The Crime Report (https://thecrimereport.org/category/shootings/)
Hundreds of people, including a presidential candidate, spoke out on Twitter this week after a 17-year-old black youth was killed at suburban Phoenix convenience store by a white man who said he felt threatened by the boy’s rap music.
The manslaughter case against Marshae Jones had caused an outcry over criminalizing pregnancy. A prosecutor said pursuing the case was “not in the best interest of justice.”
Federal authorities have not offered a motive for the attack by Brian Clyde, 22, on a federal building in Dallas. It ended when Clyde was fatally wounded during an exchange of gunfire.
Kenneth French, 32, who was shot and killed by an off-duty police officer in a Costco store in Corona, CA, on Friday night, was nonverbal and had an intellectual disability, a cousin says. Police said Los Angeles officer was reacting to an unprovoked assault.
Local, state, and federal lawmakers are seeking funds to protect houses of worship after a series of deadly shootings. The days of the church with its doors propped open at all hours may be over.
Riley Howell, the 21-year-old University of North Carolina Charlotte student who lost his life when he rushed towards a gunman, was hailed as a “hero” by police. The alleged shooter, fellow UNCC student Trystan Terrell, 22, purchased his gun legally.
What was supposed to be University of North Carolina Charlotte’s last day of classes turned into a tragedy as the campus went on lockdown for nearly 12 hours. Trystan Andrew Terrell, 22, was arrested; police said his motives were unclear.
A jury in DeKalb County, Ga., said the grocer was responsible for not providing security in a high-crime area where a man was shot between 11 and 14 times by a robber.
While massacres like the one at the Parkland, Fl., high school get much attention, a study found that in Philadelphia, there were 244 instances in 11 years of three or more gunshot patients rushed to a single hospital at once.
Christopher Maurice McCallum, 27, aka Jun Jun, was charged with two second-degree felony counts of intimidation by written threat, after posting a rap on Facebook that authorities claimed was a specific threat to do harm.