SALT LAKE CITY — An innocent bystander who was shot by a Unified police officer in a case of mistaken identity has reached a $1.2 million settlement with the police department. Unified police announced the settlement Friday between the department and Dustin Evans, his wife, Miranda Evans, and their attorney, Ross “Rocky” Anderson. “I am … Read more
CASTLE HILL, Bronx – An NYPD sergeant is due back in court, in the deadly shooting of a 66-year-old Bronx woman. Union members stood on the steps of City Hall Thursday to denounce the indictment against Sergeant Hugh Barry. He is charged with second-degree murder in the death of Deborah Danner inside her home in … Read more
NEWARK — Dashcam video from a 2014 fatal police shooting in Rutherford screened Friday by the state attorney general’s office was “an insult to the family” that revealed little about what actually happened, said the mother and grandmother of the Newark man who was killed. “If you were going to show us something, show us … Read more
The woman who called police prior to an officer-involved shooting in Grover Beach on Wednesday night says she knew the man who was killed. “He asked me out. I said I am not ready to have a relationship. He was calling, ‘Maribella, open the doors,’” she said. Officers shot and killed the man – whose … Read more
JACKSON, Ga. – A grand jury on Tuesday indicted a former police officer in Georgia on 11 counts of making false statements, violating her oath of office and tampering with evidence. Sherry Hall had been a Jackson police officer for three months when she reported that a black man shot her and ran away last … Read more
The sheriff’s deputy who struck a pedestrian in a deadly collision Friday morning in Fife was the same deputy who was involved in the fatal shooting of a 20-year-old man less than a month ago, the King County Sheriff’s Office said. The deputy had just been cleared to return to work on June 30 after … Read more
An 18-year-old Exeter man paralyzed after he was shot by police in April is recovering in a San Jose hospital while his attorney is demanding Tulare County law enforcement file charges against his client, release information about the incident or drop the case. On April 26, Adonis Serna says he borrowed a car from friends … Read more
NEW PHILADELPHIA, Ohio – A former Ohio police officer has been indicted on multiple charges for allegedly fabricating a story about being shot in the line of duty and forging documents to apply for injury benefits. Prosecutors with the Ohio Attorney General’s Special Prosecutions Section presented the case to a Tuscarawas County grand jury, and … Read more
ANTLERS, Okla. – The Pushmataha County Sheriff fired one of his deputies after investigators determined he made up a story about a shootout that led to a multi-county manhunt. On April 26th, Pushmataha County deputy Jason Day reported being involved in a shooting that led to a pursuit into McCurtain County. Day said it began … Read more
Dallas’ interim police Chief David Pughes on Wednesday terminated four employees, including an officer charged in a deadly shooting and a 911 call taker. Officer Christopher Hess is among those who were fired at the hearing. Hess reportedly violated the department’s felony traffic stop policy, use of deadly force policy and placed a person in … Read more
The Orange County District Attorney’s office released a report today justifying last November’s deadly shooting of Adalid Flores, an unarmed man, by Anaheim police officer Lorenzo Uribe. Flores fled the scene of a traffic collision on the 91 Freeway when an off-duty Los Angeles Police Department cop saw him running away with a friend. A … Read more
Rumain Brisbon had just pulled into the parking lot of his North Phoenix apartment complex on a December day in 2014 and gotten out of the car when a police officer confronted him. What happened next is disputed. The Phoenix officer, Mark Rine, has claimed that Brisbon reached for his waistband after being told to … Read more