Georgia officials released security footage following the senseless death of a Valdosta State University student, shot dead over the weekend while finishing work at a Georgia bar. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 21-year-old dental hygiene student Brianna Long was fatally shot at around 2:40 a.m. Saturday while working at The Pier Bar (formerly known as Flip …
A Rhode Island father shot his 4-year-old son in the head Tuesday morning while handling a loaded weapon he was legally barred from possessing. Michael A. Jones, 33, has been charged with assault, possession of a firearm by a prohibited person, and firing a weapon in a compact area, the Cranston Police Department said. An …
At least 15 people were shot, two of them critically, as a Halloween house party in southwest Chicago came to an end in the early hours Sunday. Police said the gunman fled the scene but was captured nearby and taken into custody, WBBM reported. A handgun was recovered, they said. A witness told WBBM that …
A 2-year-old Michigan boy is in critical condition after he was left alone in a car with a loaded handgun and shot himself Tuesday afternoon. Lansing police and emergency medical personnel responded to a Sunoco gas station where the shooting took place, WILX reported. The boy was rushed to a hospital. According to WMSN, officers …
A man is reportedly on the run after allegedly fatally shooting a Maryland judge on Thursday, hours after he awarded child custody to his partner. CNN reported that Pedro Argote, 49, did not attend Thursday’s divorce hearing in which Circuit Court Judge Andrew Wilkinson, 52, sided with Argote’s partner. After the hearing, Argote is believed to …
A 9-year-old Detroit boy shot his 4-year-old brother Thursday with an older brother’s loaded, unsecured handgun. Detroit police said the 9-year-old took the gun from his 17-year-old brother’s room to play with, WJBK reported, and shot the younger boy in the cheek. The bullet then struck his shoulder. The 9-year-old told police that his older …
The Castleton campus of Vermont State University reopens on Monday after a retired dean at the school was found shot to death on a rail trail last week. Honoree Fleming, 77, was killed by a gunshot to the back of the head, an autopsy revealed, WRGB reports. She was found dead on the Delaware and …
Two men were wounded Saturday night in a shooting at Bowie State University, just days after five people were shot at another historically Black university in Maryland. Maryland State Police responded to the shooting at Bowie State, Maryland’s oldest historically Black college, just before midnight and issued a shelter-in-place for the school that wasn’t lifted …
An unknown gunman fired at a family traveling in an SUV in Houston, hitting the driver in the leg and causing him to crash into a ditch. Houston Police said a suspect in a white Camaro fired several rounds at the SUV on Martin Luther King Boulevard at about 8:30 p.m., KTRK reported. The SUV’s …
Vermont police are searching or an “armed and dangerous” suspect after a 77-year-old woman was found shot in the head on a popular hiking trail near the Castleton campus of Vermont State University. State police identified the victim as Honoree Fleming of Castleton, and her husband, author Ron Powers, confirmed her death in an anguished …
Police are searching for a suspect after a woman was found on a popular Vermont trail on Thursday. CBS reported that a call led to state police discovering an unidentified woman deceased on the Delaware and Hudson Rail Trail in Castleton. A witness recalled hearing gunshots and seeing a man walking on the trail. The …
A toddler and two adults were shot dead Saturday night in an apparent dispute over the sale of a dog. Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office Assistant Chief J.D. Stronko said a group of five people, including a 3-year-old child, travelled to an apartment complex on the south side of the city at about 10 p.m. “to conduct …
