Category: officer

Police Officer Shot in Head in Line of Duty Promoted Honorary Detective 5 Years Later

An Illinois police officer who sustained three gunshot wounds to the neck and jaw has since managed to fulfil a dream. Five years after the tragic incident, having suffered a traumatic brain injury, he has been honorarily promoted to the rank of detective. Park Forest police officer Timothy Jones, 29, was new on the force…


Trial of Met Officer Accused of Sarah Everard Murder Set for October

The Met Police officer accused of the kidnapping and murder of Sarah Everard is to go on trial in October after the date was set during a court hearing today at the Old Bailey in London. A provisional trial date for Wayne Couzens, 48, who is a serving officer, has been set for Oct. 25 according…


London Police Officer Arrested in Connection With Disappearance of Sarah Everard

A serving London police officer has been arrested in connection with the disappearance of Sarah Everard, in a development described by senior officers as shocking and deeply disturbing. Everard, 33, was last seen a week ago, as she walked from a friend’s house in South London to her home near Clapham Common. On Tuesday night,…


US Youth Testifies He Stabbed Italian Officer in Defense

ROME—A young American on trial in Rome for the slaying of an Italian police officer has told the court that he stabbed the victim because he feared he was being strangled by a thug. Finnegan Lee Elder, 21, and a friend from California, Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, 20, are charged in the murder of a Carabinieri paramilitary…


Officer Dies Trying to Rescue 2 Teenagers Who Fell Through Ice in Ohio Lake

An Ohio officer has died in the line of duty while trying to rescue two teenagers who fell into a frozen lake earlier this week, authorities confirmed. The drowning incident happened on Tuesday around 6:00 p.m. at Rocky Fork State Park in Hillsboro—a city in Highland County, WCPO reported. One of the teenagers, identified as…


With Ashli Babbitt Killing Shrouded in Mystery, Officer Who Shot Her Is in Hiding for His Own Safety

All told, seven people died in connection with the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6. But only Ashli Babbitt’s death was directly caused by violence that day. She was a rioter killed by a Capitol Police officer, who fired the only shot by any person during the 4½-hour siege. Yet the story of who he…


New Mexico State Police Officer Shot and Killed on Highway

DEMING, N.M.—New Mexico was in mourning Friday over the shooting death of a State Police officer in a highway-stop confrontation linked by authorities to drug trafficking that touched off a 40-mile police chase. Officials say the attacker was killed in a shootout with police at Las Cruces, where another officer was wounded. The officer killed…


‘Might Be the End for Me:’ Police Officers Recount Jan. 6 Capitol Attack

The police officer who was crushed in a door frame during the Jan. 6 breach of the Capitol building said he thought he might die. “That was one of the three times that day where I thought: Well, this might be it,” Daniel Hodges, a 32-year-old patrol officer in Washington’s 4th District, told WJLA. “This…


Video: Texas Police Officer Uses Own Money to Buy Stranded Homeless Man a New Wheelchair

During a routine audit of body camera footage, a Texas police department caught one of their officers performing an act of unprecedented kindness. A Carrollton police officer, who has requested to remain anonymous, used his own money to buy a new wheelchair for a homeless man in dire straits. The bodycam footage shows the officer purchasing…