A 69-year-old Army Veteran who decided to assist a young man asking for help at his front door was fatally shot when he let the man into his home. Thomas Sonnenberg of Minneapolis let Devon Parker into the house after Parker said he was being pursued by assailants with a baseball bat. He was frantic, […]
West Virginia resident Rodney Bruce Black has been charged with murder after he shot and killed two men he thought were trespassing on his land. One of those so-called trespassers turned out to be his new neighbor. According to WCHS, 62-year-old Black fatally shot brothers Garrick and Carl Hopkins on Saturday afternoon, believing the men were trying […]
This Wednesday marks a year since the tragic death of a 15-year-old girl in Chicago who was shot down by a bullet not intended for her. Hadiya Pendleton had just returned from D.C. after performing at President Obama’s Inauguration, when she was shot at a park near her high school. She was a bubbly honor […]
A 12-year-old boy is gravely wounded and three others were struck during a shooting at a church playground in North Carolina on Monday. Police in Rocky Mount, NC are now searching for the man who opened fire at the park around 6 p.m. while nearly two dozen neighborhood teens played basketball on the courts. Rev. […]
New statistics gathered from a study in February’s Pediatrics is revealing the gun violence epidemic in America is worse than you think. Almost one child or teen is injured by a firearm every hour in America. Six percent of the 7,391 hospitalizations analyzed resulted in a death, according to the study. And overall, that’s an average of 20 children […]
Police investigating the deadly shooting at a mall in Columbia, Md., are still searching for the motive of gunman Darion Marcus Aguilar, but his diary might help authorities crack the case. As the mall reopens on Monday, investigators say a journal belonging to the 19-year-old has been found, but they would only reveal that it “expressed […]
A 14-year-old boy shot and killed his 17-year-old sister in Northern California after an argument over laundry, according to relatives of the teens. Oakland police spokeswoman Johnna Watson said officers received a report of the shooting just after noon Thursday and found the girl in a downtown apartment with a fatal gunshot wound. The victim […]
Here’s some sobering news about 2014 — in the first 14 school days of the year, there were at least seven school shootings. To put things in perspective, there were 28 school shootings in all during 2013. That means America has averaged a school shooting every other day since Jan. 1. Crazy. Read about it […]
Police in Oakland, California are still searching for suspects responsible for the death of two brothers, who were killed just 19 days apart. Now the mother, 41-year-old Dinyal New, is left to grapple with the death of her only children, aged 13 and 19. According to the Huffington Post: On Dec. 31, 2013, New’s younger […]
More details surrounding the death of the man that was shot after getting into an intense argument with an ex-cop at a movie theater in Tampa Bay are emerging. According to ABC News, Chad Oulson was on his cell phone as the movie was playing, which angered the ex-cop sitting behind him but he was actually […]
A shooting in Detroit left a 4-year-old boy dead after his cousin of the same age found a rifle and pulled the trigger. The shooting occurred on Thursday at a home on the city’s west side. Three children were at home at the time of the incident, according to Detroit Deputy Chief Rodney Johnson. The […]
Forgetting something? The wife of Miami Dolphins quarterback Ryan Tannehill didn’t do a thorough search of a vehicle she rented before she returned it — accidentally leaving a firearm for the next rental customer and scaring the living daylights out of the woman’s daughter. Lauren Tannehill, 26, rented the Nissan Rogue from E-Z Rent-A-Car in […]
