One police officer is dead and a second is injured after a hostage situation in Brandon, Mississippi, ended in gunfire, officials said Thursday. The Associated Press reported that an unnamed person was holding a second unidentified person hostage inside a home in Brandon, a suburb of Jackson, Mississippi’s capital city. …
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One or more shooters opened fire on a child playing in the front yard of a Kansas home, killing him, authorities said. The attack Wednesday evening in Kansas City, Kansas, when it was still daylight, doesn’t appear to have been a “random act,” police Maj. Violeta Magee told reporters at …
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Three Colorado teens accused of throwing rocks and other objects at cars and killing a 20-year-old woman allegedly circled back to take a “memento” picture of her car after it drove off the road, CBS Colorado reported. The revelation came in court documents released Thursday. Joseph Koenig, Nicholas “Mitch” Karol-Chik …
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A registered nurse formerly employed at a Long Island hospital has been arrested for allegedly lifting a two-day-old newborn from his bassinet and slamming him face-down back into it. The nurse, identified as Amanda Burke, was charged with endangering the welfare of a child, a misdemeanor, said Suffolk County district …
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A shooter opened fire at a private Christian grade school in Nashville Monday, killing three children and three adults, officials said. The shooter was fatally shot by police at The Covenant School in the city’s affluent Green Hills neighborhood, authorities said. Nashville Police Chief John Drake said the preliminary investigation …
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A Texas inmate convicted of fatally stabbing his estranged wife and drowning her 6-year-old daughter in a bathtub nearly 14 years ago was executed on Tuesday. Gary Green, 51, received a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. He was condemned for the September 2009 deaths of Lovetta Armstead, …
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Patrick Clancy, whose wife is accused of killing their three children and attempting to take her own life, is speaking out about the incident. Clancy said his wife, Lindsay, had a condition – although he did not specify what it was – but said their “marriage was wonderful and diametrically …
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Police in Newport News, Virginia, provided new details Monday about the shooting of an elementary school teacher allegedly by a 6-year-old student. The shooting, which police say “was intentional,” took place at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News on Friday, Jan. 6. The teacher, identified as 25-year-old Abigail Zwerner, was …
Read More »A man who police say planted three explosives inside a Jehovah’s Witness worship hall before killing his wife and himself on Christmas Day is suspected of bombing a union building earlier in the day. The explosives that Enoch Apodaca, 46, allegedly planted at the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses in suburban …
Read More »A judge who dismissed a 2021 kidnapping case against the accused Colorado gay nightclub shooter warned last year that the defendant had been stockpiling weapons and planning a shootout, and needed mental health treatment or “it’s going to be so bad.” The comments made by Judge Robin Chittum in August …
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