BEAVER FALLS (AP) —Police have charged three teenage boys in the fatal shooting of a western Pennsylvania woman. Beaver Falls police have charged 14-year-olds Todavia Cleckley and Marcus Velasquez and 13-year-old Kyle Goosby Jr. with criminal homicide and other charges in Saturday’s shooting of 22-year-old Kayla Peterson. She was shot at about 3:30 p.m. that […]
ATLANTA (AP) – Police say an argument escalated to fatal gunfire at Underground Atlanta, a downtown shopping and entertainment district. Officer John Chafee, of the Atlanta Police Department, says the shooting was reported Tuesday around 7:20 p.m. Officers were called to Alabama Avenue near Pryor Street and found a male victim who appeared to have […]
Roland Martin talks with Lucia McBath, the mother of Florida teenager Jordan Davis, who was shot and killed outside of a gas station after a man named Michael Dunn complained that the car where Jordan was sitting, had the music playing too loud. McBath talks with Roland about her son’s death but also reflects on […]
Tom, Sybil, Jay. I am hoping that your day is as fantastic as mine. For any of the TJMS family that has been mildly paying attention to the news around the NFL you are aware of two tragedies that took place in two weeks. First we got news of Jovan Belcher, a 25-year-old football player […]
Tom, Sybil, Jay. I am hoping that your day is as fantastic as mine. For any of the TJMS family that has been mildly paying attention to the news around the NFL you are aware of two tragedies that took place in two weeks. First we got news of Jovan Belcher, a 25-year-old football player […]
ATLANTA (AP) — Authorities are describing the fatal shooting of a Georgia woman after her vehicle bumped into a man’s motorized wheelchair at a gas station as a random encounter. Macon police said 65-year-old Linda Hunnicutt died after she was shot once in the chest Tuesday by the motorized wheelchair’s operator, 73-year-old Frank Louis Reeves. […]
PITTSBURGH (AP) — An elementary school music teacher shot his ex-wife while she played the organ during a Sunday church service, then returned minutes later to shoot her again and ensure she was dead before congregants stopped and grabbed him, police said. The shooting was detailed in a criminal complaint filed Monday against Gregory Eldred, […]
MIAMI (AP) — A child has been airlifted to a hospital after being shot on a school bus in South Florida. Miami-Dade Police are investigating the Tuesday morning shooting in Homestead on a private bus for a Miami-area charter school. It's unclear whether the student was shot by someone on the bus or hit by […]
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (AP) — Authorities still are unsure of what prompted a 64-year-old man to open fire at officers inside a suburban Detroit police station. Southfield Police Chief Eric Hawkins told reporters Monday there is no apparent motive behind the shooting and that a preliminary investigation reveals the shooter, Harold Joseph Collins, was in poor […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two men have been arrested for the Halloween shootings of four people on the University of Southern California campus. USC police Capt. David Carlisle says two men outside the Ronald Tudor Campus Center party were arguing at about 11:30 p.m. when one of them pulled a gun and opened fire. One […]
DENVER (AP) — Denver police are reviewing video footage from city surveillance cameras after a shot was fired through the window of President Barack Obama's campaign office. Police spokeswoman Raquel Lopez says cameras are in the area of the campaign office on West Ninth Avenue near Acoma Street near Denver's downtown, and investigators are poring […]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A pile of stuffed animals marks the spot where 15-year-old Justin Thompson fell, fatally shot by an off-duty Memphis police officer on a school night in a working-class neighborhood. The Sept. 24 shooting is still under investigation, but the question of whether Officer Terrance Shaw used excessive force makes the case […]
