The family of Deante Smith is looking for answers after the 25-year-old was gunned down by his pastor in an alleged confrontation about an affair the pastor had with his wife.

A week after two reports commissioned by the Cuyahoga County, Ohio prosecutor found that the police-involved shooting death of Tamir Rice was reasonable, the child's mother is calling for a special investigator to take over the case.

An ineffective system has left Tamir Rice and Eric Garner -- two high-profile police brutality victims of the previous year -- off the federal government's official record of homicides by officers. In fact, out of 18,000 law enforcement agencies across the United States, 17,776 refused to provide such data

A star player for the University of Florida Gators football team has been suspended indefinitely after he was arrested on charges of firing a gun at his pregnant girlfriend, accusing her of cheating on him with one of his teammates.

Chris Harper-Mercer has been identified as the gunman who fatally shot nine people before being killed by authorities. 26 year old Mercer was equipped with body armor, three handguns, and an assault rifle when he stormed an Oregon’s Umpqua Community College campus. Survivors are reporting that Mercer asked students to stand up if they were Christians before he […]

A judge has delayed the trial of Dylann Roof, the 21-year-old accused of killing nine Black members of Charleston’s Mother Emanuel AME Church in a race-inspired shooting…

Federal authorities charged a U.S. Border Patrol agent with second-degree murder in the shooting of a Mexican teenager in October 2012.

A friend of Dylann Roof, the gunman who killed nine African-Americans at the Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina in June, has been arrested…

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Violence erupted early Monday ahead of New York City’s West Indian Parade, claiming the life of a 24-year-old male and critically injuring a lawyer appointed…

A former South Carolina police chief has dodged prison time in the 2011 shooting death of an unarmed Black man.

Shannon Miles, the man authorities say shot and killed a Harris County, Texas deputy sheriff last week, faced prosecutors on Monday.

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The man suspected of killing two Virginia journalists during a live television broadcast once filed a lawsuit against a former employer