#police-shooting

#police-shooting

Police said they were responding to a call from a 27-year-old woman nearby who said the man was harassing her at her door. Officers then chased him a block and a half down East 86th Street. "He had a firearm in his hand and they ordered him, he was ordered numerous times, multiple times to drop that weapon," NYPD Assistant Chief Frank Giordano said. Police have not confirmed the relationship between the suspect and the woman who called 911, adding that she was working on getting a restraining order against him. "There's two prior domestic incident reports involving the same two parties, and he is a subject known to us," Giordano added.

Boston Police Supt. Paul McLaughlin said the incident happened shortly before 6 a.m., when officers were dispatched to 97 Mount Vernon St. after a 911 caller reported a breaking and entering in progress. The address is home to the upscale restaurant 1928 Beacon Hill. "On arrival, officers encountered a male suspect in a rear alley, armed with a large knife," McLaughlin told reporters, per video from WCVB. He said an officer discharged his taser and struck the man in an attempt to subdue him, but "to no avail."

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has said the officer was seriously injured by Silverio Villegas Gonzalez, who allegedly tried to evade arrest after agents pulled over his car in Franklin Park. Nearly three hours of video and audio clips obtained by the Associated Press through a Freedom of Information Act request shed new light on the shooting that has escalated tensions amid a federal immigration crackdown in the country's third-largest city.

A man died after Los Angeles police officers shot him with a hard foam projectile during an attempted robbery of a convenience store in San Pedro, officials said. The LAPD said in a news release Thursday that Roger John Nielsen, 34, was taken to an area hospital after the encounter with officers from the Harbor Division, and later pronounced dead.

Three officers were killed, while two others are in critical but stable condition, in one of the deadliest recent attacks on the US police. Three police officers were shot dead and two wounded on Wednesday in southern Pennsylvania in the United States before the attacker was shot down, authorities said. It was one of the deadliest days for police, not only in Pennsylvania, but in the US, in recent times.

We grieve for the loss of life of three precious souls who served this county, served this commonwealth, served this country, governor Josh Shapiro said. An investigation is occurring in the area of North Codorus township, about 115 miles (185km) west of Philadelphia, not far from the Maryland line, authorities said. There are simply no words I can offer to assuage the grief that this community has experienced, Pennsylvania state police commissioner Col Christopher Paris said.

Mark McNamara will continue having to defend himself against the wrongful-shooting claims of K'aun Green, who McNamara shot four times as Green was exiting a downtown taqueria on March 27, 2022 after a brawl inside the eatery. Green had his hands up while holding a gun above his head pointed up toward the air - a weapon he had disarmed from an assailant inside - when he was shot.

A police report alleges that Fitzsimmons aimed a weapon at one of the officers, causing him to fear for his life and shoot Fitzsimmons in the chest. Fitzsimmons tells a contradictory version of events, where she never pointed a weapon at the other officer, but instead attempted and failed to take her own life. Fitzsimmons gave birth in February and struggles with postpartum depression, she and her lawyers have said.

Sign up: AU Breaking News email Freeman has a history of run-ins with law enforcement and has shared in the past some forms of pseudo-legal beliefs, where adherents make arguments that deny the authority of the state. Police confirmed on Friday that Freeman's gun licence remained revoked at the time he allegedly killed two officers and injured another at his high country property on Tuesday.

The Contra Costa District Attorney's Office has concluded Concord police officers were justified in fatally shooting a man who was stabbing his father, officials announced Friday. The finding that officers acted in self defense and in the self defense of others was the result of multiple interviews and a review of officers' body camera recordings and means the five officers involved will not face any criminal charges.

Three sources have confirmed to Guardian Australia that two officers have been killed and another wounded in the shooting at Porepunkah. None were authorised to comment on the incident and only one had been directly briefed on the incident by police. Victoria police has declined to comment on the active incident until it is operationally safe to do so.

In December 2022, Oliver was walking down the street in the early morning when Thomas approached him in an unmarked vehicle three separate times, according to the evidence in the case. Oliver testified that Thomas made sexual advances toward him, which Oliver rejected. Upon being approached a third time, Oliver shot into Thomas's vehicle, killing him. Oliver, who said he had feared for his safety, then fled the scene. Prosecutors insisted that his actions constituted murder.

A seven-hour standoff in Santa Rosa ended around 5 am when police shot and killed an allegedly armed suspect during a domestic violence incident involving an ex-lover.

Brian Joseph Montana, 60, died during a violent confrontation with police after threatening and shooting at his neighbors over lawn trimmings, resulting in a gunbattle.

"The shooting happened about 1:30 a.m. Friday in the 1000 block of West Grand Avenue. Officers identified themselves as police and moments later at least one shot was fired at them."

"At the end of the day, my brother is still not here. Tyrell Wilson is still not here. The lives he took are still not here. He should do his parole the whole time; he was convicted," Jennifer Leong, Arboleda's sister, told KQED.

An armed man lying in wait shot and wounded two Ohio police officers as they parked their vehicles to eat lunch. A responding officer was also shot.

Byrd, 40, was identified by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation as the parole agent shot and killed inside the Oakland parole unit on Thursday afternoon at about 12:50 p.m.

Domonick Knight, 38, suffered a gunshot wound to the head during an exchange of gunfire with police and was pronounced dead at a local hospital.