Shaw responded to a shooting call at the apartment complex, and began searching for the suspect. The officers approached the man, who opened fire, killing Shaw. A fellow officer returned fire and killed the shooter.
Read More →Wearing only boxer shorts, sunglasses, and no shoes, David Brown Jr. shot and killed a man who pulled into the complex with his wife and children. Brown had been behaving erratically. He later shot Lancaster Officer Craig Shaw, the first officer to respond to the scene.
Read More →"New Mexico is consistently in the top ten of the states with the highest number of assaults on police officers," said Albuquerque Chief Public Safety Officer Darren White.
Read More →Seven officer-involved shootings in the first six months of the year has people questioning the Albuquerque Police Department's tactics.
Read More →The deputy encountered the man at the home, which was unoccupied, on Saturday. The man produced a "large weapon," according to the report, that he turned on the deputy, who returned fire and killed him.
Read More →The U.S. government on Thursday launched a civil-rights investigation in the fatal shooting of a 15-year-old Mexican boy by a U.S. Border Patrol agent on the Rio Grande.
Read More →The officer, who has not been identified, was able to give additional information to other officers at the scene and at the hospital where she is now being treated.
Read More →The state parolee and robbery suspect who led police on a high-speed pursuit that ended in a shootout with Sonoma County (Calif.) Sheriff's deputies had an extensive criminal record that included battery on a police officer, residential robbery, assault with a deadly weapon.
Read More →Defense attorneys representing Officer Johannes Mehserle in a murder trial that begins Wednesday in Los Angeles plan to call to the stand a San Leandro, Calif., police officer who says Oscar Grant ran from him and a fellow officer with a loaded pistol in 2006 after a traffic stop, forcing the officers to shock him with a Taser and then kick him when he wouldn't put his hands behind his back.
Read More →A 22-year Fort Worth Police Department veteran officer shot a suspect who grabbed his gun during a burglary in progress.
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