Violent Crime News

An 8-year-old boy who was sleeping early Wednesday died after a bullet fired from outside went through the home's wall and into his bedroom, hitting him, Detroit police said.

Stephen Gutowski said he was excited to exercise his rights for the first time since he moved to the D.C. area five years ago - so he grabbed his pistol and headed to the National Mall.

Actor Kelsey Grammer on Tuesday offered his forgiveness to the man who raped and killed his sister in 1975, but he said he wants to see him remain behind bars.

A Toronto police officer is facing an additional charge in relation to the shooting death of a teenager on a streetcar last summer.

Police and prosecutors say Bassel Saad struck John Bieniewicz June 29 as the 44-year-old referee announced his decision to eject Saad from a men's league game.

An Indianapolis woman has been charged with murder in the fatal shooting of awoman found dead last week along a central Indiana road.

A Rapid City man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend and her unborn child has pleaded guilty in a deal with prosecutors.

An Alabama man facing 22 charges of animal cruelty says he's innocent. Ronald Fraser Golden, 49, was arrested last year on charges of finding kittens on Craigslist and taking them home to kill them.

A man accused of beating a Rhode Island junk-car dealer with a two-by-four over a deal gone wrong has been charged with his murder.

Investigators say a San Antonio woman fatally shot her adult daughter and then killed herself in an apparent murder-suicide at a home.

A Jefferson County jury has recommended the death penalty for a Louisville man convicted of raping and killing a woman in 1983.

The Lexington Herald-Leader reports the shooting at the club in the Stone community of Pike County happened Sunday during a meeting.

Jurors have begun deliberating between death by lethal injection and life imprisonment without parole in the slaying of a Houston-area police officer and an auto body shop owner.

A Hayward man wanted in a fatal motel shooting in the city's north end last month was awaiting extradition Monday after being located by police in Las Vegas and arrested on suspicion of murder.

A man on trial in the robbery-killing of Eastern Michigan football player Demarius Reed was a full participant in the crimes and is just as guilty as the confessed gunman, a prosecutor told an Ann Arbor jury today.

A parolee who fled from a crash scene was found guilty of killing a Nassau County police officer and a motorist.

Contract killer Rodney Charles Collins demanded police no longer pursue him over a brutal double murder in exchange for supplying information about the murder of a police informer and his wife, an inquest has been told.

Randy Browning watched from behind the glass as Kimberly McCarthy slipped quietly into unconsciousness, snored briefly, then finally stopped breathing.

Neighbors struggled to make sense of the shooting deaths of a family of five in which the father was known to many throughout their apartment complex as a friendly maintenance worker.

The Kalamazoo man who has been charged with murder in the shooting death of Christopher Adams last week has turned himself in, police said.