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San Bernardino, Calif., 12-Year-Old Killed in Hail of Gunfire While Walking to Convenience Store
Authorities are asking for the public’s assistance in finding the killer of a 12-year-old boy who died in a hail of bullets as he and a cousin walked to a convenience store in San Bernardino, Calif, the Associated Press reports. The boys—Jason Spears, 12, and Terrance Spears, 14—were reportedly walking to the store around 10…
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Somali Teen Shot by Utah Police Awakes From Coma
Abdi Mohamed, a 17-year-old Somali refugee who was seriously wounded in a police shooting in Salt Lake City, has emerged from a coma and is talking. Abdi’s cousin Muslima Weledi told the Associated Press that the teen was awake from the medically induced coma but remains on painkillers. Weledi visited him Saturday but said that he…
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Report: Md. Cop Was Killed by Friendly Fire in Ambush; Shooter’s Brothers Filmed Attack
Michael DeAndre Ford, 22, wanted to die Sunday afternoon, authorities charge. So, officials say, he videotaped a last will and testament and drove with his brothers—Elijah Ford, 18, and Malik Ford, 21—to the Prince George’s County police headquarters in Landover, Md., and opened fire on both the police station and passing cars. Authorities say that…
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Watch: ‘You’re Going to Live!’ Moment Teen Learns He’s Going to Receive a Heart Transplant
Albert Jeffries, who goes by Al-J, was only 4 months old when doctors diagnosed him with cardiomyopathy, a heart condition that, according to doctors, meant he wasn’t going to make it. “His heart was barely squeezing,” Albert’s mom, Tina Turner, told Fox 8 in December. “That was the beginning of our journey. The doctor said…
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Former SC Trooper Pleads Guilty to Shooting Unarmed Man Who Was Reaching for License
Former South Carolina State Trooper Sean Groubert has pleaded guiilty to charges of shooting an unarmed man at a Columbia, S.C., gas station in September 2014, WLTX reports. On Monday, inside a courthouse in Richland County, S.C., Groubert entered the plea to charges of assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature in the…
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Wrongly Convicted NC Man Found Dead in Car
Darryl Hunt, who spent 19 years in prison for a murder he did not commit, was found dead in a car in Winston-Salem, N.C., early Sunday, the Charlotte Observer reports. Officers got a call about a person believed to be dead in a car near the Wake Forest University campus, where they found Hunt unresponsive.…
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Man Fatally Shot by Houston Police After Allegedly Ripping Down Road Sign, Charging at Officers
A Houston man reportedly ripped down a road sign and charged after officers before he was fatally wounded in an incident Saturday, KHOU reports. According to the report, the officer who fired the shots attempted to stop and help the man when he lunged at the officer. The officer tried to tase the man twice,…
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Report: Police Aren’t Charged in 96 Percent of Civil Rights Complaints
Federal prosecutors declined to bring charges against U.S. law-enforcement officers in a majority of cases involving charges of civil rights violations between 1995 and 2015, an investigation by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review has revealed. The newspaper reportedly delved into almost 3 million records from the Department of Justice related to how the 94 U.S. attorney’s offices…
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Md. Officer Killed in ‘Unprovoked Attack’; 2 Suspects in Custody
Maryland authorities are calling an ambush on a Prince George’s County police station that left one officer dead an unprovoked attack, WTOP reports. According to the news station, the accused gunman opened fire around 4:30 p.m. Sunday on a police station in Landover, Md. Police Officer 1st Class Jacai Colson, 28, returned fire and was…
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Father of Slain 9-Year-Old Chicago Boy Charged With Shooting 3 People
Chicago police believe that a series of gang-related shootings have led to several injuries as well as the death of one man’s brother and the death of a 9-year-old boy lured from a playground and executed in an alley. Now the father of the slain boy has been arrested after three people were shot in…