Violent Crime News

A cousin of one of the women gunned down last weekend at an East St. Louis convenience store has died in an accidental shooting.

A grand jury in Lexington has indicted a former state lawmaker on charges of murder and violating an emergency protective order in the fatal shooting of his former fiancee.

A South Carolina mother fruitlessly tried to shield her 20-month-old toddler from a barrage of bullets in a drive-by shooting that killed the baby and two adults and injured at least five others, relatives said Tuesday.

A woman accused of killing a pregnant woman and cutting her baby out of her womb will remain in jail without bail pending trial.

An Oregon woman accused of killing a pregnant woman and cutting the baby out of her womb will remain in jail without bail pending trial.A judge ruled Tuesday that 28-year-old Korena Roberts should remain in custody on aggravated murder charges in the June 5 death of 21-year-old Heather Snively.One of the lead detectives in the case testified at a ...

A South Carolina coroner says three people including a young child are dead and six were injured in a drive-by shooting in a small town.

"He told her stench of corpses was sausages" Police have unearthed the remains of 11 women in and around the house where Lori Frazier lived with Anthony Sowell, who was indicted today in the case that led to the discoveries of the bodies.

A sniper who terrorised America during a three-week killing spree in 2002 is due to be executed today after an 11th-hour bid to block his death failed.

This 2007 photo provided by Equal Justice Initiative shows inmate Joe Sullivan, 31, at the Columbia Correctional Institution in Lake City, Fla.

Defiant and unapologetic, a man accused of shooting a Kansas abortion provider confessed to the slaying Monday, telling The Associated Press that he killed the doctor to protect unborn children.

Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the man suspected of shooting to death 13 people at Fort Hood military base in Texas, is awake and talking.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Lexington police are searching the digital files of former state Rep.

Police described a suspect in the shooting death of a Seattle police officer as a "lone domestic terrorist'' and said he was also suspected of firebombing four police vehicles.

Tampa police say a father helping his 32-year-old daughter clean a gun after target shooting accidentally fired the weapon and killed her.

Investigators on Sunday captured a man they believe opened fire on a car parked at a gas station, killing three women, including an acquaintance of the suspect, state investigators said.

A jury has convicted Michael Wesley, 28, of murder in a drive-by shooting after his co-defendant admitted firing the fatal shot.

One of two suspects accused of killing a southern Illinois man by hitting him in the head with a fire extinguisher has pleaded guilty.

CLEVELAND: Authorities say Anthony Sowell lured women into his home in a busy neighborhood, killed them - most by strangulation - and scattered their remains throughout the inside and buried some in the backyard.

A man opened fire inside a bar near the ski town of Vail Saturday night, killing one person and wounding three others, police said.

Concerns over whether vital clues were missed at the Cleveland 'House of Horrors' By Mail Foreign Service Last updated at 1:56 AM on 08th November 2009 Residents living near rapist and suspected serial killer Anthony Sowell fear a catalogue of errors meant vital clues were missed by police and the authorities.