Brazil ex-police chief shot dead
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The body of a former Brazilian police chief held responsible for the deaths of 111 inmates in a jail riot is found in Sao Paulo.
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The leader of one of Rio's most successful samba troupes and his wife are shot dead days before Carnival.
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Police firing tear gas and bullets halted protests Wednesday, blocking mass rallies the opposition hoped would show the power behind their demands for the president to step down. At least two people were fatally shot by police.
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Brazilian police investigate the murder of a drug lord who achieved notoriety in a dramatic 1980s jail-break.
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A Brazilian soldier with the UN peacekeeping force in Haiti was shot and wounded Saturday when peacekeepers and local police faced gunfire in a crackdown on armed gangs in the Haitian capital.
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Five rural workers are shot dead in the most violent incident in Brazil's land row since the president took power.
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A man killed by New Orleans police in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina was shot in the back, according to an autopsy report CNN obtained.
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Guinea-Bissau&#39;s army chief of staff and former interim president, General Verissimo Correia Seabra, was killed Wednesday during unrest by mutinous soldiers in the former Portuguese
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A man who shot at people in a car and standing nearby, killing a woman and wounding others early Saturday morning, died moments later as police fired at him, authorities said.
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One of the senior officers in charge when Jean Charles de Menezes was shot dead by police has been promoted.
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Gunmen ambushed and killed a police chief in the Mexican border state of Nuevo Leon Tuesday in the latest slaying of a law officer in a region ravaged by a war between drug gangs.
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The top police investigator for Nuevo Leon, a northern Mexican state that borders Texas, was shot to death by a lone gunman outside an art gallery, police said Wednesday.
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A man has been shot dead by police in an incident in the centre of Sevenoaks in Kent.
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The nephew of Greece's top police counterterrorism official was fatally shot in the head while horsing around with two cadet police officers early yesterday at the Olympic mountain cycling venue on Mount ...
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A Miami city police officer was found shot to death in his unmarked patrol car early Tuesday, authorities said.
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Mexican President Vicente Fox fired  the capital city's police chief on Monday after a mob beat and  burned to death two officers and critically injured a third  last month.
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ELDORET, Kenya -- A mob of 3,000 armed with bows and arrows, spears, clubs and machetes killed a police officer Friday in the home village of an opposition lawmaker who had been fatally shot by a police officer the day before, police said.