Gun violence News
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Elmo -
A northwest Missouri family is reeling after a five-year-old boy fatally shot his nine-month-old brother with his grandfather's revolver.
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Charlotte -
A juvenile shot and killed another teen during an apparent home invasion, and the deceased's brother has been charged in connection with the break-in.
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Charlo -
A Montana man is behind bars, charged with negligent homicide after fatally shooting a three-year-old boy during a game of "gun tag."
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Chicago -
Within 84 hours there were 82 casualties and 14 dead. The statistics aren’t from Syria or Iraq, they are from Chicago, Illinois; Windy City USA.
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Newark -
Police in Newark, New Jersey are searching for the killer or killers of a promising 17-year-old cheerleader who was shot in the head while walking down a street on the weekend.
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Oakland -
A California woman is now childless after both of her teenage sons were shot to death on the streets of Oakland within the past 19 days.
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Noblesville -
A teenage girl known as a hero in her Indiana hometown for saving two children who fell through the ice at a local reservoir has died in what appears to be a tragic shooting accident.
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San Francisco -
A San Francisco man is behind bars, accused of shooting dead another young man for his Sony PlayStation 4 last Sunday afternoon.
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Charlotte -
A pregnant North Carolina teenager was shot dead as she slept on her couch in a crime-plagued area of west Charlotte early Wednesday morning.
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Hartsville -
The parents of a 21-month-old South Carolina girl who was shot to death on Monday have been arrested and charged in connection with her murder.
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Today, gun violence has become more prevalent and sadly the norm. Seeking an end to the problem will take long-term solutions, which include understanding why a rift exists on an issue that will not end quite so swiftly.
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Fayetteville -
The teenage father of a North Carolina toddler who shot herself to death with a loaded handgun he left under a sofa has been arrested and charged with manslaughter.
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Manchester -
A New Hampshire man shot his nine-year-old son to death before turning the gun on himself in a murder-suicide during a supervised visit at a YWCA office on Sunday.
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Chicago -
In a particularly bloody weekend even by Chicago standards, seven people were killed and three dozen more were wounded by gun violence between Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning.
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Santa Monica -
Authorities in California have identified the suspected gunman in Friday's Santa Monica shooting rampage that left at least four people dead.
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New York -
An 11-year-old Brooklyn girl may never walk again after being hit by a stray bullet on Friday night, and the accused gunman laughed when police informed him of the damage he allegedly inflicted.
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Eden -
A US Marine was shot dead by police after killing one person and wounding five others during a Sunday shooting spree in central Texas.
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Lake City -
An 11-year-old North Florida boy has died two days after being accidentally shot by a four-year-old identified as a relative.
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Manchester -
A grandmother, a young couple and their two sons were found shot dead in a home in a small Illinois town on Wednesday morning. The suspected gunman was killed in a shootout with police during a chase.
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Chicago -
A 15-year-old Chicago boy was found shot to death in a backyard Monday night just four blocks away from President Barack Obama's home on the city's South Side.
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New York police are searching for kidnappers as a couple were forced into a vehicle at gunpoint according to witnesses! New York is one of the toughest cities for a law abiding citizen to get a concealed carry permit in, but criminals don't seem to mind!
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Chicago -
A 6-month-old infant who was shot along with her father on Chicago's South Side on Monday has died of her injuries in a local hospital.
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Orange -
Four people, including the alleged gunman, are dead following a southern California carjacking and shooting rampage that occurred in the pre-dawn hours of Tuesday morning.
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Chicago -
A young Chicago mother was shot to death just hours after her younger sister attended President Barack Obama's speech condemning gun violence.
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Montgomery -
The Alabama hostage crisis, which resulted in the death of a 66-year-old school bus driver, Charles Albert Poland Jr., and the hostage taking of five-year-old Ethan by Jimmy Lee Dykes, is into its seventh day. Who is Jimmy Lee Dykes?
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Lilburn -
An elderly Georgia man has been charged with shooting dead a Cuban immigrant who mistakenly turned into his driveway on Saturday night.
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Chicago -
Gun violence in Chicago on Saturday claimed several lives, including the life of a 34-year-old man Ronnie Chambers. Chambers' mother Shirley says Ronnie was her youngest son and the fourth child she has lost to gun violence in Chicago.
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The fifth-highest ranking Republican member of the US House of Representatives blamed America's epidemic of gun violence on psychotropic drugs and "welfare moms" who commit Social Security fraud.
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Houston -
An argument in the library of a Texas community college ended with shots fired and three people hospitalized with injuries.
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Watertown -
A Minnesota man who shot his mother to death and was hospitalized for mental illness has managed to amass a small arsenal of guns and ammunition using a legally-obtained firearms permit.
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