Police in Virginia are investigating after a toddler found a loaded, unsecured handgun Tuesday afternoon and killed herself with it. Hampton police said the incident took place just after 1 p.m., WVEC reported. The 2-year-old girl was taken to a local hospital, where she died. According to WAVY, the police department’s Major Crimes Unit is …
A 12-year-old Missouri boy shot his mother’s boyfriend in the head early Tuesday morning while the couple was arguing. St. Louis County police said the boy grabbed a shotgun, walked into the room where his mother and the man were arguing, and shot him. He fled the home after the shooting, KSDK reported. The man …
A 5-year-old Detroit is dead after he shot himself while jumping on a bed, playing with an unsecured and loaded handgun. Detroit Police Chief James White said the boy and four other young children home alone Saturday afternoon when the incident took place at about 1:30 p.m., WDIV reported. The gun was left on the …
An Ohio grandmother has been charged with intentionally shooting a 6-month-old baby in the head early Saturday morning. The baby is in critical condition at UC West Chester Hospital, the Butler County Sheriff’s Office said. Mia Desiree Harris, the infant’s grandmother, fled the scene after the shooting, which took place shortly before 2 a.m., but …
A Texas man has been arrested after a shooting spree on Tuesday left six people dead and three others wounded in Austin and Bexar County, including two police officers. Austin Police have not named the suspect, but KXAN reported he is 34-year-old Shane James. A person by that name was booked into the Travis County …
A 15-year-old girl was wounded in the shooting.
A Louisiana man was arrested Saturday night after he allegedly opened fire into the crowd at a large ATV trail ride in Port Hudson. A 16-year-old boy, identified as La’Taurus Smith, was killed in the shooting. WAFB reported. Two other people were wounded. The East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office said it arrested Lamar Hall, …
The parents of a Belmont University student who was shot and killed earlier this month are speaking out against “the system” after the man who shot her was released from jail. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Jillian Ludwig, 18, was shot while walking along a track at Edgehill Community Memorial Gardens Park, not far from the …
Police in Vermont are investigating a triple shooting Saturday night in Burlington that sent three young men of Palestinian descent to the hospital. Burlington Police said the three men, all 20 years old, were visiting a relative for the Thankgsgiving holiday, the Burlington Free Press reported. They were walking on North Prospect Street when they …
The teenage son of a homeless advocate is accused of killing a homeless man in what may have been revenge for attacking his girlfriend, The Philadelphia Inquirer reports. Authorities allege that around noon Wednesday, 15-year-old Thomas James Niarhos shot and killed 39-year-old Jeremiah Waylon Hawkins in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, as CrimeOnline reported. Hawkins was found with …
A 3-year-old girl was shot and killed Saturday morning at a Florida extended stay hotel. The Broward Sheriff’s Office said the shooting took place just after 8 a.m. at an Extended Stay America in Tamarac, WPLG reported. They said the girl was accompanied by a woman but did not say if the woman was related …
A Virginia father was arrested Friday on charges stemming from the shooting of his 3-year-old son last week. Richmond Police said they were alled to an apartment complex shortly before 10 a.m. on November 16 for the shooting and found the toddler with a gunshot wound to the neck, WTKR reported. The boy was taken …
