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An early morning shooting on Friday sent one man to the hospital in Durham.
Durham Police are investigating the incident on NC Highway 147 near Jackie Robinson Drive.
Officials say a man was shot and taken to the hospital around 3:30am.
His condition is unknown.
Officers reported a vehicle was also struck by bullets.
The WRAL Breaking News Tracker will have updates on our newscasts.
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A Minneapolis family is struggling to make sense of a tragedy that has left them heartbroken.
Family tells WCCO 14-year-old Xavier Barnett and 23-year-old Akwame Stewart were killed Monday.
The brothers were very different, but equally loved. Barnett was a good student and athlete. Stewart was a painter, creative and thoughtful. Two brothers, loved and full of promise, gone.
Police say the accused shooter is their cousin, 23-year-old Eddie Duncan.
Court records show Duncan was released on bail Monday on charges of fleeing law enforcement and possession of a gun modified with an “auto sear switch.”
Court records also show Duncan was ordered to undergo a psychological evaluation, but not until next month, on March 24.
Deasia Freeman, Barnett and Stewart’s sister, says this loss could have been prevented.
“They all failed us. We got two innocent lives gone for no reason. Didn’t do nothing to nobody,” Freeman said.
Family members say the system and Duncan’s family let them down.
Freeman says Duncan’s family saw the warning signs and still bailed him out
“If you knew this man was thinking like this, y’all should have kept him in there and he should not even have bail,” she said.
The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office says they noted Duncan was a public safety risk and asked for a high bail, much higher than a typical request.
“In Minnesota, there is a constitutional right to bail, and the bail amount is set by the Court. Our office noted a public safety risk with Mr. Duncan and asked the judge to set bail at $70,000, or $35,000 with conditions; both of which are higher than we would typically request in this scenario. The judge set bail in that amount. Mr. Duncan posted $35,000 bail with conditions of release, as is allowed under the Minnesota Constitution, and was released from custody. Our thoughts are with all those impacted by yesterday’s violence. This was a terrible tragedy for this family and our community,” a spokesperson for the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office said.
For Freeman and her family, the hardest part isn’t just the legal process but living each day without their brothers.
Even in the heartbreak, she says the memories of the good days, the laughter and love they shared will carry them through.
“I wish I could get just one more phone call from them asking me where I’m at,” Freeman said as tears rolled down her face.
Court records confirm Duncan left the scene of the crime and fled to nearby Brooklyn Center. There, a search warrant says Duncan “fired a gun at officers, striking two squads,” when police arrived. That’s when officers returned fire, shooting and killing him.
Three officers have been placed on critical incident leave as the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension leads the investigation into Duncan’s fatal shooting.
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Authorities said that the man accused of shooting and killing an 87-year-old man inside a senior living facility in Montgomery County, Maryland, may have been planning it for a month.
Authorities said that the man accused of shooting and killing an 87-year-old man inside a senior living facility in Montgomery County, Maryland, may have been planning it for a month.
Maurquise James, 22, of Baltimore, was ordered held without bond on Thursday.
James worked as a medication technician at the Cogir Potomac Senior Living facility. He’s been charged with first‑degree murder in the death of Robert Fuller Jr., who was found dead in his apartment with a gunshot wound to his head on Valentine’s Day.
Fuller, a philanthropist and former lawyer from Maine, had helped establish a transitional housing facility in Maine for women who are veterans.
In addition, James is charged with the attempted first-degree murder of a Maryland State Police trooper and other charges stemming from a Tuesday traffic stop.
NBC Washington reporter Paul Wagner, who was in the courtroom early Thursday, joined WTOP anchors Anne Kramer and Shawn Anderson about further updates in the shocking case.
Listen to or read the interview below:
NBC News 4 Washington reporter Paul Wagner was in the courtroom Thursday where a Baltimore man is being charged for murdering a senior citizen
The transcript below has been lightly edited for clarity.
To say this is a complicated case with a lot of moving parts, I think would be an understatement. Looking over these charging documents, it sounds like they really got a break in all of this through some witness testimony or witness accounts of what happened. Can you walk us through a little bit of what James is being accused of here?
It is a complicated case, and it’s hard to explain in a basic news story. I did a timeline on this today, to try and explain it in a better way, but very basically, police found surveillance video of Maurquise James coming and going from a side door at the Cogir facility at about a little after 5 o’clock in the morning on Valentine’s Day.
Then they found Mr. Fuller shot in the head in his bed at 7:34 that morning. They then interviewed folks, and they learned that Maurquise James had been going into that room and handing out medication to Mr. Fuller and his roommate.
Police questioned James, but nothing happened at that point. But as the investigation went on, the police found video of a suspect that was wearing, we now know, according to police, a wig and a mask, and they put that out to the public.
Well, there were some employees at Cogir who thought that they had recognized that person — the way that person walked, and the coat that that person was wearing. And so the police were called, and this witness said, “Hey, this appears to be Maurquise James.”
He then continued to come to work. And here’s the odd part of the story, is that on Feb. 23 after his shift, he showed up at the facility. And the staff became very suspicious of that, and they questioned him and challenged him. As he was being challenged, then he decided to leave the facility. Then, they discover that a side door had been propped open and the battery had been tampered with.
At that point, the staff called the police, and then it was the next day, 3 o’clock in the morning, that police say that Maurquise James had shot at that trooper.
You’re right, Anne, it is a lot of moving parts. It can be confusing, but basically, that’s how the police pieced this together.
We know that Robert Fuller Jr. was a millionaire philanthropist. We know he wrote a murder mystery. Do we have any idea from investigators of why they believe Maurquise James may have targeted him?
They have no motive at this point. In fact, yesterday, Capt. Sean Gagan said we’re going to dig into this. We’re going to find out what happened here.
And they’re going to go through his social media. They’re going to look at his computer, if he has one, and look at his searches to see if they could find anything. They’ll investigate his phone to try and find the motive.
As they said today in court, they believe he had been planning this for about a month. And then, of course, with what happened the other night at Cogir, where the staffers found a side door propped open, just like they had found it on Valentine’s Day, there was a suspicion that perhaps they had stopped another crime from happening.
So it’s an odd series of events. And one other note today, when the judge ordered a psychiatric evaluation for Mr. James, James said, “Good, I’m looking forward to speaking with the doctors.”
Paul, what is Cogir saying about this? Because I remember when the story broke on Valentine’s Day. Everything seemed to be quiet between police and even Cogir. What are they saying?
Well, News 4 has obtained some internal releases or emails that went out to people that lived in the facility. And in these emails, Cogir kept telling them that this was an isolated incident and that there was no ongoing threat.
I sent an email today, I sent an email yesterday, and we’ve gotten no response. So right now, they’re not responding at all to what has happened.
What will you be watching for next week as James appears in court for another hearing?
Well, we’ll want to see what the psychiatric evaluation comes back to, because once he speaks with the doctors, they’ll have to report in court what was discovered. We may find out that these doctors either view him as being competent or incompetent. So it’s going to be interesting to hear what they have to say.
Paul, you have been covering these kind of cases and crimes for a long time. Many of us haven’t that have been in the industry this long — it’s curious to me. I know they talked about being premeditated, might even have been planning this for a month.
That’s the allegation against the suspect, but Fuller was shot in the head, that just seems like such an extreme thing. Do you think that will lend itself into piecing together of this puzzle by police, just the execution-style killing of this victim?
That’s a very personal crime, police might call it. Just like when there’s a very close stabbing or a fight where someone is very, very badly injured. Police call that a personal crime.
Today they called it a cold-blooded murder, but to shoot an elderly man in the head while he’s in bed — that’s just brutal. And the police are going to dig into this and try and find out why.
We also have him being accused of attempted murder for trying to shoot a state trooper in Baltimore. Are these two cases being handled separately? How is that working out legally?
He is being charged in Baltimore for that case, and so more than likely his murder case will stay here in Montgomery County, and it will be taken care of, and then his Baltimore case would be taken care of, because typically the most serious case gets handled first.
So the judge did tell him today that he’s being charged with attempted first-degree murder of that trooper, but that case will have to be handled in Baltimore at some other time.
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A man accused of shooting and killing another man in Denver on Valentine’s Day and fleeing Colorado was arrested Friday in Kansas on suspicion of murder, police said.
As of Tuesday afternoon, 20-year-old Yeanbraiker Yriarte-Valera was being held at the Wyandotte County Detention Center in Kansas on a Denver homicide warrant, according to jail records. He was booked into the jail on Friday.
Yriarte-Valera is under investigation for first-degree murder, four counts of attempted first-degree murder, four counts of first-degree assault and a violent crime sentence enhancer, according to Denver court records.
Denver police responded to the shooting in the 1500 block of West Maple Avenue at about 5:15 a.m. on Feb. 14. When officers arrived, they found a woman who had been shot in the ankle and a man who died from his injuries at the scene.
Paramedics took the woman to the hospital, police said. The Denver Office of the Medical Examiner will identify the man killed in the shooting.
Investigators believe a fight started at a party in the area that escalated into the shooting, according to a news release from the Denver Police Department. At least two people fired off shots, hitting the two victims, but the second suspect had not been publicly identified as of Tuesday.
Yriarte-Valera is believed to have shot the bullet that killed the male victim, police said. The second suspect allegedly shot and injured the female victim.
Yriarte-Valera’s first Colorado court date had not yet been scheduled on Tuesday.
Anyone with information on the shooting is asked to contact Metro Denver Crime Stoppers at 720-913-7867.
This is a developing story and may be updated.
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The 45-year-old armed suspect was sought after the fatal shooting of a law enforcement officer in Christian County, Missouri.
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Police said a person was shot Monday night at a shopping center near a massive apartment fire in Morrisville.
WRAL’s Sky 5 was flying over the scene at Park West Village and saw crime scene tape going up around Crumbl, a cookie store, inside the shopping center. Police said a person was shot at the restaurant and they have a suspect in custody.
The severity of the victim’s injuries is unclear, and WRAL News has reached out to police for more information.
The shopping center is less than a mile away from a massive apartment fire at Camden Westwood Apartments that injured six people and sent one to the hospital.
Police said their investigation into the shooting is ongoing.
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Police officers in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, fatally shot an armed male who shot at them on Monday afternoon, officials say. Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara says the individual killed was suspected of fatally shooting two people earlier on Monday.
Officers in the Twin Cities suburb responded to the area between the 5500 and 5600 blocks of Brooklyn Boulevard around 3:55 p.m. for a report of a male waving a gun around outside retail stores, according to police. They were confronted by the male, who was armed with a handgun, when they arrived, officials said.
“Gunfire was exchanged between the subject and officers and the subject was struck by the gunfire,” police said in a news release.
The officers, who were wearing body cameras during the incident, administered first aid to the male before he was taken to the hospital, where he later died, according to officials.
Police said no officers were hit by bullets in the shooting.
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is investigating.
Around 3:30 p.m. in north Minneapolis, police said a 14-year-old boy and a 23-year-old man were killed in a shooting. O’Hara says the suspected shooter, a 24-year-old man, was the male involved in the shooting with Brooklyn Center officers.
“We believe that the suspect from this double murder left the scene and shortly thereafter became involved in a shooting with police in Brooklyn Center,” O’Hara said.
Police in Brooklyn Center said the intersection of Xerxes Avenue North and 56th Avenue North, near the area of the incident, would be closed down for “an extended period of time.”
The intersection is near the retail hub surrounding the former site of Brookdale Mall.
This is a developing story.
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A man who shot two women in an Aurora apartment in 2024, killing one of them, was convicted this month of murder, according to court records.
Kelynn Lewis, 34, was arrested and charged in February 2024 with first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, witness tampering and four counts of child abuse in Adams County District Court.
On Feb. 13, after a five-day trial, an Adams County jury convicted Lewis on lesser charges of second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder, court records show.
Lewis was also convicted on all four counts of child abuse and of tampering with a witness, according to a copy of the jury verdict sheet.
Aurora police officers responded to reports of a shooting inside an apartment in the 1700 block of Paris Street, near the University of Colorado Hospital, at about 8:20 p.m. on Feb. 9, 2024.
The person who called 911 told dispatchers that a woman, identified by police as 35-year-old Vatrice Lashae Little, had been shot in the face by a man, according to Lewis’ arrest affidavit. Little was taken to the hospital, where she was declared dead.
Little was inside her cousin’s apartment on Paris Street when Lewis, the cousin’s ex-husband, entered with a gun, police wrote in the affidavit.
Lewis shot at his ex-wife, who played dead, and fired an additional four to five rounds when Little moved in front of her cousin’s body to intervene, according to the document. Four children were inside the apartment at the time of the shooting but were not injured.
Earlier that day, the cousin had called Lewis to tell him that he was not the biological father of her youngest child, police said.
Lewis will next appear in court on May 15 for a sentencing hearing, according to court records.
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Police are looking for a suspect after a man was injured in a shooting at the Maplewood Mall in Maplewood, Minnesota, on Sunday afternoon.
Law enforcement and personnel with the Maplewood Fire Department responded to the mall at 3001 White Bear Ave. around 2:02 p.m. for the incident. Officers found the man, who had been shot in the hip, according to police. He was taken to the hospital with an injury that was not life-threatening.
Officials said the shooting stemmed from a group fighting in a lower level of the mall. Two juveniles, whose ages have yet to be disclosed, were detained.
Police said the suspected shooter is a male with a small build and was wearing a black stocking hat, a black jacket, a white shirt and black pants.
The mall previously said in a statement of its own that the suspect was “swiftly apprehended” and that the shooting was an “isolated incident” that involved two individuals under the age of 22.
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Anyone with information about the shooting or who has video of it is asked to call Lieutenant Michael Hoemke with the Maplewood Police Department at 651-249-2605 or email him.
Following the shooting, the mall closed for the remainder of the day Sunday.
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LOWELL — The Phan brothers charged in the 2020 killing of Tyrone Phet are asking a Middlesex Superior Court judge to reconsider the bail orders that have kept them behind bars for nearly five and a half years, arguing that new allegations of misconduct by a State Police homicide detective have thrown the case off course.
In a motion filed on Feb. 13, attorney Mark Wester — representing Billy Phan — argues that the recent disclosure that State Police Sgt. Scott Quigley’s alleged intoxication and speeding in a 2023 fatal crash qualifies as the kind of “changed circumstances” that Massachusetts law requires for bail reconsideration, writing that the revelations have “delayed the just resolution of this case.”
In the motion, Wester asks Judge Chris Barry‑Smith to reconsider holding Phan without bail and “grant him a reasonable cash bail.”
Attorneys Lorenzo Perez and William Dolan filed similar motions on behalf of Channa Phan and Billoeum Phan.
The three brothers, all in their 30s, each face life in prison without the possibility of parole after being charged with first‑degree murder in the shooting of 22‑year‑old Phet outside his home at 50 Spring Ave. in Lowell during the early‑morning hours of Sept. 14, 2020.
Phet — a 2016 Chelmsford High graduate and former high school football standout — was struck by gunfire eight times, with one bullet passing through both lungs and his heart and another entering and exiting his brain.
Police recovered 21 spent shell casings at the scene, including ten 10mm casings and eleven .40‑caliber casings.
The Phan brothers have been held without bail since their arrests in October 2020.
Dolan said earlier this month that while defendants in first‑degree murder cases are typically held without bail, the circumstances surrounding Quigley’s alleged misconduct justify reconsideration.
Quigley — a key investigator in the Phan case — is accused of being under the influence of alcohol and speeding while on duty in a State Police cruiser when he crossed into oncoming traffic and caused the December 2023 Woburn crash that killed 37‑year‑old Angelo Schettino, a paraplegic man with special needs.
Dolan also pointed to the outcome of the brothers’ first trial in November 2024, which ended in a hung jury and a mistrial, forcing the case into a second trial cycle.
“Because (the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office) didn’t meet their burden in their first trial and because of all the other things going on, they shouldn’t have to wait in jail,” Dolan said of the Phan brothers.
The defense had asked that the bail review be taken up alongside an evidentiary hearing they are seeking into the handling of Quigley’s 2023 crash.
The defense has argued that the evidentiary hearing is necessary because they believe the State Police and the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office covered up information about Quigley after the crash.
Quigley, who was assigned as a homicide investigator to the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office and played a central role in the Phan investigation, has since been suspended without pay. His crash has been referred to the Suffolk District Attorney’s Office for possible criminal charges. Schettino’s mother, Lynn Schettino, is also pursuing a civil‑rights lawsuit against the State Police over her son’s death.
Michael Mahoney, who represents Schettino’s mother in the civil‑rights case, said of Quigley, “It keeps coming for this guy.”
In the motion requesting the evidentiary hearing, the Phan brothers’ defense team states testimony from Quigley and another 18 members of law enforcement is needed to determine whether there was an effort to shield him from scrutiny and to establish why his toxicology results were not disclosed to the Phan defense until jury selection in January.
Prosecutors were originally ordered to respond to the evidentiary‑hearing motion by Friday, but the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office requested — and was granted — an extension until Monday.
Dolan said on Friday that he and his client were frustrated to learn the extension had been granted to the DA’s office, calling it “just more of the same dragging their feet.”
The requests for the bail and evidentiary hearings come as the brothers’ retrial remains frozen, with Barry‑Smith halting jury selection late last month and dismissing the 12 jurors who had already been seated.
The judge paused the proceedings after the disclosures about Quigley surfaced during jury selection, prompting the court to order a full review before the case could continue.
Defense attorneys have also moved to dismiss the charges against the Phan brothers entirely, stating the delayed disclosures and questions surrounding Quigley’s conduct have irreparably tainted the prosecution.
In the meantime, a new retrial date is currently scheduled to begin on April 27.
The Middlesex District Attorney’s Office was unavailable for comment on the status of its response to the evidentiary‑hearing motion.
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A Texas Democratic lawmaker is invoking a newly created state legislative rule to force a public hearing into the March 2025 fatal shooting of a 23-year-old U.S. citizen by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, CBS News has learned, a case raising further transparency and oversight questions about the officials enforcing President Trump’s deportation crackdown.
The proposed hearing would examine the shooting death of Ruben Ray Martinez in South Padre Island, Texas, on March 15, 2025. While his death was reported at the time, ICE’s involvement in the shooting was not disclosed until this week, over 11 months after the shooting.
Democratic Texas state Rep. Ray Lopez, who serves as vice chair of the Texas House Committee on Homeland Security, Public Safety and Veterans’ Affairs, said he formally exercised authority under Rule 4, Section 6A of the Texas House Rules to compel Committee Chairman Cole Hefner, a Republican, to schedule a hearing on Martinez’s death.
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Lopez said it is the first public use of the provision, which was adopted during the 89th Legislative Session that concluded last June. The rule requires a committee chair to “promptly schedule” a hearing designated by the vice chair. Lopez requested a written response from Hefner by the end of business on Feb. 23. It was not immediately clear when a hearing might be scheduled.
Local news outlets in Texas reported on Martinez’ killing last year, but the involvement of federal immigration agents in the fatal shooting was first revealed earlier this week by Newsweek, which used government documents recently released by the American Oversight Project, a nonprofit ethics watchdog, to connect the death with an internal ICE report.
The internal ICE report, which redacts Martinez’s name, stated that the March 15 incident involved agents from Homeland Security Investigations, a branch of ICE, who were helping South Padre Island police officers control traffic in the late night hours following a major car accident.
The report describes a blue Ford approaching the area where the ICE agents were directing traffic. The driver of the vehicle “failed to follow instructions,” the internal report reads, and tried to continue driving. After commands from the agents, the report said the vehicle “slowed to a stop.” The agents surrounded the car and directed the driver to exit the vehicle, the report said.
The driver then “accelerated forward” and struck one of the ICE agents, according to the report, which said the federal officer “wound up on the hood of the vehicle.” At that point, according to the report, another ICE agent fired “multiple rounds” at the driver through an open side window. The driver was given first aid and then transferred to a hospital in Brownsville, where the report said he was pronounced dead.
A passenger who was in the vehicle, also a U.S. citizen whose name was redacted, was taken into custody at the scene by South Padre Island police, the report states.
The agent who was struck by the vehicle was taken to an area hospital with a knee injury, where they were treated and released, ICE said in its report.
In a statement provided to CBS News, the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, confirmed the fatal shooting, alleging that the driver “intentionally ran over a Homeland Security Investigation special agent resulting in him being on the hood of the vehicle. Upon witnessing this, another agent fired defensive shots to protect himself, his fellow agents, and the general public.”
DHS said the incident is under investigation by the Texas Department of Public Safety’s Ranger Division, and deferred questions to Texas DPS.
Christopher Olivarez, a Texas DPS spokesperson, confirmed to CBS News Saturday that an investigation was underway, adding, “We have no further information to provide.”
Lopez argued that federal and state authorities failed to publicly disclose ICE’s involvement in the shooting for nearly a year. He said Martinez’s family learned of the federal agent’s role through news reports.
“When anyone in authority in any level of policing, federal, state, or local, decides to take the most drastic measure and that’s ending someone’s life, you need to be sure that you’re doing it as a last resort,” Lopez told CBS News in an interview Saturday. “I don’t feel that the information that I’ve read implies to me that it was a last resort and I want to get to the bottom of it.”
In a statement to CBS News, Martinez’s mother, Rachel Reyes, said her family has been looking for accountability.
“Since Ruben’s death a year ago, all we have wanted is justice for him and we have struggled with the silence surrounding his killing,” Reyes said. “Now, the country is in crisis — and, terribly, heartbreakingly, other families are enduring what we have…It’s my hope that attention being raised now into Ruben’s death will help bring the justice we want for him and the answers we haven’t had.”
Charles M. Stam and Alex Stamm, attorneys for Ruben’s family, said in a statement that “Ruben’s family has been pursuing transparency and accountability for nearly a year now and will continue to do so for as long as it takes. It is critical that there is a full and fair investigation into why HSI was present at the scene of a traffic collision and why a federal officer shot and killed a US citizen as he was trying to comply with instructions from the local law enforcement officers directing traffic.”
Reyes told The Associated Press that her son had just turned 23 days before he and his best friend drove from San Antonio to South Padre Island for a weekend trip to celebrate. South Padre Island, located along the Gulf Coast near the U.S.-Mexican border, is a popular spring break destination that draws thousands of college-aged visitors.
Reyes told the AP that her son worked at an Amazon warehouse, enjoyed playing video games and spending time with friends, and had never previously had any run-ins with law enforcement.
“He was a typical young guy,” Reyes said. “He never really got a chance to go out and experience things. It was his first time getting to go out of town. He was a nice guy, humble guy. And he wasn’t a violent person at all.”
Martinez’s death is one of several fatal shootings of U.S. citizens involving federal immigration agents over the past year. In Minneapolis, Minnesota, in January, Renee Good and Alex Pretti were fatally shot in separate incidents while protesting a massive immigration operation in that city. Last week, the Trump administration announced it would end its large-scale immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota.
Immigration enforcement has become a salient political issue in recent months, particularly in border states like Texas, where federal and state authorities frequently coordinate operations. Texas will hold its primary elections on March 3, and immigration operations have become prominent issues on the campaign trail in key races.
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FREE KCRA 3 APP. ALL RIGHT. WE’RE ALSO ON SOME BREAKING NEWS RIGHT NOW. SACRAMENTO POLICE ARE ON THE SCENE OF A SHOOTING IN SOUTH NATOMAS. A MAN WAS SHOT JUST BEFORE NINE TONIGHT NEAR WEST EL CAMINO AND TRUXEL ROAD. THE VICTIM WAS TAKEN TO THE
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A person was shot in Natomas on Friday night, according to the Sacramento Police Department.Police said officers responded to the 1500 block of West El Camino Avenue just before 9 p.m. The victim was found at the scene with a gunshot wound and taken to a hospital. The shooting is under investigation and there is still a police presence at the scene. Police have not yet provided suspect information. This is a developing story. Stay with KCRA 3 for the latest. See more coverage of top California stories here | Download our app | Subscribe to our morning newsletter | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel
A person was shot in Natomas on Friday night, according to the Sacramento Police Department.
Police said officers responded to the 1500 block of West El Camino Avenue just before 9 p.m. The victim was found at the scene with a gunshot wound and taken to a hospital.
The shooting is under investigation and there is still a police presence at the scene.
Police have not yet provided suspect information.
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An accomplished Caltech astrophysicist with more than four decades of research contributions in galactic astronomy and the study of distant planets was fatally shot in a rural area of Antelope Valley on Monday morning. A suspect in the shooting has been charged with murder.
Deputies responded to a 911 call for assault with a deadly weapon in the unincorporated community of Llano at 6:10 a.m. and found a man suffering from a gunshot wound on the front porch of a home, according to the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department. Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene.
The victim was later identified as Carl Grillmair, 67, according to the L.A. County medical examiner. His death was ruled a homicide caused by a gunshot wound to the torso.
While investigating the shooting, deputies arrested a suspect in a carjacking that took place nearby, according to the Sheriff’s Department.
That suspect was later identified as Freddy Snyder, 29. He was charged Wednesday with the murder of Grillmair and carjacking. He was also charged with first degree burglary related to a Dec. 28 incident, according to court records.
He is currently being held in lieu of $2 million. It is unclear what relation, if any, Snyder had with Grillmair.
A spokesperson for Caltech confirmed that Grillmair was employed as a research scientist at the university.
He worked at the university’s Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, known as IPAC, which partners with NASA, the U.S. National Science Foundation and researchers around the world to advance the exploration of the universe.
His work has focused on uncovering the structure of the Milky Way and identifying faint stellar streams and substructures that make up the galactic halo surrounding our spiral galaxy, and helping reshape our understanding of how galaxies evolve, according to his website.
He has been awarded substantial observation time as a principal investigator on the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope, and his research has earned him numerous accolades including a NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal.
His hobbies included cycling, hiking, helicopter skiing, general aviation with a specific interest in sailplanes and ultralights, waste reduction and clean energy and large dogs, according to his website.
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Durham — Seven people have been shot in the last seven days
in Durham.
Three of those seven were younger than the age of 18. In total, 22 people have been shot in Durham this
year.
While the 2025 crime report, set to be presented
to the Durham City Council at Thursday’s work session, shows overall crime is down in 2025 compared to 2024, it has
been a violent week.
Durham Mayor Leonardo Williams told WRAL News he is
putting plans in action this week to address the issue.
“I am working on pulling together an emergency
task force that can help mitigate the engagement of non-profits in our
community,” Williams said. “Crime is overall going down, I want to highlight
that, but our youth violence is out of control.”
One-on-one interview: Durham Mayor Leonardo Williams: Crime is decreasing, but city’s youth violence is ‘out of control’
Williams argued the priority for everyone,
including elected officials and community members, should be the issue of
crime.
“We have fare free busing. We have HEART. We have
our CIP. we have Vision Zero for transit; why can’t we have a Vision Zero for
our youth from killing each other? Why can’t we have more youth centers
downtown?” Williams said. “If we’re going to shoot down anything that
involves the police, we’re not going to keep people safe.”
Williams said community members who want to be involved
to attend community sessions for the joint City County Comprehensive Violence
Reduction Plan. He also encouraged people already working with youth to keep up
their endeavors.
“If you have an idea, go do it. Don’t come to the
city for funding yet, because we operate on a fiscal year. I say to our
corporate community, find a non-profit and invest in them,” Williams said.
Williams pointed to the Bull City Future Fund as another way to get involved.
Durham has employed various crime reduction
technologies and initiatives in recent years. However, many have been removed.
WRAL News asked Williams if he believed programs like the gunfire detection system ShotSpotter, or the discontinued anti-violence program Bull City United should return as possible solutions outlined in the recent City-County Plan. In February, the city council also opted not to move forward with the proposed Real Time Crime Center.
“I do think they [the programs] should come back, but we’re going
to have to let the data tell us that,” Williams said. “What resources we
have are going to be data led.”
When it comes
to that long-term plan, the next community session you can participate in is
virtual, on Feb. 24. There are two more in-person meetings
scheduled for March 13 and March 20.
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Police said a man who was shot
in Edgecombe County is expected to be OK.
On Tuesday, Pinetops police said
officers were called to reports of a shooting around 4:30 p.m. Police said the man
who was shot called officers while in route to the hospital.
The man and his driver were met
by EMS and Edgecombe County Sheriff’s deputies in Tarboro.
The shooting happened near East
Lashley and South Second streets in Pinetops. The man was shot in the torso area
and was taken to ECU Health, police said.
Officers said the investigation
is still ongoing.
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Police identified the shooter involved in a deadly assault inside a hockey rink in Rhode Island and credited a good Samaritan for helping to stop the attack.Three people, including the suspected gunman, are dead and officials said three others were injured in the shooting that happened during a scheduled hockey game at the Dennis M. Lynch Arena in Pawtucket, two miles from the Rhode Island-Massachusetts border. According to Pawtucket Police Chief Tina Goncalves, the shooting may have been domestic in nature, as the victims included members of the suspect’s family and a family friend. Investigators believe the shooter fatally shot himself after the incident, Goncalves said.”A good Samaritan stepped in and interjected in the scene and that’s probably what led to a swift end of this tragic event,” Goncalves said.Goncalves later said the shooter, born in 1969, was born as Robert Dorgan, but also uses the name Roberta and the surname Esposito.More than one weapon was recovered from the scene, the chief also said.Video below: Police chief says bystander intervened in hockey game shootingTwo teams made up of students from multiple schools were playing in hockey games at the arena when the shooting took place. One of the schools was celebrating Senior Night, which honors senior student-athletes and their families during what is usually the final game of the season.All of the schools involved in the game confirmed that their students and players were not injured in the shooting.One woman and her son said they were in the stands when they heard the gunshots.”After four shots, we saw everybody hitting the ground,” she said. “The first thing I thought was where’s my kid? I turned around, I looked toward the stands and he was there and I was just screaming at him to get down. I went back in to see where he was and I saw them doing CPR in the stands. It was really disturbing.”Students in many school districts in the area are currently on February break. A 16-year-old goalie for one of the teams said he was on the ice when shots rang out.”I’m overwhelmed, but trying to stay calm,” he said. “You don’t know what it feels like until you’re in it.”In the wake of the shooting, the Rhode Island Interscholastic League announced that it was temporarily suspending all games “out of respect for the victims and to reflect upon this senseless act of violence.”Video below: Hockey players raced across ice after shots fired in arenaA bus filled with hockey players, parents and family members who were inside the arena at the time of the shooting was taken to the Pawtucket Police Headquarters. Mayor Donald Grebien said investigators had conducted about 100 interviews in the hours after the incident.A woman who was leaving the Pawtucket Police Department after the shooting told sister station WCVB that her father was the shooter.”My father was the shooter,” she said, without giving her name. “He shot my family, and he’s dead now.”She also said, “He has mental health issues.” Later Monday evening, investigators were seen towing a white van from the parking lot outside the arena.FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed that the agency was assisting state and local police in the shooting investigation.
Police identified the shooter involved in a deadly assault inside a hockey rink in Rhode Island and credited a good Samaritan for helping to stop the attack.
Three people, including the suspected gunman, are dead and officials said three others were injured in the shooting that happened during a scheduled hockey game at the Dennis M. Lynch Arena in Pawtucket, two miles from the Rhode Island-Massachusetts border.
According to Pawtucket Police Chief Tina Goncalves, the shooting may have been domestic in nature, as the victims included members of the suspect’s family and a family friend. Investigators believe the shooter fatally shot himself after the incident, Goncalves said.
“A good Samaritan stepped in and interjected in the scene and that’s probably what led to a swift end of this tragic event,” Goncalves said.
Goncalves later said the shooter, born in 1969, was born as Robert Dorgan, but also uses the name Roberta and the surname Esposito.
More than one weapon was recovered from the scene, the chief also said.
Video below: Police chief says bystander intervened in hockey game shooting
Two teams made up of students from multiple schools were playing in hockey games at the arena when the shooting took place.
One of the schools was celebrating Senior Night, which honors senior student-athletes and their families during what is usually the final game of the season.
All of the schools involved in the game confirmed that their students and players were not injured in the shooting.
One woman and her son said they were in the stands when they heard the gunshots.
“After four shots, we saw everybody hitting the ground,” she said. “The first thing I thought was where’s my kid? I turned around, I looked toward the stands and he was there and I was just screaming at him to get down. I went back in to see where he was and I saw them doing CPR in the stands. It was really disturbing.”
Students in many school districts in the area are currently on February break.
A 16-year-old goalie for one of the teams said he was on the ice when shots rang out.
“I’m overwhelmed, but trying to stay calm,” he said. “You don’t know what it feels like until you’re in it.”
In the wake of the shooting, the Rhode Island Interscholastic League announced that it was temporarily suspending all games “out of respect for the victims and to reflect upon this senseless act of violence.”
Video below: Hockey players raced across ice after shots fired in arena
A bus filled with hockey players, parents and family members who were inside the arena at the time of the shooting was taken to the Pawtucket Police Headquarters. Mayor Donald Grebien said investigators had conducted about 100 interviews in the hours after the incident.
A woman who was leaving the Pawtucket Police Department after the shooting told sister station WCVB that her father was the shooter.
“My father was the shooter,” she said, without giving her name. “He shot my family, and he’s dead now.”
She also said, “He has mental health issues.”
Later Monday evening, investigators were seen towing a white van from the parking lot outside the arena.
FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed that the agency was assisting state and local police in the shooting investigation.
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The mauling of a man Monday afternoon in the Hammocks led Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office deputies to shooting two “vicious” dogs, authorities said.
At 2:30 p.m. deputies were near SW 172 Ave. and SW 161 St. after being called to the area about a previously reported robbery.
Deputies heard loud noises and screaming from outside a nearby home and went into its backyard and saw a man being attacked by the two large dogs.
A deputy used his Electronic Control Device to temporarily stun the dogs, but they continued to attack the victim. At that point, the deputies shot both dogs, according to a news release from the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office.
The deputies helped the victim stop bleeding by using a tourniquet. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue responded to the scene and transported him to a hospital, where he is in stable condition.
Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office Internal Affairs detectives are investigating the incident.
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DAVID, WHAT CAN YOU SEE? BEN I’VE NOW BEEN SENT A LONGER VERSION OF THE VIDEO THAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT EARLIER. AGAIN, THIS IS NOT VIDEO THAT WE CAN SHARE ON TV AT THIS POINT, BUT I CAN TELL YOU, I CAN DESCRIBE IT. THE GAME IS GOING ON. THERE ARE GUNSHOTS THAT ARE HEARD, THE PLAYERS AND THE BENCHES START CLIMBING OVER ONE ANOTHER. THEN SOME OF THEM START TO RUN FOR THE EXITS. A BUNCH OF THEM JUMP OUT ONTO THE ICE RINK AND SKATE ACROSS TO THE OTHER SIDE, AND THEN THE CAMERA PANS OVER TO SOME STANDS WHERE APPARENTLY SOME PARENTS OR FAMILIES ARE. SPECTATORS WERE WERE GATHERED WATCHING IT, AND THAT THERE’S SOME ACTIVITY OVER THERE THAT SUGGESTS THAT THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN WHERE THE SHOOTING TOOK PLACE. IT’S NOT EXACTLY CLEAR. YOU CAN’T SEE THE SHOOTER IN THIS VIDEO, BUT YOU CAN CERTAINLY SEE THE REACTION. AND YOU GET A SENSE OF OF HOW TERRIFYING IT MUST HAVE BEEN INSIDE THAT ARENA. OUTSIDE THE ARENA, WE SAW AN ATF AGENT ARRIVE A SHORT TIME AGO TO JOIN THE OTHER LAW ENFORCEMENT THAT HAS GATHERED AROUND HERE. PEOPLE HAVE SLOWLY BEEN LEAVING THE SCENE UNDER POLICE ESCORT. AT THIS POINT, WE HAVE
Hockey players raced across ice after shots fired in Rhode Island rink
Updated: 1:51 PM PST Feb 16, 2026
Video reviewed by sister station WCVB shows hockey players rushing across the ice or out into the stands after shots were fired inside a Rhode Island ice rink. David Bienick, with Boston sister station WCVB, reviewed a copy of the video. “This is not video that we can share on TV at this point, but I can tell you, I can describe it,” Bienick said. “The game is going on. There are gunshots that are heard. The players clear the benches, start climbing over one another, and then some of them start to run for the exits.”Several players from both teams jump out onto the ice and skate across to the far side. The shooting happened at the Dennis M. Lynch Arena on Andrew D. Ferland Way in Pawtucket, just before 3 p.m. Monday.A high school hockey game was scheduled at the arena for 2 p.m.
Video reviewed by sister station WCVB shows hockey players rushing across the ice or out into the stands after shots were fired inside a Rhode Island ice rink.
David Bienick, with Boston sister station WCVB, reviewed a copy of the video.
“This is not video that we can share on TV at this point, but I can tell you, I can describe it,” Bienick said. “The game is going on. There are gunshots that are heard. The players clear the benches, start climbing over one another, and then some of them start to run for the exits.”
Several players from both teams jump out onto the ice and skate across to the far side.
The shooting happened at the Dennis M. Lynch Arena on Andrew D. Ferland Way in Pawtucket, just before 3 p.m. Monday.
A high school hockey game was scheduled at the arena for 2 p.m.
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Minneapolis police are investigating after a man and woman were shot inside a vehicle on the city’s south side Sunday night.
The incident happened around 10:20 p.m. on the 2800 block of Stevens Avenue South in the Whitter neighborhood, according to police.
The woman had potentially life-threatening gunshot wounds, while the man suffered injuries that were not life-threatening, officials said. Both were taken to the hospital after officers provided medical aid.
WCCO
Police say they’re working to determine what led to the shooting.
According to officials, no arrests have been made.
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