Latest Shootings News
A couple found the Kentucky highway shooter's remains by being bounty hunters for a week, they say
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Days after a shooter attacked an interstate and disappeared, leaving a Kentucky community scared and on guard, Fred and Sheila McCoy decided to lace up their boots for the first time in a long time and spend days in rugged terrain searching until, finally, they found a...
Families of Oxford shooting victims lose appeal over school's liability for tragedy
DETROIT (AP) — The Michigan Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the Oxford school district on Thursday in a lawsuit that seeks to hold employees partly responsible for a shooting that killed four students and wounded others in 2021. The court, in a 3-0 opinion, said lawyers for the...
Police fatally shoot a blasphemy suspect in Pakistan in 2nd such killing in a week
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Police in southern Pakistan shot dead a blasphemy suspect during an alleged shootout with armed men, officials said Thursday, the second such apparent extra-judicial killing in a week, drawing condemnation from human rights groups. Police identified the...
Philadelphia officer who died weeks after being shot recalled as a dedicated public servant
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia police officer who recently died from wounds he suffered when he was shot during a traffic stop earlier this year was eulogized Thursday as a dedicated public servant who asked to be assigned to the community where he grew up so he could improve the lives of...
White officer who fatally shot Black man shouldn't have been in his backyard, judge rules in suit
A federal judge has partially sided with the family of a Black man who was fatally shot by a now-imprisoned white Kansas City, Missouri, police detective. U.S. District Judge Beth Phillips ruled Wednesday that Eric DeValkenaere violated 26-year-old Cameron Lamb’s Fourth Amendment...
An NYC laundromat stabbing suspect is fatally shot by state troopers
HIGHLAND MILLS, N.Y. (AP) — A suspect in a stabbing at a Brooklyn laundromat was fatally shot by state troopers after he crashed a stolen car in upstate New York, police said. The man, identified by police as Ali Ali, stabbed a worker at a laundromat in the Bath Beach neighborhood...
Search for suspect in Kentucky highway shooting ends with discovery of body believed to be his
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A body found in rural southeastern Kentucky is believed to be the man suspected of shooting and wounding five people on an interstate highway, authorities said Wednesday night. The search ended with two private sleuths joining in the dramatic discovery. ...
Days after posting mugshot of a boy accused of school threat, sheriff puts video of 2 teens online
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Around the country, communities are being battered by a wave of school shooting threats, sparking emergency notifications, urgent group chats and heightened fears among parents that their child’s school could be the next Parkland or Sandy Hook or Uvalde — or any other...
Testimony begins in trial for ex-sergeant charged in killing of Virginia shoplifting suspect
FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — Opening statements and testimony began Wednesday in the trial of a former northern Virginia police sergeant charged with involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of an unarmed man suspected of shoplifting sunglasses. Prosecutors say former Sgt. Wesley...
A 12-year-old boy fatally shoots a black bear mauling his father during a hunt in western Wisconsin
SIREN, Wis. (AP) — A 12-year-old boy has shot and killed a wounded black bear as it was mauling his father near their hunting cabin in the thick western Wisconsin woods. Ryan Beierman, 43, told the Minnesota Star Tribune that he was pinned beneath the 200-pound bruin on Sept. 6...
