One person was shot on Thursday when gunfire erupted inside a Wal-Mart store in a Chicago suburb, police in Illinois said.
Police in Darien, a small city about 30 miles (48 km) outside of Chicago, received reports of shots fired inside the store on Thursday afternoon, Deputy Chief John Cooper said.
Officers arrived to find one victim with a single gunshot wound to the shoulder who was taken to a local hospital for treatment, Cooper said.
Police said the wound was non-life-threatening.
Cooper
© Michael B. Thomas/Getty Images FILE – Mourning participants pause in a moment of prayer during a candlelight vigil held in honor of Jamyla Bolden in Ferguson, Missouri. Michael B. Thomas/Getty Images
Hundreds gathered to remember a 9-year-old girl who was killed when shots were fired into her Ferguson home as she did homework on her mother’s bed.
Sobs grew audible and tissues were passed down the aisles as fourth-grade classmates of Jamyla Bolden sang in front of her casket Saturday, the S
To gain the meaning of a situation, especially a tragic one, humanity will undoubtedly create a narrative. We have to. We have to do this in order to reconcile in our minds what all the chaos means. We are, by nature, social scientists who believe that when tragic things happen, there is an antagonist and protagonist and a storyline to be told.
The question is which narrative will be told? Who will be the protagonist and [the] antagonist? Through what paradigm will it be seen? We have pretty
Photos of books hit by bullets during a shooting at a Florida State University library posted by Jason Derfuss on Facebook.
Florida State University student Jason Derfuss did not think to look at his book bag as he fled the university library where a gunman wounded three people early on Thursday.
Only later did Derfuss realize that his books may have saved his life.
“He was about 5 feet from me, but he hit my books. Books one minute earlier I had checked out of the library, books that sh
Three students were wounded in a shooting on Florida State University's campus in Tallahassee, police said, and the suspected gunman was shot and killed by officers.
The shooting happened early this morning at the university's Stozier Library, which was packed at the time with hundreds of students studying for exams.
An officer responding to the scene fatally wounded the suspected gunman after he fired at police, Tallahassee Police Department public information officer David Northw
by Cathy Young
The tragedy and turmoil in Ferguson, Missouri—the fatal police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown, followed by sometimes violent protests and a heavy-handed police crackdown—have once again brought the national spotlight on race relations in America. It has also revealed unusual political alignments, with libertarian-leaning Republican Kentucky Senator Rand Paul and some other libertarians and conservatives joining liberals and leftists to denounce abusive police behavior,
CNN is reporting that audio from Officer Darren Wilson’s encounter with Michael Brown has been released, and it reportedly reveals that 11 shots were fired instead of the previously reported 6.
CNN reportedly obtained the audio from the FBI which obtained it from the Ferguson Police Department. It has been noted, however, that the audio recording itself cannot prove who fired the shots or whom they were fired toward.
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Sarah Caron made her son his favorite pancakes for breakfast and walked the second-grader to the top of the driveway for the school bus.
