
Shooting at Standard Hotel in Downtown L.A.
One person was killed and three others injured after a gunman opened fire outside the Standard Hotel in downtown Los Angeles Sunday morning.

One person was killed and three others injured after a gunman opened fire outside the Standard Hotel in downtown Los Angeles Sunday morning.

Payne County District Attorney officially filed second-degree murder charges and 46 counts of felony assault against Adacia Chambers, who is accused of purposely driving into the Oklahoma State University homecoming parade. The judge demanded Chambers undergo a psychological evaluation.

A ghost-hunting couple, who had guest-starred on a reality television program about the paranormal, were found dead inside their daughter’s Sparks, Nevada, apartment earlier this week, police said Thursday.

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s detectives are investigating an apparent double homicide at a Compton marijuana dispensary that appears to share a name with rapper Chief Keef.

In the wake of recent anti-police backlash in New York and Baltimore, crime has spiked considerably in those cities. Murder rates, robbery and theft have risen in the wake of what many believe may be officers’ hesitance to engage suspects for fear of being caught up in some public controversy over how they do their jobs. Worse yet, officers may have started to question themselves and become more fearful for their own safety in the wake of such uncertainty.

Deputies responded to reports of shots fired in Highland, California on Wednesday night and found a 4-year-old boy, Daniel Munoz suffering from an apparent gunshot wound. He was playing with stuffed animals in his front yard when he was struck down.

An elderly, blind man’s decapitated body was found just after noon on Thursday in his Inglewood, California home, a woman identifying herself as his cousin said.

A week after rapping “you don’t even know how to shoot” in an online music video aimed at members of a rival gang, Chicago rapper Young Pappy has been shot and killed. According to the Chicago Tribune, around 1:35 a.m.

Las Vegas police will investigate the May 14 death of B.B. King as a possible homicide after two of the blues guitar legend’s daughters accused his personal assistants of poisoning him. The 89-year-old died in Las Vegas while under hospice

Rescue teams in the Mediterranean Sea are giving up hope of finding more than 28 survivors from a vessel that was carrying 850 migrants, as the captain of the ship and one of his crew members are charged by Italian authorities with reckless homicide and engaging in human smuggling activities.

HOUSTON, Texas – Seventy-three people have lost their lives at the hands of another person in Houston, Texas during the first quarter of 2015. This represents an increase in Houston homicides of 59 percent compared to the same timeframe in 2014 according to information from the Houston Police Department (HPD).

Mexican research group the Citizen Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice has released its annual study of the world’s most dangerous cities, and Latin America has once again topped the list, with 43 of the 50 located in the region, and 19 of them located in Brazil alone.