Violent Crime News

One of the first two police officers at the house to investigate the shooting testified that he followed a "trail of blood" when he got there.

A suspected drunken driver fleeing police crashed through barricades set up for the South By Southwest festival Thursday and drove into a crowd of revelers and other vehicles, killing two people and injuring 23. Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo said five of the injured were in critical condition.

A judge has ruled that a man alleged to have given a gun to another man accused of killing four Omaha people is not guilty.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court must decide if a Pennsylvania teen should get a new trial in the death of his father's pregnant fiance, who was fatally shot with a youth-model shotgun when he was 11. Jordan Brown, now 16, has been in juvenile detention since being charged in the 2009 shooting deaths of Kenzie Houk and her unborn son in a case that ... (more)

In this photo taken on Tuesday, March 11, 2014, Kristen Westfall is led into the Tyler County Jail by Tyler County Sheriff Bryan Weatherford in Woodville, Texas.

Two men have been charged with killing three members of a Southern California household whose bodies were found in their burned home eight years ago.

OTTAWA, Kan. - A judge has ordered a 28-year-old Kansas man to stand trial in the deaths of three adults and an 18-month-old child.

A man who killed two people at a Maryland mall in January before killing himself acted alone, had no connection with his victims and may have had a fixation with the 1999 Columbine High School shooting, police said Wednesday.

George Zimmerman is making headlines again after he signed autographs and met fans at a Florida gun show.

Sky's Alex Crawford, who is in court, said: "The courtroom is packed with people, with the reconstruction of the murder scene sitting in the corner next to the witness stand.

The release of Robert Fischer of Irvine on Monday night stemmed from a Feb. 28 decision by a judge who concluded the case's evidence didn't support a jury's guilty verdict against Fischer, threw out the conviction and granted a new trial.

A man accused of killing a mother and her two young children and sexually assaulting her daughter in Colorado has a violent criminal past that includes child molestation and spans at least a decade.

Passionate TV fans are like puppies with a chew toy: They sink their teeth - and hearts - into their favorite shows and just refuse to let go.

Nye County sheriff's officials say an alleged gunman was arrested on a murder charge and five relatives are being held pending immigration proceedings following the shooting death of a 25-year-old man last week at a dairy in rural Amargosa Valley.

A man accused of abducting and killing nursing student Holly Bobo is scheduled to appear in a Decatur County courtroom Tuesday to be arraigned on charges.

The account by Darren Fresco, who has been identified as being with Pistorius on two occasions when a gun was fired in public, corroborated much of the testimony of another witness who was at the scene of the sunroof shooting.

Sunday marked the 17th anniversary of the day Notorious B.I.G. was killed in drive-by shooting after a party in Los Angeles.

Prosecutors were scheduled to begin presenting evidence Tuesday in the capital murder case against a 28-year-old man accused of killing four people, including a toddler, at an eastern Kansas farm.

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