A former Oklahoma cop will spend the next 15 years in prison for shooting his daughter’s teenage boyfriend to death over two years ago. Ex-Tulsa police officer Shannon Kepler claimed he acted in self-defense when he gunned down Jeremey Lake on Aug. 5, 2014, shortly after the 19-year-old had started dating his daughter, Lisa. But … Read more
CALIFORNIA – A Lindsay man is suing the city, alleging wrongful death and use of excessive force after his grown son stopped breathing in the back of a police car while reportedly hog-tied and unable to breathe. The city said he tried to attack officers and died from an overdose of methamphetamine. Joshua Gonzales, 24, … Read more
A police officer shot dead three people and injured three others before committing suicide in the northern suburbs of Paris, according to local prosecutors. It all started as he and his girlfriend were “discussing their separation in a car.” The shooting began at around 8:45pm on Saturday night in the commune of Sarcelles, where an … Read more
On the one-year anniversary of the day their father was shot and killed by two Sacramento sheriff’s deputies, sisters Bobbi Attaway and Sierra Rivera returned to the suburban street where he died, and where they thought they could still see traces of his blood staining the asphalt. Official reports on the shooting last September had … Read more
CHARLESTON, S.C. – A former South Carolina police officer filmed as he fatally shot an unarmed motorist in the back two years ago will be sentenced on Dec. 4 on a federal civil rights charge, court officials said on Friday. Ex-North Charleston officer Michael Slager pleaded guilty in May to violating motorist Walter Scott’s civil … Read more
Two Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officers will not be charged after killing a Charlotte man in September who carried an unloaded gun but had his hands raised when he was shot, Mecklenburg County District Attorney Andrew Murray announced Friday. Courtney Suggs and David Guerra have been on paid administrative leave since Sept. 6, when 29-year-old Ruben Galindo … Read more
It’s a standoff that has cost North Miami taxpayers close to $175,000, left the city with one less senior police officer, and remains a sticking point for a city trying to move past a controversial police shooting. And now, 16 months after behavioral specialist Charles Kinsey was shot lying flat on his back with his … Read more
Two boys were killed Thursday evening after they were struck by a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department vehicle that was involved in a crash while responding to a radio call of shots fired, authorities said. The three-car crash occurred about 7:30 p.m. in the 800 block of South Indiana Street in Boyle Heights. The impact … Read more
Kristina Compher worries that her three children are not the same people they were a year ago, before their father Christopher Murphy died after an auto accident and subsequent encounter with two California Highway Patrol officers who allegedly hit him with a Taser, hog-tied and handcuffed him after finding him wandering near the crash. Her … Read more
The parents of a 39-year-old who died in a Christmas Eve confrontation with the Los Angeles Police Department in 2014 was awarded $5.5 million by a federal jury on Monday, KPCC radio reports. KPCC reports that LAPD officers “hit the man with their batons and fists, pepper sprayed and restrained him.” An officer also stunned … Read more
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. The son of an Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD) officer killed in a murder-suicide has filed a federal lawsuit against the City of Indianapolis, IMPD, and Chief Rick Hite. Officer Kim Carmack was buried in the Heroes of Public Safety section of Crown Hill Cemetery, nearly a week after she was killed by her … Read more
COLERAIN TOWNSHIP, Ohio – A former police officer apologized to his wife’s family Tuesday for killing her in 2016. “I am sorry. I do not know what happened. At some point hopefully you can forgive me,” Jeffrey Hawkins said in court after taking a 20-year prison sentence in a plea deal. Hawkins shot his wife … Read more