Murder in North Carolina

On April 12, 2018, 43-year-old Steven Walter Pladl murdered his biological daughter, 20-year-old Katie Rose Fusco Pladl, with whom he had been engaged in an incestuous relationship, and killed her adoptive father, 56-year-old Anthony Charles Fusco, in New Milford, Connecticut. The day prior, Steven had murdered his and Katie's seven-month-old son, Bennett Kieron Pladl, by smothering him in Knightdale, North Carolina. Bennett was also Steven’s grandson and Katie’s brother. Following an hours-long search by Dutchess County police, Steven Pladl died by suicide in Dover, New York.

massacre

School shooting that occurred at UNCC on April 30, 2019

Act of Familicide occuring on December 25, 1929, in which sharecropper Charlie Lawson murdered his wife and six of his seven children