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Ex-Officer Convicted in Fatal Shooting of Ohio's Andre Hill

Adam Coy faces 15 years over 2020 shooting death in Columbus

(Newser) - A former police officer was convicted of murder Monday in the shooting of Andre Hill , a Black man who was holding a cellphone and keys when he was killed. Officer Adam Coy, who served nearly 20 years with the Columbus police force, shot Hill four times in a garage nearly...

Ex-Deputy Turns Himself in Over Airman's Fatal Shooting

Eddie Duran accused of manslaughter in shooting of Roger Fortson inside his Florida home

(Newser) - A former Florida sheriff's deputy charged with killing a Black US Air Force senior airman who answered his apartment door while holding a gun pointed toward the ground was arrested Monday, officials said. Former Okaloosa County deputy Eddie Duran, 38, was charged with manslaughter with a firearm in the...

Ohio Family Reaches $7M Settlement in Police Shooting

Casey Goodson Jr. was fatally shot as he tried to enter grandmother's Columbus home

(Newser) - The family of Casey Goodson Jr., a Black man who was shot and killed by an Ohio sheriff's deputy, will receive $7 million to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit over the December 2020 shooting. The Franklin County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved the settlement late last month, the...

Anchorage Police Fatally Shoot 16-Year-Old Girl

Easter Leafa refused to drop knife before approaching police, according to APD

(Newser) - Anchorage Police say they shot and killed a 16-year-old girl who approached officers with a knife days before she was to start her junior year of high school. A 911 caller first reported her sister had threatened her with a knife around 11:30pm Tuesday. Police said they arrived at...

Bodycam Video Shows Deputy Shoot Woman After Pot Boiled

Sean Grayson has been indicted in the death of Sonya Massey

(Newser) - Sonya Massey ducked and apologized to an Illinois sheriff's deputy only seconds before he shot her three times in her own home, as seen in body camera video released Monday. The video's release came days after a grand jury indicted former Sangamon County Sheriff's Deputy Sean Grayson...

Prosecutors: Deputy Shot Woman Over Pot of Hot Water

Sean Grayson, now fired, said he feared for his safety when he shot Sonya Massey

(Newser) - The Illinois deputy charged with murdering a woman who called 911 shot her in the face after she handled a pot of steaming water, which he viewed as a threat, prosecutors say. Sean Grayson of the Sangamon County Sheriff's Office in Springfield, Illinois, is facing three counts of murder...

Deputy Charged With Murder of Woman Who Called 911

Illinois trooper responding to a call about a possible intruder killed Sonya Massey

(Newser) - A sheriff's deputy in Illinois who fatally shot a woman inside her home after she called 911 about a possible intruder has been charged with murder, reports the AP . Deputy Sean Grayson was indicted on charges of first-degree murder and aggravated battery with a firearm in the death of...

Video Shows Boy Point Fake Gun at NY Cops, Get Shot

13-year-old was on the ground when he was fatally shot in Utica

(Newser) - Video released late Saturday shows an officer in upstate New York fatally shooting a 13-year-old boy who had been tackled to the ground after he ran from police and pointed a replica handgun at them. The teen was killed a little after 10pm Friday in Utica after officers stopped two...

Airmen Pack Church for Roger Fortson's Funeral

Senior airman was killed in his home by Florida deputy

(Newser) - Hundreds of Air Force members in dress blues joined Roger Fortson's family, friends, and others at a suburban Atlanta megachurch on Friday to pay their final respects to the Black senior airman, who was shot and killed in his Florida home earlier this month by a sheriff's deputy....

'Very Troubling' Footage of Airman's Shooting Released

Florida deputy shot Senior Airman Roger Fortson before telling him to drop gun

(Newser) - A Florida deputy shot Senior Airman Roger Fortson multiple times before ordering him to drop his gun, body cam footage released by the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office shows. The footage shows that after the 23-year-old opened the door with a lowered firearm in his hand, the deputy told him...

Florida Cops Allegedly Bust Into Wrong Home, Kill US Airman

Ben Crump, who is representing the family, wants bodycam video released

(Newser) - Roger Fortson, a 23-year-old US Air Force airman, was alone in his off-base apartment in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, around 4:30pm on Friday when someone knocked on his door. Shortly after, he was dead. A woman who was on a FaceTime call with Fortson at the time says he...

Charlotte Shooter Had Been Charged 49 Times

Killing of 4 officers was deadliest attack on US law enforcement since 2016

(Newser) - The man who killed four law enforcement officers and wounded four others in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Monday has been identified as Terry Clark Hughes Jr., a 39-year-old man with a long criminal history in the state. The Charlotte Observer reports that according to court records, Hughes had faced 49...

What We Know About the Charlotte Shooting That Killed 4 Officers

Tragedy unfolded as officers attempted to serve a firearms warrant

(Newser) - Eight law enforcement officers were shot Monday, four of them fatally , in what the local police chief described as possibly the worst such incident in the Charlotte, North Carolina, area. "I can't remember an incident where three law enforcement officers were killed in the same incident, as well...

3 Officers Killed, 5 Injured in Charlotte
4 Officers
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Apr 29, 2024 9:33 PM CDT

4 Officers Fatally Shot in Charlotte

4 other law enforcement officers were injured

(Newser) - A fourth law enforcement officer died hours after a standoff at a Charlotte, North Carolina, home Monday. Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer Joshua Eyer was the fourth victim killed; four other officers were injured. The other three officers killed were initially reported to be US Marshals, but the AP reports just one...

Cop Who Killed Teen in Dressing Room Won't Be Charged

Girl was shot when LAPD officer fired rifle at suspect

(Newser) - The California Attorney General has declined to file criminal charges against a Los Angeles police officer who fired a rifle at a suspect inside a clothing store in 2021, killing a 14-year-old girl in a dressing room . Officer William Dorsey Jones Jr. fired three times when police responded to a...

Videos Show Kidnapped Girl Was Shot by Deputies

Savannah Graziano was following officer's instructions

(Newser) - A teenage girl who had been kidnapped by her father was following sheriff's deputies' instructions and appeared to be surrendering when deputies fatally shot her during a gun battle on a Southern California highway, according to recently released video and audio . Savannah Graziano, 15, was shot and killed as...

Ex-Cop Who Killed Naked, Unarmed Vet Has Convictions Overturned

Police use of force policy doesn't supersede Georgia's self-defense law, attorney says

(Newser) - An appeals court has overturned the convictions of a former Georgia police officer who shot and killed an unarmed, naked man. Robert "Chip" Olsen was responding to a call of a naked man behaving erratically at an Atlanta-area apartment complex in March 2015 when he killed 26-year-old Anthony Hill,...

California Boy, 15, Wielding Garden Tool Is Killed by Deputy

Deputies were called to family disturbance in San Bernardino County

(Newser) - San Bernardino County sheriff's deputies were called to a domestic disturbance in southern California's Apple Valley just before 5pm Saturday, and the incident ended with a 15-year-old boy fatally shot by a deputy. Authorities say the teen, Ryan Gainer, was allegedly assaulting family members and damaging property at...

Cops Kill Man Armed With Saw at Home Depot
Cops Kill Armed Man
in Home Depot
Feb 28, 2024 9:55 AM CST

Cops Kill Armed Man in Home Depot

Suspect 'didn't listen,' grabbed a steel jab saw during encounter in Fontana, California

(Newser) - A frightening scene in the streets of California ended with a man fatally shot by police in a Home Depot. FOX 11 reports that cops with the Fontana Police Department first responded around 6pm local time to numerous 911 calls of an individual acting erratically in traffic, apparently trying to...

Cop Startled by Falling Acorn Opens Fire on Unarmed Man

Florida sheriff's deputy Jesse Hernandez, cited for unreasonable use of force, has resigned

(Newser) - A Florida sheriff's deputy was approaching a patrol vehicle, parked on a street under a large tree, when acorns fell, apparently hitting both him and the vehicle. What happened next led the deputy to quit as his department was embroiled in an embarrassing investigation. Believing he'd been shot...

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