Mother grieves over teen daughter dying in her arms after LAPD fired at suspect
Through a translator, Soledad Peralta, the mother of 14-year-old Valentina Orellana-Peralta, who was shot and killed by a Los Angeles police officer as he fired at a suspect in a store last week, said that losing her daughter in her arms is one of the “most profound pains any human being can imagine.”
news.yahoo.comFormer NASCAR driver Townley killed in Georgia shooting
A former NASCAR driver was killed Saturday in a shooting in Georgia that also wounded a woman, investigators said. John Wes Townley, 31, died in the shooting in a neighborhood around 9 p.m., Athens-Clarke County Coroner Sonny Wilson told the Athens Banner-Herald. The shooting appeared to be domestic violence related, Athens-Clarke County Police Lt. Shaun Barnett said.
news.yahoo.com1 killed, 4 hurt in South Carolina Waffle House shooting
One man was killed early Sunday in a shooting in the parking lot of a Waffle House near a South Carolina interstate that also injured four people inside the restaurant, Lee County Sheriff Daniel Simon said. The employee and three customers inside the restaurant at the U.S. Highway 15 exit on Interstate 20 in Bishopville are expected to survive the shooting around 4 a.m., the sheriff told The Associated Press. Surveillance footage from the parking lot shows a small white sedan pull out of the parking lot and head north on U.S. 15 toward Bishopville, the sheriff said.
news.yahoo.comChildren among 4 people shot in Southwest Miami-Dade
Miami-Dade police are searching for the gunman who opened fire at a Southwest Miami-Dade home early Sunday morning, injuring two adults and two young children. A 4-year-old and 6-year-old child were injured, along with a 27-year-old woman and a 42-year-old man, investigators said.
1 dead, 5 wounded in shooting outside Detroit banquet hall
A drive-by shooting left a man dead and five other people wounded outside a banquet hall in Detroit early Tuesday, police said. The shooting happened about 2 a.m. outside the Chalmers Banquet Hall on the city's East Side. More than 100 people were gathered for an event at the banquet hall, WXYZ-TV reported from the scene.
news.yahoo.com‘The city is traumatized’: Englewood community members pray for 1-month-old injured in shooting
On Friday afternoon, activist Charles McKenzie prayed with community members just a block from where the girl was shot. More than two dozen people stood in a circle in a parking lot and sent well wishes to the girl and her mother.
chicagotribune.comChicago police shoot suspect in murder of 7-year-old Jaslyn Adams after he fled police, tried to carjack family on Eisenhower near Hillside: top cop
Chicago police shot a suspect in the murder of 7-year-old Jaslyn Adams multiple times after he fled from police and then tried to carjack a family on the Eisenhower Expressway.
chicagotribune.comSuspected gunman in Hollywood shooting turns himself in to police
The 22-year-old man who police said shot another man in Hollywood turned himself in to the police on Friday, one day after the shooting. Hollywood Police circulated Tyler Santiago’s photo on Thursday night and said the public should consider him armed and dangerous. About 24 hours later, he turned himself in.
sun-sentinel.comTwo men shoot it out in Home Depot parking lot in West Palm Beach
The shooting started at 11:58 a.m., when, according to a police report furnished by the West Palm Beach Police Department, “two adult males that are acquainted with each other exchanged gunfire. Subsequently, both were shot — suffering non-life threatening injuries. Both males were transported to a local hospital for treatment. No one else was injured. Investigators will be on scene conducting interviews and gathering evidence.”
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