Target has a message for gun-toting customers who may be confused about the retailers name — this is not a shooting range. On Wednesday the retailer posted a notice on its website respectfully requesting that shoppers not bring their guns into its stores. “Our approach has always been to follow local laws, and of course, […]
In what New York City is deeming the deadliest rash of shootings since Mayor Bill de Blasio took office in November, 15 individuals were shot in less than 12 hours over the weekend. Three of those injured were killed. The violence comes just a week after the NYPD admitted that shootings are up and suggested […]
Suspected Islamists opened fire on worshippers and burned four churches on Sunday in a Nigerian village close to the town where 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped in April. At least 30 bodies were recovered but more were still being found in the bushes, said a member of a vigilante group that has had some successes in repelling […]
New Orleans police are searching for two gunmen who opened fire on a Bourbon Street crowd early Sunday morning, injuring nine in the crossfire. Two of those individuals were listed in critical condition. Police say all of the victims were innocent bystanders and some were tourists visiting New Orleans‘ famed French Quarter. New Orleans Police […]
The 14th annual BET Awards went down Sunday night as another memorable event – unfortunately for the wrong reasons. According to the Hollywood Reporter, there were two incidents at unofficial BET Awards parties that left one person stabbed and one man dead from gunshot wounds. On Saturday evening, one man was stabbed outside of Lure […]
Five people were taken to the hospital on Wednesday after gunfire erupted at a 21st birthday party in Massachusetts, according to police. The shootings occurred at a home in Lowell at about 11 p.m. According to Huffington Post: Capt. Kelly Richardson says three men and two women were hurt. She says their injuries do not […]
Even though Rep. Charles B. Rangel is gearing up to grab yet another two years in Congress, adding on to his already 40-year legacy, the face of Harlem politics had time to stop by GlobalGrind during his campaign to talk gun violence, inner city negligence and yes, even music, during Gun Violence Awareness Month. Rangel, […]
A new study from a leading gun control group shows that at least 100 children were unintentionally killed by gunfire in the year following the Newtown, Conn. massacre in December 2012. The study, headed by Everytown for Gun Safety and released Wednesday, also declares that unintentional shootings kill two children weekly — 61 percent more than current statistics show. The […]
Two people are dead and multiple wounded after a shooting in Miami’s Liberty City neighborhood on Tuesday. According to Miami police spokeswoman Frederica Burden, the shooting happened in the street and police are still trying to determine how many were injured. Early reports indicate at least 10 people were shot in the early morning incident. “It’s very […]
Just a week after an Ohio 911 dispatcher came under fire for telling a victim to stop crying, dispatchers in Florida accidentally sent a man to voicemail as his house was being robbed. The man, whose name has not been released, called after four suspects broke into his Port Richey home in the middle of the […]
So this happened. An elderly man who got into a tense stand-off with police in May while carrying his rifle outside a Michigan ice cream shop was granted his firearm back the very next day. Because that makes sense. Joseph Houseman, 63, stood with his rifle in front of a Kalamazoo Dairy Queen in pajama pants, […]
At least 27 people were shot in shootings across Chicago over Father’s Day Weekend. At least two of those individuals were killed, according to police. The weekend’s last homicide took place on the city’s west side just after midnight on Sunday. Brandon Peterson, 17, was shot in the head and killed while standing with a group […]
