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Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo addressed the press outside of the medical examiner’s office Monday, suggesting Sgt. Christopher Brewster would not have been killed in the line of duty Saturday if not for the “boyfriend loophole” — a gap in gun legislation that allows domestic violence offenders whose victims are…
Atatiana Jefferson was fatally shot in her own home in Fort Worth, Texas, by a police officer in October. Her father, Marquis A. Jefferson, died of a heart attack on Saturday, less than a month later. He was taken to Methodist Charlton Medical Center in Dallas on Friday night, the…
Five are dead and at least four others are injured after a shooter opened fire at an off-campus college Halloween party Thursday night in Orinda, Calif. The Orinda Police Department and Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office are investigating the shooting. A suspect has yet to be named. The incident occurred…
In Long Beach, Calif., on Tuesday night, another shooting left three men dead and nine people injured at what may have been a Halloween party at a private residence. All nine injured people were taken to hospitals nearby, including two men and seven women with ages between 20 and 49….
Police arrested suspect Brandon Ray Gonzales, 23, and charged him with capital murder Monday in the Greenville, Texas, party shooting that left two people dead and 12 others injured. The party took place Saturday night. Around midnight early Sunday, shots rang out at The Party Venue, an event space in…
Basketball Hall of Famer Shaquille O’Neal has donated an entire year’s rent to an Atlanta woman whose 12-year-old son was struck in the spine by a stray bullet and paralyzed from the chest down as he was leaving a high school football game on Aug. 17, according to WXIA-TV. It…
In some states, police officers are allowed to have grace periods before being interviewed about a fatal shooting while on duty. This can be days or weeks — and activists and criminal justice reformers believe that it gives an officer and a department time to come up with a story…
Former Fort Worth police officer Aaron Dean was arrested on Monday for the murder of Atatiana Jefferson. He was detained at the Tarrant County Correction Center. Dean, 34, resigned from the department before his arrest. The killing took place on Saturday when Dean reportedly responded to a welfare check call…
The White House is condemning a violent meme video of a fake President Donald Trump shooting and stabbing the media and his political opponents that was shown at a conference for his supporters at his Miami resort. The footage, which the New York Times obtained, was from a conference that…
Then-Georgia Officer Zechariah Presley shot Tony Green, 33, in coastal Camden County near the Georgia-Florida state line on the night of June 20, 2018. Presley was following Green’s car because he thought that he was driving on a suspended license — it’s not clear why he thought that — when…