Johnston County, North Carolina, District Attorney Susan Doyle released dashcam footage on Friday that showed an officer-involved shooting that ended with a woman dead. CBS North Carolina reports that on July 8, officers responded to an SUV that crashed off of Interstate 40 in Newton Grove. When they arrived, officers noticed a white GMC Yukon …
Four additional police officers in two states were shot on Friday night
A 12-year-old Tennessee girl was found murdered in her home shortly after texting her mother to say that someone was knocking on the door. Fox 17 reports that Yhoana Arteaga, 12, was found dead in her Goodletsville mobile home Thursday evening. Police believe she was murdered by someone she knew, likely the person who she texted …
A little boy is alive thanks to the quick action of strangers who were ready to use their on-the-job training. A vacationing New Jersey police officer and a hotel manager are being hailed as heroes for helping to rescue a 2-year-old who nearly drowned in Clearwater Beach, Florida. According to a statement by the Clearwater …
‘Heather died doing what she loved — standing up for people’
A West Texas A&M University police officer is dead two weeks after being bit by a feral cat while on duty, as reported by Chron. Corporal Monty Dale Platt, 47, died Tuesday after having an adverse reaction to an anti-infection medication prescribed to him after suffering the bite. According to the Amarillo Globe-News, Platt was …
Two state police troopers were killed in the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, yesterday, as a group of white supremacists took over the college town for hate-filled rally. A Virginia state trooper helicopter was patrolling over the rally, which was met by counter-protestors early Saturday evening, when the helicopter crashed, killing the pilot and his passenger. …
***WARNING*** Graphic Video
-Hampton County, South Carolina, police officer, Quincy Smith, spent $30 to buy his own security eyepiece camera.
-“Take your hands out of your pocket! If you don’t stop I’m gonna tase you,” the officer screams at a man accused of harassing people at a convenience store.
-Malcolm Antwan Orr, the suspect, shot Officer Smith several times, severing a vein in his neck and shattering bones.
-Smith falls to the ground, and with blood gushing from his neck, he manages to call for backup.
-Later, Smith is heard asking another officer to tell his family he loves them.
-Smith survives the incident.
-His $30 eyepiece security camera helps convict Orr.
-Smith later said it was the best $30 he’s ever spent.
2nd man arrested in Mo. officer’s death, faces tampering charge
Brad Clement, the man wanted in connection with concealing the death of U.S. Army veteran, Chase Massner, has been captured in Dekalb County, Georgia. Cobb County Sheriff’s Office Fugitive Unit caught Clement in a grocery store parking lot on North Druid Hills in Decatur. Authorities found Clement by a U-Haul van he reportedly rented in …
CLINTON, Mo. (AP) — Authorities are searching for a person of interest in the fatal shooting of a western Missouri police officer during a traffic stop, the Missouri State Highway Patrol said Monday. Clinton police officer Gary Michael, 37, who had been on the force less than a year, died late Sunday near Clinton, about …
A Marietta, Georgia, woman shot and killed an intruder on Thursday, police confirm. Details are still emerging in the incident, but the mom and children are said to be uninjured. Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that three small children were in the home when a woman saw an intruder breaking in and fatally shot him. Marietta police Officer …
