RICHMOND, Va. — The naked man shot by police after he shut down traffic on Interstate 95 in Richmond Monday has died, according to Richmond Police. He was identified by police as Marcus-David L. Peters, 24, of the 6700 block of Dartmouth Avenue. The shooting took place near the I-95 northbound on-ramp from Chamberlayne Avenue … Read more
The death of a 22-year-old African-American man shortly after a struggle with police last week has been ruled a homicide, authorities in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana said Monday. Keeven Robinson, of Metairie, died last Thursday, following a police chase and an altercation with narcotics detectives from the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office, located outside of New Orleans, … Read more
Prosecutors have announced they will stage a retrial of a US border patrol agent who was cleared on a murder charge last month after shooting a teenager 10 times through the border fence into Mexico. Lonnie Swartz was found not guilty of second-degree murder, but jurors were deadlocked on whether he was guilty of manslaughter. … Read more
BOONEVILLE – A Kentucky sheriff told his deputy to shoot a man without provocation, then did not provide first aid or call an ambulance as the man bled to death on the floor of his apartment, according to a federal wrongful death lawsuit filed by the man’s children and estate. The lawsuit also alleges that … Read more
Three Lake County jail officers have been fired and a sergeant was demoted this week following investigations into a 2011 confrontation with an inmate that led to his paralysis and eventual death, authorities announced Wednesday. Six other jail employees also face disciplinary action in the case, which involved a homeless man named Eugene Gruber, Undersheriff … Read more
AT AROUND 4:41 P.M. on April 4, Saheed Vassell was shot and killed on the southwest corner of Utica Avenue and Montgomery Street, in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. The first police officers on the scene — and the ones who appeared to fire the first shots — were three members of … Read more
MINNEAPOLIS – The former Minneapolis police officer charged with murdering an unarmed Australian woman is expected to enter a not guilty plea on Tuesday. Mohamed Noor, 32, will enter his plea in Hennepin County District Court in Minneapolis and court documents filed last month show he intends to argue he used “reasonable force” last July … Read more
The death of a Bronx man in police custody after a violent struggle with cops has been ruled a homicide, officials from the city’s Medical Examiner’s office revealed Tuesday. An autopsy showed Dwayne Pritchett, 48, died as a result of a “physical struggle with police including neck compression.” A handcuffed Pritchett tried to grab a … Read more
Dec 17 2016 The Independent Police Review Authority has determined that a Chicago police officer was justified in fatally shooting 25-year-old Ronald Johnson III in the back in October 2014. In a ruling released Friday evening, the agency that investigates shootings by police stated that Officer George Hernandez was justified in shooting the African-American man … Read more
Oct 13, 2017 A federal judge has dropped Bexar County Sheriff’s Office from a lawsuit regarding the 2015 death of Gilbert Flores, a man who was holding his hands up in apparent surrender when two county deputies shot and killed him outside his parent’s house. But that doesn’t mean the entire case has been thrown … Read more
Oct 10, 2017 PHOENIX — A federal appeals court on Tuesday reinstated a civil lawsuit against a Pinal County deputy who shot and killed a man after it concluded there are questions about the deputy’s credibility. Judge Stephen Reinhardt, writing for the panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, said video evidence as well … Read more
21 May 2014 Five friends of Oscar Grant, the man who was fatally shot by a San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer, have reached a deal to settle a federal lawsuit against the agency, officials said. Jack Bryson Jr, Nigel Bryson, Michael Greer, Carlos Reyes and Fernando Anicete Jr will split $175,000 as … Read more