The incident occurred Friday when a demonstration commemorating Brown’s death turned destructive, according to Ferguson Police Chief Troy Doyle. Civil rights leaders demand reforms at Sonya Massey rally in Chicago Civil rights leaders Reverend Al Sharpton and Ben Crump called for legal reforms at a rally for Sonya Massey. A police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, […]
Raipur: A suspected Maoist was killed in a shootout with security forces in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada, police said on Sunday. (Representative photo) {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} “A Maoist was killed when a team of District Reserve Guard (DRG) and Bastar Fighters launched a search operation across the Indravati river,” said Gaurav Rai, Superintendent of Police (SP), […]
VOLUSIA COUNTY, Florida. – The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office announced Sunday that it had arrested a 15-year-old boy as the suspected second shooter in an attempted robbery that turned fatal in Pierson Wednesday night. Martin Martinez, 15, is charged with first-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder. The shooting left 17-year-old Odie Carbajal of […]
MURRIETA – A Home Gardens gang member who helped kill an outsider the defendant lured to his death was sentenced Friday to life in prison without the possibility of parole. A jury in Murrieta convicted 24-year-old Eric “Silent” Chaparro of first-degree murder in June, finding the charges true due to special circumstances: He killed for […]
(WKYT)—The good question of the day is: What is the definition of a mass shooting? One of the problems with reporting on shootings like the one we saw in Lexington earlier this morning is that there is no official definition of a mass shooting. Different sources set different criteria. For example, in a report on […]
SAN ANTONIO – Crime Stoppers and San Antonio police are seeking information in the fatal shooting of a man outside a party at an unregistered, short-term rental home on the North Side last week. Jordan Benjamin Burleson, 24, was shot and killed shortly before 3 a.m. on July 31 in the 4600 block of Hawthorn […]
MINNEAPOLIS — Last month, a man was partially paralyzed by a bullet. The victim says the shooter was a 14-year-old. Amos Manneh has been undergoing physical therapy since he was shot in the neck in Minneapolis’ Seward neighborhood on July 3. “I was basically chased by three men,” he said. “They tried to rob me, […]
