Crime
On August 27, eight-year-old Black girl Fanta Bility was killed by police gunfire in Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania, outside of a football game at Academy Park High School. A month and a half later, only one person has been charged with murdering Fanta—a Black teenager who didn't kill anyone.
Actor and media personality Terrence J was involved in an attempted robbery at his home in Los Angeles, which forced him to flee in his car as assailants chased and shot at him.
Nouman Raja, the former Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, police officer who, in 2019, was convicted of manslaughter and attempted murder for the 2015 shooting death of Black musician Corey Jones tried unsuccessfully to appeal his conviction and put an end to his 25-year prison sentence.
The congregation at Nashville Light Mission Pentecostal Church in Tennessee came face-to-face with a gun-wielding robber during a recent Sunday service, and the person who ended up being their savior was none other than the pastor himself.
Authorities in Florida have determined that the fatal shooting of a teenager who pointed what turned out to be an air rifle at passing cars and responding officers was justifiable homicide.
A judge on Tuesday resentenced a Tennessee death row inmate to life in prison for the second time in two years, after finding the man’s trial was marred by racism during jury selection.
Monday marked the start of the murder trial for Ruben Alvarado, who is charged in the killing of 26-year-old Chynal Lindsey, a Black trans woman whose body was pulled out of White Rock Lake in Dallas, Texas, on June 1, 2019.
As Day 1 of the Ahmaud Arbery murder trial began last Friday, the pain of his mother, Wanda Cooper-Jones, only worsened as she had to watched the body camera footage that showed the gruesome aftermath of her son's killing.
Investigators are expected to examine the design of safety barriers and the use of crowd control in determining what led to a crush of spectators at rapper Travis Scott's Houston-based music festival that left eight people dead and hundreds more injured.
Nearly two years after Ahmaud Arbery's shocking killing in Brunswick, Georgia, the murder trial has finally begun in an effort to the three white men accountable for the racist and vigilante shooting that bore all the hallmarks of a modern-day lynching.
The family of one of R. Kelly's more infamous girlfriends, Joycelyn Savage, are still reaching out in hopes that she'll escape the Stockholm syndrome he seems to have over her even from prison.
"Trap Queen" emcee Fetty Wap has officially been granted bail as he awaits trial on federal drug charges that may send the New Jersey raper away for life if convicted.
