Police in central Louisiana are investigating a shooting Saturday morning that left a 12-year-old dead and another person wounded. Alexanderia Police released little information about the shooting, except to say they responded to the call just before 9 a.m. in the south part of the city and found the girl dead. The wounded person was …
A Colorado town councilman shot a 17-year-old boy in the face this week after his girlfriend reported the boy and his friend trespassing on her property. The two boys were actually scouting locations for homecoming photographs and stopped at the Jefferson County property to ask for permission, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office said. The boys …
Authorities paused the hunt for a man who wounded five people on Interstate 75 on Saturday as the sun fell over the southeastern Kentucky mountains Sunday night with plans to return to the hunt Monday morning. Kentucky State Police have taken the lead on the manhunt for Joseph Couch, a former National Guardsman believed to be …
Investigators recovered an AR-style rifle off a Forest Service road near where a gunman opened fire Saturday on vehicles traveling on Interstate 75 in eastern Kentucky. The rifle was found Sunday afternoon not far from where deputies found a silver Toyota SUV registered to the man the Laurel County Sheriff’s Office has now named a …
Interstate 75 in eastern Kentucky has been reopened after it was closed for several hours when a gunman opened fire on vehicles traveling the highway. The Laurel County Sheriff’s Office identified 32-year-old Joseph Couch as a person of interest and cautioned people not to approach him. Couch is considered “armed and dangerous” and still at …
A 3-year-old Detroit boy is in critical condition after picking up his mom’s loaded, unsecured handgun from a dresser where she left it and shooting himself in the face. Detroit Police James White said the wound was “descried to me as a graze wound, but I don’t want to commit to that, because the child …
Police placed a Georgia high school on lockdown Wednesday morning due to an “active shooter situation.” The Barrow County Sheriff’s Office reported that a suspect is now in custody and “casualties” have been confirmed following a shooting at Apalachee High School. Two people were reported dead and four people have been injured, according to 11 …
A woman and three children were found shot to death in a car in a city in northern Utah Tuesday night. The Weber County Sheriff’s Office told the Gephardt Daily that the four were found by a family member just before 10 p.m. in a neighborhood in West Haven. “When deputies arrived, they confirmed four …
A woman and two of her children were found shot to death in their Texas home on Sunday. A third child, 8 months old, was wounded and remains hospitalized in stable condition. Bullard Police identified the victims as Tatyanna Smith, 25; Madilynn Evans, 4; and Maison Evans, 2, KETK reported. The baby was identified as …
A 4-year-old Georgia girl is dead after she found her brother’s loaded, unsecured handgun and shot herself in the head. The Paulding County Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday that a 911 call came in early Friday morning about a child who had fallen and needed medical attention. When medics and deputies arrived on the scene, however, …
A 4-year-old Louisiana boy found a loaded, unsecured handgun in the glove box of a car and shot himself to death with it. According to WAFB, the incident took place just after 8:30 a.m. Sunday in Brusly. The Brusly Police Department said the gun was in a holster in the glove box. The boy shot …
A 5-year-old boy somehow found an loaded, unsecured gun in a Utah home on Thursday and shot himself with it. Santaquin Police said that medics tried to save the boy’s life, but he was pronounced dead at the scene, KSTU reported. Police were called to the scene just after 2 p.m., KTVX reported. Santaquin Police …
