HONOLULU (AP) — A police officer shot a 17-year-old runaway in the wrist at a Hawaiii high school after the teen cut one officer with a knife and punched two others, authorities said. State Department of Education spokeswoman Donalyn Dela Cruz said the boy showed up Tuesday morning at Roosevelt High School. Officials there recognized […]
A report by the Violence Policy Center (VPC), a Washington D.C.- based research and advocacy group that promotes gun control, has discovered that the state of Nebraska has the highest black homicide victimization in the country. The study’s numbers were accumulated to highlight the effects gun violence has on African American teens and adults. The […]
According to a new study published in Pediatrics, 20 children a day are hospitalized for gunshot wounds in the United States. The study also found that…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A gunman used his baby son as a shield while he fired at deputies, who did not return fire until after the man’s ex-girlfriend took the child away from him, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said Monday. The 43-year-old man was hit by multiple gunshots but was expected to survive, […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A gunman used his baby son as a shield while he fired at deputies, who did not return fire until after the man’s ex-girlfriend took the child away from him, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said Monday. The 43-year-old man was hit by multiple gunshots but was expected to survive, […]
COLUMBIA, Md. (AP) — Police have identified the gunman in the Maryland mall shooting as a 19 year old from suburban Washington. Howard County Police Chief William McMahon said Darion Marcus Aguilar of College Park, Md., arrived at the mall shortly after 10 a.m. on Saturday armed with a Mossburg 12-gauge shotgun and used it […]
ORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) — A student was shot Friday outside an on-campus dorm at South Carolina State University, and police were looking for four men who left campus. The student was wounded outside of the Hugine Suites around 1:30 p.m., University Police Chief Mernard Clarkson said. The gunmen left campus before police could catch them, […]
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — One person was killed inside a Purdue University classroom Tuesday by a gunman who surrendered to a police officer within minutes of the attack, officials said. Purdue Police Chief John Cox said the suspect appeared to have targeted the male victim in a basement classroom of the Electrical Engineering Building […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police say they’ve captured a boy who shot two students at a Philadelphia high school gym. They say the shooting happened at the Delaware Valley Charter School in north Philadelphia on Friday afternoon. Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey says the shooter “was captured not too far from his home” but the gun hasn’t […]
DETROIT (AP) — A 4-year-old girl accidentally shot her 4-year-old cousin to death with a loaded rifle that she found under a bed at their grandfather’s Detroit home, police said Friday. The girl was playing and watching TV on Thursday afternoon with the 4-year-old boy and his 5-year-old sister when she found the gun, police […]
ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) — A student opened fire Tuesday morning at a middle school in the southeastern New Mexico city of Roswell, shooting two students before being taken into custody. Officials at University Medical Center in Lubbock, Texas, say a 14-year-old boy was flown there in critical condition and a 13-year-old girl was en route […]
To stay with George Zimmerman, one can only conclude his girlfriend, Samantha Scheibe, has got some issues herself. As you may recall, back in November, she called the police on Trayvon Martin’s killer. Later during an interrogation session with Seminole County Sheriff’s Deputy Stephen LaGuardia, she said Zimmerman pointed a shotgun at her “for a […]
