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Authorities in Houston were searching for a suspect Thursday after three officers were shot, police said. The Houston Police Department said in a statement that the suspect fled a scene south of the city's downtown in a white Mercedes. The officers were in stable condition, the department said. A motive for the shooting also wasn't known, though NBC affiliate KPRC reported that it occurred after a pursuit. The incident involved multiple scenes, according to the station.

Steven Carrillo, 32, is suspect in ambush which left sheriff's deputy dead Sgt. Damon Gutzwiller, 38, was killed on Saturday in Ben Lomond, California Two other Santa Cruz County Sheriff's deputies were wounded Gutzwiller leaves behind a small child and his pregnant wife A 911 caller claimed they saw guns and bomb making materials inside a van Gutzwiller and another deputy responded and saw the van driving away After following the van to a home, they got out of their patrol car That's when they were ambushed with gunfire and explosives, authorities said FBI is also investigating whether the ambush...

Body camera footage from St. Paul Police Officer Steven Mattson from the fatal shooting of 31-year-old Ronald Davis on Sept. 15 near the intersection on Thomas Avenue West and North Griggs Street. WARNING: This video contains graphic images and language that may be disturbing to some viewers...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — The Little Rock Police Department is investigating an officer-involved shooting that happened at 12:40 a.m. Tuesday in the 500 block of East 8th Street. Chief Kenton Buckner says officers responded to calls of a disturbance in the area. As officers were in route, the call was updated to a disturbance involving a man with a weapon. The police report states responding officers arrived to find a man pointing a long gun at his uncle. Buckner tells KATV officers engaged with the man and shots were fired outside the home. The man was killed. The man has...

An Indianapolis man who was mistakenly shot by a police officer responding to an armed robbery said Friday that he didn't know officers had arrived at his home until he was blinded by their flashlights after being shot. Carl Williams, a 48-year-old postal worker, said at a news conference that he was in his garage with his handgun at his right side early Tuesday awaiting police when he was shot, apparently just as officers were arriving.

The presumptive Republican nominee responds in this brief video to the terror attacks on police officers in Dallas and elsewhere, calling for prayers, love, and unity.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — An off-duty police officer died Sunday after being shot multiple times, the fourth Memphis police officer to be fatally shot in slight more than four years, authorities said. Memphis Police Director Toney Armstrong said 31-year-old Terence Olridge was taken to the Regional Medical Center in Memphis on Sunday where he later died.

FOX LAKE, Ill. -- Authorities involved in a manhunt after Tuesday's shooting death of a police officer in Lake County, Illinois, have one suspect in custody, Illinois State Police Sgt. Matt Boerwinkle said Tuesday afternoon.

NOWATA, Okla. — Quick Facts: Police apprehended Alejandro Garcia just after 7 a.m. Friday morning Officer shot Thursday during pursuit of suspects north of Nowata Officer was transported to the hospital in serious condition Pursuit continued across Kansas line where 2 suspects were taken into custody Rifles, body armor were found in the suspects' vehicle Police apprehended a man suspected in the shooting of an Oologah police officer. After several car chases and a man hunt in Liberty, Kansas, police caught Alejandro Garcia shortly after 7 a.m. Friday morning. Cesar Rios, 23, and Roxanne Mendoza, 20, were arrested Thursday night...

Last Saturday, April 4th at about 9:30 a.m., 33-year-old North Charleston, S.C. police officer Michael Slager shot 50-year-old Walter Scott near the intersection of Remount and Craig Roads in North Charleston. Take a good look at this alarming video, then read why I say the officer will not be convicted of murder, but of a lesser included charge of voluntary manslaughter instead. Slager initially pulled Scott over for a broken taillight, but the incident escalated when Slager tried to take Scott into custody on an outstanding arrest warrant for non-payment of child support. Scott had some additional prior violent criminal...

The video appears to be damning: a white police officer fatally shooting a black man in the back as he ran away. The shooting of Walter Scott by North Charleston, S.C., police Officer Thomas Stager has generated national outrage. Stager has been fired and charged with murder. Legal and police tactics experts said the video would be powerful evidence in the criminal case. But they say it still leaves Stager’s defense with options. One likely defense focus will be what is not on the video. The interaction between Scott and Stager before the shooting is not seen, nor is the...

Two police officers have been injured, one critically, when two gunmen armed with automatic weapons opened fire in southern Paris, French media are reporting. The Paris prosecutor's office said no link has been confirmed "at this time" between today's shooting and the attack against French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, Le Monde reported. French police are carrying out manhunt for two brothers suspected of killing 12 people on Wednesday at satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris in a presumed Islamist militant strike.

A Philadelphia Police detective was wounded and a fugitive killed in a shootout in North Philadelphia today, less than a week after the funeral for another officer slain by gunfire, officials said. The detective, a 20-year veteran assigned to the major crime task force who was not immediately identified, was reported in stable condition at Temple University Hospital with a leg wound. The father of four walked into the hospital on his own and called his family to report he had been hurt but was alive, officials said. The alleged gunman also was not immediately identified. Police said the detective...

A Montgomery police officer remains in critical condition at Montgomery's Jackson Hospital after he was shot while making a traffic stop in the 1800 block of North Decatur Street around 12:45pm on Thursday. As of late Thurday night, the mayor told WSFA 12 the officer is in "grave condition." Mayor Bobby Bright, who says he's been in emergency room with the officer, says the officer has responded to some voice communication by blinking his eyes, but, "If he makes it through the night we'll all be lucky." The officer's family is now with him. During WSFA 12 News at 6:00,...

An off-duty Chicago police officer shot and killed two men who aimed guns at him early Friday, shortly after the officer had helped throw one of the men out of a bar at closing time, according to law enforcement officials. Police officials said the officer was justified in shooting the two men after they pulled up to his black Hummer and both pointed handguns at him. Kenneth Elrod, 31, of the 5400 block of West Carmen Avenue, was drinking at the bar near Belmont and Central Avenues early Friday when the staff asked him to leave, law enforcement sources said....

A Jefferson County grand jury declined yesterday to indict two detectives in the fatal Dec. 5 shooting of an African-American man holding a box-cutter knife with his hands cuffed behind his back. ''Every person in Kentucky, whether a citizen or police officer, has the right of self-defense,'' Commonwealth's Attorney Dave Stengel said at a news conference last night, after the grand jury's decision in the slaying of James Edward Taylor was announced. ''On that night, Mr. Taylor used a box-cutter as deadly physical force,'' Stengel said, forcing Detective Michael O'Neil to defend himself. Stengel said that when asked by the...