Memphis Police announced Saturday it was deactivating its SCORPION Unit, which was involved in the brutal beating of Tyre Nichols earlier this month. Nichols, a 29-year-old FedEx driver and photographer, died three days after the January 7 incident, as CrimeOnline reported. The SCORPION Unit — which stands for Street Crimes Operation to Restore Peace in …
Five officers were fired and charged with second degree murder and other charges after Nichols died three days following the beating.
A Pennsylvania police chief was killed Monday in a shootout with a suspect who was wanted for a probation violation. The suspect was later shot and killed in another shootout with police in Pittsburgh’s Homewood neighborhood, KDKA reported. Brackenridge Police Chief Justin McIntire was pronounced dead at the scene of the first shooting. Another officer …
This may be one of the longest pursuits county sheriff’s deputies have ever conducted. Officers pulled over a driver at 8 a.m. Sunday morning in North Augusta, South Carolina. But when one requested the driver’s license, he pulled a 9 mm handgun and sped off. The officers pursued for about five or six miles, when …
An Okaloosa County sheriff’s deputy was shot and killed Saturday while trying to serve a warrant. The sheriff’s office said 43-year-old Timothy Price-Williams refused to come out of his townhome when deputies arrived at about 9:30 a.m. to serve a domestic violence battery warrant. The deputies called in the sheriff’s office Special Response Team to …
A Mississippi veterinarian who shot and killed two police officers this week was killed by a bullet from one of the officers, not from her own weapon as was originally thought. Bay St. Louis Public Safety Commissioner Sean Tindell said that Amy Brogdon Anderson fired once from the driver’s seat of her car and struck …
The suspect, an Ocean Springs veterinarian, also died at the scene.
A Florida police officer collapsed after finding narcotics on a passenger in a vehicle she pulled over for a traffic stop, and her department says she may have been exposed to fentanyl. Officer Courtney Bannick was found in her patrol vehicle after the traffic stop having difficulty breathing and drifting in and out of consciousness. …
A Florida police officer was reportedly shot in the face on Monday while investigating an apparent stolen vehicle. WSVN reported that the unnamed Miami-Dade Police officer was airlifted to the hospital following the shooting, which resulted in American Senior High School being placed on lockdown. A search for the suspect is ongoing. Police Director Freddy …
The driver who rammed through a line of police recruits out on a training run earlier this week has been released for “insufficient evidence.” The Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department originally charged Nicholas Joseph Guttierez with attempted murder of a police officer, saying he intentionally plowed through the group of trainees, as CrimeOnline previously reported. The …
