Dr. Michelle Liggio, a South New Jersey doctor was killed by her husband Christopher, after filing for divorce, according to Pennsauken police. Dr. Michelle Liggio's staffers told police that Christopher Liggio came to the office during the lunch hour and the couple began arguing reportedly over their estrangement, and that she asked for a divorce.
Police are seeking all video that may have been taken of a shooting at the Juneteenth Festival over the weekend that wounded an 11-year-old boy, the Associated Press reported. The shooting happened on Saturday, at a festival at park near Columbus, Ohio, which historically has celebrated the end of slavery in the U.S.
One person was injured at Potawatomi Bingo Casino, a Milwaukee casino at about 1:30 a.m. Sunday as a man opened fire on his girlfriend, the Milwaukee Sentinel reported. A 27-year-old man allegedly fired a handgun, wounding the 23-year-old woman, sending gamblers to flee.
On April 6, Balaal Hollings, a Detroit high school honor student, football star and the student council and class president, was shot in the head at a birthday party. Two months later, Hollings, surprisingly showed up at his gradation with his classmates.
Six people were killed and 22 wounded in new gun violence that hit Chicago over Memorial Day weekend, UPI reported. On Friday evening, a 17-year-old girl was shot in the head and pronounced dead at the scene, and 18-year-old man was shot in the chest in the same incident. Another man later that evening was shot and killed.
Four people were killed, and one was seriously wounded on Monday after a man opened fire in a bank in the souther Israel town, Ha'Aretz reported. The gunman identified as Itamar Alon committed suicide after holding a woman hostage during a shootout with police.
Kentucky State Police trooper Billy Gregory said, "it's too early to know whether" charges will be filed in the case of a 5-year-old boy who accidentally shot and killed his 2-year-old sister in Cumberland County on Tuesday.
Sheri Williams was shot and killed on Monday afternoon when stray bullets, clearly meant for somebody else, hit her directly in the chest as she in the doorway of her apartment on 64th Court Way South in Birmingham, Alabama.
Authorities in Cincinnati, Ohio responded to reports that a student pulled a gun and shot himself inside a La Salle High School classroom in front of this classmates on Monday morning,. Officials were called to the school on North Bend Road around 9 a.m. In an apparent suicide attempt, the student remains in the hospital.
A grandmother, a young couple and their two young children were found killed in a home in the small town of Manchester, Illinois on Wednesday morning. The suspect also died after a shootout with police.
Two women are being treated after Christiansburg police say they were shot Friday afternoon at the New River Valley Community College location in the mall.
A 4-year old boy shot and killed Wilson County Deputy Daniel Fanning's wife Josephine, inside his home on Saturday. The deputy was inside showing his weapons collection to a relative when the officer's wife and nephew entered the room. The child grabbed one of his loaded guns off the bed and fired a single shot, hitting the deputy's 48-year-old wife, Josephine.
A 6-year-old was shot by his 4-year old neighbor. The young victim is in a New Jersey hospital with a gunshot wound, expected to survive. It appears the shooting happened just after 7:00 p.m. Monday in the yard of a home on McCormick Drive in Toms River, Ocean County, New Jersey.
A man fatally shot another man, then killed himself at a day care center in Gatineau, Quebec on Friday. All 53 children were safe and unharmed, and police would not say whether any had witnessed the killings, Gatineau Police Chief Mario Haren said.
Ohio police said that Reshad Riddle killed his father, Richard with a single shot from a handgun on Sunday afternoon at the Hawatha Church of God in Crist in the city of Ashtabula after an Easter service on Sunday. The 25-year-old son reportedly was yelling about God and Allah after the killing.
The prosecutors in the Colorado theater massacre case rejected an offer from suspect James Holmes to plead guilty in exchange for avoiding the death penalty. The report said the proposal cannot be considered genuine because the defense has repeatedly refused to give them information needed to evaluate it.
A central Pennsylvania father, Kenneth Ayers shot and killed his 2-year-old son, while wounding his estranged wife, Hollie Joe, during a custody exchange before killing himself. Police said Ayers also shot at his mother during the altercation on Sunday morning at her home in a rural area about 20 miles southwest of State College.
Artist and political activist Yoko Ono tweeted a photo of John Lennon's bloody glasses on Wednesday, on the day of what would have been their 44th wedding anniversary
Alissa Parker, a parent of one of the 20 first-graders who was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting met with the gunman's father for more than an hour in an effort to bring some closure to the tragedy and asked him about his his son
One day after the head of Colorado's Department of Corrections was shot and killed in his home, Governor John Hickenlooper signed landmark new gun laws on Wednesday, expanding background checks on gun purchases and limiting the size of ammunition magazines.
