HOUSTON, Texas — The Harris County Sheriff’s Office reports that three deputies were shot and one civilian woman was killed after a fight broke out in a Houston-area nightclub. The three deputies were off duty working a security job at the time of the shooting.
A suspect allegedly shot a Kings Mountain, North Carolina, police officer Saturday night during an exchange of gunfire. This is the fourth shooting of a Charlotte-area officer in the past two weeks, officials say.
A Pennsylvania police officer is in stable condition after being shot multiple times outside a McKeesport police station. Local prosecutors identified a suspect who is reportedly on the run.
Arkansas police are searching for a man they accuse of shooting and killing a Helena-West Helena police officer on Thursday. The man also allegedly shot another man on November 1.
A judge in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, set a $1.5 million cash bond on a man accused of shooting two police officers. The incident took place in Delafield during the investigation of a reported hit-and-run.
A suspected car prowler shot two King County, Washington, Sheriff’s Office deputies on Monday afternoon. One of the deputies returned fire and killed the suspect. A cell phone is credited with saving one of the deputies from serious injury.
An as-yet-unidentified suspect shot a Baltimore police officer while the officer sat in an unmarked police vehicle on Monday. The officer and/or his partner, both in plainclothes, returned fire, striking the suspect multiple times. The suspect later died from his wounds.
A man riding in a New Orleans pedicab shot a police officer sitting in his patrol vehicle in the French Quarter. The New Orleans Police Superintendent called the shooting an ambush.
Authorities are investigating the shooting of a Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) trooper in the city of Edinburg which is located about 12 miles from the Rio Grande River border with Mexico. The suspect is believed to still be at large.
Alleged drug dealers shot an agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) on Thursday in what was described as an ambush during a drug buy operation conducted in the Chicago area. The gunmen shot the agent twice. Agents returned fire, killing one.
Thirty-six-year-old San Antonio Police Officer Miguel Moreno died Friday morning from a gunshot wound received the day before. Moreno was shot as he got out of his car to question a reported suspicious person.
A North Texas police officer was shot and killed on Tuesday while responding to a call about a man with a gun. He is the third peace officer to die from a gunshot wound in less than three weeks into the new year.
A St. Louis County police officer was shot and killed in the pre-dawn hours of Thursday morning shortly after arriving at a reported domestic disturbance. The suspect was shot and remains in critical condition.
A New Mexico police officer was shot and killed during a routine traffic stop. The officer had unknowingly stopped a pair of fugitives wanted for murder in Ohio.
Two men from Texas have been arrested in connection with the shooting of two Lewisburg, West Virginia police officers. The alleged motivation for the police shooting appears to be an attempt to prevent the discovery of two dead bodies being transported in the suspect’s pickup truck.
