- NJ: The murder of three college students left residents of Newark shaken and angry Monday, prompting a march on City Hall and providing a major challenge for the city’s new reform-minded mayor. “This breaks the heart of our city,” Booker said.
- IL: Bike shooting leaves one wounded
- OH: Cincinnati police are investigating a pair of fatal overnight shootings.
The first happened just before 11 p.m. at 4901 Reading Road. Police responded to a shooting call to find two young men with gunshot wounds. - MO: Six people were hurt in three shootings late Sunday night, all occuring within 15 mintues of each other.
- GA: Two people died of gunshot wounds Monday that they received in separate shootings in Norcross. In the first case, a 16-year-old boy was shot in the chest while painting stripes in the parking lot of a Shell gas station where he worked, police said. That shooting happened at 10:45 p.m. Sunday at 4840 Jimmy Carter Blvd. The man was taken to Gwinnett Medical Center, where he died about 2:30 a.m. Monday.
- CA: As community leaders gathered to mourn the murder of an Oakland journalist, a series of shootings in the city over the weekend claimed the lives of seven more people. Between early Friday morning through Sunday morning seven people were gunned down in Oakland.
- CA: A 19-year-old handyman has confessed to murdering a well-known newspaper editor in downtown Oakland last week,
the police said. - RI: A gunman wounds two people early this morning in Providence. The shooting happened in the city’s north end shortly after midnight. Police say someone in a van drove past a group of people and opened fire, wounding two victims in the arm.
- PA: A city man was charged with attempted murder in connection with the shooting of a 19-year-old in the face last week in the New Yorkshire neighborhood, police said.
- UT: Protesters gathered briefly outside the Matheson Courthouse in Salt Lake City Monday to urge the court system to move quickly on the assorted charges lodged against Samuel Paul Krokaugger, 18, who is charged with killing two young men this summer as well as taking part in a drive-by shooting in which the victim was injured, but lived.
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Gun Policy News Feed- Site has been updated May 17, 2010