Welcome to Murder Minute. On today's episode, Kate Webster,

Julia Martha Thomas and the Barnes Mystery. But first first your true crime headlines.

Derek Chauvin, the police officer who was charged with second-degree murder in the

death of George Floyd Floyd made his first court

appearance last Friday. The former Minneapolis police officer was charged with

murder after pressing his knee into the neck of George Floyd for more than eight minutes.

Mr. Chauvin, a white 19-year police veteran, appeared in court in person last week for the first

time since the second-degree murder charges were filed against him.

Previous hearings had been conducted by video conference.

Prosecutors indicated in the court filings that they intended to describe Mr. Chauvin's earlier arrest record as evidence of a pattern of excessive force, not an isolated incident.

In one such instance, the prosecutor said, Mr. Chauvin used a neck restraint while arresting

a juvenile and pinned him to the floor.

Another time he restrained a woman by putting his knee on her neck while she lay on the ground, just as he had done to George

Floyd.

And in 2019, the prosecutor said Mr. Chauvin, kicked an intoxicated man, then used a neck restraint on him, until the man went unconscious.

Mr. Schobin's lawyer Eric J. Nelson alleged that George Floyd was overdosing on fentanyl and that Mr. Chauvin intended

to point the blame away from himself for the death of Mr Floyd and toward the two rookie officers

on the scene.

The case is expected to go to trial in 2021.

Two are dead, and six are in serious condition following a shooting early Sunday morning near the

Rutgers University campus in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Police have

released a video of the shooting that unfolded early Sunday outside of a house party, just two blocks,

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