Sheriff: Gunman Left Suicide Note
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BAILEY, Colo. -- The gunman who took six girls hostage in a high school classroom and killed one of them before taking his own life left a suicide note, the sheriff said Friday.
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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - A gun safety demonstration went awry and landed Monroe County Coroner David Toumey in the hospital after he shot himself in the leg...
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Many people on the rundown northwest Atlanta street where Kathryn Johnston lived fortify their windows with metal bars and arm themselves for protection. Johnston, 92, was no exception. She was waiting with her gun on Tuesday night when a group of plainclothes officers with a warrant knocked down her door in a search for drugs, police said. She opened fire, wounding three officers, before being shot to death, police said.
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By Denny Boyles, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Feb. 10--A Fresno County Jail inmate pulled the trigger on a paint gun Friday and took the first shot in a new campaign against graffiti in rural areas.
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By Sara Semelka, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  Jun. 24--After the mass murder in April of 32 people at Virginia Tech University and the disclosure that the gunman suffered from mental illness, Faisal Ahmed wanted to provide Mid-Missourians access to information about mental health.
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Around the day of the shootings at Northern Illinois University, Jessica Baty was sent packages in the mail by her boyfriend, shooter Steven Kazmierczak. One contained a "goodbye" note and a new cell phone, the other had a holster and ammunition, Baty said in an exclusive interview with CNN.
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A sheriff's deputy who was shot while trying to stop a crime spree that included a bank standoff has died, and prosecutors plan to file more charges against the suspects Wednesday, authorities said.
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MOUNT ANGEL, Ore. - A man who abducted an 11-year-old boy was shot and killed by Linn County sheriff&#39;s deputies during an Amber Alert for the child, who was unharmed.
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Authorities said Friday they believe they found the shallow grave of a pregnant Marine in the back yard of a comrade she accused of rape, and a person close to the case said detectives were tipped off by a note in which the suspect insisted the woman had killed herself.
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A rookie sheriff's deputy was arrested in connection with a school shooting threat that led to public school lockdowns in three counties earlier this week, officials said Friday.
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FORT VALLEY, Ga. - A Fort Valley man walked nearly 2 miles with a bullet hole in his head after being shot in a robbery, determined to die in the presence of loved ones if that was his fate.
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The gunman who fatally shot four people -- including Damageplan (and former Pantera) guitarist &quot;Dimebag&quot; Darrell Abbott -- at Columbus, Ohio&#39;s Alrosa Villa nightclub Wednesday night was a discharged Marine described as a &quot;disturbed&quot; loner by hometown
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A domestic dispute ended in the shooting deaths of three people early Tuesday and wounding of two others, including a sheriff's deputy, authorities said. Police were searching for a man who was believed to have several firearms.
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In what authorities are calling a targeted killing, the wife of a Florida Panhandle sheriff, a deputy and two suspects died in an exchange of gunfire outside the sheriff's house Tuesday evening, an official with the State Attorney's Office said.
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BAILEY, Colo., Sept. 27 -- A gunman took six girls hostage at the high school in this mountain town Wednesday, using them as human shields for hours before he shot and fatally wounded a girl, then killed himself as a SWAT team moved in, authorities said.
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LAKELAND, Fla. -- SWAT team members on Friday fatally shot a man suspected of killing a sheriff's deputy a day earlier, ending an intensive manhunt that had gripped this rural area, officials said.
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Police searched areas of the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Tuesday evening for a suicidal man they said was trying to provoke a shootout