gun violence

Recent shootings of police officers and protests that have left scores of officers injured are stark reminders of the dangers facing law enforcement as the country grapples with police killings of African Americans.

Marcel McClinton, who survived a mass shooting outside his church as a teenager, helped organize the March for Our Lives Houston rally when he was 16. And when he was just 17, he launched a bid for a seat on the Houston City Council. While it was unsuccessful, he forced the race to a runoff. Now this gun control activist...

Rapper and businessman Master P will pay for the funeral of a 3-year-old Kentucky girl who was fatally shot along with her father

Police in Cincinnati said at least 18 people were shot and four killed as gunfire erupted in several places around the city overnight

A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has thrown out California’s ban on high-capacity ammunition magazines

Niger and France say unidentified gunmen have killed six French aid workers and two Nigerien guides visiting a wildlife park east of Niger’s capital

A 9-year-old boy was one of 105 homicide victims in Chicago in July, joining a grim roster of children who have been felled by the city’s gun violence.

A grieving mother and son shine a spotlight on the senseless violence that has gripped Dallas, Tx.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Thursday offered a blunt response to White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, who called her a “derelict mayor” during a press briefing.

The daughter of comedian and radio host Rickey Smiley said she’s “happy to be alive” and is feeling okay after being shot multiple times over the weekend in Houston.

Police say a man who was turned away from a bar in Texas has shot and wounded at least eight people in the parking lot and remains at large.

One security officer with the Federal Protective Service was killed, and another injured after shots rang out amid protests in Oakland amid protests over the death of George Floyd on Friday, authorities said.

Outrage is spreading over a shooting of a black man that led to murder charges more than two months later against a white father and son, but “all that matters is what the facts tell us,” Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Vic Reynolds said Friday.

The original report listed the incident as a “suspected hate crime,” but a newly-released Secret Service document suggest Alazo’s motives may have come from somewhere deeper.

The family of a 27-year old Chicago woman who was shot and killed Tuesday in the Logan Square neighborhood is offering an $8,000 reward that leads to the arrest of a suspect. A stray bullet struck Alexa Baute in the chest as she was waiting in a socially distanced-line outside the 7-11 on Milwaukee and Fullerton around 8 p.m., just…

Police say a South Carolina man suspected of shooting and killing another man after a dispute tried to ride his bicycle into the crime scene shouting “I killed him.”

Police have not discussed possible motives for Anthony Ferrill’s gunning down five co-workers last week. The brewery disclosed the noose incident.

Gunman opens fire at Molson Coors headquarters, killing five people before taking his own life.

A would-be mother was killed in a shooting Friday night in North Philadelphia that also left a man very seriously wounded, police said. Medical workers performed an emergency cesarean delivery on Ishan Charmidah Rahman, who was six months pregnant, but the baby did not survive, police said. The shooting occurred just before 6 p.m. near North Ninth and West York…

A father who police say fabricated a story of a robbery and home invasion after his 4-year-old son accidentally shot himself in the head in their North Philadelphia home faces involuntary manslaughter charges.