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Cops Shoot Wife of Weezer Bassist
Cops Shoot Wife
of Weezer Bassist
Apr 10, 2025 7:21 AM CDT

Cops Shoot Wife of Weezer Bassist

Author Jillian Lauren Shriner accused of pointing a gun at officers Tuesday in LA

(Newser) - A bestselling author who is also the wife of a member of the rock band Weezer was shot by police on Tuesday and has since been arrested for attempted murder. Los Angeles police had responded to a hit-and-run incident before pursuing three suspects into a residential area in Eagle Rock,...

14-Year-Old Killed Officer, Wounded Second: Police

Newark police and federal agents had gone to make an arrest in a weapons sting

(Newser) - A 14-year-old shot and killed a police officer and wounded another Friday evening in New Jersey, authorities said. Witnesses described seeing officers running down a busy street before they heard a volley of a dozen or more gunshots, the AP reports. The slain officer, 26-year-old Joseph Azcona, was part of...

2 Officers Shot to Death During Traffic Stop

Virginia Beach police say the gunman then apparently killed himself

(Newser) - Two police officers in Virginia were shot and killed during a traffic stop late Friday night, authorities said. Virginia Beach Police Chief Paul Neudigate said at a news conference on Saturday that officers Cameron Girvin and Christopher Reece were slain after stopping a vehicle for expired plates, the AP reports....

Ex-Deputy Guilty in Death of Man Who Called 911 for Help

Ex-Andrew Buen guilty of criminally negligent homicide in Christian Glass case

(Newser) - A former Colorado sheriff's deputy was convicted of criminally negligent homicide Thursday in the shooting death of a 22-year-old man in distress who called 911 for help after his car got stuck in a small mountain community. Jurors stopped short of finding former Clear Creek County Deputy Andrew Buen...

7 Police Officers Shot After Call About Suicide in Progress

Suspect was found dead in San Antonio apartment after standoff

(Newser) - Seven police officers were shot in San Antonio on Wednesday night after responding to a call about a "suicide in progress" in the city's Stone Oak neighborhood. "Scene still hot!!" San Antonio Police Chief Bill McManus said in a post on X at 10:13pm local...

Las Vegas Dad Who Called in a Break-in Fatally Shot by Cop

'I want justice for my father,' Brandon Durham's teen daughter says

(Newser) - An investigation in Las Vegas is underway after a local dad who called 911 over a break-in at his home was shot to death by police when they responded to the call. Per a release from Assistant Sheriff Dori Koren of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, reports started pouring...

Justice Department Opens Inquiry in Sonya Massey Death

Deputy fatally shot 36-year-old in her Illinois home over a pot of boiled water

(Newser) - The Justice Department is opening a civil rights investigation into the fatal shooting of an Illinois woman inside her own home by a sheriff's deputy. Sonya Massey, 36, was killed by former Sangamon County deputy Sean Grayson in July amid an exchange over a pot of boiling water. Grayson...

Animal Welfare Check Ends With 7 Dead Dogs

Ex-deputy Connor Brackin is accused of gunning down 7 dogs on a Tennessee property

(Newser) - An investigation continues into an incident earlier this month in Tennessee that left seven dogs dead, with a local deputy accused of gunning them down while responding to a call. According to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation , Connor Brackin, a now-former deputy with the McNairy County Sheriff's Office, showed...

Ex-Officer Convicted in Fatal Shooting of Ohio's Andre Hill

Adam Coy faces 15 years over 2020 shooting death in Columbus

(Newser) - A former police officer was convicted of murder Monday in the shooting of Andre Hill , a Black man who was holding a cellphone and keys when he was killed. Officer Adam Coy, who served nearly 20 years with the Columbus police force, shot Hill four times in a garage nearly...

Ex-Deputy Turns Himself in Over Airman's Fatal Shooting

Eddie Duran accused of manslaughter in shooting of Roger Fortson inside his Florida home

(Newser) - A former Florida sheriff's deputy charged with killing a Black US Air Force senior airman who answered his apartment door while holding a gun pointed toward the ground was arrested Monday, officials said. Former Okaloosa County deputy Eddie Duran, 38, was charged with manslaughter with a firearm in the...

Ohio Family Reaches $7M Settlement in Police Shooting

Casey Goodson Jr. was fatally shot as he tried to enter grandmother's Columbus home

(Newser) - The family of Casey Goodson Jr., a Black man who was shot and killed by an Ohio sheriff's deputy, will receive $7 million to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit over the December 2020 shooting. The Franklin County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved the settlement late last month, the...

Anchorage Police Fatally Shoot 16-Year-Old Girl

Easter Leafa refused to drop knife before approaching police, according to APD

(Newser) - Anchorage Police say they shot and killed a 16-year-old girl who approached officers with a knife days before she was to start her junior year of high school. A 911 caller first reported her sister had threatened her with a knife around 11:30pm Tuesday. Police said they arrived at...

Bodycam Video Shows Deputy Shoot Woman After Pot Boiled

Sean Grayson has been indicted in the death of Sonya Massey

(Newser) - Sonya Massey ducked and apologized to an Illinois sheriff's deputy only seconds before he shot her three times in her own home, as seen in body camera video released Monday. The video's release came days after a grand jury indicted former Sangamon County Sheriff's Deputy Sean Grayson...

Prosecutors: Deputy Shot Woman Over Pot of Hot Water

Sean Grayson, now fired, said he feared for his safety when he shot Sonya Massey

(Newser) - The Illinois deputy charged with murdering a woman who called 911 shot her in the face after she handled a pot of steaming water, which he viewed as a threat, prosecutors say. Sean Grayson of the Sangamon County Sheriff's Office in Springfield, Illinois, is facing three counts of murder...

Deputy Charged With Murder of Woman Who Called 911

Illinois trooper responding to a call about a possible intruder killed Sonya Massey

(Newser) - A sheriff's deputy in Illinois who fatally shot a woman inside her home after she called 911 about a possible intruder has been charged with murder, reports the AP . Deputy Sean Grayson was indicted on charges of first-degree murder and aggravated battery with a firearm in the death of...

Video Shows Boy Point Fake Gun at NY Cops, Get Shot

13-year-old was on the ground when he was fatally shot in Utica

(Newser) - Video released late Saturday shows an officer in upstate New York fatally shooting a 13-year-old boy who had been tackled to the ground after he ran from police and pointed a replica handgun at them. The teen was killed a little after 10pm Friday in Utica after officers stopped two...

Airmen Pack Church for Roger Fortson's Funeral

Senior airman was killed in his home by Florida deputy

(Newser) - Hundreds of Air Force members in dress blues joined Roger Fortson's family, friends, and others at a suburban Atlanta megachurch on Friday to pay their final respects to the Black senior airman, who was shot and killed in his Florida home earlier this month by a sheriff's deputy....

'Very Troubling' Footage of Airman's Shooting Released

Florida deputy shot Senior Airman Roger Fortson before telling him to drop gun

(Newser) - A Florida deputy shot Senior Airman Roger Fortson multiple times before ordering him to drop his gun, body cam footage released by the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office shows. The footage shows that after the 23-year-old opened the door with a lowered firearm in his hand, the deputy told him...

Florida Cops Allegedly Bust Into Wrong Home, Kill US Airman

Ben Crump, who is representing the family, wants bodycam video released

(Newser) - Roger Fortson, a 23-year-old US Air Force airman, was alone in his off-base apartment in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, around 4:30pm on Friday when someone knocked on his door. Shortly after, he was dead. A woman who was on a FaceTime call with Fortson at the time says he...

Charlotte Shooter Had Been Charged 49 Times

Killing of 4 officers was deadliest attack on US law enforcement since 2016

(Newser) - The man who killed four law enforcement officers and wounded four others in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Monday has been identified as Terry Clark Hughes Jr., a 39-year-old man with a long criminal history in the state. The Charlotte Observer reports that according to court records, Hughes had faced 49...

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