Violent Crime News

In this Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013, file photo, George Zimmerman, acquitted in the high-profile killing of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin, listens in court, in Sanford, Fla., during his hearing on charges including aggravated assault stemming from a fight with his girlfriend.

Tempe police have identified the 28-year-old man who was fatally shot at a party and the 18-year-old man arrested in the shooting.

A San Francisco man has pleaded not guilty to fatally shooting another man who was trying to sell him a Sony PlayStation 4 gaming system.

A man was charged with reckless homicide Monday following the fatal shooting of an Indiana teenager hailed as a hero in 2010 when she helped save two children who fell into an icy reservoir.

Eric Brandon is charged with murder, felony murder, aggravated assault and firearm possession in the February 2012 death of 16-year-old Alexander Koser.

CCTV of Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale as they speak to a member of the public, which has been shown in court during the trial of the two who stand accused of the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby ONE of the two men accused of murdering fusilier Lee Rigby in Woolwich has said he killed as a "soldier for Allah" and should be punished by being ... (more)

Cherokee County Sheriff deputies are investigating the shooting death of 47-year-old Christopher Pierce who was found Sunday evening inside his Misty Hollow Way home.

The trial of a man allegedly involved in a shooting at an Elkhart convenience store is scheduled to begin Monday.

Officials said a Miami Police officer was forced to fire after an altercation between two men in front of a South Florida barbershop escalated into gun violence, leaving both men dead.

One of the stories I've been woefully behind on is the murder of 24-year-old Colleen Ritzer, a teacher at Danvers High School in Danvers, Massachusetts.

A Harrisburg man was arrested Saturday for strangling and killing his ex-girlfriend in her Lower Paxton Township apartment, police said.

County prosecutors this week charged a Wichita man with second-degree murder in the Nov. 6 shooting of a 23-year-old at a northside apartment.

In this Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2013 photo, playwright Frank Higgins holds a copy of his play titled "Gunplay" at the Metropolitan Ensemble Theater in Kansas City, Mo.

Police are accusing a 23-year-old man of firing a bullet during a street dispute that ended up killing the granddaughter of Harrisburg's City Council president.

Two Los Angeles police detectives went door-to-door Friday in a search for clues in the shooting death of TV writer-director James Marcus Howe at his Glassell Park neighborhood home.

Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-NY, center in the red coat, and Joyce Gorycki, center left, hang wreaths at the Long Island Rail Road station in Garden City, N.Y., Saturday, Dec. 7, 2013 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the shooting rampage that took the lives of both of their husbands aboard a Long Island Rail Road commuter chain.

The boy died in December 2012, three days after police say they were called about a child in medical distress at a rural property near Garrick, a hamlet 230 kilometres northeast of Saskatoon.

In mass killings, kids caught in the crossfire Eight-year-old Katrina Yuzefpolsky didn't even realize she had been shot.

USA Today study shows FBI inaccuracy When USA Today started investigating mass killings, it seemed fairly straightforward: How many times have at least four people died at the hands of another in a single incident? Yet marking the death toll of mass killings is anything but simple.

New Orleans police have arrested two men in the Nov. 13 shooting deaths of a 7-month-old infant and his father in an ambush near a New Orleans bridge spanning the Mississippi River.