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60-year-old Jiansheng Chen was shot and killed by neighborhood security guard while sitting in his minivan. You’ve got to be kidding me. Last week in southeast Virginia, a 60-year-old grandfather was apparently playing Pokemon Go when he was shot and killed during a fatal altercation with a neighborhood security guard. Chesapeake man shot, killed by…
A new US government program to count killings by police, which draws on data collected by the Guardian, has recorded a sharply higher number of deaths than previous official efforts. Homicides by police were logged by the Department of Justice’s new system at more than twice the rate previously reported by the FBI, according to…
Jim Cooley carries his AR-15 semiautomatic rifle into his home after getting it repaired in Winder, Ga. Cooley, who also owns a 9mm handgun, almost never leaves his home unarmed. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) WINDER, Ga. —All Jim Cooley wants to do is buy some soda. “You want to come to Walmart?” he asks his…
Federal agent Charlie Houser is forced to fight gun crime with a meager tool: a bunch of boxes of paper. Inside the Federal Bureau Of Way Too Many Guns There’s no telling how many guns we have in America—and when one gets used in a crime, no way for the cops to connect it to…
If you listen to the National Rifle Association, every woman in America should carry a gun so she can protect herself from dangerous strangers, domestic abusers and potential rapists. The message is that firearms make women safer, despite clear research showing that they actually have the exact opposite effect. A new study from the Violence…
Police departments will be required to give the US justice department full details of deadly incidents involving their officers each quarter, under a new government system for counting killings by police that was influenced by the Guardian. Announcing a new program for documenting all “arrest-related deaths”, federal officials said they would actively work to confirm…
Chad Copley, 39, is charged with murder in connection to the shooting of a black man in Raleigh on Sunday, Aug 8. In his 911 call, he told the dispatcher he was going to confront “hoodlums” outside his home. He said “I am locked and loaded. I’m going outside to secure my neighborhood.” (Monica Akhtar/The…
Police say that the 19-year-old Washington man who shot and killed three former classmates at a house party in suburban Seattle on Saturday was motivated by jealousy over an ex-girlfriend, one of the victims, KOMO News reports. According to a probable cause statement, Allen Ivanov bought the AR-15 he used to kill the victims about…
At least two people were killed and more than a dozen others were injured in a shooting outside of a Florida nightclub early Monday, officials said. Some of the victims were aged as young as 12, according to authorities in Fort Myers. Club Blu Google Police said that officers responded to the parking lot…
Another week, another police shooting in the United States. So far this year, 569 people have be killed by US police, according to The Guardian’s count. Police brutality is a horrific normality and, in more ways than one, black men being shot by police has become the modern-day equivalent of lynching. But, of course, it…