Category: shooting

Drive-By Shooting Wounds 3, Kills 12-Year-Old Bystander

HARTFORD, Conn.—Bullets sprayed out from a speeding car in Connecticut’s capital, killing an innocent 12-year-old bystander and wounding three other people, authorities said Friday. The suspects in the drive-by shooting appeared to target three males who were standing on a sidewalk on a residential street not far from downtown Hartford shortly after 8:30 p.m. Thursday,…


Man Shot to Death at a Starbucks in Mexico City

MEXICO CITY—A man was shot to death at a Starbucks coffee shop in an upscale neighborhood of Mexico City, and police said he apparently had links to a northern Mexico drug cartel. City police said the shooting occurred Thursday inside the Plaza Carso shopping mall on the edge of the wealthy Polanco district. Photos posted…


Child Among 10 Family Members Killed in South Africa Shooting

JOHANNESBURG—Ten members of the same family, seven of them female and one a 13-year-old boy, were killed in a mass shooting at a house in South Africa, police said Friday. A male suspect was killed in a shootout with police hours after and two men were arrested. A fourth suspect escaped but his identity is…


Investigators: Gunmen Fired Into Crowd at Alabama Sweet 16 Party

DADEVILLE, Ala.—Investigators said five people charged in a deadly shooting at Sweet 16 birthday party had fired guns into the crowd at the celebration. Investigators wrote in court documents filed Thursday that they believe the five were present at the party and “discharged firearms into the crowd” resulting in the deaths of four people. The…


Kansas City Homeowner Pleads Not Guilty to Assault in Shooting of Teen

LIBERTY, Missouri—An 84-year-old white man charged in the shooting and wounding of a black teenager who mistakenly walked up to the man’s house in Kansas City pleaded not guilty to felony charges on Wednesday during his first court appearance in the case. Andrew Lester would face a maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted…


Kansas City Homeowner Pleads Not Guilty to Assault in Shooting of Black Teen

LIBERTY, Missouri—An 84-year-old white man charged in the shooting and wounding of a Black teenager who mistakenly walked up to the man’s house in Kansas City pleaded not guilty to felony charges on Wednesday during his first court appearance in the case. Andrew Lester would face a maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted…


Police: Maine Man Killed Parents Before Firing on Motorists

BOWDOIN, Maine—A man confessed to killing four people, including his parents, and then firing on motorists on a busy interstate highway, just days after being released from prison, police said Wednesday. Mike Sauschuck, commissioner of the Maine Department of Public Safety, called the shootings of four people at a home in Bowdoin and then three…


Alabama Police Arrest 2 Teens for Birthday Party Shooting

DADEVILLE, Ala.—Two teenagers have been arrested and charged with murder in connection with a shooting that killed four young people at a Sweet Sixteen birthday party, Alabama investigators announced Wednesday. District Attorney Mike Segrest said the pair—Ty Reik McCullough, 17, and Travis McCullough, 16, both of Tuskegee—would be tried as adults. That’s automatically required in…


Kansas City Homeowner Charged in Shooting of Teen Released on Bond

An 84-year-old white man charged in the shooting and wounding of a black teenager who mistakenly walked up to the man’s house in Kansas City surrendered to police, the Clay County Sheriff’s Office said on Tuesday, but was freed on bond within a few hours. Andrew Lester had been charged a day earlier with first-degree…


Judge Seals Alec Baldwin Settlement Terms in Fatal Shooting

SANTA FE, N.M.—The judge hearing the wrongful death lawsuit against actor Alec Baldwin and an array of producers and crew linked to a fatal film set shooting agreed Monday to seal from public view the terms of a proposed settlement agreement in the case that benefits the son of slain cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. The New…