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Alex Murdaugh trial – live: Testimony resumes after jurors saw crime scene photos and bodycam from murders

Jury has heard two full days of testimony in Alex Murdaugh’s trial for the murders of wife Maggie and son Paul

The Independent UK

Not an anomaly: 2020's red states have higher murder rates

The issue has plagued Democrats for years, but they hope new data will change the crime narrative.

Axios

Commentary: When a 6-year-old is accused of shooting his teacher, it’s time for a paradigm shift

Six-year-old children should be learning to read, identify new words by matching letters to sounds, count to 100, and do basic addition and subtraction. But now we have a 6-year-old who allegedly shot his teacher in Newport News, Virginia.

Chicago Tribune

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Memphis cops charged with Nichols murder

The fired officers have all been jailed on charges of second-degree murder, aggravated assault and kidnapping

Salon

George Skelton: Where have Republicans been during California's mass shootings? They're busy appeasing the gun worshiping cult

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom has spoken more eloquently than anyone else about the three California mass shootings that occurred in rapid sequence, killing at least 24.

Los Angeles Times

Nicholas Goldberg: A wife shot her husband, police say. Here's why she shouldn't be charged with 1st degree murder

What's the point of charging Ellen Gilland with first-degree murder?

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: Our American carnage

By Tuesday, Jan. 24, the United States had already recorded 39 mass shootings (minimum of four people injured or killed) — in big cities and small towns, in deliberate acts of savagery and random acts of senseless brutality, in homes, businesses, farms and streets.

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How a new Tucson memorial found a way to mourn mass-shooting victims

TUCSON, Ariz. — If you were to hover over El Presidio Plaza in downtown Tucson, you might catch sight of an earthen form resembling a point of impact, as if some object from the heavens came careening to earth and displaced several tons of vegetation and rock. Within this crater…

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: Older mass shooters are rare. Here’s how they differ from young assailants

The killing of 18 people in California just two days apart — 11 in Monterey Park and seven in Half Moon Bay — are the latest horrors in America’s long history of gun violence. But there is a factor in these mass shootings, and with the suspects, that stands out.

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: I grew up in the era of mass shootings. Fear of violence grips my generation

The first mass shooting I remember is Sandy Hook in 2012. I was in middle school then, and I could tell something was wrong when I walked downstairs and saw my parents watching the news while it was still light out.

Tribune News Service

'Hidden' knives and needles found in Nottinghamshire park

Police have taken on Racecourse Park in Mansfield and used metal detectors searching for weapons.

Nottingham Post

Guard killed in shooting at Azerbaijan's embassy in Iran

A security official was killed and two people were wounded when a shooter opened fire at Azerbaijan's embassy in Iran, Azerbaijan's foreign ministry said on Friday.

Reuters

Five Chinese Nationals Killed in Northern California Shooting

Seven people died in the attack in Half Moon Bay, which happened just days after a deadly shooting in Los Angeles

Caixin Global

Glint of hope for Richard Glossip as Oklahoma appoints independent counsel to review case

Decision comes after growing innocence movement around Glossip’s case as emerging evidence suggests initial conviction was based on shaky grounds

The Independent UK

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Hearing set on competency of Colorado store shooting suspect

A judge is scheduled to hold a hearing Friday to discuss whether a man charged with killing 10 people at a Colorado supermarket nearly two years ago is mentally competent to stand trial

The Guardian - US

Texas death row inmates sue state over ‘brutal’ solitary confinement conditions

Class action lawsuit alleges prison authorities inflict ‘cruel and unusual punishment’ in breach of constitutional rights

The Independent UK

Idaho murders – news: Bryan Kohberger’s attorney’s ties to family of second student victim revealed

Kohberger is accused of the fatal stabbings of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin in Moscow, Idaho, on 13 November

The Canberra Times

Bikie's work reason for allegedly wearing knife necklace 'not convincing': lawyer

The defendant was previously sentenced for shooting up the home of a former chapter leader.

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Mum guilty again of ex-teacher's murder

After a second retrial, a mother will be sentenced for fatally stabbing a retired teacher whose severely decomposed body was only found a month later.

The Independent UK

Prosecutor: Don't dismiss murder charge against ex-cop

A prosecutor has asked a judge not to dismiss a second-degree murder charge against a former Grand Rapids police officer accused of shooting a Black motorist in the back of the head during a struggle over a Taser

Los Angeles Times

Ex-Memphis police officers charged with murder in beating of Tyre Nichols; video to be released Friday

Five former police officers in Memphis, Tennessee, were charged with second-degree murder Thursday in the brutal beating of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, during a traffic stop, authorities said.

The Independent UK

Police: Oregon fugitive kidnapped woman like 2019 Vegas case

Police in southern Oregon are searching for a man accused of torturing a woman he held captive less than two years after he was convicted in Nevada of critically injuring another woman he held captive for two weeks

Tribune News Service

Sen. Chuck Schumer demands FTC crackdown on assault weapons marketed to kids

WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and fellow Democrats are demanding that the Federal Trade Commission clamp down on a gun manufacturer for marketing a mini assault-style rifle to children.

The Independent UK

A look at California's back-to-back mass shootings

In less than 48 hours, two gunmen went on shooting rampages at both ends of California that left 18 dead and 10 wounded

The Independent UK

Biden pays tribute to victims of California shootings

President Joe Biden says the nation's prayers are with two California cities where 18 people were killed in separate shootings over the last week

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