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Texas Boy, 3, Dies After Accidentally Shooting Himself in the Chest at Birthday Party
A Texas child is dead after accidentally shooting himself in the chest during his birthday party, according to the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office.
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White Mich. Couple Charged After Gun Pulled on Black Family
A white couple face criminal charges after one of them was captured on video pulling a handgun on a Black woman and her daughters in a restaurant parking lot in Michigan
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Couple Draw Guns at Group Marching to Home of St. Louis Mayor
A white couple stood outside their mansion and pointed guns at protesters in St. Louis as the group marched toward the mayor’s home to demand her resignation. Police said people in the crowd yelled threats at the couple. Mark McCloskey, 63, told a TV station that he and wife, Patricia, both personal injury lawyers, were facing an “angry mob” on…
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Man Killed in Humboldt Park Shooting
A man was shot to death Saturday in Humboldt Park on the Northwest Side. The 28-year-old was found on the sidewalk with a gunshot wound to the head at 11:08 p.m. in the 3400 block of West North Avenue, according to Chicago police. Two males were seen running from the scene. The man, identified as Alejandro Castro, was taken to…
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Concealed-Carry Holder Released Without Charges in Fatal Shooting of Teen
A gunman who claimed he was firing in self defense when he fatally shot a teenage boy Thursday on the Southwest Side was released without being charged. The 16-year-old boy was a passenger in a vehicle when someone shot him in the head about 10:35 a.m. in the 3900 block of West 83rd Street, Chicago police said. A female driver…
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5-Year-Old Boy Accidentally Shoots Self in Woodlawn: Police
A man was arrested after his 5-year-old son shot himself in the hand Friday in Chicago’s Woodlawn neighborhood on the South Side, according to police. While his parents were asleep, the boy found the gun in his father’s pants pocket, took it to the bathroom where he was handling it when it discharged just after midnight, police said. He...
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Person Robbed At Gunpoint In Online-Arranged Sale in Naperville
Police are searching for two men wanted in a Tuesday armed robbery in west suburban Naperville. Two suspects arranged online to purchase a “high-value item” from the victim shortly before noon in the 200 block of East Bailey Road, Naperville police said in a statement. When they met, the suspects showed a gun, grabbed the item and drove off in…
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Man Cleaning Gun Fatally Shoots Best Friend in Apparent Accident
A man playing a video game in a mobile home in the Oklahoma City suburb of Midwest City was fatally shot Sunday, apparently in an accident, by his best friend who was cleaning a gun, police said.
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Restaurant Robbed at Gunpoint Near North Park University
A person robbed a restaurant at gunpoint Tuesday near North Park University on Chicago’s Northwest Side. About 10:25 p.m., a male walked into the restaurant in the 3300 block of West Foster Avenue and approached a female clerk who was behind the counter, Chicago police said. He then pulled out a handgun and told her to empty the cash register….
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Teen Found With Pellet Gun at Chicago High School
A teenage boy was arrested Wednesday for carrying a pellet gun at a high school in Bronzeville on the South Side.
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TSA Agents Find More Guns Than Ever at Airports Nationwide
Transportation Security Administration agents are finding more guns than ever before in carry-on bags at airport checkpoints nationwide, according to TSA data obtained by NBC 7 Investigates.
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Gilroy Garlic Festival Turns Deadly After Gunman Opens Fire
Three people were killed, including a 6-year-old boy, and 12 others were wounded Sunday after a gunman cut through a fence to avoid security and opened fire at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California.
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Suspect Confesses to Killing 5 With Dad's Gun: Sheriff
A young man from Louisiana has confessed to killing his parents, his girlfriend, and two of her family members who had taken him in after he was kicked out of his house, authorities said Tuesday. Dakota Theriot, 21, told authorities he used a gun he stole from his father, Livingston Parish Sheriff Jason Ard said at a news conference.
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I-Team: U.S. Olympic Squad Partners With Gun Website That Hosts Nazi Product Ads
The Anti-Defamation League is blasting the U.S. Olympic Shooting organization for partnering with firearms auction website Gunbroker.com which the I-Team discovered is also hosting sales of Holocaust relics and concentration camp memorabilia.
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Fellow Designers, Celebrities Mourn Kate Spade's Suicide on Social Media
Hundreds of people — including fellow designers and celebrities — took to social media to mourn the death of fashion icon Kate Spade on Tuesday as news of the 55-year-old’s apparent suicide spread.
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Kate Spade Found Dead of Apparent Suicide in Park Avenue Apartment
Fashion icon Kate Spade has been found dead of an apparent suicide in her Manhattan home, law enforcement sources tell News 4. She was 55.
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Dancing FBI Agent Accidentally Shoots Man After Backflip
An unidentified FBI agent accidentally shot a man in the leg after his gun fell out of his holster during a blackflip at a Denver nightclub.
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Gunshot at Georgia School Reignites Debate on Arming Teachers
Police say they don’t know why a popular Social Studies teacher, Jesse Randal Davidson, allegedly fired a handgun inside his classroom, causing a chaotic lockdown and evacuation of his Georgia high school. But it immediately pierced the national debate over whether educators should be armed. Dalton High School teacher Jesse Randal Davidson is accused of barricading himself inside a classroom...
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Gun Enthusiast Destroys Prized Firearm to Protest Gun Violence, Challenges Others to Do Same
A Southern California man, fed up with the growing number of mass shootings across the U.S., decided to do his part to help end gun violence by destroying his AR-15, NBC affiliate WFLA reported.
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Ohio Man Pulls Gun on McDonald's Employee Due to Lack of Egg McMuffins
An Egg McMuffin caused an uproar at a McDonald’s in Ohio when a man pulled his gun on the drive-thru employee.