14-year-old arrested in murder of pizza delivery driver
Sincere Camps, 14, has been arrested in the murder of a pizza delivery driver. He is charged with murder, robbery, VUFA and related offenses. (Philadelphia Police Department)
(PHILADELPHIA) — A 14-year-old has been arrested and charged in the murder of a pizza delivery driver in Philadelphia in what police say was an attempted robbery.
Sincere Camps, 14, is facing 10 charges, including murder, robbery and carrying a firearm without a license, according to the Philadelphia Police Department and court records. He is being charged as an adult.
On June 5, officers responded to a report of a person with a gun to find an unresponsive man lying on the highway, according to police.
The man, identified as 28-year-old Anshul Kuncha, had suffered a gunshot wound to the back of the head. He was transported to a hospital where he was pronounced dead shortly after, according to police.
Police said the motive behind the killing was robbery.
Camps was arrested on Friday following an investigation, police said.
He is currently being held without bail and is scheduled to appear in court on July 21.
No attorney information for Camps was listed in court records.
In this Feb. 10, 2026, file photo, New York Governor Kathy Hochul speaks to the media in New York. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images, FILE)
During a 2025 hearing at Cornell University, an unidentified female former student who alleges she was gang raped at a fraternity house in 2024 described her harrowing night at the house surrounded by multiple men: “I felt like bait. I felt like lions around me. It just was a totally debilitating place to be in.”
Her description is included in a heavily-redacted 99-page report, obtained by ABC News, that was prepared by the university last year as it investigated what happened.
As part of its investigation, Cornell conducted 50 interviews with 32 witnesses, including the fraternity brothers Jane Doe accused in a civil lawsuit filed earlier this month of gang rape, and determined that someone at the Chi Phi house had overdosed on ketamine one day prior to Jane Doe’s experience.
“Ketamine was a substance used by multiple individuals in the Chi Phi house at the time, including [redacted] who had overdosed on or about October 18, 2024,” the report said.
Jane Doe told investigators the ketamine she took that night induced a “vague consciousness” that left her disoriented.
“So, lights are on, but nobody’s home. Your brain is not functioning at its proper level,” Doe said, according to the report. “I know it sounds super weird to say. I know it happened, but I don’t remember it.”
The investigators also noted an apology from one of the fraternity brothers during the hearing.
“I was sorry that maybe if it wasn’t consensual and she was victimized, I was sorry for not stopping it,” said the fraternity brother, who Cornell’s investigation concluded did not engage in the assault but was found responsible for “attempted sexual exploitation.” “And that I’m sorry I couldn’t tell if she was under the influence … just sorry that I felt like if something actually bad happened, I didn’t stop it.”
University agrees to independent investigation, governor says
Earlier Wednesday, Cornell University agreed to initiate an independent investigation into how the Ivy League school handled the allegations, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul told ABC News.
Hochul called for the outside review, saying the allegations raised “serious questions about Cornell campus culture” and whether the university is doing all it can to protect students.
“I wanted to make sure they knew how important this was, and they absolutely agreed. And they’re acting on this this afternoon. So, they’ll be reporting on what the details are, but they will be conducting what I asked for, which is an independent outside investigation of what happened,” Hochul told ABC News on Wednesday.
“People need to know the truth and I think it’s important for the public, for the victim, her family and the university community to know that their university did everything that they’re supposed to do,” she said.
Cornell’s internal data show 35% of undergraduate women reported experiencing sexual assault during their time on campus, but Hochul said the problem was acute on every campus.
“There’s been a culture of this kind of treatment of young women on campuses for as long as I’ve been in college, and it has to change,” Hochul said.
Cornell confirmed the outside investigation on Wednesday but has not yet provided details.
Prosecutors in central New York this week announced that they are reopening the investigation of the alleged sexual assault after the former student filed a civil lawsuit alleging that she was drugged, assaulted and gang raped by seven former and current members of the Chi Phi fraternity at Cornell, sparking outrage about the incident.
Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten said in a statement that his office is considering whether to bring criminal charges related to the incident, though he said the allegations in the civil complaint are “dramatically different” than the woman’s statement to police two years ago.
In an interview with ABC News, Van Houten acknowledged that he relied on the investigation conducted by Cornell Police and said his office didn’t “independently investigate” the allegations.
Cornell’s Chi Phi chapter is barred from campus. Trey Robb, the interim executive director of Chi Phi fraternity, said in a statement that all the accused members were kicked out of the Cornell chapter within three days of Jane Doe filing her police report in 2024.
Three of the defendants named in the suit have denied the allegations through their attorneys.
“Any suggestion that the University did not impose consequential punishments for those involved is false,” Cornell said in a statement Monday, in part.
In an earlier statement, Cornell said it conducted a thorough Title IX investigation of Jane Doe’s allegations. “At its conclusion, the hearing panel issued a range of sanctions, which included expulsions and suspensions from Cornell,” the university’s statement said.
Cornell did not specify who was disciplined, how many and for what.
The university said the investigation was conducted over several months and included hearings before a panel of trained faculty and staff.
Text messages between Jane Doe and fraternity member unearthed
A report prepared by Cornell as part of its investigation into the sexual assault allegations included text messages between the Jane Doe and one of the people she accused of rape — the fraternity member who had invited her to the Chi Phi house.
According to the text messages, which were obtained by ABC News, Jane Doe told the man four days after the alleged incident that “everyone knows” and “my reputation is destroyed and I’m utterly ashamed.”
In the Oct. 23, 2024, exchange Jane Doe texted the man, later identified by the Tompkins County District Attorney’s Office as Male Number 1: “everyone needs to grow up cause sexuality and sex and s— is changing and stuff like this is going to become more common,, I’m also really open minded tho, I luv you king.”
On Nov. 7, 2024, when Male Number 1 expressed concern that he was “being labeled an assaulter,” Jane Doe replied, “I haven’t said anything but I do know people are changing the narrative because like in any sexual scenario w one woman and many men the woman was probably the victim.”
“I know there are rumors I was gang banged,” her text continued.
On Nov. 8, 2024, Male Number 1 asked Jane Doe for a phone call. She replied, “I think I’m done talking to you. I know you lied.” It’s not clear from the text messages what Jane Doe was referring to but Male Number 1 responded, “What? Can you call?” Jane Doe answered, “no. never again.”
A week later, Jane Doe gave a sworn statement to Cornell University police. She described that she felt incapacitated, saying she declined to participate in some of the sexual activity and that the incidents at Chi Phi fraternity house “felt like coercion,” according to a copy of the police report obtained by ABC News.
The New York State Capitol Building in Albany. (Demerzel21/Getty Images)
(NEW YORK) — The FBI arrested a woman who they allege was plotting to attack the New York State Capitol building in Albany.
The FBI alleged in a criminal complaint Thursday that Jessica Bowie, 35, pledged allegiance to ISIS in online communications and began planning the attack in July.
The suspect converted to Islam about five years ago and in messages with unidentified users pledged support to ISIS, the criminal complaint said.
Bowie had allegedly discussed her plans with FBI informants and spent weeks doing surveillance of the Capitol, including taking pictures from various vantage points, including an “observation hall nearby,” the criminal complaint said.
She allegedly bought bomb materials from a hardware store on Aug. 5 and plotted with the informants for the next two weeks, according to the complaint.
The informants allegedly met with Bowie on Wednesday and provided her with an inert explosive device and an inert handgun along with instructions on how to detonate the explosive, the complaint said.
The FBI soon arrested her, the complaint said.
Upon being interviewed by FBI agents she allegedly said, “There’s no helping me, you guys know enough, there’s no helping me, I’m … going to prison for the rest of my life,” according to the complaint.
“Material support is up to 20 years in prison, I already Googled it before, I know I’m going to jail,” she allegedly said.
Attorney information for the suspect was not immediately available.
Austin Metcalf in a family provided photo. (Metcalf Family)
(FRISCO, Texas) — A Texas judge is hearing arguments Thursday on whether Karmelo Anthony should get a new trial, two months after a jury convicted and sentenced him to 35 years in prison for fatally stabbing a fellow student at a high school track meet.
The hearing comes a day after the Collin County judge who presided over the murder trial was removed from further proceedings in the case.
Prosecutors called the deadly stabbing “unjustified” and “plain and simple murder,” while the defense argued that Anthony acted in self-defense when he stabbed 17-year-old Austin Metcalf at a track meet in Frisco in April 2025.
After hearing four days of testimony, a Collin County jury found Anthony, 19, guilty of murder following three hours of deliberation on June 9. The same jury sentenced him to 35 years in prison after several more hours of deliberation.
Anthony’s attorneys claimed in a motion seeking a new trial that the teen was “coerced” into waiving his right to testify, stemming from a purported dispute between defense attorneys and prosecutors about whether his testimony would be covered by an agreement limiting some character evidence in the trial. Defense attorneys alleged this denied him a “complete defense.”
The defense also alleged that Collin County Judge John Roach improperly instructed the jury and that his courtroom restrictions, which limited public access to the proceedings, denied Anthony a fair trial.
In a statement to ABC Dallas affiliate WFAA ahead of this week’s hearings, Collin County First Assistant District Attorney Bill Wirskye said Anthony’s new, post-trial attorneys “filed a motion containing several inaccurate characterizations of the trial proceedings.”
“I and the entire prosecution team conducted this trial ethically and in full compliance with the Court’s ruling and any agreements with defense counsel,” Wirskye added.
In opening remarks during Thursday’s hearing, defense attorney Russell Wilson said Anthony decided not to testify because he believed the prosecution would not adhere to the agreement not to question him about his past behavior, beyond what happened during the confrontation at the track meet, WFAA reported.
Wirskye, meanwhile, said he offered the agreement to “stay away from historical character and stick to the facts — what happened under the tent” in order to “keep the peace” amid what he said was intense public vitriol over the case that led to threats against both sides, WFAA reported. He said the trial defense attorneys agreed to it, and that the “agreement was held.”
Wirskye also pushed back on defense claims that Anthony had insufficient time to decide whether to testify and noted that prosecutors wanted him to take the stand, saying, “There’s nothing better in my business than a testifying defendant,” WFAA reported.
The hearing is ongoing, with the defense so far calling Derrick Jackson, the former Collin County public information officer, to discuss the courtroom protocols, and Mike Howard, one of Anthony’s trial attorneys.
A new judge is presiding over Thursday’s hearing, after Judge Sid Harle granted the defense’s motion to recuse Roach from any further matters in the Anthony case.
In his order issued Wednesday, Harle wrote that there were grounds for recusal “in that the evidence adduced at the hearing is such that the respondent judge’s impartiality might reasonably be questioned.”
Retired Kaufman County District Judge Michael Chitty has been assigned to oversee the case.
In the defense motion seeking to recuse the trial judge from the post-trial proceedings, Anthony’s attorneys questioned both Roach’s impartiality in the case and his courtroom restrictions.
The motion cited what it called “problematic comments” Roach made during an interview following the verdict, in which it said the judge “endorsed the jury’s guilty verdict” and defended his courtroom restrictions. It also pointed to a public letter Roach released following the trial, in which he stated that those who worked on the case “contributed to ensuring the process was conducted fairly.”
Anthony’s attorneys said Wednesday that they are “pleased” with Harle’s decision to recuse Roach and “look forward to presenting the merits of Karmelo’s motion for a new trial to a fair and independent judge.”
Ahead of the high-profile trial, Roach imposed a gag order and barred any electronics from the courtroom during the proceedings due to the attention the case had garnered.
“Due to the significant public and media interest in this case, the Court finds that specific procedures are necessary to ensure the Defendant’s right to a fair and impartial trial, the orderly administration of justice, the safety and security of all participants, and reasonable public access consistent with constitutional requirements,” Roach wrote in a May order.
On Wednesday, Chitty ordered that the trial procedures will remain in effect at this time for future proceedings in the case.
