Woman, 92, dies in shootout with police
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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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Three people, believed to be a mother and her two children, were shot to death early Tuesday at an apartment complex, authorities said.
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USULUTAN, El Salvador -- Police say an angry mother-in-law was behind the slaying of a popular US union leader who was shot in the back days before he was to meet with members of Central America's growing labor movement.
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A baby, a toddler and their mothers were shot to death while the women held their children in their arms, police said Tuesday as officers searched for two men seen running from the victims' home.
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A Los Angeles police officer is shot dead in an ongoing siege involving a gunman who claims to have killed three relatives.
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At least four Peruvian police officers die in a shootout with army reservists who took over a police station, reports say.
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An aspiring actress and playwright was shot and killed as she confronted an armed robber during an early morning street holdup, police said.
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A Macedonian police commander was killed  and two officers wounded in a shootout in an ethnic Albanian  area on the country&#39;s northern border near Kosovo, police said  on Monday.
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CHAPPAQUA, N.Y. &#151; A woman who lives on the same cul-de-sac as former President Clinton died Monday after a mysterious shooting on an isolated road that left her lawyer husband wounded, authorities said.
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LIMA, Peru  - Four police officers died on Sunday  in a shootout with an armed group that took over a police  station in a southern Peruvian town on New Year's Day and held  10 hostages, doctors said.
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A tense armed standoff at a house in northwestern Los Angeles ended Thursday morning with the death of a man in an exchange of gunfire with police.
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LITTLE ROCK, Aug. 29 -- A woman shot a University of Arkansas researcher to death in an apparent dispute over money at the researcher&#39;s home, police said.
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A woman fatally shot a University of Arkansas medical school researcher in an apparent dispute over money at the researcher&#39;s home, police said.
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A gunman who shot and injured three people -- including one of two hostages he held in a South African restaurant -- was killed in a shootout on Saturday when police stormed the building, a police spokeswoman said.
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A group of lawmakers wants to make it harder for police to use "no-knock" warrants in the wake of a shootout that left an elderly woman dead after plainclothes officers stormed her home unannounced in a search for drugs.
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A woman and her male friend were gunned down on a busy Manhattan street in a brazen shooting that investigators believe was committed by the woman's ex-husband, who then turned the gun on himself.
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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.