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The New Jersey Attorney General's Office released body camera footage of an officer-involved shooting that left a man dead in Mercer County. It happened around 10 p.m. on March 8 on the 1800 block of Orchard Avenue. Officers were called to the home for a reported domestic dispute. After speaking with a relative outside, bodycam video shows officers walking in as they're almost immediately met with gunfire. During the encounter, Hamilton Township Police Officers Derek Fiabane and Paul Piromalli exchanged gunfire with 44-year-old Vincent Correa inside the home. Officer Fiabane and Correa were both shot. Correa was pronounced dead at the scene. A rifle and a handgun were recovered in his possession. Officer Fiabane was transported to a hospital with non-fatal injuries and has since been released.

A Douglas County sheriff’s deputy will not face charges after shooting a man accused of fleeing from authorities during a November 2023 traffic stop in Lithia Springs for excessive speeding. A grand jury voted last month not to move forward with charges against the deputy who shot 36-year-old Cameron Hunt in the chest moments after he crashed his car. Hunt’s attorney, Graham Schofield, claims body camera video of the incident shows the shooting that almost took his life was not justified. Schofield, says his client was headed to a gas station the night of Nov 19, 2023, when deputies clocked him going 113 mph in a 70 mph zone on Interstate 20 near Thornton Road and initiated the stop. Hunt lost control of the car as he tried to slow down. "Mr. Hunt was running an errand for his mother…at the time that this deputy shot Mr. Hunt, he was in an overturned vehicle in a ditch on the side of the road," he said. "He’s in a vulnerable position, he’s just been involved in a rollover accident." Airbags in the car deploy. In the video, the Douglas County deputies can be seen confronting Hunt with guns drawn. Seconds after deputies issue their commands, video appears to show him raising both hands and Schofield says a deputy, who recently joined the force, shot Hunt in the back. "Why’d you shoot?" the supervising officer can be heard saying. "He went like this," the deputy replied. From there, responding officers try to render aid before an ambulance takes Hunt to the hospital. "This bullet, it pierced Mr. Hunt’s chest…it nearly killed him. The bullet ended up being lodged within an inch of his heart," Schofield explained. Officers can be seen searching the car for a weapon but do not appear to find one. Hunt was charged with speeding, reckless driving, driving with a suspended license, failure to maintain lane and fleeing. After being released from the hospital, he was taken to the Douglas County Jail, where he remains in custody. Schofield says a week after the incident, investigators with the GBI found a rifle inside the vehicle, which he faces additional charges for. He denies it belongs to his client. "He had no weapon in his hands, he had no weapon in his immediate vicinity and deputies shot him nonetheless," he added. Schofield says they are now in the process of filing a civil lawsuit against the sheriff’s office. In response to a request for comment, Douglas County District Attorney Dalia Racine issued the following statement: "As with all officer-involved shootings in Douglas County, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation investigated this matter and provided our office with a case file. Our office thoroughly reviewed the investigation and presented the case for the grand jury’s consideration. The District Attorney’s Office presented the totality of the evidence to the grand jury, including calling witnesses and footage of the incident. The grand jury voted to no bill the case, and their vote is the conclusion of the matter." The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office declined to comment. It did not respond to questions regarding the employment status of the deputy involved.

U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley released additional videos and documents related to the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. Grassley said in a news release that the bodycam videos were obtained from the Beaver County Emergency Services Unit (ESU) in compliance with congressional requests. The footage comes as lawmakers questioned Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner Col. Christopher Paris on the communication between the U.S. Secret Service, and state and local law enforcement during the event when a gunman attempted to kill Trump. Grassley posted the full 28-minutes of obtained video on YouTube Thursday. The video shows Beaver County EMS personnel speaking with a Secret Service agent shortly following the July 13 shooting, in which the 20-year-old shooter killed one rally-goer and injured two others at the campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The video contains censored bodycam footage of the body of the shooter, who was killed by a Secret Service counter sniper after firing on the crowd and grazing the former president in the ear. The video, obtained from authorities who went to the rooftop where the gunman shot from, shows blood from the body of the shooter.

The Utica Police Department is sharing more about the fatal officer-involved shooting of a 13-year-old boy last month. The department shared a "Critical Incident Brief" video on Facebook Thursday evening to further provide information on the June 28 shooting of Nyah Mway. Police previously shared the body camera footage of Officers Patrick Husnay, Bryce Patterson and Andrew Citriniti from the night of the shooting. All the officers are on paid administrative leave. The incident brief includes newly released surveillance footage of the two robberies in which Mway and another juvenile were suspected of being involved, as well as a breakdown of the body camera footage.

A 31-year-old woman faces allegations that she struck two police cruisers on Tuesday, and also blocked another vehicle. Around 6 p.m., in a parking lot near the police station, officers received a 911 call from a man who filed a police complaint against the woman. He said the woman blocked his vehicle with hers, restraining him from leaving the parking lot, and standing outside his door. In their report, police said the woman saw officers and jumped back into her vehicle. The officers claimed she put her car in reverse, refusing to get out, and accelerated backward, crashing into the first cruiser. She also almost struck an officer. Then she drove forward over a cement barrier and sidewalk and struck the second cruiser, which was parked, before she stopped. The woman remained combative and officers used a Taser − twice − to "gain compliance," the police report said. The officers said in the report they believed the woman was under the influence of medication and narcotics, and said she confirmed it. A resident of Alliance, the woman remains in the Stark County Jail on a $100,000 bond set by Alliance Municipal Court Judge Andrew Zumbar on Wednesday. She faces charges of felonious assault, felony obstruction, unlawful restraint, resisting arrest and operating a vehicle impaired, court records showed.

Seattle Police arrested three armed juveniles in the Chinatown-International District, Sunday evening. On July 21st, at 7:31 p.m., patrol officers responded to reports of three males brandishing firearms near 7th Ave South and South Weller Street during the Chinatown Seafair Parade. Police arrived in the area and located all three suspects nearby and detained them. A handgun was recovered off each juvenile. Two of the three guns recovered were reported stolen. One of the juveniles, 14, had a semiautomatic handgun. Another 14-year-old had a modified handgun with a 30-round magazine and an auto-sear, which allows for automatic firing. A 13-year-old juvenile had an untraceable, polymer-80 handgun that as also equipped with an auto-sear. All three suspects were arrested booked into juvenile detention at the Judge Patricia H. Clark Children & Family Justice Center on charges ranging from Unlawful Possession of a Firearm, Unlawful Carry of a Pistol, and Felony Harassment. All three guns were seized as evidence.

A suspected car thief has been arrested in Pasco County thanks to a K-9 from the sheriff’s office. Deputies say when they tried to pull over a suspect they believe stole a vehicle from Crystal Springs early Tuesday morning, he refused to stop and sped away. The driver led deputies to a dead-end road and tried to run away on foot. Bodycam video shows a deputy stopping his patrol car and a K-9 running after the suspect. As the K-9 got close to the suspected car thief, deputies say the man surrendered. The deputy can be heard praising the K-9 for his actions and letting him know he’s a "good boy." The suspect was arrested on outstanding violation of probation warrants, as well as charges related to fleeing to elude and grand theft auto.

City councilors on Wednesday voted to authorize a $2 million payment to settle a federal lawsuit filed by the estate of a man killed by Tulsa police nearly four years ago. The case stems from an encounter on Aug. 8, 2020, when officers responded to a report of a man trying to scale the fence of a secure transitional living facility near Apache Street and Harvard Avenue. Officers found the man, Jonathan Randell, wielding a knife down the street, according to information provided by police at the time. A crisis intervention team member attempted to keep a dialogue open with the man, but at some point the man began cutting himself with the knife, according to police. Officers then fired at least one pepper ball at him in an attempt to stop his self-harm. “We can’t just watch someone cut themselves without taking action,” Capt. Richard Meulenberg explained at the time. The self-harm ceased, but he “aggressively closed the distance between where he was and the officers,” and at least one shot was fired at him, Meulenberg said. Police later said eight officers fired more than 60 rounds at Randell. “The settlement is agreed to and approved by the parties, but the court hasn’t yet entered a judgment. The plaintiff and the City will present the court with an agreed journal entry of judgment, which will also provide for an order of dismissal.” The federal lawsuit was filed by Deanna Lunsford on behalf of Randell’s estate. It alleged that Tulsa police officers used excessive force while Randell was having a mental health breakdown, according to a summary of the case issued by U.S. District Judge Claire V. Eagan. Lunsford alleged that Randall was attempting to meet a friend who could help him with his mental health problems and that he became upset after he was informed that he could not leave the scene because of an outstanding felony warrant, according to the summary. “Randall (sic) was struck by beanbag rounds and pepper balls and officers ordered him to drop the knife, and Lunsford alleges that Randall dropped the knife in a non-threatening manner,” Eagan wrote. After Randell dropped the knife, Eagan added, “Lunsford claims that police began firing their firearms without reason to believe that Randall posed any threat to them, and Randall died after being shot over 20 times.” Meulenberg declined to comment on the settlement Wednesday. In separate action Wednesday night, councilors approved a resolution authorizing the payment of more than half a million dollars to a former Tulsa police officer who sued the city alleging that her free speech rights were infringed. A Tulsa County District Court jury awarded former Tulsa Police Maj. Tracie Lewis $569,000 in damages after reaching a verdict in her favor in early April. The case dates back to 2015, when then Police Chief Chuck Jordan demoted Lewis four ranks after others told him she was alleged to have punched a civilian police Records Department employee in the shoulder. Lewis denied that claim, and she eventually won back her major rank and back pay after an arbitration officer ruled that the discipline was too harsh. Lewis’ first lawsuit against the city, filed in 2016, ended with the state Supreme Court dismissing the case. She refiled it in 2022. In her petition, Lewis claimed that she was demoted in retaliation after she filed an ethics complaint regarding plans to hire a supervisor for the Records Department. Lewis claimed that plans by others to lower the requirements for the position in order to permit a candidate to qualify for the position violated city ethics policy, the merit system and the spirit of a consent decree regarding transparency in the hiring process. The City Attorney’s Office told councilors that they can expect also to be asked to authorize payment of Lewis’ attorney fees once those have been determined. The settlements in both cases will be paid out of the city’s sinking fund, which is funded through property taxes.

Traffic on Interstate 91 south was stopped by state police on Monday, so a family of ducks could safely get across. State police on Thursday released body camera footage of the ducks being ushered across the blacktop in the area of exit 33. Troopers said they received multiple 911 calls about the family. They responded around 3:45 p.m. on Monday. They said they moved the ducks out of the roadway and cleared the scene for traffic to continue. However, the ducks came back into the roadway later on, which caused a second response. During the second incident, a Department of Motor Vehicles officer was the first unit on scene, and responding troopers said they helped with stopping traffic. Given the repeat incidents, Hartford animal control was then contacted to help with removing the birds from the highway and relocate them to safety. No injuries were reported.

According to the LBPD, at 8:36 p.m. on April 26, a 911 caller in the 6800 block of Cerritos Avenue called police to report a person with a gun inside their residence. “Through their preliminary investigation, officers learned this was an armed home invasion robbery, where the male suspect entered the home and demanded items from one teenage victim and two adult victims,” authorities said in their original press release, which was issued the day after the shooting. “Officers also learned the suspect was still in the yard of the home, armed with a firearm.” Upon getting the three victims out of the home, officers located the armed suspect and “engaged in verbal de-escalation for over an hour” while they attempted to get him to surrender. The newly released footage shows the masked suspect approaching the home armed with a crowbar before forcefully entering the home through a steel security door. After fleeing to the backyard, one responding officer located him inside a shed and ordered him to drop his weapon and exit multiple times. The suspect could be heard vehemently denying the officer’s commands from inside the shed, and eventually started threatening to kill himself or have one of the officers kill him. “He has a gun pointed at his head right now,” one officer is heard saying. During the standoff, the suspect made “multiple demands” including requesting water, which he was given, police said. Later, at 9:59 p.m., over an hour and a half after the original call came out, the suspect pointed his weapon towards the officers, causing one of the officers to discharge his service weapon. The suspect was struck once in the upper body and rushed to a hospital by Long Beach Fire Department paramedics; however, he succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced deceased. A replica firearm was recovered at the scene, police said. The suspect was later identified as a 17-year-old boy from San Bernardino, but due to his age, his name was not released. No officers or members of the community were injured in the incident. “Detectives also learned there was an accomplice the night of the incident who fled the scene before officers arrived,” LBPD said. Further investigation led to police identifying the accomplice as 18-year-old Iskay Mota of Modesto; he was arrested on May 1 in Stanislaus County, Long Beach authorities confirmed. Mota was transported to the Long Beach City Jail, where he was booked for robbery and held on $100,000 bail. Inmate search records indicate he bonded out on May 3.

Ventura County deputies shot an allegedly armed man in Thousand Oaks early Sunday morning. It happened a little before 7 a.m. when deputies were on Avenida de los Arboles, according to a statement from Ventura County Sheriff's Department officials. "The incident began when deputies made contact with a 37-year-old man who was observed holding a knife," the statement said. "During the contact, the man advanced towards one of the deputies in a threatening manner with another device that appeared to be a bow and arrow." Deputies say that despite ordering the man to drop the weapon several times, he did not comply and continued to "aggressively approach" the deputy. "As a result, an officer-involved shooting occurred," deputies said. They rendered medical aid to the suspect until he was taken to a nearby hospital by paramedics. He is said to be in critical but stable condition at the latest. Investigators say that a knife and an item that "looked similar to a bow" were recovered at the scene. No other injuries were reported.

Smith County fire crews were able to contain an RV fire in about two minutes Monday. According to Smith County Emergency Services District 2, officials responded to a call for an RV on fire with a person possibly stuck inside. When firefighters arrived on scene, they began fire suppression and confirmed the owner of the RV was not inside. "The crew had the fire under control in less than two minutes," Smith County ESD 2 said. No injuries were reported.

A man died in an officer-involved shooting in Fontana on Nov. 11, 2023, according to the Fontana Police Department. During the incident, an officer sustained injuries and was transported to a local hospital for medical attention. The officer was treated and released. At about 7:30 p.m., officers responded to the 7100 block of Big Sur Street in the northwestern area of the city for a call of a subject who was making threats to family members. Upon arrival, an officer encountered a male suspect and the officer-involved shooting occurred, police said. The suspect did not survive the shooting and was pronounced deceased at the scene.

A Minnesota state trooper’s driving record is under the microscope after he was criminally charged for his role in a deadly car crash in Rochester while on duty earlier this year. Olmsted County prosecutors have filed second-degree manslaughter, criminal vehicular homicide, and reckless driving charges against Trooper Shane Roper in connection to the fatal crash that claimed the life of 18-year-old Olivia Flores of Owatonna on May 18. The victim’s family has questioned the trooper’s driving record, asking why he was allowed to operate a squad car given his history of state patrol policy violations while behind the wheel. FOX 9 has now obtained video from several prior crashes involving Trooper Roper that led to disciplinary consequences in four separate incidents. In February 2019, Trooper Roper crashed into another squad. Records show the second trooper was hurt, both vehicles were significantly damaged, and Roper was reprimanded for violating policy. Last year, squad video captured Roper losing control after exceeding 90 miles per hour on Highway 52 while attempting to chase after a speeding motorist. His car careened into the cable median barrier on a cloverleaf-like ramp while he did not have either his emergency lights or siren activated, according to personnel files reviewed by FOX 9. His actions resulted in a one-day, unpaid suspension. "It does not make sense from an outside observer of how he could have continued to be put in a squad car without more controls on him, without more oversight of what he was doing," Dan McIntosh, a civil attorney for the Flores family, previously told FOX 9. Flores was killed outside the Apache Mall during the early evening hours of May 18, when prosecutors allege Roper plowed into a busy intersection at a high rate of speed with no emergency lights or siren on, causing the deadly three-vehicle, chain-reaction crash. The Flores family lawyers appear prepared to take legal action against the State Patrol for allowing Roper behind the wheel given his driving history. "Their hope and their desire is to keep everyone, and hold everyone accountable for their actions in terms of how we got to this point today where we have a trooper on the road who should not be on the road," attorney Tom Braun previously told FOX 9. Trooper Roper is not in custody. He is due in court for a first appearance on the felony charges on August 29. He remains on paid investigative leave with the State Patrol. His attorney, Eric Nelson, declined to comment for this story.

The Columbus Division of Police released body camera video Tuesday showing what led up to the fatal shooting of a man near the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. The shooting happened just after 1 p.m. about a mile from the Fiserv Forum, in the outer perimeter of the RNC where the officers were assigned, Columbus police said in a statement. Milwaukee Police Department Chief Jeffrey Norman said in a press conference Tuesday evening that 13 uniformed Columbus officers assigned to bicycle patrol were talking over daily events and being briefed in their assigned zone when they observed a 43-year-old man with a knife in each hand. The man was fighting with another unarmed individual. In the bodycam video, officers can be seen standing in a circle, when one officer says “He’s got a knife. Yes, he does.” Multiple officers can be seen looking back toward the road and are then heard yelling, “Hey,” as they begin running toward the man. As they get closer to the armed man, one officer yells “police” as other officers shout at the man to drop his knife. The man is then seen turning to the other individual and officers fire multiple shots, fatally striking the man. Norman said five officers discharged their firearms. Two knives were recovered at the scene. No officers were injured in the incident. "They had been here for a couple of days and understanding that there was something that happened right in front of them, at the time they were talking to each other and this event unfolded in front of them," Norman said. "In fact, this is a situation where somebody's life was in immediate danger. Again, two knives were recovered from this particular situation, someone's life was in danger, these officers who are not from this area took upon themselves to act to save someone's life today." Columbus police, as well as the chief of staff for Milwaukee's mayor and a spokeswoman for the convention’s joint command center, all said there was nothing to suggest the shooting was related to the convention itself. Columbus Police Chief Elaine Bryant said to avoid compromising the integrity of the active investigation, the Public Records Unit will release the remaining videos in accordance with the investigation. The Milwaukee Area Investigative Team is actively investigating.

Body camera footage shows the moment that Cranston police responded a shooting near a festival over the weekend. The bar, 39 West, had tents set up in the parking lot while the St. Mary's Feast was taking place down the block. Officers were working a security detail when they heard a gunshot at about 11:20 p.m. Saturday. Their body cameras show them running into the tents where two men were fighting. They said Michael Mancini was holding a handgun. Police said they took him to the ground and that he refused to release his grip on the weapon, resisting arrest. Police said Mancini got into an argument with someone at the bar. He later approached that person, and the fight turned physical. During the struggle, he grabbed his gun from his waistband and ended up shooting himself in the leg. The suspect remained in the hospital Tuesday. He faces numerous charges, including carrying without a license, firing in a compact area, and resisting arrest Ryan Nardolillo, Vice President of St. Mary's Feast Society, sent the following statement, “The incident that occurred during the late hours on Saturday, July 20, 2024, during the St. Mary’s Feast was devastating. I’d personally like to make it crystal clear that St. Mary’s Feast Society is not responsible for the terrible event. The feast society’s members and volunteers work tirelessly to create an event for everyone to enjoy and also to carry on a tradition that has lasted 119 years. I would also like to add that the nearby restaurants were also not responsible, especially 39 West. The owners of 39 West are hardworking citizens and care about their community... The only person who is responsible for the incident that occurred was the man who decided to take a lethal weapon to a family event. I have faith that the justice system will do everything that needs to be done regarding the matter. Cranston Police Department did a magnificent job and their response was impeccable. I end my statement asking that we do not place blame on those who are innocent and focus on those who are not."

The Colony Police Department released new video of officers pulling a driver out of a burning car last week. Officers responded to a crash on South Colony Boulevard just before 1:30 on Friday morning. They found a vehicle pinned between two barriers on the overpass. Officers first tried to put out the fire, but when it became clear the fire was not going to go out, the officers decided to bust out the driver's side window. "Stand back, I'm breaking the window," the officer can be heard saying in the video. The officer then used a metal breaching tool to smash the car window. The driver is then able to climb out of the car with the help of the officer. That driver was taken to the hospital for his injuries. One police officer had to be taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation, but is expected to be okay.

Police shot a man in the buttocks after they say he was attempting to stab a group of people in East Harlem. It happened just after 5:30 p.m. Saturday on 102nd Street and 3rd Avenue. According to officials, a man walked into a station house to inform police that the suspect was armed with a knife and was attempting to stab people. Officers crossed the street and saw the armed man running, attempting to stab a victim. "The situation was extremely chaotic and fast. The officers gave numerous verbal commands to the male to drop the knife," said NYPD Assistant Chief Ruel Stephenson. The suspect continued to lunge after the victim, and officers continued to order the suspect to drop the knife. The man then lunged at a second officer. That officer deployed a taser which struck the man but was ineffective. As the officer discharged the taser, the man swung the knife at the officer, missing her face by a few inches. The other officer then discharged his firearm, striking the 36-year-old man in the buttocks. The suspect was then placed into custody and was taken to the hospital, where he is in stable condition. A knife was recovered at the scene. During a press conference, officers did not release the name of the 36-year-old man, but said he has two mental health encounters with police last month. Assistant Chief Stephenson says they are still looking into what led to this wild encounter that could have ended tragically. "What we do know is that there was a dispute with that male, and we believe four other individuals," he said. Police described the incident as 'chaotic and fast' - only 34 seconds passed from when officers first saw the man swinging the knife to when the single shot was fired.

Newly released body camera footage shows police on the roof where Donald Trump’s would-be assassin shot at the former president during the deadly July 13 rally in Butler. Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa shared the video on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, on Tuesday. The video was obtained from the Beaver County Emergency Service Unit after requests from Congress, he wrote. The video appears to show Thomas Matthew Crooks lying dead after being shot and killed by Secret Service personnel. Feet away from Crooks' body, local law enforcement personnel are huddling with a man believed to be a U.S. Secret Service agent. The timestamp at the start of the video is 7:08 p.m. "So this is the guy?" the agent can be heard asking. The officer, who is wearing the body camera in question, answers in the affirmative. "Beaver County snipers seen him, sent the pictures out," he says. "This is him." The conversation later appears to reveal that the agent in question had already seen the pictures circulated by local law enforcement officers, who alerted others to a person they deemed to be suspicious.

An officer shot a suspect in the chest during a confrontation on Blanding Boulevard Wednesday evening, the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office says. According to JSO, the man was identified as Brenton A. Paquin, a suspect in two armed robberies in Lake County, Florida, and a person of interest in a murder in Vermont. According to JSO, around 6:30 p.m., an officer noticed a vehicle matching the description of a vehicle used in a robbery in Clermont, Fla. JSO Chief Alan Parker says Paquin was found approaching the vehicle while walking a dog. Paquin confirmed that the car belonged to him. When the officer asked him to sit down, Paquin "ignored him, stayed on his phone, and tried to brush past him" to get to the car, Parker said. According to Parker, the officer attempted to grab Paquin, but he got into the front of a vehicle and pulled out a gun. "It wasn't as simple as turning around with a gun in his hand," Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters said. "He was very, very close." The officer fired at Paquin, who then dropped the gun. Aid was rendered once backup arrived to assist the officer. The Jacksonville Fire & Rescue Department then took Paquin to the hospital. Parker said that as of Tuesday night, Paquin had been through surgery and was in stable condition.

A civilian was hospitalized in critical condition after a crash involving a Los Angeles Police Department cruiser in the Jefferson Park area late Sunday evening. Officers say that one civilian was rushed to a nearby hospital after the collision, which happened at the intersection of W. Adams Boulevard and S. Gramercy Place, according to LAPD Officer Tony Im. He says that both officers inside of the cruiser were in stable condition as they were taken to a nearby hospital for observation. On Monday, LAPD officers said that the patrol unit was responding to a call for backup in the University Park area for reports of an armed suspect. "While responding to this help call with lights and sirens activated, a patrol unit was involved in a crash with another vehicle at the intersection of Adams Boulevard and Gramercy Place," said the statement from LAPD.

Sonya Massey ducked and apologized to an Illinois sheriff’s deputy only seconds before he shot her three times, with one fatal blow to the head in her own home, as seen in body camera video released Monday. The video’s release came days after an Illinois grand jury indicted former Sangamon County Sheriff’s Deputy Sean Grayson. Officials said Massey’s family viewed the footage on Wednesday. The video confirmed prosecutors’ earlier account of the tense moment when Grayson yelled from across a counter at 36-year-old Massey to set down a pot from the stove just seconds after she started pouring the water into the sink, and the two chuckled over the “hot steaming water.” He then threatened to shoot her, Massey ducked then briefly rose and Grayson fired his pistol at her three times. Authorities said Massey called 911 earlier to report a suspected prowler. The video said the two deputies responded just before 1 a.m. on July 6, first walking around the house and finding a black SUV with broken windows in the driveway. It took Massey three minutes to open the door after the deputies knock, and she immediately said, “Don’t hurt me.” She seemed confused as they spoke at her front door, and repeated that she needed help, referenced God and told them she didn’t know who owned the car. The video doesn’t show what led Massey and Grayson to walk inside her house, followed by the other unidentified deputy. The deputies seemed exasperated as she sat on her couch and went through her purse as they asked for identification. Then Grayson pointed out a pot sitting on a visible flame on the stove. “We don’t need a fire while we’re here,” he said. Massey immediately got up and went to the stove, moving the pot over near a sink. She and Grayson seemed to share a laugh before she said, “I rebuke you in the name of Jesus.” “You better (expletive) not, or I swear to God I’ll (expletive) shoot you in your (expletive) face.” He then pulled his 9mm pistol and said, “Drop the (expletive) pot.” Massey said, “OK, I’m sorry.” In Grayson’s bodycam footage, he pointed his weapon at her. She ducked and raised her hands while still holding two oven mitts. Grayson was still in the living room, facing Massey and separated by a counter dividing the living room and kitchen. Prosecutors have said the separation allowed Grayson both “distance and relative cover” from Massey. After Grayson shot her, the other deputy said, “I’m gonna go get my kit.” Grayson said, “No, it’s a headshot. She's done. You can go get it, but that’s a headshot … there’s nothing you can do, man.” He added: “What else do we do? I’m not taking hot (expletive) boiling water to the (expletive) face.” Noting that Massey was still breathing despite losing a lot of blood, he relented and said he would get his kit too. The other deputy responded, “We can at least try to stop the bleeding.” Speaking to responding police, Grayson told them, “she had boiling water and came at me, with boiling water. … She said she was going to rebuke me in the name of Jesus and came at me with boiling water.” Grayson, who was fired last week, has pleaded not guilty to charges of first-degree murder, aggravated battery with a firearm and official misconduct. He is being held in the Sangamon County Jail without bond. If convicted, he faces prison sentences of 45 years to life for murder, 6 to 30 years for battery and 2 to 5 years for misconduct. His lawyer, Daniel Fultz, declined comment on Monday.

The Fresno Fire Department released body cam footage of a firefight with a structure early Sunday morning. Firefighters say around 3:30 a.m. they responded to a structure fire on Sussex Way and Maroa Avenue. Crews arrived, reporting smoke and fire coming from a portion of a home that was under construction. The fire also found its way to the attic of the main house. Body cam footage released by the department shows a firefighter’s perspective as they extinguish the flames. Fresno Fire says that while the fire may have caused significant damage, the occupants were able to evacuate safely. No injuries were reported. In total, 25 firefighters responded and the cause of the fire is under investigation.

On Thursday, June 20, at approximately 10:30 a.m., the Los Angeles Police Department, West Valley Division responded to a radio call of domestic violence between a man and a woman in the 6700 block of Etiwanda Avenue. Reports indicate a couple, at the Villa Tarzana condominiums, were fighting. Soon after officers arrived, the fight became deadly. According to an LAPD press release, a woman who answered the door, was the wife, and batter victim, of her husband, later identified as 45-year-old, Marlon Jimenez. The victim admitted to police that they had a history of domestic violence. She then escorted officers into the bedroom where the suspect was. Responding officers were explaining to Jimenez what they were doing there, and that they would be handcuffing him. That is when he pulled a knife out of the waistband of his pants and barricaded himself in his bedroom. Special Weapons and Tactics (S.W.A.T.) and the LASD Crisis Negotiations Team (C.N.I.) responded to the call. According to reports, team members were attempting to get the agitated suspend to comply when they entered the room and found him dead. He had a ligature around his neck that was tied to the bed frame and a loaded 9mm pistol at his side. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner investigated the crime scene and confirmed the death of Marlon Jimenez. No officers were injured during the incident. The only reported injuries were those of the victim who had been assaulted by the suspect before committing suicide with the victim and the police on the premises. According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Inmate Locator, Jimenez had an extensive criminal history. There were 22 entries on this individual. He was in jail over a reported misdemeanor in 2023. He was on probation. In 2022, Jimenez was booked into jail on a felony and bonded out.

Five people were arrested, one of whom sustained a gunshot wound to the lower leg, after a shooting led to a pursuit in Detroit. The incident occurred on Wednesday (June 5) at 2:37 p.m. when officers from the Detroit Police Department’s 8th Precient were dispatched to the area of Grandville and Trojan avenues regarding a man shooting at people inside O’Hair Park. Additional information indicated that the involved man was in a gray Jeep Cherokee, and that a second individual was also seen in a second Jeep Cherokee. A search ensued when officers encountered the gray Jeep that fit the description of one of the vehicles. Officials said they attempted to stop the Jeep, but the pursuit ensued. Officials say a DPD officer in the area fired at least one round as the vehicle headed toward and subsequently around the officer’s vehicle. The pursuit continued for several blocks before stopping due to a flat tire. At that point, the occupants fled the vehicle before they were located and arrested. The person who was shot in the leg was transported to Sinai Grace Hospital and is listed in stable condition. Officials say they’ve located four guns, including one AR-style long gun and one AR-style pistol.