Teen survivors from the school shooting in Florida are standing up and marching on Washington D.C. demanding change. They are determined to make sure this is the last mass shooting. These teens have had enough with the debate on gun control and believe that now is the time to end the argument and make a difference. […]
In Chicago, 17 people were shot, and one man was found dead over the weekend. The dead man was found unresponsive outside, on Jan. 14, 2018, in the West Pullman neighborhood. The man had wounds on his head, arms, and legs, according to police. Seventeen people were shot between Friday, Jan. 12, and Monday morning […]
A teenage boy in Long Branch, New Jersey allegedly shot and killed his parents, sister, and a family friend on New Year’s Eve 2017. Steven Kologi, age 44; Linda Kologi, age 42; Brittany Kologi, age 18; and Mary Schultz, age 70 were shot to death. The 16-year-old’s grandfather and brother were in the Long Branch […]
The investigation has taken two years, but the Civilian Office of Police Accountability (COPA) has ruled the Chicago shootings of Quintonio LeGrier and Bettie Jones as unjustified. Police documents stated that police responded to a domestic disturbance call of the West Side, on Dec. 26, 2015. As police arrived on the scene, LeGrier approached officers […]
On Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017, Chicago police officials were preparing for gang retaliation for the July shooting of Paul O’Neal, an unarmed black teenager. One gang was reportedly going to use a sniper to take out officers. O’Neal was shot during a car chase. He was not armed; therefore, it was a violation of department […]
Between Dec. 1-3, 2017, two people were killed and at least 14 were wounded in Chicago shootings, according to police. On Friday, at 8:34 p.m. shots were fired in the 400 block of West 38th Place in the South Side Bridgeport neighborhood. Police officers found a male who had been shot in the neck. He […]
In Madison County, Ohio, Feb. 29, 2016, four Madison Jr./Sr. High students are recovering in the hospital after being shot by a fellow student. WLWT News 5 reported that the shooting occurred at 11:30 a.m. EST when the shooter, named by the Butler County Investigative Services as James Austin Hancock, a 14-year-old Madison Jr./Sr. High […]
A series of shootings on Thursday, in which multiple people were killed, has ended. According to Harvey County Sheriff T. Walton, the suspected shooter was killed by authorities at his workplace, Excel Industries in Hesston, Kansas, which is located approximately 35 miles to the north of Wichita. Walton reported that three or four people, in […]
According to Chicago-Sun Times, there was a shooting in Chicago’s South Side shortly after 10:00 p.m. CST, on Feb. 20, 2016. An unidentified 33-year-old man was the recipient of multiple gunshots to his lower torso. The shooting occurred in the Chatham neighborhood on the 8100 block of South Harvard. The Chicago Police Department said the […]
Since Friday, Feb. 11, 2016, according to the Chicago police department, 10 people have been shot and three of them have died. The Chicago Sun-Times is keeping a tracker of all shootings from Feb. 12-16. The tracker is mapping the locations and times of shootings over President’s Day Weekend. At 5:20 a.m. CST on Saturday, […]