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Victims of the Alabama birthday shooting: A college football star to an aspiring musician

A mass shooting at a teen’s dance hall birthday party has hit every corner of Dadeville, a small city of just 3,200. Andrea Blanco and Shweta Sharma report

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How Alabama shooting victim Phil Dowdell died at his sister’s ‘Sweet 16’: ‘He tried to push me out the door’

The shooting took place at the ‘Sweet 16’ birthday party of Dowdell’s sister, Alexis

The Independent UK

Father-of-five shot dead at mother's house had been due to return home to England hours later, court hears

Thomas McCarthy (55) was gunned down when he answered the door at the house in Ballyfermot on July 27, 2020

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What we know about the shooting of Black teen who went to wrong house: ‘Ringing a doorbell is not a crime’

A Black teenager went to pick up his younger brothers from a friend’s house, accidentally rang the doorbell at the wrong address and was shot twice by a white homeowner. Now, protesters, celebrities and civil rights figures are demanding justice. Rachel Sharp reports

The Independent UK

Woman, 20, shot and killed after pulling into wrong driveway looking for friend's house

Kaylin Gillis, 20, was gunned down when she got out of a car in front of a property in the rural town of Hebron in New York State, with the people she was riding with rushing her to a nearby town before calling 911 due to limited cell service

Daily Mirror

New York woman shot dead for pulling into wrong driveway, echoing Ralph Yarl case

Kevin Monahan came out onto his porch and fired two shots, with one round hittting Kaylin Gillis

The Independent UK

Alabama shooting victim Phil Dowdell died saving his sister’s life in Dadeville carnage

‘I guess he tried to push me out the door as fast as he could’

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Ralph Yarl: Man, 84, charged over shooting of Black teenager turns himself in to police

Andrew Lester surrendered to police in Kansas City on Tuesday

Evening Standard

Cop involved in shooting of mentally ill man apologises

An officer who helped coordinate the police response that led to the fatal shooting of a mentally ill man has apologised to the victim's family.

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White homeowner charged in front-door shooting of Black teen Ralph Yarl in Kansas City

An 84-year-old white man has been charged with first-degree assault in the shooting of a 16-year-old who went to the wrong address to pick up his brothers.

Chicago Sun-Times

Jayland Walker shooting: Ohio officers who shot unarmed man 46 times cleared of wrongdoing

A grand jury has voted not to indict eight Ohio police officers who fired dozens of rounds at Jayland Walker after a car and foot chase that ended in the 25-year-old Black man being shot to death last summer

The Independent UK

Melbourne gangster's small legal victory in appeal bid

Rocco Arico is appealing his convictions, claiming his former lawyer Joseph Acquaro informed against him to Victoria Police.

AAP

White man charged in shooting of Black teen who knocked on door

An 84-year-old white man in Kansas City, Missouri was charged Monday with first-degree assault for shooting a Black teen who mistakenly went to the man's home to pick up his younger brothers.

France 24

Upstate NY woman, 20, fatally shot after turning down wrong driveway

A young woman looking for a friend’s house was shot and killed in upstate New York after she and her friends turned down the wrong driveway, police said Monday.

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Man who killed Washington police officer gets life sentence

The man who fatally shot a Washington police officer last year has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole

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President Joe Biden spoke with Ralph Yarl and his family, as teen recovers from shooting

President Joe Biden spoke with Ralph Yarl and his family on Monday amid a national outcry over the shooting of the 16-year-old Black high school student, a White House official confirmed.

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Woman held down ex-partner during fatal stabbing

A woman who held down her ex-partner while he was stabbed to death and the man who inflicted the fatal wounds have each been jailed for more than a decade.

Reuters

White Kansas City man, 84, charged for shooting Black teen who went to wrong house

Prosecutors charged an 84-year-old white Kansas City man with two felonies on Monday in the shooting of a Black teenager who was wounded after walking up to the wrong house when going to pick up his younger twin brothers.

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Spurred by Highland Park, other mass shootings, marchers press Congress for assault weapons ban

‘We hope to make sure that our voices are heard,’ said Ivy Domont at Washington march. The mother of three youngsters was at the Highland Park July 4th parade.

Chicago Tribune

Chicago-area protesters march in Washington for federal assault weapons ban

Fed up with repeated mass shootings, hundreds of people from the Chicago area took part in a march in Washington, D.C., Monday to call for a federal ban on assault guns.

Reuters

Mexican National Guard suspected of killing pregnant teenager -state official

Members of Mexico's National Guard are suspected of killing two civilians this weekend in the northern border city of Nuevo Laredo, including a pregnant teenager, a state official and local media said on Monday.

Chicago Sun-Times

Alderman blasts fractious CPD leadership for flat-footed response to violent weekend gatherings

Officials fought amongst themselves and street cops were overwhelmed, Ald Brian Hopkins said, as groups of teens jumped on cars and set fires in the Loop — and at least three teens were shot. ‘Nobody knew who was in charge,’ Hopkins said.

The Independent UK

Andrew Lester: What we know about white homeowner charged with shooting Ralph Yarl

Suspect is 85 years old and prosecutors say they believe there was a ‘racial’ element to the shooting

The Independent UK

'I feel manipulated,' daughter says at mother's murder trial

The daughter of a woman accused of killing her stepson in Colorado, putting his body in a suitcase and dumping it off a bridge in Florida says she never suspected his body was in the van they drove in together across the country

Tribune News Service

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