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A 10-year-old is dead after a suspected drive-by shooting in Miami, WPLG – Miami reports. The shooting happened Tuesday evening on the 1900 block of Northwest Fourth Court. With a steady flow of gun violence in the area, police believe the boy was shot in the head during a drive-by. It is unknown if the child was killed […]

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Detroit police are investigating the death of a 19-year-old man who was gunned down Thursday as he walked to a bus on his way to work, according to Detroit’s WXYZ TV. Police say Patrick Jones was killed at about 4:30 a.m. on a deserted street on the city’s West Side when two men emerged from a silver/gray 2007 […]

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Deonte Hoard was only 17, but he already had a clear idea of what he wanted to do in life: Go to college and play basketball, according to the Chicago Tribune. He was on the right path to achieve his academic goals as a senior at Urban Prep Academy, the nation’s first all boys charter […]

A 13-year-old Minnesota boy died Sunday after his older brother shot him during a game of “cops and robbers.” The child, identified as Eagan eighth-grader Suhayb Jamal Hassan, and his 15-year-old brother were playing with their father’s 9-millimeter pistol when the younger sibling was shot in the chest. Detective Desiree Schroepfer says the 15-year-old pressed the […]

The parents of Kendrick Johnson, the Georgia teenager found dead in a rolled up gym mat in 2013, are facing jail time for a protest they staged seeking answers in their son’s death. Kenneth and Jacquelyn Johnson face charges of interference with government property for blocking the entrance to the Lowndes County Courthouse with five other […]

A 14-year-old boy died after being fatally stabbed outside of a school in East Los Angeles on Saturday. According to ABC 7, an investigation is currently underway after Steven Cruz was stabbed outside of Griffith Middle School around 3:30 P.M., and then rushed to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Authorities revealed that the […]

A 16-year-old is dead after he was lured to a Bronx apartment by a 17-year-old girl on Facebook, and then attacked by several men. According to reports, Ricardo Romero showed up to the Creston Ave. apartment building in Fordham Heights, when a gang of men fatally stabbed him in the chest, hit him in the head […]

Chicago police have arrested and charged three additional suspects in the fatal shooting of a 15-year-old who stood up to a group of robbers to save his twin brother. A fourth suspect was charged over the weekend in the shooting of Demario Bailey. Carlos Johnson, 17, was ordered held without bail during a Monday hearing. The three […]

The mother of Lennon Lacy, the North Carolina high school football player found hanging from a Bladenboro swing set in August, is speaking out and calling her son’s death a “lynching.” Investigators ruled Lacy’s death a suicide, but Claudia Lacy says local and state investigators have yet to prove or explain their theory that the 17-year-old […]

Chicago police have charged a teen with first-degree murder after a 15-year-old boy was fatally shot while trying to protect his twin brother from an attempted robbery. The teenager, Demario Bailey, was shot in his chest just blocks away from the South Side charter school he and his brother Demacio attended. The twins, known as the “Bailey Boys” […]

Another black man in America is now a victim of police brutality, after authorities in Sanford, North Carolina shot and killed a 23-year-old Travis Faison inside his home on Wednesday afternoon. Faison was gunned down after police entered his home with a search warrant just after 1:40 p.m. on Wednesday. At this point, not much is known about […]

A 21-year-old graffiti artist who was placed in critical condition after being struck by an unmarked police car in Miami died from his injuries Tuesday. Delbert Rodriguez Gutierrez, who goes by the street artist name of Demz, was spotted “tagging” a building by police gang unit members. Rodriguez fled when the officers gave chase. According to […]