Violent Crime News

San Antonio police say a man has been fatally shot at a hotel along the River Walk after getting into a confrontation with a guest.

Authorities say three people have been shot and killed at a home in Pasadena, California, and a suspect is in custody after shooting at police cars.

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The episode Friday in a Texas courtroom reportedly came during a reading of the six capital murder charges facing the 33-year-old suspect.

Accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told his friends about martyrdom and bomb-building over lunch before the attacks last year, an FBI agent testified on Friday in the trial of one of the friends for obstruction.

A 24-year-old man has been arrested in the shooting of an Alabama man whose body was found inside a vehicle off a DeKalb County road early Thursday morning.

A northeast Kansas teenager accused of killing his father is scheduled to go to trial in November on a first-degree murder charge.

The Anchorage Daily News reports Ronald Lee Haskell Jr. lived in Alaska until 2004.

PATERSON, N.J. - Hundreds of mourners gathered Friday for a funeral for a 12-year-old girl killed when she was hit by a stray bullet while riding a scooter, and three young men faced charges in her death.

The Houston man accused of killing six family members, including four children, "execution-style" collapsed during a court appearance Friday.

A judge has sentenced a Cameron man to life in prison without parole for the shooting death of his former brother-in-law.

The News Tribune reports that Prosecutor Mark Lindquist said the deputy had little choice but to shoot 25-year-old Brian McLeod when the former soldier came to the door of the apartment armed with a shotgun and raised it toward the deputy and a Fircrest police officer.

Florida prison officials on Thursday executed a man convicted of the 1994 rape and slaying of an 11-year-old girl.

A man charged with killing four children and their parents forced his way into the family's suburban Houston home, tied them up and shot them in the back of the head when they refused to tell him where his ex-wife was, authorities said Thursday.

A Texas man accused of killing six people, including four children, was turned away by a teenager when he first went to the victims' home.

A Lyndhurst man accused of killing two relatives in 2000 is being released from a state mental hospital to a group home.

On July 13, 2013, a Florida jury found George Zimmerman not guilty in the death of Trayvon Martin.

A gunman charged Thursday in the killing of four children and their parents was dressed as a delivery man when he arrived at the suburban Houston home where the family was shot the death, officials said.

The Texas gunman who killed six people was out to murder more family members, police said, and a wounded 15-year-old at the house stopped him from causing even more carnage.

Authorities have arrested a 19-year-old in the deadly shooting of a 12-year-old girl who was shot while riding a scooter in a Paterson neighborhood.