Marissa Alexander, the Florida woman who was sentenced to 20 years of prison time for firing a gunshot at a wall during a confrontation with her husband, is now home for the holidays. Alexander will be under house arrest while she awaits a new trial ordered by the 1st District Court of Appeals. Below is […]
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma jury Tuesday convicted a veteran police captain of first-degree manslaughter in the death of an unarmed teenager who was running away after scuffling with the officer. Del City Police Capt. Randy Trent Harrison shot Dane Scott Jr. in the back on March 14, 2012, following a high-speed chase that […]
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Seven men were wounded, one critically, when gunfire erupted on an Oakland street and continued for several blocks, police said. Officers received reports of a shooting about a block away from a park in East Oakland shortly after 6 p.m. Monday, Oakland police spokeswoman Johnna Watson said. Police learned about a […]
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The glimpses of Adam Lanza‘s home life in a report on the Newtown school massacre are renewing the debate over how much responsibility for the tragedy his mother might bear. Nancy Lanza was apparently the only person the gunman was close to in the months before he killed her at home […]
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The prosecutor who led the investigation into the Newtown school shooting says it did not determine a motive for the attack. State’s Attorney Stephen Sedensky III says there is also no clear indication why he chose Sandy Hook Elementary School as the target for his rampage other than the fact that […]
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — An anonymous caller warned authorities Monday that his roommate was on his way to Yale University to shoot people, leading officials to lock down the Ivy League campus as police searched for a gunman. The hunt, which came as the school was on November break, was stymied by students who […]
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Oscar Pistorius was served with new indictment papers Wednesday containing two extra charges believed to allege that he recklessly shot his gun out the open sunroof of a car last year and fired someone else’s handgun at a restaurant weeks before he killed girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. The double-amputee Olympian […]
11/20/13- Reverend Al Sharpton talks with the TJMS crew about gun regulations and gun violence 50 years after the death of President John F. Kennedy.
DETROIT (AP) — The way Renisha Marie McBride‘s young life ended Nov. 2 is not in dispute: A homeowner in suburban Detroit fatally shot the 19-year-old in the face as she stood on his porch before the sun came up. Almost every other aspect of the case is not as clear-cut. Did race play a […]
STROUDSBURG, Pa. (AP) — A man accused of killing three people at a township meeting was ordered Thursday to stand trial, where he could get a death sentence. Rockne Newell, 59, was ordered to be tried on three counts of homicide and six counts of attempted homicide, among other charges, for the Aug. 5 attack. […]
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Three Pittsburgh high school students heading to their vehicle after classes ended were shot Wednesday afternoon, and police sought as many as three people and were investigating whether the shooting was drug-related, school and police officials said. All three teenagers were shot outside Brashear High School as they walked to a vehicle […]
DEARBORN HEIGHTS, Mich. (AP) — Prosecutors said Wednesday that they are reviewing possible charges against a suburban Detroit homeowner in the shooting death of a 19-year-old woman on his porch earlier this month after police provided additional material they had requested. Earlier this week, the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office said it had begun a warrant […]
