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Police searched Monday for two assailants who sneaked into a backyard party in Fresno and opened fire while a small crowd watched football on television. Four people were killed and six wounded.

Four people were killed and six were wounded Sunday night in Fresno, California, when “unknown suspects” sneaked into a backyard and opened fire on a group gathered to watch a football game, Fresno police told NBC News. Kris Sanchez reports.

An officer was seriously injured after being hit by a CPD vehicle during a police pursuit Thursday in Chicago’s Lawndale neighborhood, police said as a search for two suspects continues in the city.

Two Minneapolis residents were federally charged with illegally buying a gun that was used in three shootings, including those of a Chicago police officer and a woman walking in the Fulton River District last week. Sequana Cigolo, 38, and Jason Lynndrotti Winston, 48, are each charged with straw purchasing a firearm, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office...

A man accused of shooting a woman as she went out on her lunch break in the Fulton River District last week often delivered food to her building and struggled to get by security, police said.

A man accused of shooting a woman as she went out on her lunch break in the Fulton River District last week often delivered food to her building and struggled to get by security, police said. NBC 5’s Charlie Wojciechowski has the latest.

Cook County officers have deployed in Chicago’s Austin neighborhood, inside the City of Chicago which is traditionally the turf of Chicago Police. They say the result has been overwhelmingly positive.

NBC 5 Investigates: A bold policing initiative that appears to be a big succes in the Austin neighborhood on the west side, but the players are not officers you’d typically encounter inside the city. NBC 5’s Phil Rogers has more. 

A 30-year-old man died in Manhattan after the elevator he was trying to exit apparently malfunctioned and trapped him, pinning him between the elevator car and the shaft wall, officials say.

In another tragedy for the NYPD, a veteran police officer died by suicide in his Queens home Wednesday evening, police said — the seventh member of the force to do so in the last 10 weeks and the second in just two days.

A fifth NYPD officer has died by suicide in the last two months, escalating a recent crisis that has caused all levels of police leadership to speak out on the need for cops to look after their mental health and that of their colleagues.

The department is urging employees to seek help if they need it. Drew Wilder reports.

A developmentally disabled man wore a monster mask and played music from the horror movie “Halloween” when he stabbed a caretaker more than 30 times, Will County officials said.