Tag: Shootings
St. Louis-area mom, 2 children killed; baby taken, but safe
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis-area man fatally shot his estranged wife and two of her children before fleeing with the couple’s baby,...
Woman hit by bullet during Beverly Hills restaurant robbery
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Robbers stole a watch worth hundreds of thousands of dollars from a man eating at a noted Beverly Hills...
March 16 bond hearing next in killing of ex-Saint’s star
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A decision on what the bond amount will be for the man who fatally shot former NFL star Will Smith...
Police: Rapper OMB Peezy charged in music video shooting
ATLANTA (AP) — An Alabama rapper was arrested in connection to a shooting at a music video set in downtown Atlanta, authorities said.
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Three have life-threatening wounds after Sweden ax attack
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Hospital officials say three people wounded in an assault by a man using an ax in southern Sweden are in life-threatening...
Chicago mayor proposes new rules after botched police raid
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago's mayor on Wednesday proposed changes in the way police serve search warrants, the latest move to regain public trust that...
Student shoots, kills 15-year-old at Arkansas junior high
PINE BLUFF, Ark. (AP) — A 15-year-old boy shot and killed a fellow student at an Arkansas junior high school Monday morning and he...
Lady Gaga’s dog walker speaks out after Hollywood shooting
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lady Gaga's dog walker, who was shot last week during a robbery in Hollywood when two of the singer’s French...
Las Vegas panel seeks ideas on mass shooting memorial
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A panel planning a permanent memorial to the 2017 massacre on the Las Vegas Strip made a nationwide call on...
Sutherland overtakes Weir to win Champions title in Tucson
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Kevin Sutherland chipped in for the only birdie of the final round on No. 16 and had a tap-in for...
Nigerian families await news of 300 kidnapped schoolgirls
JANGEBE, Nigeria (AP) — Families in Nigeria waited anxiously for news of their abducted daughters after more than 300 schoolgirls were kidnapped by gunmen...
Pope prays for liberation of 317 kidnapped Nigerian students
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Sunday decried the kidnapping of 317 students from their boarding school in northwest Nigeria and prayed for...
Students abducted from Nigerian school 2 weeks ago freed
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Students, teachers and relatives abducted two weeks ago from a school in northern Nigeria have been freed.
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Lady Gaga’s dogs recovered safely after theft, shooting
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lady Gaga's two French bulldogs, which were stolen by thieves who shot and wounded their walker, were recovered unharmed Friday,...
Breakout ‘Borat’ star Maria Bakalova conquers Hollywood
So what did YOU do at 5 a.m. after staying up all night for your prom? Maria Bakalova became a movie star.
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Rival gang members sentenced for gunfight that killed boy, 3
COMPTON, Calif. (AP) — Two rival gang members who got into a gunfight that killed a 3-year-old boy in Compton were sentenced to life...
Hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls taken in mass abduction
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Gunmen abducted 317 girls from a boarding school in northern Nigeria on Friday, police said, the latest in a series...
California parolee pleads guilty to shooting Nevada deputy
GARDNERVILLE, Nev. (AP) — A 22-year-old man who had been paroled after serving a partial sentence for assaulting a police officer in California has...
Lady Gaga’s dog walker shot, French bulldogs stolen in LA
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lady Gaga's dog walker was shot and two of the singer's French bulldogs were stolen in Hollywood during an armed...
Oklahoma officer charged in Black man’s fatal shooting
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A white Oklahoma City police officer accused of fatally shooting a fleeing Black man armed with a knife three times...
Daniel Prude case reflects difficulty of prosecuting police
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A grand jury’s decision not to indict officers involved in a fatal encounter with an unarmed Black man illustrates a...
Memorials, lawsuit mark death anniversary of Ahmaud Arbery
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Family and friends walked in procession through the coastal subdivision where armed men chased and shot him in the street....
Wife, son of man suspected of California killing found safe
ANTIOCH, Calif. (AP) — The wife and 4-year-old son of a man suspected of killing a Northern California man and wounding a firefighter and...
Suspect fatally shot in Southern California police pursuit
ONTARIO, Calif. (AP) — A suspect was fatally shot during a Southern California police pursuit early Tuesday, authorities said.
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Suit blames Saudi Arabia for attack at Florida military base
WASHINGTON (AP) — Victims of a 2019 shooting at a Florida military base and their families are suing Saudi Arabia, claiming the kingdom knew...
Sheriff on Louisiana gun store shooting: ‘I don’t know why’
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An ammunition customer showed no sign of anger or agitation before he launched a sudden shooting rampage at a New...
Suspect in California drive-by accused in Bay Area slaying
ANTIOCH, Calif. (AP) — The suspect in a drive-by shooting that wounded a firefighter and a paramedic in California is also suspected in the...
Suspect in Southern California police shooting found dead
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A man who police say shot an Escondido police officer responding to a domestic violence call and then fled, prompting...
1 dead, 4 injured in shooting at American Legion in Missouri
KENNETT, Mo. (AP) — One person died and four others were wounded in an overnight shooting at an American Legion club in southeast Missouri,...
California man suspected of shooting father kills himself
WOODLAKE, Calif. (AP) — A 32-year-old man suspected of fatally shooting his father killed himself while being chased by sheriff's deputies in central California,...
Firefighter and paramedic shot in drive-by during call
ANTIOCH, Calif. (AP) — A drive-by shooting wounded a firefighter and a paramedic who were responding to a call late Saturday in the Bay...
Customers, staff fired back in gun store shooting; 3 dead
METAIRIE, La. (AP) — A person entered a gun store and shooting range in a New Orleans suburb and fatally shot two people Saturday,...
Woman shot during protest against Myanmar coup dies
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — A young woman who was shot in the head by police last week during a protest against the military coup...
Costa Mesa police kill driver who ran over passenger
COSTA MESA, Calif. (AP) — Costa Mesa police shot and killed a driver Friday after he backed toward officers and ran over a person...
Officer, gunman seen in national park wounded in shootout
EXETER, Calif. (AP) — A man accused of threatening people with a gun under the giant trees of Sequoia National Park in central California...
Activist charged with felony stemming from Kenosha protests
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — An activist who participated in protests following the August police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha was charged Friday with...
Green Beret pleads not guilty in deadly bowling alley attack
ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) — An Army special forces sergeant pleaded not guilty Friday to murder and other charges in the killing of three people...
Germany commemorates victims of racist shooting, 1 year on
BERLIN (AP) — Top officials, religious leaders and soccer stars are commemorating the victims of a racist attack in the German town of Hanau,...
California deputies who shot man debated whether to stop him
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Orange County sheriff's deputies debated whether to stop a homeless man with mental health issues for jaywalking last year before...
Gunmen kill student, abduct more than 40 people in Nigeria
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Gunmen attacked a school in Nigeria’s north-central Niger State early Wednesday, killing at least one student and abducting more than...
Ex-FBI agent linked to Whitey Bulger to be freed from prison
BOSTON (AP) — A former FBI agent convicted of second-degree murder for leaking information to Boston gangster James “Whitey" Bulger that led to the...
After shooting, unrest, Wyoming gets its first Black sheriff
LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — As a student at the Wyoming Law Enforcement Academy, Aaron Appelhans used to look at the photos of past graduating...
On Parkland anniversary, Biden calls for tougher gun laws
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Sorrow reverberated across the country Sunday as Americans, including President Joe Biden, joined a Florida community in remembering the 17...
Registries of disabled people debated in police reform talks
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Victoria Mitchell wishes police would have had the full picture of her son’s struggles with mental illness and reacted differently...
Suspected drunk driver shot by police in Southern California
NORWALK, Calif. (AP) — At least one sheriff's deputy shot a suspected drunk driver Friday evening in Southern California during a foot pursuit, authorities...
Report: Police granted clinic shooting suspect gun permit
BUFFALO, Minn. (AP) — A man charged with murder in a shooting at a Minnesota medical clinic bought the handgun he used in the...
Austin police chief retires after criticism for use of force
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The police chief in the Texas capital city of Austin, who had been at the center of ongoing criticism following...
Policeman gets suspended jail term over migrant child death
BRUSSELS (AP) — A Belgian court handed a one-year suspended prison sentence to a police officer on Friday over the shooting death of a...
Investigating Trump a big early move for Atlanta’s new DA
ATLANTA (AP) — The district attorney investigating whether former President Donald Trump should face charges for attempting to pressure Georgia's elections chief into changing...
Man fatally beaten outside West Hollywood bar-restaurant
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (AP) — A 49-year-old man was beaten to death early Friday outside a West Hollywood bar and restaurant where he and...
Family of Black man killed by LA deputies seeks $35 million
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The family of a Black man who was shot and killed by sheriff's deputies last year after they tried to...
Singer Ricky Martin joins efforts to build Pulse memorial
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Singer Ricky Martin will be a spokesman for a foundation that is building a memorial and museum to honor the...
Terrorist’s mother sentenced for shredding planning document
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — The mother of one of the shooters who carried out a 2015 terror attack in San Bernardino, California, was sentenced...
Judge declines new arrest warrant for Kyle Rittenhouse
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A judge on Thursday refused prosecutors’ request to issue a new arrest warrant for an 18-year-old from Illinois accused of...
Sheriff: Blame for Minnesota clinic attack lies with shooter
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Authorities charged a Minnesota man with murder on Thursday in an attack on a health clinic that left a medical assistant...
3 years later, Parkland school shooting trial still in limbo
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — It's been more than 1,000 days since a gunman with an AR-15 rifle burst into a Florida high school,...
Hustler founder and First Amendment battler Larry Flynt dies
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Larry Flynt, who turned his raunchy Hustler magazine into an empire while fighting numerous First Amendment court battles and flaying...
Documents show several red flags for clinic shooting suspect
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The suspect in the fatal shooting at a Minnesota medical clinic was able to enter the building despite threatening violence there...
Myanmar junta cracks down on crowds defying protest ban
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Police cracked down on demonstrators opposing Myanmar’s military coup, firing warning shots and shooting water cannons to disperse crowds that...
1 dead, 4 injured in shooting at Minnesota health clinic
BUFFALO, Minn. (AP) — A 67-year-old man unhappy with the health care he'd received opened fire at a clinic Tuesday, killing one person and...
Officer charged in Andre Hill’s death posts bail, is freed
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The fired Ohio police officer charged with fatally shooting Andre Hill posted bail and was released from jail Tuesday...
Woman fatally shot by Redding police pulled replica handgun
REDDING, Calif. (AP) — Northern California police officers fatally shot a woman who pulled what appeared to be a handgun from her waistband and...
Johnson eases to another victory at Saudi International
KING ABDULLAH ECONOMIC CITY, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Top-ranked Dustin Johnson won the Saudi International for the second time in three years on Sunday...
Florida: Slain FBI agent remembered for protecting children
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — A slain FBI agent was remembered for her strength, infectious laugh, love of family and commitment to protecting children...
1 dead, several injured in shooting at Chicago-area hotel
BLOOMINGDALE, Ill. (AP) — A shooting early Saturday during a large gathering at a suburban Chicago hotel left one man dead and several other...
Terrorist’s sister-in-law sentenced in sham marriage scheme
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — The sister-in-law of a terrorist who carried out a 2015 Southern California attack that took 14 lives was sentenced...
Judge sets bail hearing for Kyle Rittenhouse next week
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A judge will hold a hearing next week on whether to arrest or increase bail for an 18-year-old from Illinois...
Defense: Officer and Andre Hill interacted before shooting
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The former police officer accused of killing Andre Hill interacted “two to three” times with Hill before the shooting and...
New Mexico State Police officer shot and killed on highway
DEMING, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico was in mourning Friday over the shooting death of a State Police officer in a highway-stop confrontation linked...
Rep. Greene says ‘morons’ voted to boot her from committees
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene lashed out Friday at “morons” in both parties who voted to kick her off her committees, a...
FBI slayings show risk surveillance cameras pose to police
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The child pornography suspect who gunned down two South Florida FBI agents this week somehow knew exactly when they...
New Mexico State Police say officer shot, killed on highway
DEMING, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico State Police officer was fatally shot on a highway Thursday and authorities chased the attacker, killing him...
Dem-led House, drawing a line, kicks Greene off committees
WASHINGTON (AP) — A fiercely divided House tossed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene off both her committees Thursday, an unprecedented punishment that Democrats said she’d...
Police: Man shot assisted living worker to stop ‘thievery’
DENVER (AP) — A 95-year-old Colorado man accused of shooting and killing a maintenance worker at his assisted living center told police he was...
Uphill battle to convict cop who shot Andre Hill, data shows
COLUMBUS, OHio (AP) — The indictment of the white Ohio police officer who shot and killed Andre Hill, a Black man, was cheered by...
US Marshals deputy shot, suspect killed in Baltimore
BALTIMORE (AP) — A U.S. Marshals Service deputy was shot and wounded and a suspect was killed Thursday morning during an exchange of gunfire...
Gunman held after alleged California mall shooting threat
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A man with a loaded gun was arrested Wednesday afternoon at a California mall after he live-streamed on Snapchat...
Slain FBI agents worked to protect children from abusers
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — FBI Agent Daniel Alfin gained international attention when he led a team that shutdown a major worldwide child pornography...
Ohio police officer charged with murder in Andre Hill case
COLUMBUS, OHio (AP) — A white Ohio police officer was indicted Wednesday on murder charges in the December shooting death of 47-year-old Andre Hill.
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Police: Man, 95, killed assisted living worker over money
LAFAYETTE, Colo. (AP) — An employee at an assisted living facility was fatally shot in the head by a 95-year-old resident in a dispute...
Wisconsin prosecutors seek Rittenhouse arrest, higher bond
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Prosecutors asked a judge Wednesday for a new arrest warrant for an Illinois teen charged with shooting three people, killing...
Dozen state police charged in the massacre of 19 in Mexico
CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico (AP) — A dozen state police officers were being questioned Wednesday following their arrests in connection with the killings of 19...
Oklahoma man charged in shooting deaths of 5 kids, brother
MUSKOGEE, Okla. (AP) — A 25-year-old Oklahoma man was charged with murder Wednesday in the killings of his brother and five young children, police...
FBI: 2 agents killed, 3 wounded, suspect dead in Florida
SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Two FBI agents were killed and three wounded in a shooting that erupted on Tuesday when they arrived to search...
Man arrested in killing of 5 children, 1 adult in Oklahoma
MUSKOGEE, Okla. (AP) — Six people, including five young children, were shot to death early Tuesday at a home in Oklahoma, and a 25-year-old...
Police: Rapper Silento charged with murder in shooting death
ATLANTA (AP) — Silento, the Atlanta rapper known for his hit song “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae),” was arrested Monday and charged with murder in...
GOP’s McConnell blasts ‘loony lies’ by Ga. Rep. Greene
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell denounced newly elected Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Monday, calling the far-right Georgia Republican’s embrace of...
Domestic incident erupts in gunfight with San Diego deputies
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A domestic incident investigation by San Diego County sheriff’s deputies on the Barona Indian Reservation erupted into a gunbattle that...
Official: California deputy fabricated ambush by gunman
MORGAN HILL, Calif. (AP) — A San Francisco Bay Area deputy who said a gunman ambushed him last year and his body camera stopped...
Train operator shot in East Los Angeles; suspect at large
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Metro train operator was shot twice early Friday morning aboard a train pulling into an East Los Angeles station...
Pelosi denounces GOP leaders over Georgia lawmaker’s posts
WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Nancy Pelosi intensified pressure Thursday on House Republican leaders for their handling of a controversial GOP freshman, denouncing them for...
Teen faces 6 murder counts in shootings at Indianapolis home
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A 17-year-old Indianapolis boy accused of fatally shooting his father, stepmother, two teenage relatives and a heavily pregnant 19-year-old woman was...
2 of 3 officers at Blake shooting in Wisconsin back on duty
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Two police officers who were on the scene when a white officer shot and partially paralyzed a Black man in...
Vacaville police kill driver who struck patrol vehicle
VACAVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Police in Northern California shot and killed a man who rammed a patrol car during a chase, authorities said.
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Rittenhouse, mother fixated on social media treatment
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — An Illinois teen accused of killing two people during unrest in Wisconsin and the teen's mom were fixated on social...
Teen held in Indiana killings of 5, including pregnant woman
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indianapolis police arrested a 17-year-old boy Monday in the killings of five people, including a pregnant woman, who were shot to...
19 burned bodies found near Mexico-US border town
CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico (AP) — Mexican authorities say they have found 19 shot and burned bodies near a town across the Rio Grande from...
Judge: Kenosha shooter can’t associate with supremacists
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — An 18-year-old Illinois teen charged with fatally shooting two people during a protest in southeastern Wisconsin last year is prohibited...
San Jose police kill homicide “person of interest”
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Police on Thursday shot and killed a man who was considered a “person of interest" in a killing but...
Mother shot at Sacramento apartment; son held after standoff
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A woman was killed by her son at a Sacramento-area senior living apartment complex Tuesday and he surrendered to authorities...
