CENTENNIAL, Colo. – A former Arapahoe County sheriff’s deputy was shot and killed by a deputy outside the sheriff’s office’s headquarters Sunday night. Deputies confirmed the shooting took place at an employee entrance to the parking lot on East Broncos Parkway around 9:45 p.m. The Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office says an on-duty deputy saw a … Read more
MACOMB COUNTY, Mich. – The Justice Department is releasing hundreds of documents for the first time in the death of an inmate inside the Macomb County Jail. David Stojcevski’s death sparked a national debate on the treatment of inmates after the Local 4 Defenders aired video of his final days, which included agonizing suffering due … Read more
Ruben Urbina’s family and friends are still refusing to accept the police department’s version of the 15-year-old boy’s shooting death outside his Haymarket townhome more than a month ago by a Prince William County police officer. Ruben’s parents joined with about 20 other community members and activists to demand more answers from police and prosecutors … Read more
The settlement was filed recently in U.S. District Court in Albany, where Cannon’s mother had filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Cannon’s infant daughter. Cannon’s symptoms steadily worsened after employees of a medical company that had a contract with the county brushed off his severe neurological symptoms as heat exhaustion, instructing guards to give … Read more
It was a long walk, some 20 miles from his home in Milledgeville to relatives living in the rural community of Deep Step. But 58-year-old Euree Martin made the trek routinely, without incident. But on July 7, someone observing Martin just walking down the street thought he was acting suspiciously and called 911. Three Washington … Read more
Jurors believed that Shannon Kepler made a mistake and didn’t intend to kill his estranged daughter’s boyfriend “in cold blood,” the foreperson said of the jury’s choice to convict him of manslaughter in the former Tulsa police officer’s fourth murder trial. The jury deliberated for about six hours on Oct. 18 before recommending that Kepler, … Read more
Alabama – The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments Thursday in the March 24, 2013 death of Phenix City resident Khari Neville Illidge after he was shot with a Taser 19 times and pinned on the ground by an officer. Attorney John Paul Schnapper-Casteras is representing Illidge’s mother, Gladis Callwood, in her civil … Read more
Jurors at the murder trial of a former Arizona police officer were shown on Thursday body camera footage of the cop killing an unarmed man who sobbed and begged not to be shot. It marked the first time since the January 2016 shooting of 26-year-old Daniel Shaver in Mesa that the full, unedited video has … Read more
Former Tulsa Police Officer Betty Shelby is able to legally say she was never arrested or prosecuted for the shooting death of Terence Crutcher last year after a judge granted her request to expunge the record of her manslaughter case. Neither Shelby, 43, nor her legal team were at the Tulsa County Courthouse on Wednesday … Read more
JACKSON- A retired Mississippi sheriff’s deputy faces a federal evidence tampering charge, accused of planting a wooden baton next to the body of a man he shot to death in 2013. The one-count indictment against former Bolivar County Deputy Walter Grant of Cleveland was unsealed Wednesday in federal court in Greenville. Grant, 51, pleaded not … Read more
Lawyers on both sides of a lawsuit focused on the death of Holding Center inmate Richard A. Metcalf Jr. have agreed to keep the depositions of Sheriff Timothy B. Howard and two of his top aides sealed, one of the attorneys said Wednesday. Jim Brown, whose Brown Chiari law firm represents Metcalf’s father, said his … Read more
The Brownsville, Texas Police Department and Texas Department of Public Safety have decided to ask a Texas Attorney General’s Office opinion regarding the release of police body camera video that shows police officers killing a man after they allegedly feared for their lives. It seems strange that they would not want the video to be … Read more