Friday news broke that one of the key witnesses in the Amber Guyger trial was murdered in the parking lot of his apartment complex. Lee Merritt was the lead attorney for the Jean family and he and his team are now investigating the murder of Joshua Brown. Merritt tells the TJMS crew that Brown’s family […]
[UPDATE:] KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Police have identified two suspects in a Kansas bar shooting that left four people dead and five others wounded. Police in Kansas City, Kansas, announced early Monday that 23-year-old Javier Alatorre was arrested Sunday afternoon in Kansas City, Missouri, while 29-year-old Hugo Villanueva-Morales is still at large. Both men […]
A teenager in Atlanta was killed while asleep in her bed when a stray bullet from a shootout went through her home. Jessica Daniels’ family members told Channel 2 they have been comforting each other all day. “I was downstairs asleep, I heard the shots and I jumped up,” said Sanders Love, Daniel’s grandfather. That […]
Felony murder charges were dropped this week against five Chicago teenagers who were initially arrested after a 14-year-old who was with them during a burglary attempt was fatally shot by a homeowner. The teens were arrested after an attempted carjacking in Lake County, Illinois on August 13, 2019. The 75-year-old homeowner told investigators that he equipped himself […]
Three masked teenagers who were allegedly attempting to rob three people in Conyers, Georgia were shot and killed by the homeowner. Now, neighbors of that homeowner say he is devastated by their deaths. Chico Chapman, a neighbor of the truck driver who lived at the home with his mother, told The Washington Post, that the […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Police say one man was killed and five other adults were wounded in a shooting in the courtyard of an apartment complex near Columbia Heights Metro Station in the nation’s capital. Metropolitan police were searching for two men armed with a rifle seen at that Thursday night shooting scene in a largely […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Police warned the top officials of a Utah school district about an ex-employee who had told his co-worker he wanted to “see what it feels like” to murder someone and attack “women or gays.” The notice was meant to be kept private among school officials and security guards of the […]
A new back-to-school commercial has stirred both debate and outrage across social media for showing teens using ordinary items to survive a school shooting. In the chilling PSA, the young actors demonstrate how book bags, sweaters, folders and skateboards could be used to save lives in case of a school shooting. One teen notes how […]
HOUSTON (AP) — A Houston police officer was hospitalized in stable condition after he was shot in a struggle with a suspect who along with three others stole two vehicles and attempted to kill a priest in a crime spree that played out as Democratic presidential candidates debated just miles away, the city’s police chief […]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Albuquerque police say six people were killed in separate shootings in the city. There have been no arrests in Thursday night’s shootings, which also left five people wounded. Officers responded shortly after 9 p.m. to a call of shots fired at 1028 Lura Place. Three people were found dead, a fourth […]
LUMBER BRIDGE, N.C. (AP) — “Okay, Mommy. I love you.” That was Brenda Scurlock’s last text from her son, Avery, before he was shot eight times, his body abandoned in a field in eastern North Carolina. Scurlock had always worried about Avery’s safety. He was young and black in a society where those qualities could […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Drug chains CVS and Walgreens as well as grocery chain Wegmans Food Market have joined the chorus of retailers requesting that customers refrain from openly carrying firearms in their stores even where state laws allow it. The announcements on Thursday follow similar moves by Walmart, the nation’s largest retailer, as well […]
