A murder suspect being interviewed at the Jackson, Mississippi police headquarters shot a detective on Thursday, and those who came to investigate the gunfire found both men dead, authorities said. The suspect was being questioned on the third floor of the building when the shooting broke, out
Marquinta E. Jacobs has been charged with murder in the shooting death of a civilian employee at Fort Knox, according to the Associated Press A Thursday federal court filing by the FBI said that Jacobs fired a 45-caliber handgun at the victim, "striking him several times," in a parking lot outside the parking lot of the Army Human Resources Command building on the post.
On April 4, 1968, civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King was killed by assassin in Memphis, Tennessee. He was in the state to help support a sanitation workers' strike. The legendary figure had been at the forefront of the civil rights movement, beginning with the Montgomery boycott in 1955, all the while leading a series of nonviolent protests against discrimination.
The governor signed into law Thursday sweeping new restrictions on weapons and large capacity ammunition magazines similar to the ones used by the gunman who killed 20 children and six educators in Newton. Connecticut joins states California, New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts in having the country's strongest gun control laws, Brian Malte, director of mobilization for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence in Washington.
