By DON BABWIN Associated Press (07/06)
CHICAGO (AP) — One of Chicago’s bloodiest holiday weekends in memory ended with 17 people fatally shot,
Category: Inner City Shootings
BALTIMORE (AP) 12/27 — Baltimore broke its annual per capita homicide record after reaching 342 killings Friday.
With just over 600,000 residents, the city hit a historically high homicide rate of about 57 per 100,000 people after recent relentless gunfire saw eight people shot — three fatally — in one day and nine others — one fatally — another day.
NEW YORK (AP) 10/17 — New York City police arrested a 20-year-old man late Wednesday in connection with a mass shooting over the summer at a Brooklyn community festival that left one person dead and 11 wounded.
By MALLIKA SEN, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) 07/28 — Late night gunfire at a large, outdoor event in Brooklyn killed one man, wounded 11 others and sent hundreds and perhaps thousands of people running for cover.
By ANDREW DALTON, AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) 06/27 — Court transcripts unsealed Thursday show that rapper Nipsey Hussle and the man charged with killing him had a conversation about “snitching”
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) 05/25 — At least two gunmen fired into a crowd outside a bar in New Jersey’s capital city, wounding 10 people, two critically,Read more »
BALTIMORE (AP) 04/29 — Baltimore city leaders urged witnesses to share what they know with police after a gunman fired indiscriminately into a crowd enjoying Sunday afternoon cookouts,Read more »
By ANDREW DALTON, AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) 04/03 — After a nearly 48-hour manhunt, police arrested the suspect they say gunned down Nipsey Hussle in front of the popular rapper’s South Los Angeles clothing store.
By RAMESH SANTANAM and MARK SCOLFORO, Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) 03/23 — A jury acquitted a white former police officer Friday in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager as he was fleeing a high-stakes traffic stop outside Pittsburgh,
BALTIMORE (AP) 02/22 — One Baltimore shooting accounted for nearly half of the city’s shooting victims on a single day that became the most violent of the new acting police commissioner’s short tenure.Read more »
By JUAN A. LOZANO, Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) 01/07 — Activists praised Houston area law enforcement for pursuing a tip that led to the arrest of an African-American man in the fatal drive-by shooting of a 7-year-old black girl,
By SCOTT FAIN AND SOPHIA ROSENBAUM, Associated Press TORRANCE, Calif. (AP) 01/05 — Three men were fatally shot late Friday and four injured when a brawl at a popular Los Angeles-area bowling alley and karaoke bar erupted into gunfire that had terrified patrons,
BY SHARON COHEN, AP National Writer CHICAGO (AP) 12/10 — Chicago police are wrestling with gun violence, blamed largely on gangs. President Donald Trump has frequently singled out the city for criticism ,
By SHARON COHEN, AP National Writer CHICAGO (AP) 12/10 — Ke’Shon Newman’s daily routine is guided by guns — the hundreds of illegal pistols, revolvers and other firearms that torment his South Side neighborhood.
BALTIMORE (AP) 09/25 — FBI crime statistics place Baltimore’s homicide rate above that of any other U.S. city with a population over 500,000.
Citing crime data released Monday,
By DON BABWIN, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) 08/24— A jury on Thursday found a second suspect guilty of first-degree murder in the killing of a 15-year-old high school honor student whose death in 2013 became a symbol of Chicago’s random gun violence.
CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) 08/08 — A gunman opened fire on two New Jersey police officers while they were sitting in their vehicle at a red light Tuesday night,
CHICAGO (AP) 08/06 — At least 11 people were shot and killed and about 70 others were wounded over the weekend in Chicago, in a spasm of gun violence that police attributed mostly to gangs and that the president’s lawyer,
NEW ORLEANS (AP) 07/30 — New Orleans police say a shooting that killed two men and a woman seems gang-related, and the reward for help identifying the gunmen is up to $25,000.
Associated Press, NEW ORLEANS (AP) 07/29 — Two armed individuals walked up to a crowd gathered Saturday evening outside a strip mall in New Orleans and opened fire,