The only eyewitness to the brazen, early-morning shooting death of an unarmed 22- year-old National Guardsman on a crowded New York City highway claims he never had a chance to comply with officer’s brief demands to show his hands during what was initially thought to be a routine traffic stop and instead was the victim […]
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A workplace shooting in Minneapolis on Thuesday has left at least two people dead and four others wounded, police said. The shooting at Accent Signage Systems, on the city's north side, resulted in "a couple of fatalities" and at least four people being taken to hospitals, Minneapolis police spokesman Steve McCarty said. […]
BALTIMORE (AP) — Authorities say a man has been shot in the student center on the campus of Morgan State University. Police say the gunman is still at large. Baltimore and Morgan State University police say the shooting was reported about 4:50 p.m. Wednesday. Baltimore police say the victim was not a student. The campus […]
WEST BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A former auto executive suspected of gunning down an officer who responded to a trouble call in an affluent Detroit suburb was found dead inside his house Monday evening, police said. Police had been surrounding the home of Rickey Coley since Sunday night, when an officer was shot to […]
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Louisville police say a man charged with killing one person and critically injuring another in a dispute over a fence gave "an account of what happened" after being arrested. Lt. Barry Wilkerson wouldn't say whether 55-year-old Mahmoud Yousef Hindi confessed. Wilkerson says investigators are trying to confirm the details of Hindi's […]
AVONDALE, La. (AP) — Authorities in greater New Orleans say two young children have been recovered unharmed from a car where a male driver and female passenger were found dead with multiple gunshot wounds. Spokesman Glen T. Boyd says the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office received the report around 1 a.m. EDT Saturday about a car […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A man who volunteered at a gay community center had a backpack full of Chick-fil-A sandwiches and a box of ammunition when he said "I don't like your politics" and shot a security guard at the headquarters of a conservative lobbying group, authorities revealed Thursday. Floyd Lee Corkins, II, was ordered held […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says he's appalled by a shooting at the Washington headquarters of a conservative Christian lobbying group and says he's praying for the wounded guard and his family. Romney issued a statement saying "there is no place for such violence in our society." He also said he is […]
Calls for the FBI to completely take the reins in overseeing the death investigation of Chavis Carter grew by leaps and bounds late Tuesday. The Jonesboro police department released a video recreation of what authorities now contend occurred the night he died, even as they testily admit their probe remains far from conclusive. The […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Police shot and killed a man they say lunged at them with a knife in a confrontation that began in Times Square and drew officers and spectators on a chase that ended with shots fired near one of New York's most crowded tourist areas. The encounter played out Saturday around 3 […]
OAK CREEK, Wis. (AP) — Officials on Monday identified the gunman they say killed six people inside a Sikh temple in Wisconsin as a 40-year-old Army veteran. First Assistant U.S. Greg Haanstad in the U.S. Attorney's office in Milwaukee identified the shooter, who was shot and killed by police outside the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, […]
OAK CREEK, Wis. (AP) — The gunman who killed six people at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin before being shot to death by police was identified Monday as a 40-year-old Army veteran and former leader of a white supremacist heavy metal band. Wade Michael Page strode into the temple carrying a 9mm handgun and multiple […]
