Violent Crime News

One of the stories I've been woefully behind on is the murder of 24-year-old Colleen Ritzer, a teacher at Danvers High School in Danvers, Massachusetts.

A Harrisburg man was arrested Saturday for strangling and killing his ex-girlfriend in her Lower Paxton Township apartment, police said.

County prosecutors this week charged a Wichita man with second-degree murder in the Nov. 6 shooting of a 23-year-old at a northside apartment.

In this Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2013 photo, playwright Frank Higgins holds a copy of his play titled "Gunplay" at the Metropolitan Ensemble Theater in Kansas City, Mo.

Police are accusing a 23-year-old man of firing a bullet during a street dispute that ended up killing the granddaughter of Harrisburg's City Council president.

Two Los Angeles police detectives went door-to-door Friday in a search for clues in the shooting death of TV writer-director James Marcus Howe at his Glassell Park neighborhood home.

Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-NY, center in the red coat, and Joyce Gorycki, center left, hang wreaths at the Long Island Rail Road station in Garden City, N.Y., Saturday, Dec. 7, 2013 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the shooting rampage that took the lives of both of their husbands aboard a Long Island Rail Road commuter chain.

The boy died in December 2012, three days after police say they were called about a child in medical distress at a rural property near Garrick, a hamlet 230 kilometres northeast of Saskatoon.

In mass killings, kids caught in the crossfire Eight-year-old Katrina Yuzefpolsky didn't even realize she had been shot.

USA Today study shows FBI inaccuracy When USA Today started investigating mass killings, it seemed fairly straightforward: How many times have at least four people died at the hands of another in a single incident? Yet marking the death toll of mass killings is anything but simple.

New Orleans police have arrested two men in the Nov. 13 shooting deaths of a 7-month-old infant and his father in an ambush near a New Orleans bridge spanning the Mississippi River.

A Nashville bar owner has been charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of singer-songwriter Wayne Mills.

A 97-year-old Cushing man has been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of his granddaughter.

A man accused of killing his girlfriend and ex-girlfriend now faces additional charges of attempting to escape from jail.

A Minnesota resident says he won't fight extradition to Iowa to face charges that he killed his wife in Iowa City more than 16 years ago.

Scottie Fead and Dayquane Coley are charged with second-degree murder, robbery and assault in the shooting death of Steven Killings and the wounding of a second person.

"I can't bring myself to believe that Tennis Maynard just woke up one morning and thought, "I'm going to go kill the Sheriff today," stated Rosie Crum, the widow of former Sheriff Eugene Crum, who was killed on April 3rd of this year.

A South Florida man used a crossbow to kill his wife and teenage son in their townhouse, tried to kill a second son who is a student at Florida State University and wound up dead in a motel bathroom, authorities said Wednesday.

Southbound Interstate 5 in Stockton reopened hours after an officer-involved shooting shut it down during the busy morning commute.

Jeffrey Dingman, center, arrives with his lawyers for a parole board meeting at the State Prison Thursday Dec. 5, 2013 in Concord, N.H. .