Police in Detroit, Michigan, on Sunday expressed “profound sorrow” at the fatal shooting of a 7-year-old girl in a police raid. Aiyana Jones was shot and killed by police executing a search warrant as part of a homicide investigation, Assistant Chief Ralph Godbee said in a statement. “This is any parent’s worst nightmare,” Godbee said. […]
Forty springs ago, on the day the Vietnam War came home as it never had before, Mary Ann Vecchio was there. She’s the girl in the haunting photo — crying, kneeling over the student’s body. That was Kent State University, May 4, 1970, a few days after Richard Nixon, who’d campaigned for president on an […]
By Pat Galbincea, The Plain Dealer CLEVELAND, Ohio — Cleveland police, neighbors and relatives are baffled over the death of the ‘Gardener of East 112th Street,’ a 48-year-old Cleveland man who was shot to death Wednesday morning in his home. Willie Cross died of multiple gunshot wounds after he was transported to Huron Road Hospital about […]
A man apparently angry over a poor performance evaluation entered an Ohio State University maintenance building early Tuesday and opened fire, killing a manager before turning the gun on himself, police said. Larry Wallington, 48, a building services manager at the OSU Maintenance Building, was pronounced dead at the scene of the 3:30 a.m. ET […]
A shooting at a 15-story office building in north Dallas on Monday morning left three people injured. The incident happened just before 11:00 a.m. at the Four Forest Plaza building, located in the 12000 block of Merit Drive, just north of Forest Lane, near Medical City of Dallas. At a news conference, officials with the […]
Eight teenagers were wounded in a shooting Friday night at a skating rink in Gary, Indiana, police said Saturday. Gary Police Department spokeswoman Cpl. Gabrielle King said that a fight broke out during or after the concert at the World of Skates roller rink on Friday, prompting the rink’s manager to close up for the […]
Three people were killed and at least one was wounded Friday in a shooting at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, a spokesman for the university said.
KNOXVILLE (WATE) -- A fourth grade teacher at Inskip Elementary School is charged Wednesday with the shootings of the principal and assistant principal at the school. The victims are Principal Elisa Luna and Assistant Principal Amy Brace.
A Bronx high school senior who stepped out for lunch Sunday was shot in the shoulder during a robbery attempt, police said. Paul Ulloa, 16, walked out of Bronx Regional High School in Morrisania only to be jumped by a gun-toting man wearing a ski mask, a hoodie and gloves, according to the teen’s anguished […]
