A chilling ordeal involving a man dressed in a “Chucky”-inspired mask who was suspected of menacing pedestrians in Philadelphia has culminated in an arrest in Las Vegas, marking the end of an extensive multi-state search. This information was confirmed by the U.S. Marshals Service.

The suspect, identified as 22-year-old Zymire Hughes, was apprehended thanks to a coordinated effort between the U.S. Marshals Service’s branch in Philadelphia and the Nevada Violent Offender Task Force. Hughes is now being held at the Clark County Detention Center, awaiting his return to Pennsylvania where he will face charges.

Reports indicate that Hughes left the Philadelphia area on August 19, embarking on a journey that began at Trenton-Mercer Airport in New Jersey. He traveled first to Orlando, Florida, and eventually made his way to Las Vegas, as noted by FOX5 Vegas, referencing federal officials.

According to the U.S. Marshals, Hughes had settled in Las Vegas earlier in February, maintaining employment connections across Nevada and California. To evade capture, Hughes is said to have frequently moved locations, spending a clandestine five-day period at an apartment complex in southeast Las Vegas.

Task-force officers ultimately located Hughes through surveillance footage from the complex, according to the report. Hughes allegedly questioned the arrest and resisted officers before deputies subdued him.

“Nothing was recovered upon arrest, and he did not make any statements about his motive,” the U.S. Marshal’s office told Fox News.

Philadelphia police had been searching for Hughes in connection with a series of confrontations near City Hall in the early morning hours of Aug. 12. Authorities allege he approached, chased and threatened multiple people while wearing a cracked doll-style mask and recording the encounters on a cellphone.

In one incident, police said Hughes allegedly asked a 40-year-old female jogger, “Are you ready to die?” while keeping his arm behind his back as though he had a weapon. The woman fled and suffered a leg injury requiring extensive treatment, authorities said.

Hughes was wanted on an active aggravated assault warrant, FOX5 reported. Philadelphia officials had previously said he faced felony and misdemeanor assault charges and was already on probation in an unrelated Montgomery County case.

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner had warned Hughes last week that authorities were closing in.

“If Zymire Hughes was trying to scare people, make them run — who’s scared now? Who’s running now?” Krasner said at a news conference.

An Arizona State University hockey player experienced a sudden collapse during practice last Thursday morning and was swiftly transported to the hospital, as reported by The Athletic this past Tuesday.

Identified as 21-year-old Matthew Mayich, he remained under medical care as of Tuesday, according to someone familiar with the family’s situation who confirmed this to the news outlet.

Chris Fiscus, who serves as the Vice President of ASU media relations, communicated that an ongoing investigation is being conducted into the “circumstances surrounding the workout.” Mayich’s name has not yet been officially released by the university.

“The university extends its support to the student-athlete, his family, and all student-athletes during this challenging period,” a spokesperson from Arizona State communicated to the Arizona Republic.

Responding to a call about a “heat-related illness,” Tempe Fire Medical Rescue dispatched a team at 8:31 a.m. to 400 S. Rural Road, the location of Sun Angel Stadium, an outdoor track and field venue.

A patient was treated at the site and then transported to a local hospital.

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Phoenix has been in an extreme heat warning all week and the average temperature Thursday was 92.5 degrees with a high of 106 degrees in the afternoon.

Fiscus declined to answer whether the workout was team sanctioned.

NCAA rules enable college hockey teams to begin formal activities when classes start, and ASU kicked off its fall semester Thursday.

Mayich, who is a sophomore defenseman, started his college career at Clarkson before transferring to Arizona State this offseason.

The St. Louis Blues selection him in the sixth round of the 2023 NHL Draft.

Last season with Clarkson, he scored 15 points on seven goals and eight assists.

Mayich also previously played in the Ontario Hockey League for over 250 games.

In a disaster along the Nepal-Tibet border, devastating floods and mudslides have left hundreds of tourists unaccounted for, including 12 from Britain and three from the United States. This calamity has swept away essential infrastructure such as buildings and bridges.

In Nepal, homes and roads have been obliterated, while across the border in Tibet, under Chinese administration, officials express grave concerns about potential heavy casualties in Gyirong County, where a mudslide disrupted a critical land crossing between the two nations earlier this morning.

Chilling footage has surfaced showing a massive wave of floodwater tearing through a town in Nepal’s Rasuwa region, obliterating everything in its trajectory in this mountainous area.

Another dramatic video from Tibet captures the moment when the Chinese-controlled Gyirong Port land crossing was almost instantaneously demolished by the surging floodwaters, with panicked dozens fleeing moments before the structure succumbed to the onslaught of water and mud.

At least 19 fatalities have been confirmed as the water surged down the Bhote Koshi River valley after landslides, suspected to be triggered by a 4.4 magnitude earthquake, according to experts who noted the tremor just minutes before the catastrophe struck the Gyirong Port crossing.

There are fears that a second flood may plunge Nepal, Tibet and neighbouring India into further chaos. Flood alerts were issued in the populous northern Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar as they border Nepal and several rivers flow down the mountains into their plains. 

Nepali officials said as many as 384 tourists and trekkers are unaccounted for, made up of 291 foreign nationals and 93 Nepali citizens. 

Among the unaccounted are 12 from the UK, 105 Indian nationals, four from South Africa, 17 from Malaysia and three from the United States. One each from Australia and the Netherlands are also unaccounted for.

South Korea said eight of its citizens were unaccounted for, while an additional 12 were stranded following the deadly floods. 

The nationalities of nearly 100 more people has not yet been established, while an additional 37 people are believed to be non-resident Indians living in Nepal. 

Qianggong Zhang, head of climate and environmental risks at the Kathmandu-based International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, warned the region may come under threat again: ‘With a blockage still lodged upstream on the Nepal-China border river, authorities warn a second flood may occur.’ 

Search operations are currently under way on both sides of the border between Tibet and Nepal. 

At the Gyirong Port, authorities have deployed nearly 600 rescuers. 

But a rescuer told Chinese media that it would take at least four hours for the team to reach the site due to the five foot deep sediment that blocked pathways leading to the affected area. 

The debris had surged upstream from the Nepalese side of the crossing, the rescuer said.

The Nepal Army said 14 helicopters and disaster response teams have been deployed for rescue and relief. 

But officials said the waters were too high for helicopters to land in Nepal’s affected areas of Syapru Besi and Timure in the mountainous district of Rasuwa, with a population of about 50,000. 

Nepal’s rescue helicopters would be unable to land in the affected areas until the waters recede, however, army spokesperson Raja Ram Basnet said. 

‘There could be heavy casualties or loss of property,’ district administrator Narendra Pariyar told Reuters. 

‘But I cannot say for sure now.’ Pariyar urged those living on the banks of the Bhote Koshi river in the area to seek higher ground, pointing to reports that nearby villages and infrastructure project sites were washed away.

‘It all came suddenly,’ the Onlinekhabar portal quoted a witness from the area as saying. ‘We heard a loud sound, like a volcano erupting. People started to scream and ran away.’

Around 60 houses in the Trishuli Bazaar area were swept away, while the nearby Devighat was also badly affected. Two bridges over the nearby Trishuli River were also washed away. 

Nepali media reported that 60 employees of an under-construction hydropower project are missing following the floods. 

Staff working at the Langtang Khola Hydroelectric Project in Rasuwa have not been accounted for. 

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Local media reported that workers were ‘carrying out concrete construction work inside a tunnel’, adding: ‘The flood caused severe damage to the project.’

Rasuwa is home to several hydropower plants. Nepal’s energy ministry said 430 MW of electricity supplies were affected, mostly from hydroelectric projects, or more than 12% of total national hydropower capacity of 3.2 GW, a Reuters calculation showed. 

The mudslide on the Nepali side hit China’s Gyirong port, cutting off roads, communications and power in the Shigatse region near the border with Nepal.  

‘I witnessed the flood sweep away eight or nine trucks, along with houses and people,’ Suman Chalise, a 34-year-old teacher, told AFP in Nuwakot district.

‘It was absolutely heart-wrenching. I had not witnessed such devastation before.’

One Chinese businessman told the BBC that his logistics firm has seven container trucks in the area of the flash flood, which are all staffed by Nepalese employees. 

Yee Liang told the broadcaster: ‘We have lost contact with all of them. There is no signal, so we cannot reach anyone.’

He said that, as far as he’s aware, there was no warning prior to the disaster: ‘There were occasional mudslides and landslides, especially in the rainy season, but this one seems much more serious.’

President Xi Jinping urged ‘all-out’ search efforts for the missing as well as stronger monitoring and early warning systems to prevent secondary disasters.

Prime Minister Balendra Shah said police and military were joining rescue and relief teams.

Meanwhile, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said New Delhi was ready to provide all possible humanitarian assistance and teams form the two countries were coordinating closely on rescue and relief efforts. 

‘Instructions have been given … to move the people living in the lower areas to safer places,’ he said. ‘People along the river are advised to exercise extra caution and remain alert.’ 

The Red Cross said this morning that it had activated emergency response teams, mobilised volunteers and was deploying an emergency team with relief supplies in response to the natural disaster. 

The Lhende Khola River, a tributary of the Bhotekoshi River, witnessed maximum flooding on Wednesday, experts at the Kathmandu-based International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development said.

‘The Lhende Khola has flooded twice in fourteen months, this time triggered by an ice rock avalanche from a glacier on the Nepal side that blocked the river and released a sudden surge downstream,’ said Saswata Sanyal, a disaster risk reduction specialist at the climate research group.

‘In a warming Himalaya, early warning is the first line of adaptation,’ he added.

Another expert at the centre warned that a second flood may happen. Qianggong Zhang, head of climate and environmental risks, said: ‘With a blockage still lodged upstream on the Nepal-China border river, authorities warn a second flood may occur.’

From its origins in Tibet, the Bhote Koshi river empties into Nepal’s Trishuli river that eventually flows into India as the Gandak river.

A deadly flash flood on the same river last year was eventually traced to the draining of a glacier lake. 

Last year’s Bhote Koshi flood killed nine people, with 24 missing, as it washed away a ‘Friendship Bridge’ linking Nepal and China to disrupt trade and transport for months.

That flood was triggered by the draining of a supraglacial lake in Tibet. 

The Himalayan region, which crosses Nepal and several nearby countries including India, is especially vulnerable to heavy rains, floods and landslides because the area is warming up faster than the rest of the world due to human-caused climate change. 

Research has shown that extreme weather events including heat waves, heavy rains and melting glaciers have become more frequent in the region.

Researchers at the Kathmandu research group found earlier this year that glaciers across the Hindu Kush Himalaya region are melting at an accelerating rate, with ice loss rates doubling since 2000 primarily due to rising global temperatures and climate change.

The Daily Mail has contacted the UK’s foreign office for comment.  

In a tragic incident in New Jersey, four teenagers are accused of stealing a luxury SUV and embarking on a joyride that ended disastrously. The stolen vehicle collided head-on with another car, resulting in the deaths of a cherished grandmother and her longtime companion.

The victims, Alice Stilwell Holt, 67, and Robert “Bob” Barr Jr., 54, both residents of Egg Harbor Township, lost their lives in this devastating crash around 7:30 a.m. on August 22. The fatal accident took place near Route 50 and Third Street in Mays Landing, as confirmed by the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office.

According to prosecutors, 18-year-old Nayshaun Brown from Atlantic City, along with three juveniles, allegedly made off with a 2024 Mercedes-Benz G-Wagon early on Saturday morning, around 3:40 a.m., setting off on a reckless joyride.

The joyride reached its tragic climax when the luxury SUV slammed into a Hyundai sedan, which was occupied by Holt and Barr, as the teenagers tried to elude law enforcement. The impact of the collision was captured on surveillance footage, showing the black G-Wagon hitting the sedan and propelling it toward a nearby gas station.

The teens walked away from the wreck with few injuries and tried to run, but authorities apprehended them shortly afterward, officials said.

Brown, of Atlantic City, and three juveniles were charged with conspiracy counts involving aggravated assault, joyriding, eluding and receiving a stolen motor vehicle.

Brown also faces a charge of employing a juvenile in the commission of a crime.

Brown is being held at the Atlantic County Justice Facility. Two of the juveniles remain in custody, while another was released by a Superior Court judge Sunday morning.

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Officers had been following the stolen G-Wagon since approximately 3:40 a.m. in nearby Longport, where it sped past a local officer who attempted to stop the teenagers.

Hamilton Township police then spotted the vehicle and pursued it around 7:45 a.m., but officers had lost sight of it a few minutes before the crash, prosecutors said.

A GoFundMe organized by a family friend describes Stilwell Holt as a beloved mother and grandmother.

“This unimaginable tragedy has left their family in deep grief, and the shock of how suddenly it happened has made this painful time even harder to bear,” the fundraiser said.

Holt’s obituary said that she and Barr were longtime partners after her husband had passed away.

“Alice met her partner of 20+ years — Robert Barr II — whom she remained with until their untimely passing,” it said. “They enjoyed spending their days cooking together, attending farmers markets, gardening, and simply spending quality time with each other and their two cats.”

Anyone with information about this investigation is asked to contact the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office Major Crimes Unit at (609) 909-7684. Tips can also be submitted anonymously at ACPO.Tips. 

News Media reached out to the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office and the Township of Hamilton Police Department. A lawyer representing Brown and the three other teens was not immediately available.

Tragic news out of Brooklyn: a horrific crash on the Belt Parkway late Tuesday night claimed the lives of three teenagers and left four others injured, as confirmed by the police.

The deadly collision involved a black Cadillac Escalade filled with five teens and a Honda HR-V, both headed eastbound near 65th Street in Bay Ridge. The crash occurred at approximately 11:35 p.m., according to authorities.

Inside the Escalade, three young men, aged 16, 17, and 18, were critically injured and rushed to Langone Hospital. Sadly, all three succumbed to their injuries, police reported.

Meanwhile, the remaining teenagers in the Escalade, a 16-year-old and an 18-year-old, were transported to Maimonides Hospital, where they remain in stable condition, police said.

At this time, officials have not determined which teenager was driving the Cadillac during the crash.

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The Honda was occupied by two women, a 46-year-old driver and 44-year-old passenger, who were also injured in the collision.

They were taken to Langone Hospital in stable condition, police said.

No arrests have been made and the crash remains under investigation.

In a heart-wrenching revelation, a father has recounted the devastating moment he discovered he had lost eight beloved family members in a tragic incident involving a furious relative. The family was shot, and their home was later set on fire.

Adam Ghekiere broke his silence following the loss of his wife, Megan, and their two children, Charlotte, 12, and Landon, 15. The horrifying event took place at their home in Montana on Sunday night.

Also among the victims were Ghekiere’s stepchildren, Chloe, 7, and Owen, 13, along with their 92-year-old great-grandmother, who was confined to a wheelchair. Two other family members were also tragically killed, as reported by The US Sun.

The assailant was identified as 44-year-old Alan Smith. According to a family spokesperson, Smith set the Billings house ablaze, trapping several family members inside.

Smith launched his deadly assault during the family’s Sunday dinner, just weeks after being asked to leave the house. He ended his own life shortly after committing the atrocity.

Brad Ireland, the family’s spokesperson, named Smith as the killer. Ireland’s ex-wife Megan and two kids, Chloe and Owen, were among the victims in the massacre. 

Smith’s parents, who were also killed, had asked him to move out, but he returned on Sunday and opened fire, Ireland said.

Ghekiere, a rescue firefighter, was working at an airshow when he heard on the fire department communications system that the horrific incident was unfolding near his in-laws home in Billings. 

‘I tried calling the house and no one answered. I checked my kids’ locations, both Landon and Charlotte, and no one answered,’ he told the outlet.

‘By the time we got to the house, they wouldn’t let us get any closer because it was still under an active shooter status. I feared the worst right then,’ he added.

Interim Yellowstone County Sheriff Kent O’Donnell said gunshots were heard in the background of a 911 call and the house was set alight within three minutes. 

‘We have a situation going on with shots being fired,’ the dispatcher said in the chilling 911 call, adding: ‘There is also going to be an unconscious child inside of the home.’

The dispatcher could not confirm if the child had been shot or was still breathing, but doubled down on the report that they were unconscious.

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She told responding officers that a fire engine was ‘staged in the area’ and that ‘another engine’ had already been requested.

Billings Fire Department Chief Matt Hoppel said responding firefighters were hampered by there not being any fire hydrants in the area.

‘The delay and limited access presented significant challenges. Fire conditions continued to worsen, and the residence ultimately became heavily involved and was consumed by fire,’ he said.

The two children were mourned online by family and friends of their parents.

‘Landon was just 15 years old and preparing to begin his sophomore year at Senior High School,’ they wrote on an online fundraiser.

‘He was a loving, caring young man who was always willing to lend a hand to his family and neighbors.

‘He was looking forward to getting his driver’s license this week and was a patient, protective, and loving big brother.’

Charlotte was just about to start seventh grade when she was killed alongside her brother.

‘Funny, precocious, and adorable – with just the right amount of stubborn – Charlotte had an angelic smile and loved posing for pictures,’ the fundraiser shared.

‘She especially loved exploring the world around her, turning over rocks to look for bugs. Oh, how she loved her bugs!’

Ghekiere is an Airport Rescue Firefighter and was not involved in the shooting, family said.

The events leading up to the shooting and how the house was set on fire are being investigated by the Yellowstone County Sheriff’s Office and other agencies.

A tragic incident unfolded in Pennsylvania when a college baseball player was mistakenly shot by police after trying to enter the wrong home following an evening out, according to his family.

The Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office, led by Kevin R. Steele, has confirmed to News Media that 22-year-old Glenwood “Bubba” Pysher IV lost his life on Sunday, August 23.

Authorities report that shortly after midnight on Sunday, a 911 call alerted officers to a potential break-in at a Snyder Road residence. The Upper Pottsgrove Township Police swiftly responded to the scene.

According to the district attorney’s office, when police arrived, they discovered “a male in the rear of the residence.”

They said police shot and killed him after an “encounter.”

Pysher was a college baseball player who had made stops at Francis Marion University, Northampton Community College and Holy Family University, and was preparing for his senior year at St. Elizabeth College in New Jersey, according to his obituary.

His mother, Erin Pysher, told News Media her son was not armed when he was allegedly “shot twice” by an officer.

“He’s never been in trouble—he was a good kid. I don’t know what prompted the cop to think that the shooting was necessary,” she said.

Before he was fatally shot, he was “bar-hopping with friends” and walked up to a home on the street he had mistaken for a friend’s and tried to get in, his mother said.

“I dropped him off with his friends at a bar to celebrate his friend’s 21st birthday,” she said. After the bar, the men were headed to a friend’s house to continue their evening.

The friends eventually split up, Pysher said. She told News Media her son opted to walk to the house.

“He took a wrong turn and ended up at the wrong house,” she said.

“After a few drinks, he didn’t realize it—he was at their back door knocking, thinking it was his friend’s house, saying, ‘Hey, let me in,'” Erin Pysher said. “The homeowners, not knowing, called the cops saying it was an attempted burglary.”

“He was the biggest sweetheart—carefree and loving. He loved life, loved hanging out with his friends, and fishing. Baseball was his life; he played it in college and was getting ready to leave Sunday afternoon to start his senior year. He wanted to become a history teacher and coach baseball,” she said.

The police department confirmed the officer involved was placed on administrative leave following the incident.

The DA’s office told News Media, “The fatal shooting is an active investigation. When the investigation is complete, we will provide media with the findings.”

“He was a great kid; I couldn’t ask for a better son. A little jokester—we had our inside jokes, and he loved teasing his three younger sisters. There’s a huge hole in our life without him. He was the best kid ever; I don’t know how else to describe him,” Erin Pysher said.