CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago mother thought she knew when it was safe to take her children outside, that she could protect them by sizing up and avoiding the people whom trouble seemed to follow. Then a bullet fired from a gun that D’Antignay Brashear never saw pierced the cheek of her 4-year-old son, Kavan […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rapper The Game said he was moved to call together gang members for an anti-violence summit Sunday after the recent killing of his foster brother in Los Angeles. An overflow crowd of several hundred gathered at a community center in South Los Angeles to hear pleas for peace from current and […]
A team of scholars analyze how social media posts escalate into violence. The scholars are calling it a public health problem.
With their booming catering service, two men from Compton have traded in violence and drugs for really good food.
An arrest has been made in Chicago in the shooting death of nine-year-old Tyshawn Lee.
Police say the child was targeted because of his father's gang ties and a string of shootings between rival gangs. A basketball the boy often carried to and from school was found near his body.
CHICAGO (AP) — A 9-year-old Chicago boy who was fatally shot this week was “lured” from a park into an alley and executed because of his father’s alleged gang connections, police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said Thursday in a crime he described as among the most “unfathomable” of his 35 years in policing. Tyshawn Lee, an […]
New York City police have arrested and charged a man in connection with the shooting that killed a Bronx resident as he was holding his toddler…
The key elements of hip-hop have been well documented over the years, but director Shan Nicholson uncovers the layers of what brought the genre into…
Baltimore police have arrested two men and a teenager in connection with the rape and death of a Baltimore high school student who was found in…
WACO, Texas (AP) — About 170 members of rival motorcycle gangs were charged with engaging in organized crime Monday, a day after a shootout at a Texas restaurant that killed nine people and wounded 18. The crowd of suspects was so large that authorities opened a convention center to hold them all before they were […]
15-year-old Isiah Joseph out of the Flatlands neighborhood in Brooklyn was shot in the back in broad daylight around 1:00PM on Sunday while another young man…
