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An 11-year-old was shot dead and a woman in her 20s is in critical condition after shots were fired at a car in Albuquerque near Isotopes Park. Albuquerque police are investigating after an 11-year-old boy was fatally shot and a woman was critically injured in a car near a minor league baseball stadium late Wednesday. Police said someone fired "several shots " at a truck that the boy and woman were in as it was moving. The woman , believed to be in her 20s, was taken to an area hospital, police said. Homicide detectives with the Albuquerque Police Department are investigating a fatal shooting with a teenage victim who was killed when shots were fired into a car. An adult victim was also taken to the hospital. KOAT Albuquerque officers were near Isotopes Park, where the Colorado Rockies' Triple-A team were playing a Game , when they heard what they thought were shots being fired , Albuquerque Police Chief Harold Medina said at a press conference. Two officers arrived at...

A Philadelphia police officer who fatally shot a 27-year-old man is expected to be fired after a 30-day suspension, the police commissioner said. A Philadelphia police officer who fatally shot a 27-year-old man while he was sitting in his car was suspended for 30 days and the city's police commissioner said she intends to fire the officer at the end of the suspension. The announcement by Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw at a press conference on Wednesday came a day after the family of Eddie Irizarry Jr. released security video appearing to show Officer Mark Dial firing his weapon multiple times at Irizarry through the driver's side window of the car within seconds of getting out of his patrol vehicle. "Today, I am announcing that I've made the decision to utilize Commissioner's Direct Action to suspend police officer Mark Dial with the intent to dismiss him at the end of 30 days due to administrative violations," Outlaw said. Specifically, ...

A former Louisville police officer who fired into Breonna Taylor’s apartment the night she was killed is going on trial in federal court this week LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- A former Louisville police officer who fired into Breonna Taylor’s apartment the night she was killed is going on trial in federal court this week for violating Taylor’s civil rights during the botched 2020 raid. The trial will mark a second attempt by prosecutors to convict Brett Hankison for his actions on the night Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman, was shot to death by police after they knocked down the door of her apartment . Hankison was acquitted in a state trial last year. Jury selection in the federal case began on Monday. Taylor was shot to death by officers who were executing a drug search warrant, which was later found to be flawed. Taylor’s boyfriend fired a single shot that hit one of the officers as they came through the door, and officers returned fire, striking Taylor in her hallway multiple times. The o...

A corrections officer who was on duty in the guard tower when a convicted murderer escaped from a Pennsylvania prison last week has been fired. A corrections officer who was on duty in the guard tower when a convicted murderer escaped from a Pennsylvania prison last week by "crab walking" up a wall, sparking a massive ongoing manhunt , has been fired , officials said. The Chester County District Attorney's Office confirmed on Friday that the corrections officer, an 18-year veteran at the Chester County Prison, was Thursday afternoon. Their name was not released. The escape of inmate Danelo Cavalcante from a prison in West Chester, Pennsylvania, U.S. is seen in a screen grab from a video released Sept. 6, 2023. Chester County District Attorney via Reuters Danelo Cavalcante, 34, who officials said is also wanted in his native Brazil on homicide charges, was noticed missing from the prison around 8:50 a.m. on Aug. 31. He had been sentenced to life in prison without parol...

One person was killed and four others were wounded in a drive-by shooting outside a suburban Houston nightclub, police said. One person was killed and four others were wounded when a carload of armed assailants unleashed a barrage of more than 50 shots early Sunday morning on patrons outside a suburban Houston nightclub , police said. Investigators are searching for witnesses and asking nearby Business es for surveillance video in what police described as a "scary" drive-by shooting involving multiple gunmen. No arrests have been announced. The shooting unfolded just outside a Lounge 33 nightclub in a shopping center in an unincorporated area northwest of Houston, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said during a news conference as investigators behind him collected shell casings and searched for evidence in a parking lot outside the nightclub . Gonzalez said patrons of the nightclub were milling around the parking lot, some lined up at a food truck, when the shooting erupt...