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A judge declared a mistrial after the jury was unable to reach a verdict in the murder trial of a Michigan police officer who fatally shot a black man during a traffic stop. Christopher Schurr was charged with second-degree murder for the killing of 26-year-old Patrick Lyoya in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on 4 April 2022. […]
U.S. police shot and killed Ryan Hinton, an 18-year-old Black teenager on Thursday in Cincinnati during a chase following a vehicle theft. Mizan – The shooting occurred around 10 a.m. on May 1, 2025, in the parking lot of an apartment complex on Warsaw Avenue in East Price Hill, Cincinnati. Cincinnati police responded to a […]
CNN  — A Florida State University student accused of killing two people and injuring six others in a shooting at the university on Thursday is the son of a local sheriff’s deputy, authorities say, and spent time training with law enforcement and serving on a sheriff’s advisory council in the years before . . .
A sheriff’s deputy in Georgia will not be charged for fatally shooting a Black man during a traffic stop that turned violent in 2023, officials said on Tuesday. The man who was killed, Leonard Cure, 53, had been wrongfully imprisoned in Florida for 16 years. The Camden County Sheriff’s Office said in a post on […]
An 86-year-old Missouri man died just days after pleading guilty to a lesser charge in the 2023 shooting of Ralph Yarl, a Black honor student who rang the white man’s doorbell by mistake, prosecutors announced on Wednesday. Andrew Lester of Kansas City had been charged with first-degree assault and armed criminal action in the shooting […]
SANTA FE, N.M. — A former police officer was found guilty Wednesday of voluntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a Black man during a 2022 confrontation at a New Mexico gas station. Las Cruces police Officer Brad Lunsford’s verdict in a jury trial is the latest outcome in cases that prosecutors have linked to systematic brutality […]
Liberty, Missouri (AP) — An 86-year-old Kansas City man pleaded guilty Friday to a lesser charge in the 2023 shooting of Ralph Yarl, a Black honor student who rang the White man’s doorbell by mistake.
An octogenarian who shot and injured a teenager who rang the wrong doorbell in Kansas City, Mo., pleaded guilty on Friday to second-degree assault, resolving the case just days before a trial was set to begin. Andrew D. Lester, 86, had been charged in state court with first-degree assault and armed criminal action in the […]
An Illinois county has agreed to pay $10 million to the family of Sonya Massey, an unarmed Black woman who was fatally shot by a white sheriff’s deputy last year after she called 911 because she thought a prowler was outside her home. The Sangamon County Board voted unanimously on Tuesday to approve the settlement […]
A woman from Washington state has been charged in connection with the fatal shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Vermont, where authorities had for days been watching her and a German companion who also died in the roadside shootout. The FBI announced the arrest of Teresa Youngblut, 21, on Friday, four days after […]