Tag: Shootings
Family asks feds to reopen case on Tamir Rice police killing
CHICAGO — The family of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was shot and killed by Cleveland police in 2014, asked the Justice Department on Friday...
Flags, people line funeral route for slain Iowa trooper
INDEPENDENCE, Iowa — Hundreds of law enforcement officers from around the state and elsewhere saluted Friday as they filed past the flag-draped casket of...
EXPLAINER: What Chicago boy’s death says about foot pursuits
CHICAGO — After a police officer chased a 13-year-old boy into an alley and shot him to death, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot demanded a...
Suspect in Iowa trooper’s fatal shooting had run for sheriff
IOWA CITY, Iowa — The candidate for sheriff in rural Iowa had an unusual background: a record of alcohol-related crimes that landed him in...
Lawyer: 290 relatives file for compensation in MH-17 downing
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A lawyer for relatives of people killed in the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine told...
Mayor’s request for release of school shooting video denied
The mayor of the east Tennessee city of Knoxville requested the release of video footage of a high school shooting that left one student...
Biden faces long odds in push for more state ‘red flag’ laws
IOWA CITY, Iowa — President Joe Biden faces an uphill battle as he tries to revive a push for more state laws that would...
Man, 5-year-old girl fatally shot in home; boy, 3, wounded
DELTA TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Two people — a man and a 5-year-old girl — have been shot to death and a 3-year-old boy critically...
Mother of teen killed by trooper mourns ‘awesome young man’
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — The mother of a 16-year-old boy who was shot and killed by a Maryland State Police trooper said Wednesday that...
Mother of teen killed by trooper mourns ‘awesome young man’
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — The mother of a 16-year-old boy who was shot and killed by a Maryland State Police trooper said Wednesday that...
