The Crime Report (https://thecrimereport.org/category/shootings/)
It’s hard for police to tell the “good guys from the bad guys,” said former Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis. “Nobody knows who’s a right-wing extremist, who’s a left-wing extremist, who might have pulled the trigger.”
A man accused in the shooting death of a Louisville protester over the police killing of Breonna Taylor had taken part in demonstrations but was disruptive and had been asked by other protesters to leave.
A grand jury indicted three men on murder charges in the death of Ahmaud Arbery, who was fatally shot while out running in southeast Georgia.
Albuquerque police arrested a man for shooting a protester during a fight that erupted when a group of people tried to remove the statue of a Spanish conquistador that was being guarded by armed civilians.
A sheriff said the man “did want to shoot law enforcement.” His father said he was mentally ill and lived “in a fantasy world.”
A Georgia investigator testifies that the man accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery called him a “f…ing n…” The U.S. Justice Department is weighing a hate-crime charge.
Outrage over the death of a black Omaha protester shot in a scuffle with a white bar owner has roiled the city, and a prosecutor called for a grand jury to review his decision not to charge the shooter.
Experts warn that the pandemic could lead to a surge in indiscriminate public violence as the nation reopens and people begin to gather again. The widespread loss of life and the economic collapse, unemployment, isolation and lack of access to mental health services could create the conditions for personal turmoil that gives rise to such attacks.
William “Roddie” Bryan, the Georgia man who filmed cellphone video of Ahmaud Arbery’s fatal shooting, has been arrested on a murder charge.
A Syrian-born man shot a security guard in the chest at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi before being killed by naval security officers.