Sircie Varnado, a 46-year old mother of five, was shot and killed by a false police officer at a Belmont Cragin Walgreen’s store in Chicago late Wednesday night after a store manager accused her of stealing. Her family is now demanding justice. Her family described her as disabled and unemployed, was reportedly on her way…
Oprah Winfrey, speaking out about her thoughts on the tragedy that recently occurred in Las Vegas, as the death toll rises to 59 people and injuries to over 500. Oprah opened up to Entertainment Tonight about how she, too, is struggling to process recent events and shares an inspiring message of hope. She said: “I…
29 year old detective Kristen Hearne was shot and killed Friday morning while responding to a call involving a stolen vehicle from Tennessee–Georgia Bureau of Investigation She was assisting Officer David Goodrich. He was shot in his bulletproof vest. Seth Brandon Spangler, 31, and Samantha Roof, 22, were arrested and charged with murder and aggravated…
A white former police officer was acquitted Friday in the 2011 death of Anthony Lamar Smith who was fatally shot following a high-speed chase, and hundreds of demonstrators streamed into the streets of downtown St. Louis to protest the verdict that had stirred fears of civil unrest for weeks. Ahead of the acquittal, activists threatened…
Police in Zambia have arrested a 33-year-old man in Lusaka for allegedly shooting dead his wife together with her lover on suspicion of an illicit affair. Peter Siwale, a clearing agent of Lusaka’s Mean Wood Phase 2 is said to have shot his wife Charity Namuko,30, together with another man identified as Andrew Chibesa,27, in…
Kennatay Leavell, 31, was shot several times in the face around 2:55 a.m. Friday outside the last of the Cabrini-Green rowhouses. Another man, 34, was shot several times in the abdomen and taken in critical condition to Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Kennatay’s mother and dad were at the scene weeping, while his mother begged to touch…
A four-day, multi-state manhunt concluded Sunday when David Andrew Desper turned himself in for allegedly shooting 18-year-old Bianca Roberson in the head during a road rage incident. After a manhunt that lasted several days and spanned multiple states, 28-year-old David Andrew Desper turned himself in Sunday and was charged with first-degree murder for the Pennsylvania…
A rapper whose concert in Little Rock was the site of a shooting that left 28 people injured was arrested early Sunday on unrelated assault charges while outside an Alabama club where he was performing just 24 hours later, and authorities said several firearms were recovered during the arrest. Ricky Hampton, 25, of Memphis, Tennessee,…
The shooting happened at the Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Friday afternoon. Police later said a suspected gunman, who reportedly was a former hospital employee, killed himself. A doctor was killed and several others wounded Friday at a busy hospital in New York City after a man wearing a white lab coat opened fire before killing himself, officials…