DETROIT (AP) — A wall of silence surrounds a shootout at a block party in Detroit that left a 19-year-old gunman dead and 11 other people wounded, police Chief James Craig said Sunday from the site where about 300 people had barbecued and celebrated hours earlier. Standing on basketball courts where the shooting happened about […]
BEIJING (AP) — Often the target of U.S. human rights accusations, China wasted little time returning such charges following the shooting at a historic black church in South Carolina that left nine people dead. Elsewhere, the attack renewed perceptions that Americans have too many guns and have yet to overcome racial tensions. Some said the […]
The Charleston AME Emanuel Church shooting that left nine dead Wednesday night is being called one of the deadliest attacks on a house of worship in this…
Rapper Chinx Drugz (left) was murdered in New York City at approximately 5 a.m. this morning, according to reports. Though the details surrounding the 38-year-old Far…
CHICAGO (AP) — Flanked by parents holding photographs of the children they’ve lost to gun violence in Chicago, filmmaker Spike Lee on Thursday defended his choice to make a movie about the city with the Iraq-inspired title “Chiraq.” “This is not a joke. This is not a game,’ the Oscar-nominated director said at a news […]
This will not be an easy Mother’s Day for Mary Baca of St. Louis. Her two daughters, 20-year-old Anquonette Hale and 15-year-old Tahnaizja Smith, were murdered in North St. Louis around midnight exactly one week before Mother’s Day. To add to her grief, she does not have the money to bury them and is trying […]
The family of a 7-year-old girl who was fatally shot during a May 2010 police raid is suing the Detroit officer involved in the incident,…
A father of one was shot and killed by police officers outside of Atlanta when they tried to serve him an arrest warrant. Nicholas Taft…
Nearly 2,000 students marched in Madison, Wisconsin on Monday—many of them high schoolers—in remembrance of 19-year-old Tony Robinson, the unarmed biracial teen shot and killed…
Deonte Hoard was only 17, but he already had a clear idea of what he wanted to do in life: Go to college and play…
A 4-year-old Texas boy died Sunday after he accidentally shot himself with a loaded gun he found at his babysitter’s house. The child, identified as Codrick…
More than a month after her fatal shooting at the hands of Colorado police, an autopsy has revealed that 17-year-old Jessica Hernandez was shot four…
