Violent Crime News

Altus Police Chief Tim Murphy says the shooting occurred early Monday. Murphy tells Lawton television station KSWO that the officers were responding to a report of shots fired in the 500 block of North Hightower Street.

Two of the couple's children, a 5-year-old and an 8-year-old, had gone to a neighbor's house to tell them something was wrong with their mother.

A second man is being sought by Moss Point police on attempted murder and aggravated assault charges in connection with a shooting Tuesday night on Max Street, Deputy Chief Art McClung said.

PASADENA >> A terrified family of six found themselves in the midst of a hail of bullets Saturday afternoon when they arrived home just as a shooting rampage began that left three people dead and two others wounded.

The Sacramento Bee reports the shootings occurred around 1 a.m. Sunday when a large group of people gathered in a parking lot on Fulton Ave. in Sacramento.

Latta Police Chief Crystal Moore talks with friends at a fundraiser for a youth softball team on Thursday, July 10, 2014, in Latta, S.C. .

A police officer responding to an armed robbery call at a 24-hour drugstore was fatally shot early Sunday by a suspect who had snatched a gun from an armed security guard inside, officials said.

"The Hunt With John Walsh" : In this new series, the victims' rights activist exposes stories of ongoing criminal inquiries tied to fugitives.

Two men and a woman have been indicted on capital murder charges in the shooting death of a Corpus Christi store owner this spring.

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.