Homicide

A retired Chicago Fire Department Lt. fought back against three suspects attempting to steal his car before he was fatally shot last week, a surveillance video shows.

Three men have been arrested on drug-related conspiracy charges following an investigation into the Dec. 1 shooting death of Charleston, W.Va., police Officer Cassie Johnson, authorities said Saturday, according to a report.

A small Oregon town was in shock after a long-time serving member of the City Council was killed over the weekend trying to stop a burglary.

Immigration authorities on Thursday deported a Russian national who has been convicted for his role in a $4.5 million wire fraud scheme and is wanted in his home country for attempted murder.

A North Carolina man has been accused of plunging a knife into his wife as their three children ran next door for help.

Chicago authorities reported a violent weekend that saw at least five people killed and 34 others wounded in shootings across the city. 

One of the city employees who found 26-year-old social media influencer Alexis Sharkey’s naked body on the side of the road in Houston spoke out for the first time Saturday, a week after making the devastating discovery.

A high-profile attorney moved to withdraw from the legal defense team representing Kyle Rittenhouse, the Illinois teen who will stand trial on six counts related to a fatal shooting at a protest over the state border in Wisconsin in August.

As days turned into years, Brett Woolley came to accept that his father’s murderer would never be found — and that his family’s private tragedy had become a Wild West legend, the kind of thing folks shared when they were a few too many drinks deep into the night.

A “courageous healthcare hero” was shot and killed on her way to her job as an ICU nurse at a Tennessee hospital.