An off-duty New Jersey state trooper is under review after firing at three unarmed teenagers who mistakenly knocked on the door of his Sparta home Sunday, believing it to be their friend’s house. The trooper, identified as Kissinger Barreau, told investigators he thought the teenagers were trying to break into his home. Jesse Barkhorn, John […]
Three years ago, Chicago man Alprentiss Nash, 40, was freed from prison after serving 17 years for a crime he didn’t commit, reports the Chicago Tribune. On Tuesday, he was fatally shot after a “failed” robbery attempt during “some sort of transaction.” The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office said “Nash died of multiple gunshot wounds.” A […]
In a twist of irony, President Obama revealed in an exclusive BBC interview just hours before a gunman opened fire in a Louisiana movie theater that the greatest frustration of his presidency are U.S. gun laws. Noting that gun violence has killed more Americans than terrorism since the tragic September 11, 2001 attack, Obama called out the […]
Two women were shot to death at a Louisiana movie theater Thursday night. Movie-goers who went to see the 7 p.m. showing of the new movie Trainwreck at the Grand 16 Theater were hit with a hail of gunfire. According to reports, a 58-year-old suspect, identified as John R. Houser, entered the theater and began firing […]
A 20-year-old Chicago man with alleged gang ties was arrested Wednesday in the July 4th shooting death of 7-year-old Amari Brown, which sparked calls for gun reform from Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy, reports The Chicago Tribune. Rasheed Martin, 20, was arrested at a home in Superior, Wis., about 460 miles northwest of Chicago near the Wisconsin-Minnesota border, […]
Investigators are looking into the death of a Cincinnati man who was shot and killed by a University of Cincinnati police officer during a traffic stop Sunday. The incident began when Samuel Dubose was pulled over by University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing for driving without a front license plate, CNN reports. After pulling him over, the father of […]
New York City police have arrested and charged a man in connection with the shooting that killed a Bronx resident as he was holding his toddler child in his arms. James Capers, 22, was arrested Wednesday, according to the NY Daily News. He was charged with opening fire in the fatal shooting that took the life […]
A video showing the fatal shooting of an unarmed man at the hands of Gardena, Calif. police was released by a judge’s order Tuesday – despite efforts to keep the video under wraps, the LA Times reports. A federal judge made the call, citing public interest in the recordings as the reason. The city just […]
The FBI announced Friday that Dylann Roof, the 21-year-old South Carolina man accused of killing nine Black people at Charleston’s Mother Emanuel AME church, should not have been able to purchase the gun used in the massacre. A loophole in the background check allowed Roof to acquire the .45-caliber handgun, the New York Times reports. Roof, who […]
On Tuesday, U.S. Marshals arrested a 12-year-old Nebraska boy who was wanted in connection with a shooting that left a 31-year-old man dead. Jarrell Milton, pictured above, disappeared after the June 29 incident. He was found almost 400 miles away from the Omaha park where Jamymell Ray was killed during what was supposed to be […]
Seven-year-old Amari Brown was among the victims of ten fatal shootings in Chicago over the long Fourth of July weekend, which saw 64 shootings in total, highlighting the problem of intractable violence in the embattled city, according to The Chicago Tribune. Brown was playing in a front yard in the city’s Humboldt Park community when he […]
UPDATE: Thursday, July 2, 2015 9:55 AM EST: An unnamed official told the Associated Press that investigators found no evidence of a shooting, or weapons. BREAKING: Official: No evidence of shooting, no arrests, no weapons after report of shots at Navy Yard. — The Associated Press (@AP) July 2, 2015 The facility is still on […]
