A fourth person has died after a car hit spectators during Oklahoma State University’s homecoming parade in Stillwater. A 2-year-old died at OU Medical Center Children’s Hospital in Oklahoma City, hospital spokeswoman Vallery Brown told CNN. Thirty-three people suffered injuries in the incident.
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James Holmes, condemned to spend the rest of his life in a Colorado prison, was allegedly assaulted there by a fellow inmate, a state corrections spokeswoman said Saturday.
In 2013, 69 children under the age of 14 died from the accidental discharge of a gun, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Brooklynn was one of them. But another comprehensive report on child gun deaths puts that number at 100, and American kids are 16 times more likely to be killed in accidental shootings than their peers in other high-income countries.
An Indiana man, who was looking at spending more than two decades on the sexual offender registry for a dating app hookup, got some good news.
A deputy was shot dead at a Minnesota hospital Sunday after the suspect he was guarding grabbed his gun and opened fire.
Police are searching for the suspect in the downtown Fort Myers shooting that left one person dead and four others injured.
The Oklahoma attorney general on Thursday sought an indefinite stay of three upcoming executions including that of Richard Glossip, whose planned execution a day earlier was stopped at the last minute because of a mix-up with lethal injection drugs.
Georgia death row inmate Kelly Gissendaner was executed by lethal injection Wednesday, Sept. 30 for her involvement in the killing of her husband. Watch the video above and listen to Gissendaner’s final words.
A suburban Chicago police officer whose shooting death has confounded investigators for weeks was killed with his own service weapon, authorities said Thursday.