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Police launched an investigation following the tragic shooting of a nine-year-old girl in a Liverpool attack that also saw two others shot.

At least 11 people were shot and two people were stabbed on Monday alone in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago.

Swedish police warn the city may face rising shootings over a power vacuum among gangs after they arrested so many prominent criminals.

A man apparently fatally shot a woman and then himself at a supermarket in central Germany on Tuesday, police said.

The suspect arrested following a mass shooting in Laguna Woods, California’s Geneva Presbyterian Church this weekend appeared in a local Las Vegas report holding up a banner against Taiwanese “demons” at an event for a group with ties to the Chinese government, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported on Tuesday.

Seventeen people were injured and ten people were taken into custody after gunfire erupted on Milwaukee’s Water Street Friday night.

Volunteer martial artists and security guards are set to patrol the Chicago Transit Authority redline Friday in an effort to stymie crime.

A man wanted by Swedish police in connection with a gang-linked murder in Stockholm in September 2020 has been located and arrested in Lebanon.

A 19-year-old Florida man has been arrested for allegedly shooting at other drivers during four separate road rage incidents since December.

A shooting this week in the city of Linköping was the 47th fatal shooting so far this year, matching Sweden’s record-high number of shootings that took place in 2020.

On Christmas Day, a man was found by police in the town of Sandviken with critical gunshot injuries, with investigators believing the incident is linked to yet another shooting in the Scandinavian country.

A total of 60 United States police officers have been shot and killed in the line of duty since the beginning of the year, new data reveals, following anti-law enforcement riots and the start of the “Defund the Police” movement in 2020.

A bloody evening in London has seen a double shooting and a stabbing attack that left a man dead and an elderly woman in critical condition.

From January 1st, 2018, to September of this year, Sweden has seen a total of 1,296 shootings, with 169 people killed as a result and another 460 injured.

Officials in Chicago are cracking down on businesses accused of not complying with the mask mandate, ABC 7 reported Tuesday.

A local who works in the Stockholm no-go suburb of Tensta has said the area has begun to resemble the “Wild West” due to the continued number of shootings taking place.

Despite being shot in gang-related violence, a man was caught and arrested for dealing drugs from his hospital bed by police.

A Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia (MPDC) officer named Taylor Brandt is being praised for saving nine lives in one year being on the job.

Three women and one man have been hospitalised after a suspected shooting in the London borough of Camden on Saturday.

The number of arrests for gun crimes in Sweden has dramatically increased since 2017 from 64 to 340 arrests last year, with over 1,300 weapons seized in 2020.

Two children aged six and seven were struck by ricocheting bullets just south of Stockholm near what police believe was a gang-related shooting.

Dutch police have arrested three suspects in connection with the shooting of veteran crime journalist Peter R de Vries, who was shot in the centre of Amsterdam earlier this week.

In Oakland, California, in 2021, criminals marked Independence Day by threatening citizens with deadly violence.

Police Commissioner Erik Nord has acknowledged that mass migration is linked to the surge in fatal shootings in Sweden after a report noted Sweden was the only European country seeing a rising trend of fatal gun violence.

The U.S. Catholic bishops have made an appeal for further gun control in the wake of fatal shootings Wednesday in San Jose, California.

The Orange County, California, mass shooting suspect has been identified as 44-year-old Aminadab Gaxiola Gonzalez.

People across the country are raising money to help the families of the victims of the deadly spa shootings in Atlanta, raising more than $2.7 million as of Sunday morning.

Officer Jeff Koenig returned to work on February 19, after two years of recovery from a shooting during a routine traffic stop.

Police in the multicultural southern Swedish city of Malmö say that the murder rate has fallen since 2018 because many gang leaders are behind bars.

Chicago has just concluded one of the most violent years in its history, with a massive increase in shooting incidents and homicides, Time magazine reports.

There have been more than 3,300 shooting victims in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago thus far this year and there are still over two and half months until year’s end.

A man disguised in an Islamic hijab opened fire on the streets of Paris’s 12th arrondissement on Friday evening, in which investigators believe was a targetted attack.

An unnamed gunman killed a 62-year-old New Yorker who was walking his dog in Brooklyn on Monday morning, as rising shootings continue to plague the Big Apple.

On Sunday, Mayor Bill de Blasio’s (D) New York City passed the grim milestone of 1,000 shootings so far this year.

Swedish economist Tino Sanandaji has revealed that while the number of reported crimes in Sweden has remained fairly steady, the severity of crimes and criminal violence has surged in the 21st century.

A Swedish police officer has claimed that the gang members who shot a 12-year-old girl caught in their crossfire last weekend are also victims.