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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 man is in custody after he allegedly voluntarily confessed to killing and raping a young woman in Boston in 1979. A man is in custody after he allegedly voluntarily confessed to killing and raping a young woman in Boston in 1979, according to prosecutors. Susan Marcia Rose, a 24-year-old with red hair, was killed in an apartment building in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood on Oct. 30, 1979, the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office said Monday. In August, 68-year-old John Irmer of Oregon walked into the FBI office in Portland and allegedly told agents that he met a woman with red hair at a Boston skating rink around Halloween 1979, prosecutors said. MORE: Police have no defined search area as manhunt intensifies for escaped Pennsylvania convict Danelo Cavalcante Irmer said he and the woman walked into 285 Beacon Street, which was under renovation. Irmen then allegedly picked up a hammer and fatally hit her on the head before raping her, according to prosecutors. Irm...

A court officer testified before the judge in Trump adviser Peter Navarro's contempt of Congress case, after Navarro moved for a mistrial following his guilty verdict. In a rare post- trial hearing, a court security officer testified before the judge overseeing former Trump adviser Pet er Navarro's contempt of Congress case, after Navarro's attorneys moved for a mistrial . Navarro, who under Donald Trump was director of the White House Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, was found guilty last week of two counts of contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena issued in February 2022 by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. After the verdict, Navarro's attorneys moved for a mistrial on the grounds that the jury exited the building before returning a verdict, and that they may have seen protesters while outside. MORE: Ex-Trump aide Peter Navarro found guilty of contempt of Congress Rosa Torres, the court security officer who escort...

A judge dismissed the case against a former Philadephia officer who had been charged with murder in connection to the death of Eddie Irizarry, according to WPVI. A judge dismissed the case against a former Philadelphia police office r who had been charged with murder in connection to the death of Eddie Irizarry, according to Philadelphia ABC station WPVI. Mark Dial had been charged earlier this month with murder, voluntary manslaughter, aggravated assault, simple assault, reckless endangerment of another person and official oppression, in the Aug. 14 shoot ing. Judge Wendy Pew dismissed the case during a preliminary hearing on Tuesday, citing lack of evidence, WPVI reported. Originally, police had said that Irizarry, 27, was outside the car and was killed after lunging at police with a knife, but two days later the department acknowledged that he was shot while inside his car. In announcing the charges, Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner released footage from the body-worn ca...

Arrest warrants were issued by state authorities in Louisiana for four Baton Rouge Police officers who were connected to the city police force's Street Crimes Unit. Arrest warrants were issued by state authorities in Louisiana for four Baton Rouge police officers who were connected to the city police force's Street Crimes Unit, according to a source familiar with the investigation. The Street Crimes Unit has faced scrutiny in recent weeks after allegations of mistreatment of detainees, including at a now-shuttered police warehouse that officers allegedly called the "brave cave," according to complaints made against the department. The arrest warrants however, are not related to the "brave cave" case, according to the source, but for a prior incident. The FBI announced over the weekend they are investigating the Baton Rouge Police Department (BRPD) following allegations that some officers "abused their authority." MORE: Senior Baton Rouge offi...

A New York City police officer is accused of punching a man more than a dozen times while responding to a call about an emotionally disturbed child last year. A New York City police office r faces charges for allegedly punching a man more than a dozen times while responding to a call about an emotionally disturbed child last year, prosecutors said Wednesday. NYPD officer Christian Zapata has been indicted on one count of assault in the third degree stemming from the December 2022 incident, prosecutors said. Zapata, 36, of the Bronx, pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor assault and was released on his own recognizance on Wednesday. Officer Christian Zapata is seen in body-camera footage during the service call on Dec. 7, 2022. NYPD While responding with several officers to a call of an autistic teen in crisis in a Harlem apartment on Dec. 7, 2022, Zapata allegedly punched the boyfriend of the teen's mother approximately 13 times in the span of nine seconds, prosecutors said. The in...

No Georgia State Police troopers involved in the fatal shooting of Manuel "Tortuguita" Teran will face charges, according to District Attorney George R. Christian. None of the Georgia State Police troopers involved in the fatal shooting of Manuel "Tortuguita" Teran will face charges , according to Stone Mountain Judicial Circuit District Attorney George R. Christian. Teran, who used they/them pronouns, was shot and killed by police on Jan. 18 as officers raided campgrounds occupied by environmental demonstrators who had allegedly been camping out for months to protest the development of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, dubbed "Cop City" by critics. According to an autopsy of Teran sent to ABC News, they did not have gunpowder residue on their hands. Officials claimed Teran fired the first shot at a state trooper. Officers then responded with gunfire. A placard is seen on a fence as people protest at the site of the Atlanta police training cen...

Zijie Yan, an associate professor in the university's Department of Applied Physical Sciences, was shot seven times, according to an autopsy report. The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill professor found dead in his office on campus in August was shot seven times, according to the North Carolina Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Zijie Yan, an associate professor in the department of Applied Physical Science s at the College of Arts and Science s, suffered wounds to the head, face and neck, left arm and chest, abdomen, a graze wound to the right upper arm, and a graze wound to the left hand and left forearm in the Aug. 28 shooting, according to an autopsy report. Law enforcement respond to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus in Chapel Hill, N.C., Aug. 28, 2023, after the university locked down and warned of an armed person on campus. Hannah Schoenbaum/AP, FILE MORE: UNC-Chapel Hill faculty member killed, suspect in custody after campus lockdown Police r...

Seventeen people who worked for the Broward County Sheriff's Office are accused by federal prosecutors of taking COVID relief money for themselves. The U.S. Attorney's Office in the Southern District of Florida announced Thursday that it charged 17 employees of the Broward County Sheriff's Office with wire fraud after they allegedly tried to defraud the government in pandemic relief loans. The defendants, who were charged in separate cases, allegedly received $495,171 in assistance from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program and used the proceeds "to unjustly enrich themselves." "No matter the amount, we will not allow limited federal tax dollars, which were intended to provide a lifeline to small Business es as they struggled to stay afloat during the economically devastating pandemic lockdown, to be swindled by those who were employed in a position of trust and cast aside their duty to uphold and abide by t...

Authorities say five drug task force officers were shot and wounded while serving a search warrant near the Minnesota city of Princeton FOLEY, Minn. -- Five drug task force officers were shot and wounded Thursday while serving a search warrant near the Minnesota city of Princeton and a suspect was arrested, authorities said. Benton County Sheriff Troy Heck said at a news conference that the officers announced their arrival at the suspect 's rural home around 7 a.m. and came under fire. He said they returned fire and retreated. The suspect , identified as a 64-year-old man, was taken into custody around 10:45 a.m. after several hours of negotiations, the sheriff said. At some point he was injured and was being treated at a hospital. The officers ' injuries were not life-threatening, Heck said. Three were taken to North Memorial Hospital in the Minneapolis suburb of Robbinsdale, where they remained hospitalized Thursday afternoon, while two who were struck in their bullet-resis...

A former California police officer turned serial killer who was on death row after being convicted of murdering six people in the 1980s has died of natural causes SAN QUENTIN, Calif. -- A former California police office r turned serial killer who was on death row after being convicted of murdering six people in the 1980s has died of natural causes, authorities said. Anthony Sully, 79, died Friday at a medical facility outside the San Quentin Rehabilitation Center, where he had been housed for decades, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. The Marin County Coroner’s Office will determine Sully’s official cause of death , the department said in a news release Monday. Sully was sentenced to death in June 1986 for the slayings of Kathryn Barrett, 24; Barbara Searcy, 22; Gloria Jean Fravel, 24; Brendan Oakden, 19; Michael Thomas, 24; and Phyllis Melendez, 20. The victims were beaten, stabbed and shot inside an electrical supply warehouse in the San Fra...

Blendon Township police released video showing one of its officers fatally shooting a woman who accelerated her car towards the officer after allegedly stealing. Police in Blendon Township, Ohio, released body camera video on Friday showing an officer fatally shooting a woman who allegedly accelerated her car towards the officer after she was accused of stealing from a grocery store. Ta'Kiya Young, 21, of Columbus was seven months pregnant when she died in the Aug. 24 shooting, her family said. Blendon Township police officers were in a Kroger's parking lot assisting a driver who was locked out of her car when a store employee told one of the officers that someone who had allegedly stolen bottles of alcohol was fleeing, Police Chief John Belton said in a statement after the shooting. The newly released body camera footage reviewed by ABC News shows Young parked in front of the store refusing to leave the vehicle despite repeated orders from police. One officer was on the drive...