The child's mother said she had called the police to help de-escalate a domestic dispute and had asked officers to avoid using lethal force because her son was being held hostage.
Chloe Castro, 29, pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a student she met while working as a counselor in the Jefferson County Public Schools district.
Ryan D. Dodd, 44, is accused of killing 41-year-old Ashley Stewart in Oswego while her horrified husband watched the crime unfold on surveillance cameras.
Eduardo Gutierrez, 25, was found guilty of second-degree murder, assault on a child under 8 causing death and child abuse over the death of his 3-week-old baby, Valentin.
Charles Broomfield, 44, is charged with murder of his fiancée Jacqueline Neill and her two teenage sons, Cameron Kilpatrick, 15, and Michael Kilpatrick, 13.
Alyssa Marie Lira, 23, allegedly decapitated her 55-year-old boyfriend at her Anaheim home before fleeing to Mexico. She was arrested on Jan. 22 and extradited back to Anaheim.
Taylor Meyer has been convicted of fatally stabbing his wife, Deborah Meyer, on Valentine's Day last year because he believed she was having an affair.
Quinton Dixon, 44, was found dead with a "self-inflicted gunshot wound" a day after an arrest warrant was issued over alleged inappropriate messages he sent to a former student.