The New Orleans police have identifies and apprehended the suspect in the Mother’s Day Parade Shooting. The shooter was 19 year old Akein Scott. Scott decided to go on a shooting spree last Sunday which left 19 people wounded. Fortunately, there were no causalities. This news was first announced on the New Orleans Police Department’s Facebook page, which featured a big bold “CAPTURED!” on the picture of the suspect. Authorities…
Unarmed teen Trayvon Martin was fatally shot last February and George Zimmerman is set to stand trial for his death, but audio experts still disagree over who was screaming on the infamous 911 call made on the night of the shooting. Audio experts are still not in agreement over who was screaming in the background during a 911 call made from a neighbor’s home. A New Jersey expert writes in…
Police found out that a 19-year old boy was behind the shooting that took place in the city of New Orleans on Mother’s Day. Maybe if he’d been better loved by his own mother, Akein Scott would not have considered doing such a horrible thing to innocent men, women and children. Scott allegedly opened fire on a Mother’s Day parade in the city, wounding 19 people. Several are in critical…
How bad is the crime rate in Chicago? So bad that thieves have gotten so bold that they’re willing to rob stores right across the street from the police station. A convenience store across the street from the Rogers Park police station was held up at gunpoint overnight, according to police. The robber entered the store and demanded money from the clerk, who quickly obliged. No one was hurt. The…
[VIDEO] There have been so many tragic instances of hostile individuals taking advantage of proud Americans who gather to celebrate and enjoy one another. From the mass shooting during the screening of The Dark Night Rises in Colorado, to the Boston Marathon shooting, and now this- a shooting on the day designated for celebrating the women who gave us all life. The man suspected to have committed the crime obviously had…
When is the violence going to stop? Probably never, since we have 300 million guns on the streets. But in New Orleans, black people are being shot left and right. CNN says that 17 people were killed on mother’s day in a shooting that took place during a parade. Mother’s day is not the day to be getting shot or killed. The FBI is saying that the violence is…
First Lady Michelle Obama has helped to break the mold by speaking up for the kids in neighborhoods where gun violence is prevalent. The south side of Chicago is one of those areas, and it’s also where the first lady grew up. She spoke with CBS this week about the violence situation after visiting Harper High School students in April in the West Englewood neighborhood, which she said “has…
Chicago police say they were forced to shoot a teenage boy who was shooting his gun at pedestrians on Sunday afternoon. Police say that the boy, who was on a bike, was shooting at people coming by, which led them to pursue the boy. Police then say that after following the boy, he shot at them, forcing them to return fire and kill him. Pat Camden, a spokesman…
P. Diddy went from Uptown Records as an intern to developing groups like Jodeci and singer, Mary J. Blige, to being one of the most highly paid moguls in hip hop. According to the Daily Mail, Diddy is estimated to have a fortune of $580 million and is on the Forbes list as one of the world’s richest hip hop stars. But is Diddy sitting in the lap of luxury…
Authorities say a campus police officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has died from injuries in a shooting on the campus outside Boston. Cambridge police and the Middlesex District Attorney’s office says the officer was responding to a report of a disturbance when he was shot multiple times. He later died at a hospital. His name was not immediately released. State police spokesman Dave Procopio says the shooting took…
A man walked into a Rialto, California strip club Wednesday night and shot an exotic dancer before killing himself, reports KNBC.com. The incident took place at the Spearmint Rhino strip club. The man, who was in his 40′s, asked the dancer, in her 20′s, to go into a private room with him and was rejected. That’s when he pulled out the gun, shot the dancer in the face before turning…
Chicago’s unrelenting shooting spree continues as up to 25 people were shot and four killed over the last three days. The mayhem occurred even as protesters gathered in Chicago’s Federal Plaza on Saturday to hold a vigil to end gun violence. “We need a background check,” Garrett Evans, a South Side Chicago native and survivor of the Virginia Tech massacre, told Fox News. “That’s the reason I was shot, there was…
Authorities are deciding whether to charge anyone after police say a 6-year-old was shot in the head by a 4-year-old in New Jersey. The older boy is in serious condition. Authorities are still investigating how the younger child obtained the .22-caliber rifle from his family’s Toms River home Monday night. Police Chief Michael Mastronardy says the children were outside the 4-year-old’s home when the boy went inside, got the rifle…
More news on this crazy love triangle. There have been so many rumors about Chris Brown, Rihanna, and (the third wheel) Karrueche. One of the most popular ones being that the women of the triangle met up at one point. Rihanna did confess to Oprah Winfrey during their famous sit down interview that she in fact saw Chris Brown in Cannes while shooting a video. She did not, however, address…
Three women have been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the deadly shooting at the Cleveland Heights, Ohio International House of Pancakes, police say. Nadia Williams, 25, was shot during a fight just before 3 a.m. on Saturday. Cleveland Heights police said security guard Gary Williams was escorting four women out of the restaurant when the group got into a fight. That’s when the guard fell and his gun discharged. Williams…