The Florida deputy who shot his ex-girlfriend several times as she walked her dog then turned the gun on himself Thursday morning was wearing his department-issued uniform at the time of his botched murder-suicide attempt. Palm Beach County sheriff’s deputy Michael DeMarco was sitting in his squad car inside of a gated community prior to … Read more
Body camera footage released after Louisville officers shot and killed a man has not convinced critics that the shooting was justified. The three videos released Tuesday show two officers firing at least five shots as 24-year-old Corey Boykin Jr. came out of a business on Fern Valley Road allegedly armed with a handgun. Boykin Jr. … Read more
LAS VEGAS – The Metro Police officer charged in the death of a man who died in police custody is no longer on the force. 8 News NOW learned from the Las Vegas Police Protective Association that Kenneth Lopera has retired. In June, the Clark County District Attorney’s office charged Lopera with involuntary manslaughter and … Read more
The family of Luke Stewart filed a federal lawsuit today against the city of Euclid and the two police officers who were directly involved in his March 2017 shooting death — including Matthew Rhodes, the officer who “entered into Luke’s car and beat, tased, and shot Luke multiple times, killing him.” In August, a Cuyahoga … Read more
MARKSVILLE, LA – Former Marksville deputy marshal, Norris Greenhouse Jr., returned to court Wednesday, October 4 to receive his formal sentence from a judge for his involvement in a shooting that left a 6-year-old boy dead. Derrick Stafford and Norris Greenhouse Jr. are accused of shooting and killing a six year old boy and critically … Read more
A police officer in Utah won’t face any charges following the fatal shooting of 50-year-old Patrick Harmon, who was reportedly pulled over for riding a bicycle without a light. Newly released body camera footage shows Harmon attempting to flee the scene, at which point officer Clinton Fox dispatched three fatal shots at Harmon, who’d been … Read more
Idaho — William Paul Taylor, a former Pocatello police officer, was charged with two counts of first-degree murder Thursday in relation to the death of his parents last month. Mary Jane Taylor, 77, and Paul Robert Taylor, 76, both of Nampa, were found dead on Sept. 14 at their house on the 1900 block of … Read more
PAULDING COUNTY, Ga. — Police say a deputy had no choice but to fire his weapon in a deadly shooting in Paulding County on Thursday – but family is calling it a murder. Deputy David Martin is a 10-year veteran of law enforcement. He’s been with the Paulding County Sheriff’s Office since February of 2014 … Read more
Miami Beach officials have settled a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of Israel Hernandez-Llach, the 18-year-old street artist who died on Aug. 6, 2013 after he was shot in the chest with a Taser fired by a city cop who was chasing him for scrawling graffiti on a wall. The teen’s death generated … Read more
ST. CHARLES, Mo. – A former sheriff’s deputy and Missouri correctional officer who was convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend and her boyfriend in a child custody dispute was sentenced to death Friday. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Judge Kelly Wayne Parker sentenced Marvin Rice to death in the 2011 slaying of Annette Durham and … Read more
Newly released video of the September police shooting of Rueben Galindo shows the Charlotte man exiting his apartment with his hands raised above his head seconds before officers fatally shot him. Between three and four seconds elapse from when Galindo appears at his doorway, Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officers begin to shout orders for him to drop … Read more
A former Texas police officer received nine months of probation for killing an unarmed man after a police chase in 2012. Patrick Wayne Tuter, 37, pleaded no contest Monday to a misdemeanor count of discharging a firearm, according to the Dallas Morning News. The incident began when Tuter spotted a white pickup truck just after … Read more