Carl Wayne Buntion, 78, was executed at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. He was condemned for the June 1990 fatal shooting of Houston police officer James Irby, a nearly 20-year member of the force.
April 22, 2022
Jesse Michael Gomez, 58, was convicted last year of murder and a special circumstance allegation of killing a police officer for the July 28, 2016, shooting of SDPD Officer Jonathan "J.D." De Guzman, 43. He was also convicted of the attempted murder of De Guzman's partner, Wade Irwin.
March 7, 2022
President Joe Biden led a standing ovation Thursday for the rookie NYPD officer who shot and killed the career criminal who murdered Officers Jason Rivera and Wilbert Mora.
February 3, 2022
Speaking to reporters, DA Kim Ogg described the suspect as a "professional criminal" who has been a fugitive for 25 years after a warrant was issued on an aggravated assault with a knife charge in Harris County. She said he is also wanted for murder in El Salvador
January 28, 2022
According to the case, Carl Wayne Buntion was a passenger in a car pulled over by Officer James Irby on June 27, 1990. While Irby and the driver were talking, Buntion slipped out of the vehicle and shot Irby once in the head then shot him twice in the back.
January 12, 2022
The suspect Sullivan then chased Sgt. Rittmanic down the hallway and pinned her up against a door, prosecutors said. His gun became jammed at that point, and he began trying to unjam his own gun with his left hand while also trying to disarm Rittmanic with the other, prosecutors said.
January 3, 2022
Cop-killer Darryl Jeter shot Officer Irma “Fran” Lozada, 25, twice in the head in 1984 after she and her partner chased him for stealing a straphanger’s chain on the L subway line in Brooklyn, the Police Benevolent Association said in a statement.
December 22, 2021
The 12-member jury deliberated for about five hours over two days on whether Markeith Loyd should be executed for Clayton’s slaying.
December 8, 2021
The gunman’s family told investigators that he began to express hatred toward police nearly a decade ago and that since approximately 2015 he’d spend hours every day on YouTube watching videos about police and that’d he’d become “warped” by them, police interview transcripts show.
November 12, 2021
The suspect barricaded himself in a room and investigators were within feet of him, police said. He then took his own life before being captured.
November 10, 2021
Brandon Daniel, 33, was found unresponsive his bunk at the Polunsky Unit in Livingston at about 4:25 a.m. Saturday, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
November 1, 2021
The 35-year-old has been on the run since Friday, Sept. 24, after he was named as the suspect who shot Deputy Joshua Moyers twice, including once in the back, during a traffic stop in Callahan, FL. Moyers died of his injuries two days later.
September 28, 2021
Nassau County Sheriff's Deputy Joshua Moyers was a six year veteran of the agency. He is survived by his fiancée. His organs were donated.
September 27, 2021
Magistrate Lionel Castro set bond amounts for Ledet at $20,000 and $40,000 on Nov. 17, 2020. The next day, on Nov. 18, the District Attorney’s office asked for the bond to be denied because Ledet had two felony convictions. Instead, the DA’s office said Judge Greg Glass of the 208th District Court lowered the bond amounts to $10,000 and $20,000.
September 22, 2021
Jurors deliberated for less than two hours Tuesday before reaching their verdict in the trial of Michael Christopher Mejia, 30. The verdict was read Wednesday morning, with the panel convicting Mejia of two counts of first-degree murder and single counts of attempted murder, carjacking and possession of a firearm by a felon.
September 1, 2021
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