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According to Sheriff Grady Judd, a family that moved from Connecticut four months ago was attempting to buy dinner at a drive-thru when their credit card declined. Deputies said the father grew distracted while searching for another way to pay. PCSO said as he bent over to check his card, he removed a Glock handgun from his waistband and placed it on the vehicle seat. The 3-year-old child, who was playing in the backseat, grabbed the firearm and pulled the trigger, according to deputies. Officials said the father heard a loud pop before frantically running around the vehicle, while a...

A motorist was killed in a drive-by shooting on the George Washington Bridge in Manhattan Tuesday night, according to cops and sources. The driver was found shot in the head on the westbound upper level of the crossing around 7 p.m. after officers responded to reports of a crash, the Port Authority Police Department and sources said. He was rushed to Englewood Hospital in New Jersey and pronounced dead, according to law enforcement sources. The suspect fled and remained on the loose late Tuesday. Investigators are pouring over security camera footage for clues into the slaying. Nobody else was injured...

AN ALLEGED attempt to kill a former Russian spy who defected to Britain was being investigated by police last night. Oleg Gordievsky was admitted to a hospital in Guildford after falling ill in November last year. And yesterday he claimed he had been poisoned with the highly toxic metal thallium in a botched assassination attempt. Gordievsky, a KGB double agent who spied on Russia for British intelligence during the 1980s, claims he was targeted by a Russian assassin who visited him at his safe house in Surrey. The 69-year-old was unconscious for 34 hours after falling ill last year and...

ERIE, Pa. — Matthew S. Stone, also known as Matt Stone, has reportedly been identified as the suspected gunman in a deadly mass shooting at a residence on Perry Street in Erie, Pennsylvania, on Friday, October 9, 2026. The shooting reportedly claimed nine lives, including those of his daughter, Angelina Stone, and her two young children, according to information shared by family members and other reports. Authorities responded to a residence at 722 Perry Street at approximately 5 p.m. after receiving emergency calls reporting gunfire. The incident developed into an hours-long standoff before officers entered the home and found multiple...

Multiple people are dead after a shooting in Pennsylvania that occurred Friday night, according to local news reports. “I have not seen anything like this in my 28-plus years,” Erie Police Chief Rick Lorah said. “I’m not sure that the city of Erie has ever seen the loss of life and the devastation that we just witnessed.” The suspected gunman died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Witnesses told police they saw someone firing a weapon before authorities arrived. Police described the scene as horrific and said they currently do not know what led to the deaths.

The Brief A man died Friday after being shot by a Pasco County deputy in Hudson following a trespassing call at a local plaza. The man pulled a 7.5-inch butcher knife and refused six orders to drop the weapon before a deputy opened fire, according to deputies. Authorities said the suspect had 18 previous arrests in Pasco County, including 11 felony convictions. HUDSON, Fla. - A man is dead after a Pasco County deputy shot him behind a Hudson shopping plaza Friday afternoon when he refused to drop a butcher knife. Deputy-involved shooting on Little Road What we know: Col....

Rebecca (“Becca”) Good, the partner of Renee Good, and Brent Ganger, the court-appointed trustee for Good’s next of kin, filed two lawsuits Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota arising from Good’s fatal encounter with federal immigration agents during Operation Metro Surge. One suit targets ICE agent Jonathan Ross and several senior Trump administration officials in their individual capacities; the other seeks to hold the United States liable under the Federal Tort Claims Act. As my RedState colleague Rusty Weiss reported back in January, the family and her partner had retained the services of Romanucci &...

A WGXA report reveals that the pair, along with 28 others, trespassed and held an unauthorized pool party at the Bowman Station Apartments, where over a dozen guns were recovered after deputies received reports of vandalism, trespassing and drug use at several apartment complexes in Macon.

Two Hernando County Sheriff’s deputies were shot Thursday morning, Sept. 10, while serving a vice and narcotics search warrant at a home on Coral Street in Spring Hill. As deputies approached the home around 5 a.m. with their lights and sirens activated, they announced their presence. Anthony Cusati, 29, then began firing at deputies through the door. Sheriff Al Nienhuis said, deputies did not immediately return fire. “Fortunately for him, and he is very lucky, he needs to thank his lucky stars, the deputies could not see him. They did not return fire,” Nienhuis said. K-9 Deputy Jonathan Alion was...

A Westchester County police bigwig’s bust for allegedly driving her son to a botched gang drive by in the Bronx has Democrats running for cover — and Republicans saying I told you so. Ex-Mount Vernon Deputy Police Commissioner Jennifer Lackard is facing attempted murder charges in the shocking June 29 shooting, but prominent Democrats in the region are staying mum and refusing to condemn the disgraced cop because the suburban city is a coveted party stronghold. “Democrats are the first to preach ‘no one is above the law’ until it screws them politically,” Republican National Committee spokeswoman Natalie Baldassarre told...

A former Columbus police officer has pleaded guilty a little over four years after he fatally shot an unarmed man. Ricky Anderson pleaded guilty Thursday to reckless homicide in the death of Donovan Lewis, doing so to avoid a potential murder trial. The agreement did not include a recommended prison sentence. Anderson faces up to three years in prison and a $15,000 fine.

Minneapolis shooting At least 2 officers injured, launching a massive local and state law enforcement response.

William Tolliver, one of three men involved in a 2020 mass shooting in downtown Seattle, has been released. The Washington State Department of Corrections confirmed to KIRO Newsradio that Tolliver was released this week. In January of 2020, Tolliver and two other men got into a gunfight near 3rd Ave. and Pine St. that was sparked by a Facebook post insulting a friend of Tolliver’s. Tanya Jackson, a 50-year-old woman, was killed, and seven others were hurt, including a 9-year-old boy who was shot in the femur while walking with his family after a visit to the Pacific Science Center....

GENEVA (AP) — A shooting at a rave in the northern Swiss canton of Aargau left one person dead and five wounded early Sunday, local police and media reported. Police said they are still looking for potentially more than one suspect. Aargau cantonal police wrote earlier on X that a 22-year-old woman died of injuries at the scene. Four men and one woman, between 24 and 27 years old, were taken to the hospital with injuries ranging from minor to severe. All of the victims are residents of Switzerland, police said. They did not release their names in line with...

A 14-year-old Georgia girl murdered her mom — shooting her in the back of the head when she was in bed — after chickening out of a planned school shooting “inspired” by mass killers. Lilyana Wagner’s cold-blooded killing of mom Rachel Wagner, 51, was discovered after she crashed her mom’s car in Tinton in November 2024 — and was found with the center of her hair shaved off, it emerged Monday as the now-16-year-old killer was sentenced to life in prison. After the crash, cops tried calling the mom, who did not answer and had not turned up at work...

Five people were killed in a Michigan shooting spree on Friday, sparking a massive manhunt that ended when the suspected gunman was found dead. The bloodshed was first discovered at a home in Missaukee County, where police found three dead people shortly before noon, Up North Live reported, citing state police. Two more slain victims were later found – one in the woods near Whitlock Lake and another in a separate home, according to the report. Another person was left in critical condition. The carnage prompted a frantic search for the 39-year-old suspect, Chad Hickman, who police said was considered...

GAFFNEY, S.C. - Cherokee County Sheriff Mueller said three suspects are in custody following a shooting at a bus stop in Gaffney that left a 17-year-old dead. Officials said three people were involved in the death of 17-year-old Jomiltron Sentell Fair Jr., who was shot in the back of the head while boarding a school bus outside of his apartment complex on Wednesday morning. Suspect captured following manhunt The sheriff said 18-year-old Keveon Ken’Dre Covington has been captured following a manhunt that began around 7 a.m. on Thursday. Sheriff Mueller said a perimeter was set up along Concord Road, Highway...

A mass shooting at Leinbach Park in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on Monday (April 20) left two teenagers dead and five others injured, according to local authorities. Police said the violence began as a planned fight involving several young people, which escalated into gunfire around 9:52 a.m. Officers arrived to find Erubey Romero Medina, 17, dead in the parking lot and Daniel Jimenez Millian, 16, dead inside the park. Both had suffered fatal gunshot wounds. Five other young people—a 14-year-old girl, a 15-year-old girl, a 17-year-old girl, an 18-year-old boy, and a 19-year-old girl—were also shot, with injuries ranging from minor...

A man claimed that his dad, Terry Dudley, was one of the victims of the Twin Falls shooting. His employer said he is alive but has a “long road ahead of him.” Who is Terry Dudley? Latest update on Twin Falls, Idaho shooting victim as son makes emotional plea (Terry Dudley/Facebook) A man has claimed on Facebook that his father, Terry Dudley, was one of the victims of the Twin Falls shooting in Idaho. A gunman opened fire at an In-N-Out, leaving at least three people dead and two others injured, according to The Independent. Who is Terry Dudley? Latest...

SEATTLE — A judge ordered a 15-year-old held in juvenile detention Monday in connection with a gunfight at a crowded Seattle food festival that killed three people and injured at least four others. Prosecutors said the gunfight involved the 15-year-old, a 19-year-old man who died at the scene and possibly a third person. The 15-year-old is being held on suspicion of three counts of first-degree assault and one count of second-degree unlawful possession of a firearm. He had not been involved in a criminal case before in the county, King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office spokesperson Casey McNerthney said. “At this...