A fired San Antonio police officer has been charged with assault after he opened fire on a teenager eating a burger inside his car in a McDonald’s parking lot. Eric Cantu, 17, is hospitalized unconscious and on life support after he was shot multiple times, San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said, according to KSAT. …
UPDATE @ 3:30 p.m. (EST): Another police officer likely fatally shot Polk County Sheriff’s Deputy Blane Lane in the chest as they served an arrest warrant, according to Sheriff Grady Judd. Judd said the officers confronted the suspect, who escalated the matter when they brandished a BB gun which resembled a handgun. Judd speculated that …
A 21-year-old Florida sheriff’s deputy was shot and killed early Tuesday mornin while serving a warrant. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said four deputies had gone to serve the suspect with a failure to appear warrant. The deputies entered the mobile home, he said, and shots were fired, striking one of the deputies. The deputy …
A tense hostage situation in Western North Carolina ended Saturday morning when Catawba County deputies shot and killed a man holding his adult son at gunpoint inside an SUV. A 911 call at about 6: 30 a.m. brought deputies to the scene in a small subdivision in the Mountain View community, about five miles south …
A 22-year-old man The New York Post calls the “darling” and “poster boy” of advocates for bail reform is wanted for a shooting outside St. Patrick’s Cathedral. The Post quoted unnamed law enforcement sources saying Pedro Hernandez allegedly fired into an occupied vehicle after losing cash and a gold chain in a game of three-card …
An internal report released on Friday found that three Massachusetts police officers had inappropriate relationships with a woman who reportedly died by suicide last year while pregnant with a child allegedly fathered by one of them. The woman who reportedly took her own life, Sandra Birchmore, 23, was 13 when she joined the Stoughton Police …
The woman suing Memphis Police for not properly investigating her September 2021 rape case — and leaving Cleotha Henderson on the street to allegedly kidnap and kill Eliza Fletcher — says she gave investigators everything she knew about the suspect, including his name and phone number. But a rape kit from Alicia Franklin wasn’t touched …
A retired Kansas City police detectives has been charged with federal civil rights crimes related to claims that he sexually assaulted two victims while “acting under the color of law.” Allegations against Roger Golubski surfaced when an investigation discovered that Golubski had framed Lamonte McIntyre for a double murder after McIntyre’s mother refused his sexual …
On Monday, a woman sued California police for using her DNA from a rape kit to charge her last year with an unrelated burglary. In 2016, the unidentified woman reported to San Francisco police that she was raped by her mother’s boyfriend. Cops took her DNA, but they did not disclose that it would be …
A Colorado police officer was shot and killed early Sunday while responding to a large family disturbance in Arvada. Dillon Vakoff, 27, was one of two Arvada Police officers responding to the scene, where they found several people fighting in the street. “The initial two officers tried to separate several belligerent and uncooperative individuals when …
Two Georgia deputies were killed Thursday while serving a warrant for failure to appear in court. Cobb County Sheriff Craig D. Owens said the two deputies were outside their cars just before 8 p.m., talking with the suspect when he opened fire, followed by gunfire from a second suspect inside the house. “From my understanding, …
