According to several witnesses, including producers at Fox News, Baltimore cops chased down and shot a man in the street this afternoon, but police officials say that no shooting occurred and the man was hospitalized “out of an abundance of caution.”
A Chicago Uber driver won’t face charges for shooting a man who opened fire into a crowd in Logan Square over the weekend, the Chicago Tribune reports.
A call to police claiming that a shooting had taken place at Lil Wayne's Miami Beach home was a hoax, and no such shooting took place, according to local law enforcement. A SWAT team responded to the rapper's home after the call this afternoon.
A suspect taken into custody for allegedly shooting at the National Security Agency building in Fort Meade, Maryland, may be linked to a string of other recent shootings in the area, according to the FBI.
One of the suspects in the Charlie Hebdo shooting has reportedly turned himself in to authorities without incident.
Masked gunmen wielding Kalashnikovs and a rocket launcher killed at least 12 people and injured 10 more at the Paris offices of satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday before escaping. French president François Hollande called the shooting "unquestionably a terrorist attack."
A Ferguson man says he was threatened and unjustly arrested by Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown this summer, in a newly released video of an alleged 2013 encounter.
On Halloween, 16-year-old Sash Nemphos planned to kill his parents, drive to school, use a handgun, homemade bombs, and a weapon he hoped to steal from a police officer to kill as many people as possible and commit suicide, police say. But then he got too drunk.
Last night, a three-year-old boy was shot in the leg by another toddler as the two played with a shotgun they found inside a Baltimore home. Further details are scant, but one takeaway is clear: it wouldn't have happened if there wasn't a gun in the house.
A fourth student who was wounded at Marysville-Pilchuk high school in a deadly shooting at the school on October 24 has died in the hospital, officials reported. Fourteen-year-old Shaylee Chuckulnaskit died on Friday afternoon at Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett, Washington, the AP reports.
At around 4 a.m. Tuesday morning, a 35-year-old man in Roy, Utah called a suicide hotline looking for help. A SWAT team responded to the man's home, and after a seven-hour standoff in his garage, an officer shot and killed him.
On Monday night, NYPD officers shot and killed two men, Francisco Carvajal and Rafael Laureano, in a Brooklyn apartment. Carvajal had broken into his ex-girlfriend's home and was threatening her and her children with a knife; Laureano was attempting to intervene and was accidentally hit with a police bullet.
According to reports, the mayor of Bell Gardens, CA was shot and killed by his wife Tuesday.
A Walmart security guard in Nashville, Tennessee shot a man last night who was allegedly trying to steal a case of beer. According to WSMV, police are now investigating whether or not the guard was "justified in using his weapon." The guard hit the man in the back.
A Fort Lee soldier who caused an "active shooter" alert at the Virginia base this morning has died after reportedly shooting herself while barricaded in an office. The Associated Press reports that the soldier "went on a rampage" in an office and shot herself. No other injuries have been reported.
According to the Associated Press, a candlelight vigil for 18-year-old Michael Brown, the unarmed Missouri teen who was shot dead by police this weekend, ended in reports of vandalism, looting and arson Sunday night.
An eight-year-old boy was shot and killed while sleeping in his bed last night in Detroit. Police say a gunman opened fire on the back of his townhouse, and a bullet went through the window and hit him in the chest.
Joe the Plumber is an idiot. But in his latest idiocy—a crass dance on the graves of the just-murdered mass-shooting victims in Isla Vista—he teaches us all an important lesson about exactly how conservative thought on individual rights has shifted in recent years.
When Elliot Rodger began randomly murdering UCSB students Friday night, his concerned parents were reportedly on their way to Isla Vista to try to stop him.
The video made by 22-year-old Elliot Rodger proclaiming his motives for allegedly killing six and leaving seven injured near UCSB's campus yesterday, has already been taken down, but the remainder of his bizarre and troubling confessional YouTube "vlogs" have been left up.
