Following a biker gang shootout that left nine dead and more than a dozen injured in Waco, Texas, police are warning of revenge attacks from the motorcycle crews after 170 people were arrested and charged in connection with the mass shooting. According to CNN, a memo has gone out to law enforcement warning officers that […]
A rash of gun violence exploded in Chicago over the weekend, leaving one person dead and 40 others injured. In this recent spate of shootings that began last Friday, a grieving grandmother and grandson were shot on a porch while the woman hosted a wake for her daughter. Chicago Police confirmed that the weekend’s lone […]
Imagine if two black gangs had shot up a restaurant and left 9 dead. Now look at this picture. http://t.co/LL6bebiYHdpic.twitter.com/LUxjf3FglB — Donald Kerabatsos (@Papakila) May 17, 2015 A fight between biker gangs in Waco, Texas ended in gunfire Sunday that left nine people dead and another 18 injured. Gunfire was also exchanged with police during […]
A South Carolina homeowner who was fired at by the police after being mistaken for a suspect had just two seconds to react before he was shot, MSNBC reports. Bryant Heyward, 26, was shot in the neck by Charleston County Sherriff’s deputy Keith Tyner last week after calling about a break-in. Heyward says two men shot into […]
UPDATE: Tuesday May 12, 4:00 PM ET – In a Tuesday press conference, District Attorney Ismael Ozanne announced that the Wisconsin officer who shot and killed an unarmed Tony Robinson used lawful deadly force. Officer Matt Kenny will face no charges in Robinson’s death. In great detail, Ozanne outlined the events leading up to the shooting, […]
An investigation into the shooting incident that injured George Zimmerman in Lake Mary, Fla. Monday produced a Glock handgun that belongs to the former neighborhood watchman. Police also recovered two handguns from Matthew Apperson, the man accused of shooting at Zimmerman, the Washington Post reports. No arrests have been made in the incident that was reportedly […]
Atlanta police shot and killed a 25-year-old woman, who may have been handcuffed in the back of a police car, after she allegedly pulled a gun and fired twice on Thursday evening, according to The Huffington Post. Alexia Christian, a Black mother of two, died at a hospital after the alleged gunfight, the report says. […]
A Long Beach, Calif. teenager was critically wounded after police shot him Thursday afternoon at an apartment where he and a group were reportedly spraying graffiti, according to the LA Times. The 19-year-old, who has not yet been identified by name, was hit by an unknown number of bullets inside the apartment, Long Beach Police […]
The police officer who fatally shot 22-year-old Rekia Boyd in 2012 when he fired into a crowd was found not guilty Monday afternoon, the Chicago Sun Times reports. Cook County judge Dennis Porter passed down the verdict that cleared Chicago Police Det. Dante Servin of all charges in the shooting. Servin, who faced charges of involuntary manslaughter, […]
A weekend of violence hit the Windy City, as three people were shot near the University of Chicago campus. Thirty other individuals were also involved in separate shootings. Two men and one woman were hit by gunfire near the Hyde Park campus around 12:30 a.m., the Chicago Tribune reports. The 35 and 24-year-old men were sitting in a parked car with […]
The fatal shooting of a 1-year-old boy at the hands of a 3-year-old in Ohio is being called “accidental” by Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams, Cleveland.com reports. The young child, identified as Braylon S. Robinson, was taken to a nearby hospital after the shooting Sunday, but was later pronounced dead. According to police, the 3-year-old found […]
Police are said to be in the early stages of an investigation after a New Jersey man claimed he was robbed at gunpoint by rapper DMX and his entourage early Sunday, NBC New York reports. The 21-year-old man alleges that DMX identified himself during the encounter at an Exxon station in Newark, telling police that […]
