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Thomas Cashman appeals for reduction in 42-year jail term for murdering Olivia Pratt-Korbel

Drug-dealer Thomas Cashman was found guilty last month of gunning down the nine-year-old

Wales Online

Dan Rodricks: Drop the gun, and nobody gets hurt

Roman Welzant, who claimed to have been tormented for years by neighborhood teenagers, shot two of them one winter night in 1980 as they threw snowballs at his house in Eastwood, just over the city line in Baltimore County. Welzant, who was 68 at the time, killed one of the…

Tribune News Service

Will Bunch: In frightened, paranoid, gun-crazed America, the real ‘stranger danger’ is to strangers

This is how fast things seem to be devolving in gun-crazed America. It’s been barely a week since we were stunned by the news that Ralph Yarl, a 16-year-old honors student who accidentally rang the wrong doorbell at a Kansas City home, was shot in the head by the 84-year-old…

The Philadelphia Inquirer

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Tennessee and Jan. 6: A history lesson

Republicans continue to undermine democracy in outrageous ways — but the pursuit of justice for Jan. 6 won't stop

Salon

Judge told 'throw away the key' as Thomas Cashman appeals for jail term reduction

Child killer Thomas Cashman has appealed to have his jail term reduced after he murdered nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel

Liverpool Echo

Jan 6 defendant opens fire on police in Texas

‘A deputy instructed Pelham to put his gun down, but he continued to wave it until re-entering his home’

The Independent UK

David Ungi fled UK day after shooting of Vinny Waddington and wasn't seen for seven years

David Ungi was arrested at a gym on Costa del Sol after police spent days scoping out his hiding place

Liverpool Echo

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Man accused of shooting girl, parents in North Carolina is arrested in Florida

A man allegedly fired a weapon after a basketball rolled into his yard. A 6-year-old girl suffered a graze wound, her father was badly hurt and her mother was struck in the arm.

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago cop who faced dismissal over role in violent arrest is suspended for 6 months

Two other officers who were also facing firing for their roles in the March 15, 2017, arrest were found not guilty and reinstated. Another officer who threatened a suspect, used a racial slur and made false statements will be fired.

Chicago Sun-Times

Argument at large Hawaii cockfight led to deadly shooting

Court documents say a Hawaii shooting that killed two people and wounded three others began with an argument at a cockfight attended by 100 to 200 people

The Independent UK

Hatred sparked murder of former son-in-law, court told

A married couple on trial in Tasmania over the alleged shooting murder of their daughter's former partner in 2009 has pleaded not guilty.

AAP

Slain Vegas shooting victims' kin to split shooter's estate

Families of people killed in the Las Vegas Strip massacre in October 2017 will receive almost all of the $1.4 million estate of the man who unleashed the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history and killed himself before police reached him

The Independent UK

Arming teachers means more tragedy

Putting weapons in the hands of teachers mean more, not fewer, gun deaths.

Chicago Sun-Times

Autopsy: Gunshot residue ‘not seen’ on activist killed at police training center

ATLANTA — Gunshot residue was “not seen” on the hands of an activist killed in January by Georgia State Patrol troopers at the site of Atlanta’s planned public safety training center, according to an autopsy report released late Wednesday by the DeKalb County Medical Examiner’s Office.

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The Independent UK

Supreme Court rules that death row inmate Rodney Reed can seek DNA testing as he tries to prove innocence

Reed was sentenced to death in Texas in 1998

The Independent UK

Families fear more delays in Texas school shooting case

Family members of those killed and injured during a 2018 attack on a Texas high school are expressing concerns about possibly more delays in the case

Tribune News Service

Texas cheerleader recovering after mistaken-car shooting in H-E-B parking lot

The Texas cheerleader shot after a friend mistakenly got into the wrong car in a grocery store parking lot in Elgin is recovering from surgery.

Sports Illustrated

Five-Star Memphis Recruit Pleads Not Guilty in Felony Shooting Case

The 18-year-old is accused of firing a gun into a vehicle containing five passengers.

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Ralph Yarl neighbour chokes up remembering moment teen banged on door after being shot

Jodi Rae has spoken out about what happened to Ralph Yarl in Kansas City after he knocked on the wrong door when collecting his twin brothers, describing the trail of blood left across her property as the teen came begging for help

The Independent UK

Psychologist says man charged in road rage killing was sane

A court-appointed psychologist says a man charged with killing a 13-year-old boy, wounding his mother and brother and a witness during a road rage confrontation in suburban Denver was legally sane at the time

The Denver Post

Colorado assault weapons ban killed in late-night vote by House committee

Three Colorado House Democrats joined with Republican colleagues to block a bill early Thursday that would have banned the sale or purchase of assault weapons in the state, after hours of heated public testimony and a late attempt by the bill’s sponsor to dramatically scale the measure back and salvage…

The Independent UK

2 men wrongly convicted in California are declared innocent

Two men who served nearly 17 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of attempted murder have been declared innocent by a California judge

Chicago Sun-Times

Vote for gun regulation like your child’s life depends on it. In America, it does.

Every parent in America must face reality: It could be your child ringing the wrong doorbell next. Or driving down the wrong driveway. Or approaching the wrong car at the grocery store.

Liverpool Echo

Cowardly child killer Thomas Cashman appeals to have jail term reduced

Cashman refused to go into the dock to hear his sentence

Tribune News Service

High school basketball star Mikey Williams pleads not guilty to shooting at vehicle

EL CAJON, Calif. — San Ysidro High School basketball star Mikey Williams, who is accused of shooting at a vehicle last month in Jamul, pleaded not guilty Thursday to six felony charges.

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