Violent Crime News

The New Hanover County Sheriff's Office says 20-year-old Demarius Quondreis Kelly has been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of 19-year-old Harry Dewayne Eason.

Mr. Mario Demonte Talley, 29, of Fairburn, was charged in a double shooting that killed one and injured another earlier this month at an apartment complex in Atlanta, police said.

John Holcomb, owner of Guns of Distinction in Palm Desert, told the Desert Sun 47-year-old Delmar Davis had worked for him but quit more than a year ago with chronic back pain.

A 21-year-old man was arrested Sunday in connection with the Saturday shooting death of a 26-year-old woman in an apartment on Esquire Alley off Roy Wilkins Avenue.

LaPorte County Coroner John Sullivan said police arriving at a home in Michigan City around noon found two people dead.

An Erie man is in jail without bail, accused of stabbing to death his mother at their mobile home Friday night.

Police have in custody the suspect in Daytona Beach's first murder of 2014, but they're still looking for the man they say motivated the shooting.

The father who police said fatally shot a 17-year-old boy in his daughter's bedroom should be charged with murder, the victim's distraught mother says.

Jury selection is slated to begin Monday in the capital murder retrial of Tevin James Benjamin, accused in the 2008 shooting death of Michael David Porter.

A woman who recently completed her sentence on a federal weapons charge is back in Spokane to face charges she killed three women in 1990.

A New Orleans man was shot dead with his own gun after he attempted to sexually assault a woman at a school construction site last night.

An East St. Louis man is jailed on $1 million bond after being accused in a shooting death last month.

At 10 a.m. on Dec. 3, 2013, students' cellphones at South Carolina State University buzzed or beeped with this text message: "Initiation of Lockdown: The following alert is an active shooter mock drill being conducted by SC State Police.

A Lake County judge has denied a request by a Waukegan woman accused of killing a 3-month-old child to leave jail to visit her dying father in Milwaukee.

Displaying photographs of a bare-chested Oscar Pistorius standing in his garage on bloodied prosthetic legs and wearing shorts soaked in his girlfriend's blood, prosecutors attempted Friday to focus attention on the killing for which the double-amputee Olympian is on trial for murder, while the defense poked holes in the police investigation that ... (more)

Eleven-year-old Caitlyn Virts was found with her father, 38-year-old Timothy Virts, in a South Carolina motel.

Fourteen alleged members of a San Francisco street gang have been indicted by a federal grand jury on racketeering and conspiracy charges for a series of violent crimes, including a 2011 shooting death.

A popular fifth-grade teacher who fatally shot a knife-wielding prowler in a ski mask and then learned it was his 15-year-old son will not face prosecution, a person briefed on the decision told The Associated Press on Friday.

Thirty-four-year-old Eric Lamont Owens of Spartanburg has been arrested and charged with murder and possession of a weapon during a violent crime.

Twenty-five-year-old Frank Terrance Singleton III pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges of murder, armed robbery, burglary and kidnapping.