Five people were shot — one fatally — across the city Wednesday and Thursday, according to police.Most recently, a 25-year-old man was blasted in the stomach
Five people were shot — one fatally — across the city Wednesday and Thursday, according to police.
Most recently, a 25-year-old man was blasted in the stomach on the grounds of the Gun Hill Houses on Magenta Street in the Bronx just before 2:30 a.m. Thursday, cops said.
He was taken to NYC health + Hospitals/Jacobi with non-life-threatening injuries and is described as highly uncooperative, according to police.
Nearly three hours earlier, a 32-year-old man was struck in the ankle on Ralph Avenue near East 76th Street in Canarsie.
The shooter took off, heading north on Ralph Avenue, in a white Honda Civic sedan, with damage on the side doors, police said.
The victim was taken to Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center. It is unclear whether he was the intended target.
On Wednesday afternoon, Manuel Valarezo, 33, was gunned down on Post Avenue near Academy Street in Inwood during some type of altercation around 4:45 p.m., cops said.
A teen was shot in the leg Friday morning in Pittsburgh’s Spring Hill neighborhood, according to police.Pittsburgh police responded about 7:20 a.m. to an apartment building on Rhine Place and found a 14-year-old boy with a gunshot wound to his leg, said Public Safety spokesman Maurice Matthews.
TURTLE CREEK, Pa. (AP) — Authorities are investigating the shooting death of a man near Pittsburgh by a woman after a domestic altercation that lasted for hours.
Allegheny County police said officers and paramedics in the borough of Turtle Creek were called to the home shortly after 5 a.m. Saturday and found the man shot multiple times. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The county medical examiner’s office identified him as 24-year-old Nigel Broadus.
Police said the 28-year-old woman told them the man refused to leave her home at about 2 a.m. Saturday and she was repeatedly assaulted and held against her will for about three hours. Police said he threatened to kill her and began looking for her firearm, but she was able to retrieve the weapon and fired as he came toward her.
The shootings occurred sometime before 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at Brook Street and Broadway, a supervisor with MetroSafe confirmed to WDRB News. Schroeder said the officers were responding to South Brook and East College streets on reports of a shooting and a large crowd in the area when they were shot.
One of the officers is undergoing surgery, and the other is alert, LMPD interim Chief Robert Schroeder said.
RUFFS DALE, Pa. — A woman has been charged with first degree murder and criminal homicide in the shooting death of her boyfriend Sunday night inside her Westmoreland County home.
According to police, Meghan West, 29, invited Andrew Pristas, 30, to the Valley High Mobile Home Park in Ruffs Dale.
Just before midnight, the two got into an argument over something on West’s phone. She ran into a bedroom and locked herself inside. According to police, she grabbed a gun and fired a warning shot through the door.
West claims that Pristas continued to try to break down the locked door before she fired a second round into the door, which struck him.
“She went outside the door and realized he was laying there in a pool of blood, initiated a 911 phone call and she did render some medical aid,” said Trooper Steve Limani of the Pennsylvania State Police.
An unidentified shooter who opened fire at a Pennsylvania shopping mall remained on the loose Sunday morning, hours after dozens of police vehicles surrounded the building and officers rushed in to assess the scene and evacuate shoppers taking shelter in various stores.
A gunman who opened fire inside a Pennsylvania shopping mall remained on the loose Sunday morning, hours after dozens of police vehicles surrounded the building and officers rushed in to evacuate frightened shoppers.
The shooting happened at Lehigh Valley Mall in Fullerton, Pa., shortly before 5 p.m. Saturday. No injuries were reported.
Four shots were fired in the lower level near a sporting goods store, Whitehall Township Police Chief Michael Marks said.
“The responding officers needed to get into the mall and make sure there was no active gunfire occurring at the moment,” Marks said Saturday night, according to WFMZ. “As far as our secondary operations right now, that’s just making sure that the mall is empty and we were able to account for everybody employed or at least at the mall at that point.”
A manhunt was underway early Saturday in Rochester, N.Y., after a shooting at a backyard party left at least two people dead and 14 wounded, according to reports.
SWISSVALE, Pa. —A 21-year-old man was found shot in Swissvale and taken to a hospital in critical condition Thursday morning, police said.
Allegheny County homicide detectives said the victim was found with a gunshot wound to the abdomen when police responded to a report of a shooting at Woodstock Avenue and Ardmore Street just after 10:40 a.m.
No suspects have been identified. Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call 833-ALL-TIPS. Anonymous calls will be accepted.
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The two officers were transported to a local hospital and are “both still fighting for their lives,” LASD says.
(CNN)Two Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputies were shot while in the city of Compton on Saturday night, according to the department’s official Twitter account.
“One male deputy and one female deputy were ambushed as they sat in their patrol vehicle,” the tweet read. “Both sustained multiple gunshot wounds and are in critical condition. They are both currently undergoing surgery. The suspect is still at large.”
Sheriff Alex Villanueva and Capt. Kent Wegener said during a briefing that the incident took place at 7 p.m. local time (10 p.m. ET).Wegener said the suspect approached from behind the deputies’ vehicle and walked along the passenger side of the car.He acted as if he was going to walk past the car, raised a pistol and shot multiple times hitting both deputies, Wegener said.
Four Houston police officers have been fired for fatally shooting an apparently emotionally disturbed man who was on the ground, wounded and incapacitated, before a final volley of 21 shots, officials said.
(CNN)Two people are dead and a third was injured in Kenosha, Wisconsin, following a shooting late Tuesday night, police said.
The shooting happened amid the third night of protests over the police shooting of 29-year-old Jacob Blake on Sunday evening.
On Tuesday, officers responded to reports of multiple gunshot victims around 11:45 p.m., the Kenosha Police Department said in a news release early Wednesday.
The person injured was taken to the hospital with “serious, but non-life threatening injuries,” police said.
An investigation into the shooting is ongoing and the names and ages of the victims are still being determined, according to the release.
CNN has reached out to the Kenosha Police Department and the Kenosha County Sheriff’s Office.
Protests in Kenosha have been ongoing since Blake’s shooting. Wisconsin’s governor declared a state of emergency Tuesday after cars and buildings were set ablaze and called in 250 members of the National Guard to assist. Blake remains in the hospital but his family says he is paralyzed from the waist down. A family attorney said it would take a “miracle” for Blake to ever walk again.
Child was shot and killed in Pittsburgh’s Spring Hill-City View neighborhood on Monday evening
Police said the 1-year-old suffered a gunshot wound to the head.
According to a press release from Pittsburgh Public Safety, police transported the child to the hospital. The press release said, “With a police sergeant driving, two police officers held the baby in the backseat and worked to control the bleeding. The child arrived at the hospital in critical condition.”
The child later died of his injuries.
According to investigators, the shots were fired outside and traveled through a window and then two walls before hitting the child.
No arrests have been announced.
Early Tuesday morning, Mayor Bill Peduto tweeted about the shooting, writing, “Senseless gun violence must end. Another innocent life has been stolen. We will work endlessly to find the actor and hold them accountable for this horrific crime.”
The Allegheny County Medical Examiner today ruled the death of Tionna Highsmith a homicide.
Highsmith was shot and paralyzed in 2005 when she was caught in the crossfire of a shootout during a church festival in Brighton Heights. She was found deceased in her apartment in January. Highsmith was 29.
The Pittsburgh Bureau of Police continue to investigate this senseless act of violence that led to the death of an innocent person.
Anyone with any information on this case is urged to call Violent Crime Unit detectives at (412) 323-7161.
Police responded to reports of shots fired at the motel on Colosseum Drive in Rockford just before 1am local time Sunday. The suspect was confirmed dead six hours later.
Police responded to the shooting at the Super 8 in Rockford before 1am Sunday
Officers discovered three people with gunshot wounds at the scene
One of the victims was pronounced dead and the others are injured
The male suspect barricaded themselves inside the motel and was confirmed dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at about 6.45am
Police said the suspect and the officers exchanged multiple rounds of gunfire
A male victim was in critical condition following a shooting early Saturday on Pittsburgh’s North Side, according to city police.
The victim was found with multiple gunshot wounds after police responded to a ShotSpotter notification around 1:40 a.m. in the 300 block of West Burgess Street in Perry South.
Medics took him to a local hospital.
Violent Crime Unit detectives are investigating.
Date: May 16, 2020 Incident Type: Shooting Location: Zone 1 Summary:
Pittsburgh Bureau of Police officers responded to a ShotSpotter notification on the 300 block of W Burgess Street around 1:40 a.m.
Zone 1 officers found a male with multiple gunshot wounds. Medics transported the male to a local hospital in critical condition.
TORONTO (AP) — A gunman disguised as a police officer shot people in their homes and set fires in a rampage across the Canadian province of Nova Scotia that killed 16 people, the deadliest such attack in the country’s history. Officials said Sunday the suspected shooter was also dead.
A police officer was among those killed. Several bodies were found inside and outside one home in the small, rural town of Portapique, about 60 miles (100 kilometers) north of Halifax — what police called the first scene. Bodies were also found at other locations. The assault began late Saturday, and authorities believe the shooter may have targeted his first victims but then began attacking randomly.
Overnight, police began advising residents of the town — already on lockdown because of the coronavirus pandemic — to lock their doors and stay in their basements. Several homes in the area were set on fire as well.
Police identified the man believed to be the shooter as Gabriel Wortman, 51, who was thought to live part-time in Portapique. Authorities said he wore a police uniform at one point and made his car look like a Royal Canadian Mounted Police cruiser.
Police first announced that they had arrested Wortman at a gas station in Enfield, outside Halifax, but later said he had died. It was not clear how, and they did not explain further.
“This is one of the most senseless acts of violence in our province’s history,” said Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil.
RCMP spokesman Daniel Brien confirmed that 16 people had been killed in addition to the suspect. The dead officer was identified as Constable Heidi Stevenson, a mother of two and a 23-year veteran of the force. Another officer was also injured.
Mass shootings are relatively rare in Canada. The country overhauled its gun-control laws after gunman Marc Lepine killed 14 women and himself at Montreal’s Ecole Polytechnique college in 1989. Before this weekend’s rampage, that had been the country’s worst.
It is now illegal to possess an unregistered handgun or any kind of rapid-fire weapon in Canada. The country also requires training, a personal risk assessment, two references, spousal notification and criminal record checks to purchase a weapon.
“As a country, in moments like these, we come together to support one another. Together we will mourn with the families of the victims, and help them get through this difficult time,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in a written news release.
While they believe the attack did not begin as random, police did not say what the initial motive was. RCMP Chief Superintendent Chris Leather said many of the victims did not know the shooter.
“That fact that this individual had a uniform and a police car at his disposal certainly speaks to it not being a random act,” Leather said. He added that police believe he acted alone.
Leather said they would investigate whether the attack had anything to do with the coronavirus pandemic but no link has been found thus far.
At one point, there was an exchange of gunfire between the suspect and police, he said.Late Sunday morning, there were half a dozen police vehicles at the scene of the gas station where the suspect died. Yellow police tape surrounded the gas pumps, and a large silver-colored SUV was being investigated.
Cpl. Lisa Croteau, a spokeswoman with the provincial force, said police received a call about “a person with firearms” late Saturday night, and the investigation “evolved into an active shooting investigation.”Christine Mills, a resident of the area, said it had been a frightening night for the small town, with armed officers patrolling the streets.
In the morning, helicopters flew overhead searching for the suspect. “It’s nerve-wracking because you don’t know if somebody has lost their mind and is going to beat in your front door,” she said.Tom Taggart, a lawmaker who represents the Portapique area in the Municipality of Colchester, said the quiet community has been shaken.
The judges were in Indy for a conference. Detectives say that they were involved in a disturbance at a White Castle but they do not believe it had anything to do with judicial duties.
A 25-year-old Iowa woman was driving home from work when a bullet tore through the driver’s window of her vehicle and killed her, Waterloo police said.
Waterloo police said there is a $6,000 reward for any information leading to the arrest of the person who shot her.
“We are also asking anyone who may have seen any suspicious activity in this area or has a trail/surveillance camera in this area to contact the Waterloo Police Department Investigations Division at 319-291-4340, Option 7,” the department said.
A gunman fired indiscriminately into a crowd where people were gathered for cookouts on a street in Baltimore, wounding seven people including one of them fatally, the city’s police commissioner said.
Police Commissioner Michael Harrison said the gunfire erupted after 5 p.m. on a block in the city’s western district of brick row homes. Harrison said a man approached a crowd on foot and began firing in what he called “a very tragic, very cowardly shooting.” Speaking at the scene afterward, Harrison said the shooting appeared “extremely targeted,” but he didn’t provide a possible motive.
After investigating, police learned the victim was shot on East Pine Way, which is between East 14th and 15th streets.
Police said the suspect in the shooting has been identified as a black male who was wearing a black hoodie with white stripes, blue jeans and back tennis shoes at the time.
Allegheny County homicide detectives are investigating.
After investigating, police learned the victim was shot on East Pine Way, which is between East 14th and 15th streets.
