shootings

HBCU Xavier University was the scene of a shooting that left one woman dead & two injured at Morris Jeff High School's graduation ceremony.

NEW YORK (AP) — A gunman was taken into custody Sunday after he ambushed police officers in the Bronx twice in 12 hours, wounding two in attacks that ignited outrage from officials who blamed the violence on an atmosphere of anti-police rhetoric. The man, whose name was not immediately released, was captured after he walked […]

A man has been arrested and charged with capital murder in the shooting death of two sisters at Texas A&M-Commerce. Sisters Abbaney Matts, 20 and Deja Matts, 19 were killed at the school on Monday morning. Deja, a native of Garland, Texas,  was a freshman at the school. Her sister was not a student, according […]

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Ten people were shot and wounded early Sunday near the French Quarter in New Orleans, a popular spot for tourists. Hours later in another part of town, another shooting killed two men and wounded two others. Police said both shootings remain under investigation, and authorities did not immediately draw any connection […]

Six men have been charged after a shooting at a New Jersey high school football game that critically wounded a 10-year-old boy and sent players and the packed crowd fleeing in panic. Ibn Abdullah, 27, was the target of the Friday night shooting and was charged because a gun was found on him when emergency […]

NEW YORK (AP) — A shootout that left one man dead and 11 people wounded at a Brooklyn community festival over the weekend may have been gang related, the New York Police Department said Monday as the hunt continued for at least two gunmen. Several victims of the shooting late Saturday had gang histories, including […]

David Ortiz was NOT the intended target of those hit men trying to carry out a murder plot, according to authorities in the Dominican Republic. Sixto David Fernandez, a buddy of Ortiz, was the man the shooters were supposed to have executed back on June 9 at the Dial Bar in Santa Domingo. Fernandez, who frequently […]

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Six suspects, including the alleged gunman, have been detained in the shooting of former Red Sox star David Ortiz, the Dominican Republic’s chief prosecutor said Wednesday. SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER:  Four other suspects were also being pursued in the shooting, which witnesses said was carried out by two […]

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A California man accused of making a hoax phone call that led police to fatally shoot an unarmed man in Kansas is expected to enter new pleas. Twenty-five-year-old Tyler R. Barriss has a change-of-plea hearing Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Wichita. He was indicted in Kansas for conspiracy to make […]

CHICAGO (AP) — At least 11 people were shot and killed and about 70 others were wounded over the weekend in Chicago, in a spasm of gun violence that police attributed mostly to gangs and that the president’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, used to criticize the city’s Democratic leadership. The violence peaked early Sunday, including one […]

Floyd Mayweather’s Tour Bus Shot Up In Atlanta Its been reported by TMZ that Floyd Mayweather’s tour bus was shot up in Atlanta outside of the  Intercontinental Hotel in Buckhead Monday morning. Despite being in one of the vehicles that were shot Mayweather was uninjured., his bodyguard wasn’t as lucky. One of Floyd’s bodyguards was […]

    SAN BRUNO, Calif. (AP) — A woman opened fire at YouTube’s headquarters in the San Francisco Bay Area Tuesday, wounding four people before she shot and killed herself and prompted panic as employees hid and tried to flee, police and witnesses said. Officers and federal agents swarmed the company’s headquarters complex in the […]