A preliminary autopsy obtained by The New York Times has found that Michael Brown “was shot at least six times — twice in the head — with all of…
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The fatal shooting of a decorated police officer this holiday weekend and a gun battle that wounded seven people the same day in a popular nightlife district have underscored what so far has been a violent year in Indianapolis. Mourners left flowers Sunday on the patrol car of 51-year-old Officer Perry Renn, […]
Unfortunately, this news will probably come as no surprise to most. We can only shake our collective heads and be thankful it wasn’t worse. We have reports on two incidents stemming from BET Awards “pre-parties.” The first bit of negative news associated with the BET Experience/Awards weekend in Los Angeles involved a shooting in which one person […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Two police officers were “simply having lunch” at a strip mall pizza buffet in Las Vegas when a man and a woman fatally shot them in point-blank ambush, then fled to a nearby Walmart where they killed a third person and then themselves in an apparent suicide pact, authorities said. The […]
Snoop Dogg says the hip hop community could help put a stop to gun violence in the United States. Speaking Thursday at an event in San Francisco to raise awareness of his No Guns Allowed campaign, the rapper said he believed today’s rap lyrics are less violent then when he entered the business twenty years […]
GOLETA, Calif. (AP) — A drive-by shooter went on a nighttime rampage near a Santa Barbara university campus that left seven people dead, including the attacker, and seven others wounded, authorities said Saturday. The gunman got into two gun battles with deputies Friday night in the beachside community of Isla Vista before crashing his black […]
A friend recently asked me how I felt about residents of my hometown – Detroit – carrying guns to protect themselves in a city where violence is still commonplace. I can say without hesitation that I’m glad Paris Ainsworth, a 51-year-old grandmother affectionately nicknamed ‘Granny Rambo,’ was packing a pistol. Ainsworth was shot four times […]
According to DDW, Love & Hip Hop franchise executive producer Mona Scott Young recently gave an interview in which she was candid about Benzino‘s shooting…
KENNESAW, Ga. (AP) — A shooter opened fire at a FedEx center outside Atlanta Tuesday morning, wounding at least six people before police swarmed the package-sorting station and found the suspect dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Police rushed to the center after someone called to report an active shooter at 5:54 a.m. After […]
GRANDVIEW, Mo. (AP) — Police arrested a suspect Thursday in a string of random vehicle shootings on Kansas City-area highways over the past few weeks that have wounded three motorists and frightened many more. Police Chief Darryl Forte said at a news conference that the suspect is male and lives in Grandview, a suburb south […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Returning once again to a grief-stricken corner of America, President Barack Obama is reprising his role as chief comforter, mourning with families of those killed last week at Fort Hood and offering solace to the nation. It’s a duty that Obama has had to fulfill far too often. Tucson. Aurora. Oak Creek. […]
