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Thomas Loden says sorry and tells family 'I love you' in Japanese before execution

Thomas Edwin Loden Jr said that he had tried to do a “good deed every single day” since killing 16-year-old girl Leesa Marie Gray, in his final words before he was given a lethal injection in Mississippi

Daily Mirror · Dec 15, 2022

Jury will resume deliberations Thursday in ex-Officer Aaron Dean’s murder trial

FORT WORTH, Texas — Jurors spent the day Wednesday deliberating the fate of former Fort Worth Police officer Aaron Dean and whether he committed murder, manslaughter or no crime at all when he fatally shot a Black woman inside her mother’s home more than three years ago.

Tribune News Service · Dec 15, 2022

Supreme Court rules Constable Zachary Rolfe can be forced to front Kumanjayi Walker inquest

Constable Zachary Rolfe will be forced to front the coronial inquest into the death of Kumanjayi Walker when it resumes next year.

ABC News · Dec 15, 2022

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Fatal stabbings said to be trauma response

A judge has been asked to consider the mental condition of a man convicted of manslaughter after he was threatened with an axe.

AAP · Dec 15, 2022

1 dead, 1 wounded in South Chicago

Two men were shot in the 8700 block of South Commercial Avenue. One died, the other is in critical condition, police say.

Chicago Sun-Times · Dec 15, 2022

U.S. request could block evidence in probe of Chicago cop’s murder

Federal prosecutors say it might violate law to release files from a massive joint investigation launched with CPD in the wake of Officer Clifton Lewis shooting.

Chicago Sun-Times · Dec 15, 2022

Thomas Edwin Loden Jr executed after rape and murder of girl in 4-hour ordeal

Thomas Edwin Loden Jr, 58, from Mississippi, US, has received a lethal injection at the Mississippi State Penitentiary after pleading guilty to the murder of Leesa Marie Gray back in 2000

Daily Mirror · Dec 15, 2022

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El Paso Walmart shooting case gets new district attorney

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has named a new El Paso district attorney after the previous one resigned under mounting pressure over the handling of the 2019 Walmart attack that has yet to go to trial

The Independent UK · Dec 15, 2022

City Council OKs crackdown on illegal gun possession

Ald. Anthony Napolitano (41st), mayor skirt debate, push ordinance through levying heavy fines and jail time to those caught packing without a license.

Chicago Sun-Times · Dec 15, 2022

Parolee ‘brutally, coldly’ shot 4 people at Portage Park bar, standing over some as they lay wounded and firing again: prosecutors

Prosecutors said Samuel Parsons-Salas later admitted to someone he had shot “everyone who called out his name.”

Chicago Sun-Times · Dec 14, 2022

National Guard member deployed for Operation Lone Star stabbed while off duty in Mexico

The service member is expected to recover.

The Texas Tribune · Dec 14, 2022

Man who straw-purchased gun used to kill Chicago police Officer Ella French sentenced to 2 1/2 years in federal prison

CHICAGO — An Indiana man who admitted to straw-purchasing the handgun later used to kill Chicago police Officer Ella French and critically wound her partner during a traffic stop last year was sentenced Wednesday to 2 1/2 years in prison.

Chicago Tribune · Dec 14, 2022

$3M deal reached over police shooting of Pharrell’s cousin

A $3 million settlement has been reached between Virginia Beach and the family of a Black man who was shot by police during a chaotic night on the city's boardwalk

The Independent UK · Dec 14, 2022

Police hunt two men over fatal shooting

CCTV may hold the key to solving the shooting murder of 22-year-old Korey Kesici, who had connections to a number of organised crime groups, police suggest.

AAP · Dec 14, 2022

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The Independent UK · Dec 14, 2022

Police: Man charged in Takeoff's death tried to avoid arrest

Prosecutors in Texas say the man accused of fatally shooting rapper Takeoff last month tried to flee the country, and sought information on using fake plane tickets to obtain an expedited passport

The Denver Post · Dec 14, 2022

Club Q shooting survivors tell Congress that anti-LGBTQ rhetoric encourages violence

James Slaugh barely lifted his right arm when he swore to tell the truth Wednesday morning. He’d been shot in the Club Q attack in Colorado, and his left hand helped prop up his right as he prepared to testify about the anti-LGBTQ rhetoric that had proliferated before the shooting.

Tribune News Service · Dec 14, 2022

Jury deliberating in murder trial of former Fort Worth Officer Aaron Dean

FORT WORTH, Texas — Jurors are deliberating the fate of former Fort Worth police Officer Aaron Dean on Wednesday after lawyers made closing arguments in his murder trial. Dean fatally shot a Black woman inside her mother’s home more than three years ago.

The Independent UK · Dec 14, 2022

Prosecutor in Lamar Johnson case defends his actions

The former prosecutor who sent Lamar Johnson to prison nearly 28 years ago defended his actions Wednesday, including his use of testimony from a jailhouse snitch

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The Independent UK · Dec 14, 2022

KFC customer shoots employee because fast food restaurant ran out of corn

Male, 25, recovering in hospital after being shot in abdomen by suspect in St Louis

The Independent UK · Dec 14, 2022

Idaho college murders: The rumours and conspiracy theories ruled out by investigators

While officials are remaining tightlipped about key parts of the investigation, they have debunked several online rumours and ruled out potential ties to the killings

The Independent UK · Dec 14, 2022

Will the Idaho college murders become America’s next cold case?

It’s been one month since four Idaho students were brutally murdered, and fears are growing that the case is going cold. Rachel Sharp and Josh Marcus explore a troubling trend in America’s homicide clearance rates - and what happens to the families and communities left without answers

The Independent UK · Dec 14, 2022

St. Louis picks Delaware chief to lead police department

St. Louis officials have chosen the Wilmington, Delaware, police chief to lead its police department

Irish Mirror · Dec 14, 2022

State witness Jonathan Dowdall tells Regency trial he's 'not a rat' and doesn't care if he gets killed

Dowdall was giving evidence on what is the second day of him being cross-examined by Hutch’s legal counsel and the 32nd day of the Special Criminal Court trial of Gerry Hutch for the murder of David Byrne in Dublin’s Regency Hotel on February 5, 2016

The Independent UK · Dec 14, 2022

Biden says US has ‘moral obligation’ to tighten gun laws in statement commemorating Sandy Hook shooting massacre

‘We have a moral obligation to pass and enforce laws that can prevent these things from happening again’

The Independent UK · Dec 14, 2022

Club Q mass shooting survivors testify to Congress against anti-LGBT+ violence: ‘We are being slaughtered’

Survivors of the Colorado Springs massacre urge lawmakers to condemn anti-LGBT+ rhetoric that advocates argue has fuelled the attack and a wave of harassment

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