invasion above her apartment.

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Another person, Lillian Barnett, is charged with complicity to murder. Police are looking for a fourth suspect.

The three suspects will be back in court Wednesday.

Police have confirmed that the body of an infant found in a dumpster in San Diego County is Eliza Delacruz, who went missing after three members of her family were shot Saturday night in North Long Beach.

Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia took to social media this evening, stating that the Long Beach Police Department will not stop looking for the suspect.

“To the person or persons who are responsible for the death of baby Eliza Delacruz, our police officers will find you, arrest you and bring you to justice,” he said in a post on Facebook.

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Eliza’s mother, father and father’s brother were shot Saturday night at a home on the 100 block of West 51st Street. The dark-skinned male suspect, who police believe knew the family, took Eliza when he fled the scene.

Two of the three victims of the shooting remain in critical but stable condition at local hospitals. The third patient was released this afternoon.

Police are asking for the public’s help in finding a 3-week-old girl who went missing from a North Long Beach home where the baby’s mother, father and uncle were found shot Saturday night.

Eliza Delacruz went missing following the shooting in the 100 block of W. 51st Street, said Marlene Arrona, a police spokeswoman.

An adult male suspect and the 10-pound baby girl are the focus of an intense police search.

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Family members, and neighbors or friends of the family were present at the residence Sunday morning but declined to comment. A man using crutches who had bandages on one of his legs was also present at the residence. He was driven away to an unknown location by another person. It was not immediately clear whether the man was Eliza’s father or her uncle, but some neighbors — who did not wish to be identified — said the man was the baby’s father.

Detectives arrived at the scene, spoke to people inside the residence and canvassed the neighborhood before leaving late Sunday morning.

A crash in Lexington sent two people to the hospital Sunday evening. Police and EMS were called out to the intersection of Paris Pike and Muir Station just before 7:30 Sunday evening. Police say a car pulled out into the intersection and was t-boned.

The car was thrown onto a nearby guardrail, which caused some unusual problems for first responders.

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“Anytime we have to extricate someone from a vehicle, especially the way this one landed on top of the guardrail, the vehicle has to be stabilized. When we do an extrication, we always have a charged hose line just for precaution,” said Lexington Fire Department Major Daniel Bellot.

Both the driver and the passenger of the blue car that was hit were taken to UK Hospital with non life-threatening injuries.

State police arrested a man Saturday after they say he shot and killed his own son.

According to investigators, 51-year-old Tommy Rice was shot by his father during an argument late Saturday night. It happened at a home on Plumbford Branch Road in the Viper community of Perry County.

Troopers say Bernard Rice was transported to a local hospital for treatment of unrelated issues. He was then arrested and charged with 2nd degree manslaughter. He is currently in the Kentucky River Regional Jail.

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An autopsy on Tommy Rice was scheduled for Sunday. The incident remains under investigation.

Police have arrested a man for firing a gun at a house full of people.

According to court documents, Antoine Woods, 22, is charged with seven counts of wanton endangerment.

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Police say Woods opened fire at a house on Tuesday, endangering the seven people inside. Woods is also charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm.

A Grand Island man faces up to 55 years in prison for sexually assaulting a child.

Noe Flores-Diaz, 30, pleaded no contest last week in Buffalo County District Court to felony attempted first-degree sexual assault of a child between May 23, 2011, and May 19, 2013, and felony third-degree sexual assault of a child on June 9, 2014. In exchange for his pleas, four other counts of felony sexual assault of a child were dismissed by the Buffalo County Attorney’s Office.

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U.S. Marshals arrested a man in Duplin county on Tuesday who was wanted on child sex offense charges in Kentucky.

Edward Woodard was on the run for several months and had an active warrant out for his arrest. The indictment lists offenses involving two children under the age of 12.

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Woodard is also listed on the Tennessee and Florida sex offender registries for offenses dating back to the nineties.

He was placed in the Duplin County jail until he can be transferred back to Kentucky.

UPDATE: Waco Police have confirmed to KCEN that the body that they found is Brittany Stevenson.

Officials say that the body was found about five feet from where the vehicle was discovered in the lake.

Brittany Stevenson was reported missing on Thursday after her car crashed in Lake Waco.

A woman that was inside the car with Stevenson was able to get out and told officers that she never saw Stevenson escape the sinking car.
Officials say that the vehicle was traveling east on McLaughlin and crashed through a guardrail, jumping a dirt barrier. The vehicle then went a short way down the road and into Lake Waco.

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ORIGINAL STORY:

WACO, Texas — The search for Brittany Stevenson is set to resume Friday morning. The car the 24-year-old was in crashed into Lake Waco before midnight Wednesday, and she hasn’t been seen since.

Even through the cold and rain, a large group of volunteers led the search all day Thursday. A long line of cars covered both sides of McLaughlin Road. They’re not cop cars, but they, too, responded to the call.”Everybody’s doing what they can do,” said Dean England, of Crawford. “Just help each other out.

“I mean, if my daughter was out here, or if I was out here,” he said, “I’d hope that somebody would come out and be trying to help in whatever way.”

England brought his two kids and his two horses, and the trio searched the area Thursday afternoon.

On horseback and four-wheelers, the group of dozens of volunteers searched around Lake Waco for any signs of Stevenson.

The car she was in drove through a barrier on McLaughlin Road and into the water New Year’s Eve.

The other person in the car escaped. She told investigators she never saw Stevenson do the same. Search crews pulled the car from the lake at around 8 a.m. Thursday. That’s when the real search started.

Now animal and human team up to comb the terrain, to look for any sign she made it out of the water.

“It’s wet, there’s a lot of thorn bushes, there’s a lot of trees, zig-zagging in and out,” said Mitch Bynum, a pastor at Top Hand Cowboy Church in Valley Mills.

“It’s a good thing the horses are here,” he added, “because there’s a lot of pipe that we have to go over, a lot of stumps that we can go over, where otherwise four-wheelers can’t get into.”

The search crews packed up as the sun set, and Waco police set up barricades.

They planned to camp there overnight, before getting back in the saddle alongside the impromptu search party Friday morning.

“As long as we’re an asset and as long as we stay warm and are able to help and not hinder,” England said, “then we’ll stay.”

Waco Fire, the Texas Game Wardens, the Lake Waco Rangers and the Morgan’s Point Dive Team helped search the lake.

Waco police ask everyone to keep an eye out for Stevenson. She’s 5’6” tall, with brown hair and hazel eyes.

She was wearing a white sweater, dark skinny jeans, brown knee-high boots, and a cheetah print scarf.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Waco PD at 254-750-7500.