homicides

PHILADELPHIA—A 14-year-old Philadelphia boy waiting for a bus to take him home from school was shot 18 times and killed Monday afternoon, police said. Samir Jefferson was waiting at a ...

Commentary Sad to say, we keep killing each other. New FBI statistics show that, even though we practiced ...

LOS ANGELES—Overall crime in Los Angeles dipped slightly in the first half of 2021, but the number of ...

The number of homicides in six major cities across the country has increased compared to last year, disproportionately ...

Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison has blamed a rise in violent crime and homicides in the most populous ...

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore told the Police Commission June 22 that the city has ...

The Biden administration’s claim that a lack of gun control in the United States contributed to the historic ...

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms on March 31 announced plans to add 250 new police officers to the ...

Santa Ana police are investigating another fatal shooting as city officials continue to grapple with a rise in ...

Police and city officials in Santa Ana are launching a multifaceted crime-fighting initiative in response to a rise ...

Los Angeles might see more than 300 homicides by the end of the year, which would be the ...

Four people were killed when two sets of unrelated homicides shook Anaheim, California, over the Labor Day weekend. ...

Eighty-seven people were shot in Chicago between 6 p.m. July 3 and midnight July 5, Chicago Police Superintendent ...

Homicides and shootings have doubled in Chicago so far this year compared with the same period in 2015, ...

Chicago police are reporting a dramatic spike in the number of homicides and shootings in the city's bloodiest ...

The 2015 year in crime was marked by a sharp rise in murder rates in many U.S. cities, ...

Antoinette Perrine has barricaded her front door since her brother was killed three weeks ago on a basketball ...

Hundreds of police officers raided three West Harlem housing projects early Wednesday morning, arresting 40 suspects in the ...