Keisha Jenkins, a Black transgender woman and college student, was fatally shot, making her the 21st transgender woman killed this year.
President Barack Obama is slated to travel to Roseburg, Oregon to meet with families of the Umpqua Community College shooting victims.
In 2015 alone, there have been 45 school shootings. That doesn't account for other types of gun violence that kill people every day
The family of Vachel Howard, who was killed in police custody in 2012, will receive a $3 million pay-out from the city over his death.
The Oregon State Police Medical Examiner confirmed on Saturday that 26-year-old mass shooter Chris Harper Mercer committed suicide. According to new reports, a 59-year-old British mother named Kim Dietz was also killed in the mass shooting that took place at Umpqua Community College. Dietz was in the classroom next door when she first heard gunfire. She attempted to put a […]
An Oakland-based artist was shot and killed this week while creating a mural advocating peace, Inside Bay Area reports. Antonio Ramos, 27, was painting the mural in West Oakland at the Interstate 580 corridor with several others when a man who wasn’t in the group began touching the equipment. After Ramos and the man got […]
The suspected gunman in the tragic Umpqua Community College shooting that left nine dead and nine injured has been identified as 26-year-old Chris Harper Mercer, NBC News reports. Mercer, who was not a student at the college, arrived on campus Thursday shortly after 10:38 a.m. PT and reportedly killed an English professor before targeting students. A […]
A judge has delayed the trial of Dylann Roof, the 21-year-old accused of killing nine Black members of Charleston’s Mother Emanuel AME Church in a race-inspired shooting earlier this year. On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel agreed to push back the trial to no later than January to give both defense attorneys and federal prosecutors respective time […]
UPDATED: Thursday, October 1, 2015 5:03 PM EST The suspected gunman who authorities say opened fire at a community college in Oregon, killing 13 and injuring 20, is dead. Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin told reporters that the 20-year-old college student was “neutralized.” The suspect, who was not named, also appears to have had a […]
The mother of Jeremy “Bam” McDole, the wheelchair-bound man who was fatally shot by Delaware police officers last week, was arrested for attacking the person she believes called the authorities on her son. Along with five others, Phyllis McDole, 48, went to the woman’s home and attacked her, leaving the assault victim with two black eyes, a cut lip, […]
The murder case involving a former social worker who allegedly threw her newborn daughter out of an apartment building in New York has investigators looking back on the death of another child the mother had in 2008. According to the New York Times, Jennifer Berry, 33, was arrested on second-degree murder charges on Tuesday. Police said Berry threw […]
A dispute between siblings almost turned fatal when a woman allegedly threatened her brother with a knife after he ate her barbecue ribs.
