A Utah woman has been arrested and charged with murder after a friend was shot in what police said was an uncompleted suicide pact the women had reached several weeks earlier. Police documents say Heavenly Faith Garfield, 21, intended to die by suicide but was “too scared to kill herself.” …
Read More »Firearm Shannon Gooden used in Burnsville shooting that killed 3 responders was straw purchase
MINNEAPOLIS — One of the guns used by Shannon Gooden in a deadly Burnsville standoff earlier this month was a straw purchase made through a local firearms shop and range in January. WCCO Senior Investigative Reporter Jennifer Mayerle has confirmed that the firearm, an AR-15 lower receiver, was a transfer purchase …
Read More »North Carolina pastor arrested after police say he tried to push wife’s coworker into McDonald’s deep fryer
A workplace conflict allegedly ended in assault and the arrest of a High Point, North Carolina, pastor, according to police records. A manager-in-training at a McDonald’s complained to her husband on Thursday that employees were disrespecting her, according to a police report, and he came to his wife’s workplace. There, …
Read More »Chicago TV news crew robbed at gunpoint while reporting on robberies
A Chicago television news crew reporting on a string of robberies ended up robbed themselves after they were accosted at gunpoint by three armed men wearing ski masks. Spanish-language station Univision Chicago said a reporter and photographer were filming just before 5 a.m. Monday in Chicago’s West Town neighborhood when …
Read More »More details emerge about suspect accused of fatally shooting Tennessee surgeon in exam room
More details have emerged about the suspect in the fatally shooting of a Tennessee surgeon inside an exam room where the doctor worked. Larry Pickens, 29, was charged with first degree murder and aggravated assault for allegedly shooting and killing Dr. Benjamin Mauck, the Collierville Police Department said in a statement on …
Read More »Shooting after Denver Nuggets win NBA Finals wounds 10
Nine people were shot and wounded near the Denver Nuggets’ Ball Arena early Tuesday morning in an apparent drug deal as celebrations for the team’s first NBA championship were winding down, police said. One of two men who were arrested in connection with the shooting also sustained a gunshot wound, police disclosed. …
Read More »Pittsburgh student fatally shoots another student outside school
A student opened fire in front of his school in Pittsburgh on Wednesday morning and killed another student, police said. The suspected shooter was taken into custody after a police officer responding to the shooting at Oliver Citywide Academy saw him running away with a gun, a police official told …
Read More »A Cleveland woman was killed while walking her dog. 4 years later, a man has been charged with murder
A suspect has been indicted on multiple counts of murder in the death of Sheila Wallace, a Cleveland woman who was shot and killed while walking her dog in 2019. Wallace, then 58 years old, was struck twice by gunfire in the head and chest at around 7 p.m. in …
Read More »Fanta Bility death: 3 fired officers sentenced in death of girl killed by police gunfire
Three fired police officers who pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges in the death of an 8-year-old girl killed when they opened fire outside a high school football game near Philadelphia have been sentenced to five years of probation – the first 11 months of it on house arrest. An investigation …
Read More »Man paused date to fatally shoot fake parking attendant over $40, Houston police say
A Texas man on a date who paid $40 to park, only to learn inside a Houston burger joint that he was scammed, allegedly went back and fatally shot the man posing as an attendant and then returned for dinner, according to court records. Erick Aguirre appeared in court Thursday …
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