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Cops: Mom shot, killed daughter mistaken for intruder
St. Cloud Police Cpl. Claude Campbell, Jr. placed a breathless 911 call late Tuesday evening as his step-daughter lay unconscious in his 10th Street home. He tells the dispatcher that 27-year-old Ashley Doby has "passed out. She has a pacemaker. She has a heart...
Woman points fake gun at Connecticut police, arrested without incident
Connecticut woman was arrested after circling a police department with a fake gun and pointing it at officers on Christmas Eve. According to police, the woman, 66-year-old Elaine Rothenberg, pointed the fake gun at civilians and asked them if they were police officers...
ENHANCED VIDEO OF TAMIR RICE SHOOTING
Jonathan Abady, attorney for Tamir Rice’s family, speaks with Alex Witt about the probe into the shooting death of the 12-year-old, as well as what the footage may mean to a grand jury. See how this video on MSNBC could impact the grand jury.
TEXAS TO BECOME 45TH STATE TO PASS OPEN CARRY LAW
AUSTIN, Texas -- Despite its reputation as the trigger-happy heart of American gun culture, Texas is late to the open carry party, at least when it comes to handguns. On New Year's Day, it'll become the 45th state to legalize carrying a pistol in plain sight. The...
Uncle accidentally shoots 2-year-old niece in the face while trying out new Christmas gift
12/27/2015 A 2-year-old girl in Oregon was rushed to the hospital after being shot in the face on Christmas morning by her uncle. The Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office said officers received a 911 call just after 11:00 a.m. on Friday informing them that a child had...
Charlotte Christmas Eve mall shooter ID’d
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Authorities have identified the gunman who was killed by an off-duty officer at a Charlotte mall Thursday as 18-year-old Daquan Antonio Westbrook, CBS affiliate WBTV reported. At a Thursday night news conference, Charlotte-Mecklenburg police (CMPD)...
One dead as fight leads to fatal shooting at North Carolina mall
An armed 18-year-old man in a fight inside a mall packed with Christmas shoppers in Charlotte, North Carolina, was shot by an off-duty officer working security and died at the scene on Thursday, police said. The officer heard shots among two groups of people who got...
Chicago Police Fatally Shoot College Student
Quintonio Legrier, a 19-year-old student at Northern Illinois University, was also fatally shot when police responded to a domestic dispute early Saturday morning. UPDATED: Saturday, December 26, 11:00 PM EST In a statement released Saturday night, the Chicago Police...
The Shooting of Mario Woods Brings Ferguson to San Francisco, Activists Say
San Francisco is more than 2,000 miles from Ferguson, Mo., the small town where a police shooting set off protests and fueled the Black Lives Matter movement around the nation in 2014. But the events of Ferguson seem closer than ever to the Bay Area after Mario Woods,...
Black Lives Won’t Matter if the Killings Won’t Stop
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