#Gun crime

#Gun crime

On Christmas Day, just before midnight at 11.27pm, emergency services responded to Wilfred Drive in Darnall after a 20-year-old man was reported to have been shot in his chest. The victim was taken to hospital, where he remains in a critical, life-threatening condition. Following the incident, detectives immediately began working at pace to understand the circumstances and quickly had four men arrested in connection to the incident.

A New Hampshire man pleaded guilty Thursday to unlawfully purchasing a semi-automatic pistol for an unlicensed individual who later fired it near a public school and was arrested in connection with a "large-scale car theft enterprise," federal prosecutors said. Isaiah Johnson, 24, of Merrimack, N.H., admitted guilt on one count of firearm trafficking by unlawful delivery, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts said in a statement.

Three people were injured in a shooting at New York City's Times Square early on Saturday morning after a 17-year-old opened fire.

"Rutledge and his co-conspirators meticulously planned a violent robbery in a neighborhood convenience store in Clinton Hill, during which a customer was brutally pistol-whipped and shot, and a hard-working store clerk was held at knifepoint while thieves lined their pockets with thousands of dollars in cash."