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ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) - A suspect is facing charges after a shooting at a market in Jennings. According to police, the victim was at the counter of a market in the 5200 block of Hamilton Avenue when Tayvion Baker approached him around 5:30 p.m. on Thursday. Police said Baker was armed with a pistol and approached the victim, who had a gun in a holster on his hip underneath his shirt. Baker reportedly grabbed the victim’s gun and stated, “give it to me, I’m finnin to pop you.” Baker, 23, struggled with the victim, shooting him twice,...

Jacksonville, Fla. — An early-morning shooting on Jacksonville’s Westside sent a man to the hospital. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office was called to a home on Dylan Michael Drive around 4 a.m. Sunday. Investigators said the victim was followed home from a nightclub. When he got home, the suspect showed a gun. The victim, who was also armed, fired several shots, hitting the suspect in the arm. The suspect left the area but was found a short time later and taken to the hospital. JSO said everyone involved in the incident has been detained. No arrests have been reported at this...

SAN ANTONIO - A hairstylist is calling one of her customers a hero after he came to the rescue during an armed robbery inside a North Side beauty salon, shooting and killing the suspect. The whole ordeal took place around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday night at Marissa's Beauty Salon on Basse Rd. It was thirty minutes before closing when a masked man holding a gun barged in demanding everyone's property, according to the hairstylist named Nancy, who declined to give her last name. "Money, cell phones," Nancy remembers the man shouting. "Money, cell phones, purse. Money, money." There were only three...

Police are investigating an alleged attempted robbery and shootout that happened in Miami Tuesday. It happened at NE 14th Street and NE Miami Court, just east of Miami Avenue in the redeveloped part of Overtown, surrounded by new high-rise apartment buildings and trendy businesses. Police said a man called them and reported that three men approached him and demanded his jewelry. They fired several shots at him, and the victim returned fire. No injuries were reported, authorities said. Miami police were processing the crime scene as the sun rose, including a black Mercedes. Police were hoping to get an assist...

The Killeen Police Department was dispatched early Wednesday morning after an exchange of gunfire between individuals allegedly stealing a car and the car’s owner, according to KPD. Police spokeswoman Ofelia Miramontez said a resident was in his home at the 4400 block of Jeff Scott Drive when he heard one of his vehicles being started up in his driveway. He found that his sedan was being stolen after he went to investigate. The resident followed the stolen vehicle in a Tahoe. When the driver in the stolen vehicle pulled into a cul-de-sac on Eula Bea Court, the vehicle’s owner stopped...

Lafourche Parish Sheriff Craig Webre announced three people have been charged in connection with a shooting incident that occurred in Raceland on Thursday night. Two people were injured in the shooting. Payton Scott, 18, of Bayou Blue, Kayleigh Gregoire, 19, of Houma, and a 16-year-old male all face charges in the incident.Just after 9:30 p.m. on December 5, 2024, LPSO received a call about a shooting that had occurred in the 100 block of Brooklyn Lane in Raceland. Through investigation, detectives learned Gregoire and another female allegedly lured a 17-year-old male to the residence promising a sexual encounter but planning...

BALTIMORE (WBFF) — Baltimore Police confirm a 17-year-old is in grave condition after pulling a gun on a driver near southeast Baltimore's Brewers Hill community. The Southeastern District Police Community Relations Council told FOX45 News the teen was attempting to carjack the driver. The Baltimore Police Department's Media Relations is not confirming that narrative but says the driver and juvenile exchanged gunfire. According to BPD, on October 8 around 2:15 a.m., an officer was flagged down by a citizen while in the 3100 block of Boston Street, advising he was shot. Medics responded and took the 31-year-old man to a...

SAN ANTONIO – San Antonio police said it is investigating what led to a man defending himself against two armed suspects. Officers received a call about a man who was shot just before 3:50 a.m. Sunday in the 200 block of Ranch Valley Drive. Police later learned that a second man arrived at a nearby hospital who was shot in the waist. However, after further investigation, authorities said both men were armed and involved in a robbery attempt of a 34-year-old man. During the robbery, SAPD said the 34-year-old man pulled out a weapon and fired at the men in...

Brookhaven, GA (August 16, 2024) - At the request of the Brookhaven Police Department, GBI agents are investigating an officer involved shooting in Brookhaven, GA. Albert Eugene Burns, age 19, of Snellville, GA was shot and injured in the incident. No officers were injured. On Thursday, August 15, 2024, at about 11:00 p.m., Brookhaven PD officers responded to a home invasion call on Caldwell Road. While the homeowner was looking at her home surveillance video, she saw four armed gunmen inside her home. The homeowner contacted a friend who responded to the home and confronted the armed suspects. A shootout...

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – One suspect has been arrested and two are wanted for breaking into a woman’s home in Jackson. The incident happened on Daniel Circle on Wednesday, May 1. A woman said three young men, who were wearing hoodies, rang her doorbell and asked if she wanted her yard cut. She declined, and the men went to her daughter’s home in the neighborhood. The woman said her daughter was not home at the time of the incident and that the suspects broke into the home. According to the woman, her daughter returned home, and the suspects fired shots...

HARRISON, Tenn. — UPDATE: 2 suspects involved in a deadly home invasion in Harrison are still on the loose, according to the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office. HCSO says there were 3 armed suspects involved in the invasion. The preliminary investigation reveals the three suspects broke into the home around 1a.m. and were confronted by the homeowner, according to HCSO. Gunfire was exchanged between the homeowner and suspects. HCSO says one of the suspects was shot during the exchange and died at the scene. Two other suspects jumped through a window to escape and fled the scene, according to HCSO. Members...

BUCKHANNON, W.Va. (WBOY) — One man is in critical condition and facing criminal charges after the second shooting that happened in Upshur County on Wednesday. Austin Arbogast, 24, of Buckhannon went to a home on Bailey Ridge Road in Buckhannon on Wednesday, March 20 “to forcibly take” a five-month-old child, according to a press release from the Upshur County Sheriff’s Office. Arbogast was reportedly saying that “he was coming to the residence to cause bodily harm to [the victim’s] family, and kill the entire family,” the release said. Deputies said a shoe print on the outside of the front door,...

LANDSDOWNE BOROUGH, Pa. (WPVI) -- An Upper Darby carjacking ended with a crash outside a police building in Lansdowne Borough, Delaware County early Friday morning. Following the crash, the front courtyard area of Lansdowne Borough Hall had uprooted plants, crashed street signs, overturned bricks, and muddy tire tracks. "It's the center of our town and now it's destroyed," said Lansdowne Police Chief Ken Rutherford whose police department is housed at the building on Baltimore Ave. and Lansdowne Ave. The scenario ended in Lansdowne, but it started a few minutes away in Upper Darby where police say a car accident turned...

During an interview by Israeli journalist Omri Assenheim with an IDF company commander in the Gaza Strip, forces in the area encountered a gunbattle with terrorists, and the interview was halted. Assenheim wrote in a post on X: "Company commander Nadav Tiberg offered us to conduct the interview inside a nearby building. I told him that it would look good if we conducted it in the middle of the road in Daraj Tufah. The silence misled us." He recounts the frightening moments: "Five minutes into the interview, terrorists came out and opened fire next to us. And then another. And...

INDIANAPOLIS — Two people are in stable condition after a shooting that left a car flipped on the city's northwest side Thursday afternoon. Shortly after 2 p.m. on Dec. 7, IMPD officers were called to the 7300 block of Lafayette Road on a report of a person shot and a flipped vehicle. When officers arrived, they found two victims with gunshot wounds. Both victims' conditions were said to be stable. According to a release from IMPD, an adult woman allegedly attempted to sell a gun to a 16-year-old male. The teen then allegedly stole the gun and drove off in...

TULSA, Okla. — A 15-year-old boy is charged with first-degree murder after a shootout led to the deaths of a 16-year-old boy and a 40-year-old man. The shooting also left three others injured. Tulsa police said the shooting happened at a home near north Harvard and Apache at around 2 a.m. on Nov. 19. The shooting began during a family gathering when an argument broke out between three young men who were invited to the home and family members of the home. Court documents identified the three teens as Tyrell Junior, Michael Thomas, and another boy named "Marco." The three...

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - The Charleston County Coroner’s Office has released the names of the two men who died in a shooting outside of a North Charleston club. Donald Lamont Jackson, 25, of North Charleston, and Antonio Lenard Patterson, 32, also of North Charleston, died from gunshot wounds they received at Club 787. Officers responded to the Dorchester Road club just after 11:30 p.m. Wednesday. Deputies from the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office arrived ahead of North Charleston Police and found two men on the ground near the entrance to the club. Neither man was breathing, a report states. Investigators...

On August 14, 2022, Adam Simjee and his longtime girlfriend, Mikayla Paulus, were on a road trip through wild Alabama country before returning to college.They decided to help a woman who appeared to have had a vehicle breakdown. The woman, Yasmine Hider, was planning to rob them or worse. Adam was a dedicated Second Amendment supporter. He had tucked a concealed pistol in his waistband because he was suspicious of the circumstances. After Adam and Mikayla had been working on the broke-down vehicle for an hour without success, Hider pulled out a handgun and ordered them to drop their cell...

Former President Trump’s chief of staff John Kelly said a second term for the ex-president would result in a “nonstop gunfight” with Congress. Kelly was Trump’s second chief of staff and came into the job hoping to instill discipline on the White House. He ended up lasting in the role for nearly a year and a half but had little success in ending the drama and infighting the characterized Trump’s administration. “It would be chaotic,” Kelly said of what a second term might look like in the New York Times opinion piece. “It just simply would be chaotic, because he’d...

Monday, June 19, 2023 (Washington, DC) – Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department's Third District announce an arrest has been made and additional suspects are sought in reference to an Armed Carjacking (Gun) offense that occurred on Sunday, June 18, 2023, in the 2500 block of Sherman Avenue, Northwest. At approximately 4:17 am, the suspects attempted to carjack the victim at the listed location. During the attempt, there was an exchange of gunfire between the victim and at least one of the suspects. As a result, the victim and a suspect both sustained non-life threatening gunshot wounds. Both were located...