- IL: A 70-year-old woman, Maggie Browder, was killed Monday morning by a stray bullet that came through a window of her Far South Side house at 6:20am.
- IL: Two young brothers, 4 and 11-years-old, from the Back of the Yards neighborhood were wounded when a loaded handgun hidden inside an oven discharged as the oven was heated. The boys’ older sister turned on the oven to cook some food when apparently an unaware parolee had hidden a gun inside the oven.
- IA: Authorities launched a manhunt for a local banker after a woman and four children were found shot dead in an Iowa City home.
- CO: In the days leading up to last week’s murder suicide, Colleen Dwyer reportedly told police her estranged husband told her to get ready to “take a bullet.” Colleen’s two small children, both under the age of 6, where there when the shooting occurred.
- GA: Eddie Harrington, 27, purchased a semi-automatic handgun and used it to murder his son, Sedrick Harrington, 3; and twin 23-month-old daughters, Agena and Aliyah Battle; each were shot in the head before Harrington committed suicide.
- FL: The mother of a 29-year-old, Jeffrey Hall, who was shot and killed by Orlando police officers, said her son was not given a chance to surrender before being “executed.”
- PA: The Indiana County Coroner said that 20-year-old Brian Marshall Morgan died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound; apparently Morgan believed the .22-caliber handgun was unloaded when he placed it to his head and discharged the weapon.
- KS: Alfonso Barajas, 50, was killed during a shooting, which is believed to have been accidental.
- AL: School administrators confirmed that Gerry Elliot, assistant principal of both Lineville High and Elementary schools died Saturday after a hunting accident.
- FL: A 50-year-old Pompano Beach man, Randall W. Williamson, was accidentally shot to death while hunting turkey. Another hunter, Michael Shane Hasting, 40, was hunting with his 6-year-old son when he shot at a turkey with his 12-gauge shotgun and hit Williamson.
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Gun Policy News Feed- Site has been updated May 17, 2010