KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City police are vowing to find those responsible for the shooting death of a 6-year-old girl who had stopped at a convenience store with her dad to buy bubblegum. Hundreds of people turned out Sunday evening to remember Angel Hooper, who died two nights earlier after being shot at […]
Chicago has long been known for its gun violence, recording 329 homicides so far this year and a total of 441 last year. Weapons seizures…
NEW YORK (AP) — The medical examiner says an unarmed man who intervened in a confrontation between police and a knife-wielding assailant died of a gunshot to the back after police fired shots. NYPD spokesman Stephen Davis says Rafael Laureano was “inadvertently” struck by a police bullet on Monday in Brooklyn. The assailant, Francisco Carvajal, […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI says the number of shootings in which a gunman opens fire on a crowd of people has increased in recent years. The bureau released a report Wednesday analyzing 160 mass shootings between 2000 and 2013. The report focuses on what the FBI calls “active shooter incidents,” or cases in which […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The mother of Columbine High School shooter Dylan Klebold is planning a memoir in which she will confront the “indescribable grief and shame” she has lived with since the 1999 tragedy. Crown Publishers told The Associated Press on Tuesday that it had acquired a book by Susan Klebold, saying she was […]
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A UPS employee opened fire Tuesday morning inside one of the company’s warehouses in Alabama, leaving two people dead, police said. The shooter also was killed in the gunfire. Birmingham Police Chief A.C. Roper told reporters that the gunman was wearing his uniform when he started shooting either in or near […]
Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy has said that a gang member, recently released from prison, shot and killed a young boy because he thought he was playing the role of ‘lookout’. The Chicago Sun Times reports: “This didn’t have to happen,” McCarthy told reporters as he announced charges in Antonio Smith’s murder. The four men […]
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago children will walk past even more guards on their first day of school than last year, when concerns about safety prompted the city to line the streets with 1,200 adults every day. Thanks to an infusion of $1 million from the city, another 100 “Safe Passage” workers will be on routes […]
Monica has called for an end to “senseless acts of violence” after a close family friend was fatally shot over the weekend. The singer took to her Instagram Saturday to share her heartbreak after a friend identified only as Chris, who was friends with her brother-in-law David Brown, was killed. Monica, who is married to […]
At Wiz Khalifa‘s concert Friday night in Northern California, a shooting occurred and a man is dead. The concert was at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, CA. Just after 11 gunshot’s rang out as Khalifa performed. TMZ reports that the shooting happened backstage and the victim was at least 5 times. Cops are investigating […]
DETROIT (AP) — A suburban Detroit homeowner who opened his front door and blasted an unarmed woman on his porch should have called 911 instead of becoming “judge, jury and executioner,” a prosecutor said Wednesday in urging jurors to convict him of second-degree murder. Prosecutors in their closing arguments repeatedly emphasized that Theodore Wafer had […]
When selfie’s go wrong. The NY Post reports: A fun night drinking with friends turned tragic for a man in Mexico, who died when he posed with a gun to shoot a selfie, but accidentally fired the weapon. Oscar Otero Aguilar was enjoying a booze-filled night with two buddies last weekend in Mexico City when […]
