One man died and one was wounded in a shooting Sunday night, Dec. 28, in Tarrant County. The preliminary investigation indicates the shooting was an accident, according to the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office.
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Two men were shot late Sunday night in southeast Tarrant County, according to a Sheriff’s Office spokesperson.
Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to 7800 block of Townsend Road and found one man was shot in the leg and another was shot in the foot. Both were sent to area hospitals, the spokesperson said.
The man who was shot in the foot was treated and released.
“Details of what led to the shooting are still being investigated but at this time preliminary information indicates this was an accidental shooting,” the Sheriff’s Office spokesperson said.
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A 17-year-old boy is dead after shots were fired into a Minneapolis home where he was on Sunday evening.
Police said officers responded to the shooting on the 2200 block of Illion Avenue North around 6:26 p.m. They found the boy, who was suffering from an “apparent life-threatening gunshot wound.”
The officers provided him with medical aid before he was taken to the hospital, where he later died.
Police Chief Brian O’Hara said in a written statement that his agency will “devote every available resource to bring justice” for the boy and his family.
Investigators are working to learn the circumstances surrounding the shooting.
Anyone with information is asked to email Minneapolis police or leave a voicemail for them at 612-673-5845. Anonymous tips can be submitted to Crime Stoppers of Minnesota, or called in to them at 1-800-222-8477.
Ahmed al Ahmed, the man hailed as a hero for tackling one of the gunmen behind an antisemitic attack on Australia’s Bondi Beach earlier this month, is speaking out in the aftermath of the massacre.
In an exclusive interview with CBS News that airs Monday on “CBS Mornings,” al Ahmed said he “didn’t worry about anything” except for the lives he could potentially save as he sought to disarm the shooter.
“My target was just to take the gun from him, and to stop him from killing a human being’s life and not killing innocent people,” he recalled. “I know I saved lots, but I feel sorry for the lost.”
Al Ahmed, a Syrian-Australian Muslim shop owner, has received international praise for disarming one of two gunmen accused of perpetrating the Dec. 14 mass shooting, which was Australia’s worst since 1996. Surveillance footage showed him leap out from behind a parked car along the beachfront and wrestle one assailant to the ground, successfully disarming him before al Ahmed became wounded himself.
“I jumped in his back, hit him. I hold him with my right hand and start saying a word, you know, like to warn him, drop your gun, stop doing what you’re doing, and it’s come all in fast,” al Ahmed said of his struggle to remove the weapon from the gunman’s grasp. “And emotionally, I’m doing something, which is I feel something, a power in my body, my brain … I don’t want to see people killed in front of me, I don’t want to hear his gun, I don’t want to see people screaming and begging, asking for help, and that’s my soul asking me to do that.”
He added, “Everything in my heart, in my brain, everything, it’s worked just to manage to save the peoples’ life.”
The shooting happened at a Hanukkah celebration and intentionally targeted Sydney’s Jewish community, Australian and U.S. officials have said. Fifteen people died and another 40 were hospitalized with injuries.
Police identified the attackers as 50-year-old Sajid Akram, who was killed by officers at the scene, and his 24-year-old son, Naveed Akram.
See more of the interview Monday on “CBS Mornings,” beginning at 7 a.m. ET/PT.
A woman died in the hospital after she was shot in Little Havana late Saturday night, Dec. 27, 2025, according to Miami police.
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A woman died in the hospital after she was shot in Little Havana late Saturday night, Miami Police said.
Officers rushed to 1810 Southwest Third Court shortly before midnight after receiving reports of a shooting, said Officer Kiara Delva, a Miami Police spokeswoman.
They found the woman with a gunshot wound, Delva said. Miami Fire Rescue paramedics took her to Jackson Memorial Hospital, where she died, according to police.
Police have not released the victim’s name or age. The shooting remains under investigation.
This story will be updated as more information becomes available.
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The search continued Friday for suspects in a Christmas Day shooting that killed a 16-year-old boy and wounded four others in Lancaster.
It occurred around 1:10 p.m. Thursday in the city in the Antelope Valley in northern Los Angeles County.
The boy was discovered by deputies and pronounced dead at the scene by Los Angeles County Fire Department personnel, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
A 17-year-old girl, a 15-year-old boy and two men, 19 and 29, were taken to a hospital and treated for non-life-threatening gunshot wounds, the department reported.
The hospitalized victims’ identities were not released.
No suspects have been arrested, Sheriffs Deputy Tracy Koerner told City News Service.
The cause of the shooting remained under investigation.
Authorities urged anyone with information about the shooting to call the Homicide Bureau at 323-890-5500 or Los Angeles County Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477.
Five men were injured in a shooting near the Walter Washington Convention Center in Northwest D.C. Friday night.
Five men were injured in a shooting near the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Northwest D.C. Friday night.
The incident occurred around 9 p.m. near the intersection of 5th and N streets. Police said that when officers arrived at the scene, three men were found conscious and breathing but suffering from gunshot wounds. All three individuals were taken to a hospital.
Two additional men suffering from similar gunshot wounds were also tied to the Friday shooting by investigators. The pair, however, had arrived at the hospital on their own.
DC police said in an update that all five men had sustained non-life-threatening injuries, adding that detectives assigned to the case do not believe the shooting to be a random act.
Officials are searching for multiple suspects who drove off in a black Honda Accord with D.C. tags, which was last seen in the 1200 block of 5th Street in the District’s Northwest.
The shooting remains under investigation.
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A 20-year-old was taken to the hospital after an Orange County deputy returned fire while serving a search.The sheriff’s office says deputies from the felony unit were stationed near the 2200 block of Buchanan Bay Circle around 9:40 p.m. Friday doing surveillance of a homicide suspect.Deputies were preparing to serve a DNA search warrant in a murder that happened earlier this week, when the suspect and a 20-year-old man exited the house.They say the 20-year-old opened fire at the deputies, hitting an unmarked vehicle, while the suspect tried to run back into the residence.A deputy returned fire, striking the 20-year-old shooter.Deputies rendered aid until paramedics were able to get to the scene and transport the man to the hospital, where he underwent surgery. Deputies say he will face charges for the shooting.The suspect in the homicide case was quickly detained and was questioned by detectives later Friday evening.No deputies were injured in this shooting.As is standard procedure, the deputy who fired his weapon is on temporary, paid administrative leave pending the initial FDLE review.
A 20-year-old was taken to the hospital after an Orange County deputy returned fire while serving a search.
The sheriff’s office says deputies from the felony unit were stationed near the 2200 block of Buchanan Bay Circle around 9:40 p.m. Friday doing surveillance of a homicide suspect.
Deputies were preparing to serve a DNA search warrant in a murder that happened earlier this week, when the suspect and a 20-year-old man exited the house.
They say the 20-year-old opened fire at the deputies, hitting an unmarked vehicle, while the suspect tried to run back into the residence.
A deputy returned fire, striking the 20-year-old shooter.
Deputies rendered aid until paramedics were able to get to the scene and transport the man to the hospital, where he underwent surgery.
Deputies say he will face charges for the shooting.
The suspect in the homicide case was quickly detained and was questioned by detectives later Friday evening.
No deputies were injured in this shooting.
As is standard procedure, the deputy who fired his weapon is on temporary, paid administrative leave pending the initial FDLE review.
Three people were wounded, including an officer, when a gunman opened fire Friday afternoon at the headquarters of a sheriff’s office in rural northwest Idaho, authorities said. The suspect was later fatally shot by law enforcement inside the building.
The incident unfolded at about 2:30 p.m. Pacific Time outside the headquarters of the Shoshone County Sheriff’s Office in Wallace, Idaho, Shoshone County Sheriff William Eddy said in a Friday night news conference.
Eddy said the suspect shot two women who were sitting in a pickup truck outside the building.
“Two ladies got shot, they were sitting in a pickup,” Eddy said. “The guy shot through the windshield, and it struck a lady in the leg in the front seat, and a lady in the leg in the backseat.”
At some point, the suspect “entered the sheriff’s office lobby and began firing,” Eddy said.
One officer was struck in the ear by the gunfire, but it was unclear if he was inside the building at the time. All three victims sustained minor injuries, the sheriff disclosed.
“He just walked in,” Eddy told reporters. “…The lobby is always open so people can walk in and fill out reports, or make contact with dispatch, or get ahold of us.”
Several local and federal law enforcement agencies responded, including the FBI and U.S. Marshals Service. The suspect was shot and killed by officers in the lobby area, Eddy said. He was pronounced dead at 4:15 p.m.
The sheriff indicated that no one was held hostage during the incident. The suspect, whose name was not released, was armed with multiple firearms, Eddy said. He declined to provide a possible motive for the shooting.
Wallace is located about 45 miles southeast of Coeur d’Alene, which is located near the Idaho-Washington border.
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The San Diego County Sheriff’s Office has released body-worn video from a shooting involving a deputy in Lakeside earlier this month.
Deputy Chris Bearss fired harmlessly on Eric Mitchell Ralls, 30, of Poway, on Dec. 10 after the latter claimed to have a gun and then made a threatening move toward him, authorities said.
In the video and accompanying briefing released Wednesday, the sheriff’s office said the events began shortly before 10:30 a.m. that day, when the Lakeside Fire Department received a report of a man possibly experiencing a drug overdose in the 9200 block of Briette Place.
Sheriff’s deputies also responded to the emergency call at the request of firefighters and arrived to find Ralls no longer there. They began searching the neighborhood and found him on an embankment in the neighborhood near Lake Jennings.
Bearss approaches Ralls from the other side of a chain-link fence, and the suspect allegedly tells him he is armed with a gun, then “reaches behind his back towards his waistband as if he is reaching for the gun eventually getting into a shooting stance with his hands,” sheriff’s officials said. “Deputy Bearss fires his weapon at the man, but misses. The man then runs away. Deputy Bearss chases after him.”
Ralls was eventually arrested by multiple deputies a short distance away.
Ralls, who allegedly went on to assault a medic while en route to Sharp Grossmont Hospital in La Mesa for a post-arrest evaluation, was booked into San Diego Central Jail on suspicion of resisting arrest and battering an emergency worker.
No weapon was located at the scene, authorities said.
Bearss has been with the county law enforcement agency for about two years.
The San Diego Police Department is investigating the shooting per a Memorandum of Agreement signed in 2022 to avoid appearances of a conflict of interest in law enforcement shootings.
Broward Sheriff’s Office detectives are looking for help identifying a person who fired multiple shots into a Lauderdale Lakes home on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025.
Broward Sheriff’s Office detectives are searching for an unidentified person who fired several shots into a home in Lauderdale Lakes on Wednesday, Dec. 10.
Shortly before 8 a.m. that day, Broward County authorities got calls about a shooting on the 4400 block of Northwest 43rd Court in Lauderdale Lakes. Deputies and Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue responded and found that a person had fired over two dozen shots into a home with people inside, though no one ended up being seriously injured.
Surveillance footage showed a white Mercedes SUV had driven around the home multiple times. Twice, the vehicle’s driver parked the SUV down the street and ran toward the home wearing all black, with their face covered.
Surveillance footage shows a white Mercedes SUV driving past the home several times, according to the Broward Sheriff’s Office.
The shooter let off more than 24 rounds of ammunition into the home before driving away in the SUV, according to officials.
People with tips are asked to call Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-TIPS (8477) or submit information via browardcrimestoppers.org. Cellphone users can also call **TIPS (8477).
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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced plans Thursday for a national bravery award to recognize civilians and first responders who confronted “the worst of evil” during an antisemiticterror attack that left 15 dead and has cast a heavy shadow over the nation’s holiday season.
Albanese said he plans to establish a special honors system for those who placed themselves in harm’s way to help during the attack on a beachside Hanukkah celebration, like Ahmed al Ahmed, a Syrian-Australian Muslim who disarmed one of the assailants before being wounded himself.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese meets Ahmed al Ahmed, who was injured while disarming one of the Bondi Beach attackers, at St George Hospital in Sydney on Dec. 16, 2025.
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The attackers, identified as Sajid Akram, who was killed by police during the Dec. 14 attack, and his 24-year-old son Naveed Akram, are accused of perpetrating Australia’s worst massacre since 1996.
Speaking at a press conference after a Christmas Day lunch at a charitable foundation in Sydney, Albanese described a holiday season defined by a sharp contrast between extremist violence and the “best of humanity.”
“This Christmas is a different one because of the anti-terror and the terrorist attack motivated by ISIS and antisemitism,” Albanese said. “But at the same time as we have seen the worst of humanity, we have seen the bravery and kindness and compassion … from those who rushed to danger.”
Acts of heroism amid the tragedy
The proposed honors would recognize those who are nominated and recommended for bravery or meritorious awards under the existing Australian Honors and Awards system for their actions during and after the attack. Officials have not yet said who would be honored.
In the days after Ahmed’s story came to light, members of the public donated more than $1.5 million to aid the 44-year-old father and shop owner who was seen on video tackling one of the gunmen from behind and wrestling the rifle from his hands. He was shot multiple times in the left arm, apparently by the second gunman, and was expected to face months of recovery.
“Ahmed did really a heroic job,” his cousin, Mohammad al Ahmed, told The Associated Press. “Without any hesitation, he tackled the terrorist and disarmed him just to save innocent people.”
Other accounts of heroism also emerged, including acts of extraordinary bravery by victims who did not survive.
They included a married couple in their 60s, Boris and Sofia Gurman, who were seen on video trying to stop the attack just before it unfolded. In the footage, Boris Gurman can be seen grabbing a rifle from one of the two gunmen as they unloaded multiple weapons from their car, which had an ISIS flag draped across the windshield. Moments later, the Gurmans were shot and killed.
“This encapsulates who Boris and Sofia were — people who instinctively and selflessly tried to help others,” their family said in a statement.
Another man, 62-year-old Reuven Morrison, was shot dead as he pelted one of the attackers with bricks.
“From my sources and understanding, he had jumped up the second the shooting started. He managed to throw bricks at the terrorist,” his daughter, Sheina Gutnick, told CBS News the day after the attack. His actions were also captured on video.
Gutnick berated the government and police for being “untrained for this massacre, untrained for what’s to come, untrained for what the Jewish community has been telling the Australian government is inevitable,” adding to a chorus of criticism after a documented rise in hate attacks targeting Australia’s Jewish residents.
An American who was at the Bondi Beach event, Rabbi Leibel Lazaroff, ran over to help a police officer who was shot, taking off his own shirt to use as a tourniquet, his father told CBS News. Moments later, Lazaroff was also shot and wounded, and his mentor was killed. “As I was talking to Leibel, he said, ‘I wish I could have done more,’” his father said.
Australia strengthening gun laws
Just a day after pushing through the country’s toughest firearm laws, New South Wales state leader Chris Minns issued a plea for national solidarity, urging Australians to support their Jewish neighbors during what he described as a fortnight of “heartbreak and pain.”
“Everybody in Australia needs to wrap their arms around them and lift them up,” Minns said at a news conference Thursday. “I want them to know that Australians have got their back. We’re in their corner and we’re going to help them get through this.”
The gun reforms, which passed through the New South Wales state legislature on Christmas Eve, include capping individual gun ownership at four and reclassifying high-risk weapons like pump-action firearms.
The legislation also tightens licensing by reducing permit terms to two years, restricting ownership to Australian citizens and removing the review pathway for license denials.
“Gun reform alone will not solve hatred or extremism, but we can’t fail to act on restricting access to weapons which could lead to further violence against our citizens, Minns said earlier in the week when introducing the proposed laws.
Other new laws will ban the public display of terrorist symbols and grant police expanded powers to restrict public gatherings in specific areas following terrorist incidents.
Albanese has also announced plans to tighten Australia’s already strict gun laws.
Hot-shooting rookie Kon Knueppel and the Charlotte Hornets look to continue a surge when they visit the Orlando Magic on Friday night.
Charlotte has won three of its last five games and Knueppel, the No. 4 overall pick out of Duke, leads all rookies in scoring with 19.4 points per game and is shooting 41.9% from 3-point range.
‘We’re just going to take one game at a time, compete and try to get a win every night,’ Knueppel said following Tuesday night’s 126-109 win over the Washington Wizards. ‘And going forward, I think if we play our brand of basketball and play the way we want to play, we’re going to have a good chance to do that.’
Knueppel was one of eight Hornets in double figures with 19 points against the Wizards, sinking 5 of 9 shots from behind the arc.
LaMelo Ball has been in and out of the Hornets’ lineup, appearing in 20 of 30 games this season dealing with ankle injuries. He is averaging 19.6 points and 8.7 assists, which would rank fifth in the NBA if he had played enough games to qualify.
Ball had a team-high 23 points with nine assists against Washington. Brandon Miller added 20 points, and Moussa Diabate delivered 12 points and 18 rebounds.
Second-year Charlotte coach Charles Lee believes the team is turning the corner due to its increased defensive intensity.
‘I feel like our defense continues to get better,’ he said on Tuesday. ‘The games that we win, our defensive rating is usually in a really good spot. And then offensively, I feel like ever since the game at Brooklyn (a 116-103 loss on Dec. 1), we’ve done such a better job of trusting the pass, playing the pass.’
Defense has been the Magic’s calling card for the last few years under coach Jamahl Mosley. That and injuries, unfortunately.
The Magic’s leading scorer, Franz Wagner, is currently dealing with a left ankle sprain and has missed the last two weeks, and Moritz Wagner is still out after tearing his ACL last season.
‘Whoever is out there on the floor, you’re asked to play Magic basketball, and that is playing hard, playing together, playing defense, playing for one another,’ Mosley said Tuesday. ‘This group will continue to show that as we get bodies back, whenever that may be.’
Orlando has won two of its last three games, most recently a 110-106 win in Portland on Tuesday. Desmond Bane scored 23 points, and Anthony Black added 22.
Orlando continues to rank among the worst 3-point shooting teams in the NBA at 34.3%, 27th in the league. Bane, brought over in a monster offseason trade with the Memphis Grizzlies, is shooting a career-worst 36.6% from downtown, but is coming off making a season-high four 3-pointers on seven attempts against the Trail Blazers.
Orlando defeated the Hornets 123-107 on Oct. 30 in Charlotte. The Magic have swept the last five meetings and won 10 of the last 11.
After a six-day trial, a Denver jury found Ernest Cunningham guilty of second-degree murder in the death of Kelsey Roberts, 23, according to the Denver District Attorney’s Office.
Another resident in Roberts’ building called the police shortly after 4:30 p.m. on June 29, 2024, when he heard a gunshot and what sounded like someone running away toward the building’s stairwell, according to Cunningham’s arrest affidavit.
When he looked out into the hallway, the resident spotted a spent bullet casing on the floor, police said in the affidavit.
Another resident saw Cunningham leaving the building from his balcony and took a video of Cunningham’s car as it left the parking lot, police said. Police traced the car back to Cunningham using that video, which showed its license plate, and surveillance video from the apartment complex.
Roberts’ husband told police that he works with Cunningham and that Cunningham “knew where they lived and had issues with him,” police wrote in the affidavit.
The husband said he did not like Cunningham because the man used drugs at work. After Cunningham was fired, he began calling Roberts’ husband and threatening him. Cunningham had visited the apartment before, but did not live in the building, according to the affidavit.
Denver police officers arrived at the southeast Denver apartment building in the 800 block of South Dexter Street less than five minutes after the first 911 call was made.
When they arrived, Denver officers saw blood splatters on Roberts’ door and said it appeared someone had forced their way into the apartment, according to the affidavit. Roberts’ body was found just inside the apartment.
She died from her injuries on scene, police wrote in the affidavit.
Denver and Aurora police officers found Cunningham’s car near a northern Aurora hotel in the 16400 block E. 40th Circle later that evening. Cunningham was arrested inside.
The man faces up to 48 years in prison, according to the office. Cunningham will appear in court for a sentencing hearing on Feb. 27, court records show.
Police said officers were called to Alpha Court around 4:40 p.m. for reports of a shooting. When officers arrived, police said they found Jaleeyah Tune had been shot. She was pronounced dead on the scene.
For some family members, they say her absence feels like a void.
“They took a beautiful life. For no reason. For no reason,” said Cresha Hobbs, Tune’s Grandmother.
Tune’s death has prompted a wave of support from all corners of the community, with teachers, classmates and even local law enforcement joining the vigil to pay their respects and leave tokens of remembrance.
Family members are now calling for action and say they do not want what happened to Tune to happen to another family in Goldsboro.
“We’re not gonna stop until we have a law about children violence [and] gun violence in Goldsboro. It’s gonna be Jaleeyah’s law and I’m not gonna stop until that happens,” Hobbs said.
According to her mother, Tune was born premature and came home from the hospital on Christmas Eve 13 years ago. Now this holiday has a different meaning for them.
While many families are celebrating Christmas, Tune’s family is planning a funeral. They have started a GoFundMe to help with expenses.
Two people were shot by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Glen Burnie, Maryland, on Wednesday morning.
Two people were injured in a shooting by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Glen Burnie, Maryland, on Wednesday morning.
A spokesperson with the Anne Arundel Police Department confirmed with WTOP the shooting took place around 11 a.m. Wednesday in the 500 block of West Court.
The spokesperson said ICE officers who were conducting a detail in the area approached a white van that attempted to flee and run them over. An officer shot at the van, which sped up then stopped in the woods behind some homes in the residential area.
One person inside the vehicle was struck by gunfire and another person outside the vehicle, whose involvement in the enforcement detail is unclear, also sustained minor injuries, the spokesperson said.
The two people, whose identities are currently unknown, were taken to a local hospital for their injuries and are in stable condition.
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore said in a statement on social media that he’s aware of the shooting and that he and other state officials will provide more information to the public as it develops.
“We will remain in touch with local officials and are standing by to provide support for the community,” he wrote.
The Anne Arundel County Police Department is investigating the shooting, in collaboration with the FBI and ICE, which are conducting internal investigations.
This is a developing story. Stay with WTOP for the latest.
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Northglenn police said Monday that a man their officers shot Friday night near a mall had pointed a gun at them while fleeing.
At about 9:15 p.m. Friday, police responded to a call about a suspicious person near Northglenn Marketplace. A man fled on foot and pointed a gun at officers during the pursuit, the department said. The shooting happened on the south side of the mall, near W. 104th Avenue and Bannock Street.
Police haven’t released any information about the man’s identity or condition, other than that an ambulance took him to a local hospital and his injuries don’t appear likely to be fatal.
The 17th Judicial District Critical Incident Response Team is investigating the shooting.
A jury found a man guilty in the murders of three people at a Minneapolis homeless encampment, the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office announced Monday.
Earl Bennett was found guilty on three counts of second-degree intentional murder for the Oct. 27, 2024, shooting at a small encampment next to railroad tracks near Snelling Avenue and East 44th Street.
The victims were identified as 38-year-old Christopher Martell Washington of Fridley, 32-year-old Louis Mitchell Lemons Jr. of Brooklyn Center, and 35-year-old Samantha Jo Moss of St. Louis Park.
Charges say investigators obtained surveillance video from the area that allegedly captured the suspect, later identified as Bennett, arriving on an electric bike and entering a tent at the encampment. About 15 minutes later, video captured the sound of several gunshots before Bennett exited the tent and left on his bike.
The manager of a sober house in south Minneapolis, where Bennett is accused of severely injuring another man, identified Bennett as the suspect in the surveillance video from the encampment shooting.
Later that same night, officers in St. Paul responded to a shots fired call near Snelling and Charles avenues. Upon arrival, they found a man, later identified as Bennett, with a gun.
As officers approached, Bennett pointed the gun to his head, police said. Officers began talking with him, trying to get him to surrender, but he then started walking south down Snelling. Once he reached the Snelling and University area, he began walking around in the intersection, according to police.
Police said officers fired “less lethal” rounds at Bennett to try and get him to surrender, but he still would not.
Bennett then pointed his gun at police, according to the department and witnesses, and that’s when officers shot him.
The four officers who shot Bennett were all cleared of criminal charges, with the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office concluding the use of deadly force was legally justified under state law.
Bennett also faces charges of second-degree assault and unlawful possession of a firearm in connection to the armed encounter with officers in Ramsey County.
In Hennepin County, Bennett was also convicted of illegally possessing a firearm.
Bennett’s sentencing is scheduled for Jan. 16.
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A woman was shot at, and believed to be injured by, a Pueblo police officer after driving into a police cruiser Sunday night, according to the agency.
An unidentified Pueblo officer attempted to pull over a white Dodge Dart at E. Abriendo and Jones avenues, near Interstate 25, shortly after 9 p.m. Sunday, according to a news release from the police department.
The Dodge driver refused to yield, turned around and drove toward the Pueblo officer, police said in the release.
The officer repeatedly ordered the driver to stop, but she drove into a marked police car and a separate parked vehicle, police said. That’s when shots were fired and the driver fled the scene.
Police were searching Monday for 39-year-old Cassandra Lake, who investigators believe was injured. The Dodge was found the night before, under a tarp in the back of a burned-down Pueblo residence in the 1800 block of E. Routt Avenue, police said.
That block is just 1/5 mile away from the intersection where the shooting happened.
No Pueblo officers or other bystanders were injured, police said.
Anyone with information on Lake or her whereabouts is asked to contact the Pueblo Police Department at 719-553-2502.
The 10th Judicial District Critical Incident Response Team will investigate the shooting.
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A man was shot and killed at a home in south Fort Worth on Monday and the gunman remains at large, police said.
Fort Worth police responded to a private home in the 7400 block of Snow Ridge Drive about 2:25 p.m. Monday ., police said in a statement. Officers found a man who had been shot in the upper torso. He was transported to a nearby hospital but died while in transit, according to the statement.
The shooter is not in custody as of Monday evening, police said, but officers believe this to be an isolated incident. There is no known threat to the community, according to the statement.
The Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office will release the official cause and manner of death and will confirm the identity of the man pending family notification.
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