A Michigan State Police trooper who drove his unmarked SUV into a 25-year-old Kentwood man that was fleeing from police has been charged with second-degree murder. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced the charges against Detective Sergeant Brian Keely on Tuesday after Michigan State Police earlier this month concluded their investigation into the April 17 death of Samuel Sterling and …
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5-year-old Chicago girl among 9 fatally shot over Memorial Day weekend, grandmother issues plea
A five-year-old girl was among nine people fatally shot in a bloody Memorial Day weekend in Chicago. Reign Ware, the young victim, was shot at around 3 a.m. Sunday while she was sitting inside a parked car with her father on the Near West Side in the 200 block of North Campbell Avenue, Fox 32 Chicago reports. According to reports, …
Read More »Massachusetts fugitive dubbed 'Bad Breath Rapist' captured after fleeing nearly 17 years ago
A Massachusetts fugitive who gained notoriety as the “Bad Breath Rapist,” was apprehended by U.S. Marshals and other law enforcement officials in California on Tuesday, after nearly 17 years on the run. Marshals announced on Tuesday that the agency’s Pacific Southwest Regional Fugitive Task Force (PSWRFTF) in Northern California and the Massachusetts Fugitive Task Force arrested Tuen Kit Lee, 55, …
Read More »Judge refuses to gag Trump in classified docs case, says special counsel motion failed 'basic' requirements
A federal judge on Tuesday denied Special Counsel Jack Smith’s request for a gag order on former President Donald Trump in his classified documents case after defense attorneys called it “unconstitutional censorship.” In an order, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon found that Smith’s prosecutors failed to properly confer with Trump’s lawyers before filing the motion in violation of court rules. …
Read More »Chicago man convicted of murder based on blind witness' testimony files lawsuit against city, police
A Chicago man convicted of murder a decade ago based in part on testimony from an eyewitness who is legally blind is suing the city and the police department. Darien Harris was convicted by a judge in 2014 in connection with a 2011 fatal shooting at a South Side gas station. He was 12 years into a 76-year prison sentence …
Read More »6 arrested in Hong Kong for allegedly violating new national security law
Hong Kong police on Tuesday arrested six people, including a former organizer of the city’s decades-long annual vigil that commemorated China’s Tiananmen Square crackdown, for allegedly publishing seditious social media posts, in what were the first publicly known arrests under the city’s new national security law. Secretary for Security Chris Tang said Chow Hang-tung, a former leader of the group …
Read More »Indianapolis officer fatally shoots suspect in armed carjacking
An Indianapolis police officer fatally shot a suspect in an armed carjacking Tuesday after the suspect dropped something while fleeing on foot and reached to pick it up, police said. Officers with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department were dispatched to the city’s east side just before 9 a.m. about a carjacking. A female victim told officers that a suspect had …
Read More »Multiple people wounded in Sacramento mass shooting, police say
At least five people were shot Monday night in a mass shooting in Sacramento, California, according to police. Sacramento Police responded to the area of Coral Gables Court and Meadowview Road in South Sacramento at around 8:18 p.m. to a report of a shooting, according to Fox 40. Multiple people, including a minor, were shot, police said. BLM CO-FOUNDER LOSES …
Read More »No charges for Michigan deputy who fatally struck fleeing teen with patrol car
A prosecutor declined to file charges Tuesday against a police officer who struck and killed a western Michigan teenager while the boy was running from a stolen vehicle. Kent County prosecutor Chris Becker instead charged the teen driver with causing death while fleeing from police. Riley Doggett, 17, was hit by a patrol car driven by a sheriff’s deputy at …
Read More »Indiana shooting suspect told cops he 'always wanted to kill somebody': Court docs
An Indiana man facing attempted murder charges after a shooting at a grocery store told police he “always wanted to kill somebody.” Richard Klaff Jr., 20, was arrested in connection with a Thursday shooting at a Kroger on East State Blvd. in Fort Wayne and now faces three counts of attempted murder and one count of criminal recklessness, which carries …
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