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One security officer with the Federal Protective Service was killed, and another injured after shots rang out amid protests in Oakland amid protests over the death of George Floyd on Friday, authorities said.

Outrage is spreading over a shooting of a black man that led to murder charges more than two months later against a white father and son, but “all that matters is what the facts tell us,” Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Vic Reynolds said Friday.

The original report listed the incident as a “suspected hate crime,” but a newly-released Secret Service document suggest Alazo’s motives may have come from somewhere deeper.

On March 7, Joshua Love became a part of Chicago’s other pandemic. The 21-year old was shot, the single bullet severing his spinal cord. Long before the word coronavirus became a part of our lives, another public health crisis played out in Chicago on an almost daily basis: people being shot.  That crisis has not abated. Love is now a...

The family of a 27-year old Chicago woman who was shot and killed Tuesday in the Logan Square neighborhood is offering an $8,000 reward that leads to the arrest of a suspect. A stray bullet struck Alexa Baute in the chest as she was waiting in a socially distanced-line outside the 7-11 on Milwaukee and Fullerton around 8 p.m., just…

Alexa Baute, 27, was social distancing as she stood in line on Tuesday at a 7-11 in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood when she was struck and killed by a stray bullet. NBC 5’s Patrick Fazio reports.

Two people were killed and seven others were wounded in shootings across Chicago Wednesday, the majority of which occurred in just under an hour in the afternoon. A 15-year-old boy was gunned down in the latest shooting in Lawndale. About 3:35 p.m., the boy was near South Kilbourn Avenue when someone opened fire, hitting him in the abdomen and leg,…

Police say a South Carolina man suspected of shooting and killing another man after a dispute tried to ride his bicycle into the crime scene shouting “I killed him.”

Police have not discussed possible motives for Anthony Ferrill’s gunning down five co-workers last week. The brewery disclosed the noose incident.

Gunman opens fire at Molson Coors headquarters, killing five people before taking his own life.

A would-be mother was killed in a shooting Friday night in North Philadelphia that also left a man very seriously wounded, police said. Medical workers performed an emergency cesarean delivery on Ishan Charmidah Rahman, who was six months pregnant, but the baby did not survive, police said. The shooting occurred just before 6 p.m. near North Ninth and West York…

Students say they want to feel supported, not just policed.

Pastor Corey Brooks held an emergency press conference after a Friday night shooting at the Parkway Gardens complex that injured six people on Chicago’s South Side.

An aspiring model, an artist and a young man who loved going to church: these are just some of the lives honored in a powerful exhibit that aims to bring attention to the real victims of gun violence in the city and the nation. The Gun Violence Memorial Project at the Chicago cultural Center features four glass houses with a…

The Gun Violence Memorial project is aiming to bring attention to the real victims of gun violence in the city and the nation. NBC 5’s Regina Waldroup has the story.

A father who police say fabricated a story of a robbery and home invasion after his 4-year-old son accidentally shot himself in the head in their North Philadelphia home faces involuntary manslaughter charges.

One person is dead and three others were injured after a shooting in Ottawa. Police are still searching for the suspect.

The family of a 16-year-old girl who died over the weekend after being shot in the head in the Little Village neighborhood, spoke out Monday, remembering their beloved victim and urging the Chicago community that gun violence has to stop. NBC 5’s Christian Farr reports.

A school officer and a student were injured at Wisoonsin’s Oshkosh West High School Tuesday morning, when the student was shot after attempting to stab the office with a sharp object. The shooting comes just one day after a school resource officer at Waukesha South High School shot a 17-year-old armed student who refused to drop his weapon.