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Source: Zimmerman to be charged in Trayvon Martin case POSSIBLE CHARGES: ASSAULT & BATTERY ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY WEAPON MANSLAUGHTER 2ND DEGREE MURDER The office of a special prosecutor who is investigating the Trayvon Martin shooting case plans to announce at 6 p.m. ET Wednesday new information in the case, which could be a decision […]

CNN) — Sorrow and disbelief replaced the chaos of Monday morning’s school shooting in Chardon, Ohio, as residents and investigators tried to sort out what prompted a young man to open fire on a table of students in the school cafeteria, killing one and wounding four others. “I just can’t believe it. I don’t think […]

The lawyer for  the family of a one-year-old  who was shot in the head last week in Oakland, Calif. said the child is brain dead and will soon be taken off life support, KRON 4 News reports. RELATED: Second Child Shot By Mom In Texas Welfare Office Dies Baby Hiram Lawrence was one of seven […]

BROOKLYN — A Brooklyn teen is in critical but stable condition at Kings County Hospital just days after a plot to take his life was captured on camera. Surveillance footage released by police on Wednesday capture the ambush and near fatal shooting of Tyquan Sewall, 18, outside a Brooklyn McDonald’s. The video clearly shows the intricate scheme, […]

Staten Island police have arrested a man who inadvertently shot a 2-year-old baby after firing on and missing her father and uncle. Damark King, 19, is charged with assault, weapons possession, criminal use of a firearm and reckless endangerment. King hit 2-year-old Samyah Bailey with a stray bullet outside her Staten Island home on Wednesday. With […]

CHICAGO — A 13-year-old boy was shot and wounded  yesterday by Chicago police officers, who said he was holding a BB gun. Jimmy Cannon was taken to Stroger Hospital and is listed in critical condition. He was shot 8 times in the shoulders, hand, and legs. The family said they were at a cousin’s birthday […]

Follow the latest developments on CNN’s “This Just In” blog. Share your accounts, images from the shooting with CNN iReport. For more information, visit CNN affiliates KGUN, KOLD, KVOA, KPHO and KMSB. Read the federal charges against Jared Lee Loughner (PDF). Tucson, Arizona (CNN) — Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona remained in critical but stable […]

A woman fatally shot three people and herself at a Seattle home Thursday, injuring another woman who fled into the front yard and told officers: “My mom has gone crazy,” police said.

For more on this story, go to CNN affiliates WTNH and WFSB. (CNN) — Nine people died in a mass shooting Tuesday at a workplace in Manchester, Connecticut, according to a police official close to the investigation. That number includes the shooter. He died at the scene of a gunshot wound, Manchester police Lt. Joe […]

MEMPHIS,TN – Homicide detectives spent their Sunday afternoon in Sherra Wright’s Collierville home collecting evidence. They spent an hour in the backyard which doesn’t come as a surprise to neighbors Tim Coleman and Ruth Ann Carnes who saw heavy smoke coming from the fire pit the day Lorenzen went missing. They say that’s because Sherra […]

Indianapolis – Metro Police are searching for a person of interest in connection with weekend shootings that left ten people wounded in three separate incidents. Police want to speak to Shamus Patton. Investigators with Metro Police have been reviewing videotape from Saturday night when the shootings occurred in downtown Indianapolis, when large crowds were in […]