Killings

Credit: CC0 Public Domain One in three police homicides could have been avoided without endangering police or the public, according to a study published in PNAS Nexus. Eight percent of all homicides of adult men in the United States are committed by police. Using data from 2008–2017 from the National Officer-Involved Homicide Database, Josh Leung-Gagné compared…

Two people were arrested Tuesday in connection with the shooting deaths of four people in southeast Los Angeles County late Sunday and early Monday, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said. Homicide investigators allege that the shootings were connected although they are not sure how. The shooting deaths spanned a few hours in the cities of Huntington Park, Bell, Cudahy and Los Angeles, according to homicide investigators.“Detectives have arrested two suspects believed to be involved in the four murders,” Nicole…

James Patterson is one of the most successful American book authors of all time, and also one of the most prolific. He’s best known for the Alex Cross series, a crime mystery series about the eponymous detective, as well as his astounding output of over 200 books, many of which he has co-authored with various other writers and celebrities including Dolly Parton and former president Bill Clinton. Patterson’s strong suit is his engaging and highly entertaining stories and a kind of writing that makes him accessible to all…

The man wanted in a series of shootings that left three homeless men dead across Los Angeles last week was charged Monday with four counts of murder, prosecutors said. Jerrid Joseph Powell, 33, was charged with four counts of murder, one count of robbery and one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm. He was expected be to arraigned in a downtown courtroom Monday afternoon.“I want to extend my deepest appreciation to the incredible men and women of law enforcement who worked tirelessly to bring justice to our…

A suspect was arrested in connection with a series of shootings that left three homeless men dead across Los Angeles in the past week, authorities said.Suspect Jerrid Joseph Powell, 33, is also believed responsible for a separate killing in a follow home robbery in San Dimas, Police Chief Michel Moore said at at an afternoon news conference where he was joined by Mayor Karen Bass and Dist. Atty. George Gascón. The announcement of the arrest came less than 24 hours after city officials said that a killer was “preying on…

Federal investigators, El Monte police and Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies arrested alleged members of the Quiet Village gang Wednesday, naming the group in a series of indictments that accuse them of conspiring to commit murder, other violent crimes and drug trafficking.The cases stem from the killing of two El Monte police officers last June during a confrontation at a motel with a member of the gang. Officers Michael Paredes and Joseph Santana were responding to a domestic violence report when Justin Flores — a…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Black men are the most common victims of killings committed by off-duty police officers in the U.S., according to a new Yale-led study. In an analysis of 242 incidences in which people were killed by police officers when they were off duty between 2013 and 2021, a research team found that nearly…

The man accused of stalking an idyllic Malibu park, peppering motorists and campers with gunfire that ended in the shooting death of a father of two, was convicted of murder and three counts of attempted murder Friday.Anthony Rauda, 46, will almost certainly spend the rest of his life in prison after jurors convicted him of gunning down 35-year-old pharmaceutical scientist Tristan Beaudette, who was killed inside of a tent he was sharing with his daughters in June 2018. Rauda was also convicted of multiple burglaries and…

Islamic State gunmen killed American college student Nohemi Gonzalez as she sat with friends in a Paris bistro in 2015, one of several attacks on a Friday night in the French capital that left 130 people dead. Her family's lawsuit claiming YouTube's recommendations helped the Islamic State group's recruitment is at the center of a closely watched Supreme Court case being argued Tuesday about how broadly a law written in 1996 shields tech companies from liability. The law, known as Section 230 of the Communications…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain As the video goes public of Black police officers in Memphis beating Tyre Nichols to death, it is a stark reminder of George Floyd's murder by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020. That set up the largest protests in U.S. history and a national reckoning with racism. But beyond any protests, every police…