Shootings

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Callers reported people “fleeing in all directions” and police said they arrived to a “chaotic” scene.

Police say gunfire broke out among a crowd near a Tennessee university celebrating homecoming.

Officials in Birmingham, Alabama, have made no arrests after Saturday’s shooting. Police described it as a targeted “hit” by multiple shooters who opened fire outside a popular nightspot in Birmingham’s Five Points South district.

Federal officials announced Monday that they were offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the identification of, and an additional $50,000 for the prosecution of, the perpetrators of a mass shooting in Birmingham, Alabama, over the weekend.

A manhunt has been launched for “multiple shooters” who killed four and injured 18 more when they “fired upon a large group of people,” in Birmingham, Alabama police said early Sunday.

The mother of a Georgia teenager charged with fatally shooting four people at his high school has been indicted in connection with an alleged domestic incident last year.

A 57-year-old woman was shot in the face — in front of her husband and his son — during an apparent botched robbery in her Chinatown building, authorities say. Authorities responding to a call on Market Street around 11 p.m. found the woman, identified as Ying Zhu Liu, dead at the scene. According to the investigation, Liu’s husband was in...

Records released Friday show a Georgia county’s emergency call center was overwhelmed by calls on Sept. 4 about a school shooting at Apalachee High School.

Investigators say the student accused of killing four people in a Georgia high school shooting carried an assault rifle to school hidden in his backpack.

Police said two masked men followed a man into his building, took the elevator up with him, then tried to rob him. His wife tried to intervene, according to police. and that’s when she was shot in the head, right in front of her husband and her son. NBC New York’s Gaby Acevedo reports. 

A 57-year-old woman was shot in the face — in front of her husband and his son — during an apparent botched robbery in her Chinatown building, authorities say. Authorities responding to a call on Market Street around 11 p.m. found the woman, identified as Ying Zhu Liu, dead at the scene. According to the investigation, Liu’s husband was in…

A woman was shot and killed during an apparent robbery attempt in Chinatown. Romney Smith reports.

A relative of the Georgia high school shooting suspect says the teenager’s mother called the school before the killings.

Murder charges filed against the father of a 14-year-old boy accused of a Georgia school shooting follow the successful prosecution of two parents in Michigan. James and Jennifer Crumbley were held responsible for a similar tragedy at a school north of Detroit. Arrest warrants say Colin Gray provided a gun to his son with the knowledge that he was a...

The teenager accused of executing a mass shooting at a Georgia high school made his first court appearance on Friday. The suspect’s father made a separate court appearance following his son’s hearing.

President Joe Biden spoke from Wisconsin on Thursday, calling for restrictions on assault rifles after Wednesday’s mass shooting at a Georgia high school. “As a nation, we cannot continue to accept the carnage of gun violence. I’m a gun owner, I believe strongly in the [Second Amendment], but we need more than thoughts and prayers.”

Police said an arrest has been made in the murder investigation of a popular sneaker reseller shot to death in SoHo in June. Javier Osorio-Mejia, an established high-end sneaker reseller in Bayonne known as Upscale Cracc, was followed into the city where he was killed in an attempted robbery, police said following his death. Osoio-Mejia had been with a woman…

Police say there’s been another attack outside a busy migrant shelter on Randall’s Island. A 26-year-old man suffered a stab wound to the abdomen Sunday morning but is expected to survive. Authorities said the incident happened outside of the 3,000-person shelter around 10:30 a.m. Police and medics responded, with the latter transported the victim to a hospital in Harlem...

Erica Byfield reporting on a woman killed and two people hurt in a shooting on Randall’s Island.