Man injured in Williamson Rd shooting in Roanoke
Around 10:20 p.m., officers were called to the 3700 block of Williamson Road for a person who had been shot. Although, when they arrived no victim was found. Police say they were notified an adult male victim took themselves to Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
Attempted capital murder charges pending on Covington man
Jody Kern in 2015. (Photo courtesy Cpl. R.W. Keen Jr./Alleghany sheriff's office) COVINGTON – At the request of the Alleghany Sheriff's Office, the Virginia State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation’s Salem Field Office is investigating an officer-involved shooting that occurred Thursday, June 9. Once the state police complete their investigation, the findings will be turned
therecorderonline.comPolice: Multiple victims in Wisconsin cemetery shooting
Police say a shooting at a cemetery south of Milwaukee Thursday afternoon resulted in multiple victims. Racine police said on social media that numerous shots were fired about 2:30 p.m. at Graceland Cemetery in Racine, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) south of Milwaukee. Ascension All Saints Hospital, which is next to the cemetery, said it is treating an undisclosed number of victims from the shooting.
news.yahoo.comOnlookers urged police to charge into Texas school
Frustrated onlookers urged police officers to charge into the Texas elementary school where a gunman’s rampage killed 19 children and two teachers, witnesses said Wednesday, as investigators worked to track the massacre that lasted upwards of 40 minutes and ended when the 18-year-old shooter was killed by a Border Patrol team.
Mother grieves over teen daughter dying in her arms after LAPD fired at suspect
Through a translator, Soledad Peralta, the mother of 14-year-old Valentina Orellana-Peralta, who was shot and killed by a Los Angeles police officer as he fired at a suspect in a store last week, said that losing her daughter in her arms is one of the “most profound pains any human being can imagine.”
news.yahoo.comFormer NASCAR driver Townley killed in Georgia shooting
A former NASCAR driver was killed Saturday in a shooting in Georgia that also wounded a woman, investigators said. John Wes Townley, 31, died in the shooting in a neighborhood around 9 p.m., Athens-Clarke County Coroner Sonny Wilson told the Athens Banner-Herald. The shooting appeared to be domestic violence related, Athens-Clarke County Police Lt. Shaun Barnett said.
news.yahoo.com1 killed, 4 hurt in South Carolina Waffle House shooting
One man was killed early Sunday in a shooting in the parking lot of a Waffle House near a South Carolina interstate that also injured four people inside the restaurant, Lee County Sheriff Daniel Simon said. The employee and three customers inside the restaurant at the U.S. Highway 15 exit on Interstate 20 in Bishopville are expected to survive the shooting around 4 a.m., the sheriff told The Associated Press. Surveillance footage from the parking lot shows a small white sedan pull out of the parking lot and head north on U.S. 15 toward Bishopville, the sheriff said.
news.yahoo.com1 dead, 5 wounded in shooting outside Detroit banquet hall
A drive-by shooting left a man dead and five other people wounded outside a banquet hall in Detroit early Tuesday, police said. The shooting happened about 2 a.m. outside the Chalmers Banquet Hall on the city's East Side. More than 100 people were gathered for an event at the banquet hall, WXYZ-TV reported from the scene.
news.yahoo.com‘The city is traumatized’: Englewood community members pray for 1-month-old injured in shooting
On Friday afternoon, activist Charles McKenzie prayed with community members just a block from where the girl was shot. More than two dozen people stood in a circle in a parking lot and sent well wishes to the girl and her mother.
chicagotribune.comChicago police shoot suspect in murder of 7-year-old Jaslyn Adams after he fled police, tried to carjack family on Eisenhower near Hillside: top cop
Chicago police shot a suspect in the murder of 7-year-old Jaslyn Adams multiple times after he fled from police and then tried to carjack a family on the Eisenhower Expressway.
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