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Indianapolis FedEx shooting updates: Eight dead, several wounded at facility
ictor/iStock(INDIANAPOLIS) — Eight people were shot and killed and several others injured in a mass shooting Thursday night at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis, according to local authorities. When officers arrived at the scene just after 11 p.m. local time, it was an active shooter situation, Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department Officer Genae Cook said during…… read more »
Adam Toledo police shooting: Chicago releases body cam footage of 13-year-old’s death
Chicago Police Dept. (CHICAGO) — Body camera footage of the fatal Chicago police shooting of 13-year-old Adam Toledo was released Thursday by the city’s Civilian Office of Police Accountability. The March 29 footage shows an unidentified officer chasing Toledo down a street. The officer yells, “Police! Stop. Stop right f—ing now. Hands — show me…… read more »
Maine man arrested for setting fire to Black church
Springfield Fire Department/Twitter(SPRINGFIELD, Mass.) — A Bulgarian national who was arrested Thursday faces hate crime offenses for setting several fires at a predominately Black church in Springfield, Massachusetts, last year. Dushko Vulchev, who is a naturalized U.S. citizen living in Maine, demonstrated a “hatred of Black people,” federal prosecutors said as they charged him with…… read more »
Capitol Police officer remembered at funeral in Massachusetts
Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images(ADAMS, Mass.) — U.S. Capitol Police Officer William “Billy” Evans was remembered in Adams, Massachusetts, on Thursday. While his family, including his 9-year-old son, Logan, and 7-year-old daughter, Abigail, their mother, Shannon Terranova, and Evans’ mother, Janice, attended the private funeral mass at the St. Stanislaus Kostka Church, hundreds…… read more »
Police shoot man firing indiscriminately at people outside San Antonio airport: Police
kali9/iStock(SAN ANTONIO, Texas) — Police shot and killed an individual who began firing indiscriminately at people outside San Antonio International Airport in Texas on Thursday, police said. The person, described as being in his 40s, drove up to Terminal B and was confronted by a police officer, who had been warned of the vehicle driving…… read more »
Daunte Wright’s mom says she ‘wants 100% accountability’ in wake of officer’s arrest
ABC News(BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn.) — The mother of Daunte Wright, the 20-year-old Black man shot dead by a Minnesota police officer at a traffic stop, said she “wants 100% accountability” in the wake of the officer’s arrest. “If that even happens, we’re still going to bury our son,” Wright’s mother, Katie Wright, said at a…… read more »