A Montgomery, AL, police detective was killed Monday morning in an apparent domestic violence related incident and her ex-boyfriend was charged in connection to her death.
An officer with the Ogden (UT) Police Department was fatally shot as police responded to a 911 call from a woman who said she was in fear of losing her life on Thursday afternoon, telling the call takers that her husband was threatening to kill her.
An officer with the Greenwood (SC) Police Department suffered a gunshot wound and a suspect was killed in a violent confrontation on Thursday night.
An officer with the Crestwood Police Department faces felony domestic battery and strangulation charges after a domestic incident that left his children thinking that their mother had stopped breathing.
At least one officer with the Hendersonville (TN) Police Department was forced to open fire on a resistive and intoxicated domestic violence subject early Thursday morning.
"While deputies were taking the report of the incident, the husband 30-year-old Keith Young, returned back to the neighborhood and noticed deputies speaking with his wife," the Bibb County Sheriff's Office reports.
Under the new law inmates convicted of domestic abuse would have to serve half their term before they are eligible for parole.
Eventually, both Klamath County deputies and state police troopers stopped the SUV using a spike strip, but when Goff got out, he opened fire on them with an AK-47 rifle, according to authorities.
An officer with the Henderson (NV) Police Department was wounded and a gunman killed in an armed confrontation in a residential neighborhood on Sunday night.
Reports of domestic violence increased in March in many cities as the coronavirus pandemic has spread across the United States.