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By Tina Burnside, CNN A high-speed police chase of a kidnapping suspect ended in the death of a 5-year-old child, the Jacksonville, Florida, Sheriff’s Office said early Friday morning. Officers received a call about a kidnapping in progress Thursday night, spokesperson Christian Hancock said at a press conference. An officer spotted the vehicle and attempted

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN A 12-year-old student was fatally shot by a classmate at a South Carolina middle school, officials said on Thursday. The victim has been identified as Jamari Cortez Bonaparte Jackson. His family said they were “devastated” by the tragedy, according to a statement from a family spokesperson. The suspected shooter, also 12,

By Rob Frehse and Jennifer Henderson, CNN A police officer was killed and two others were injured by gunfire after responding to a burglary call in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, on Thursday. Lebanon city police Lt. William Lebo, 63, was killed in the line of duty, Pier Hess Graf, district attorney of Lebanon County, said at a

By Omar Jimenez, CNN An independent report commissioned by the Minnesota Department of Public Safety detailed multiple breakdowns in procedure and “inadequate coordination” at times during the protests and violence that followed the death of George Floyd in May 2020. The report also found that state law enforcement used tactics that were often perceived as

By Christina Maxouris, CNN He was a gentle giant who always supported others. A teammate often turned mentor. A kind and funny friend, always soft-spoken. That’s how friends and family in a Missouri vigil remembered 14-year-old Tyre Sampson, who died last Thursday when he fell off an amusement park thrill ride while on a spring

By Hannah Sarisohn, CNN The parents of a 3-year-old boy who died last year after a contracting a rare brain-eating amoeba at a splash pad in Arlington, Texas, have reached a $250,000 settlement with the city. Bakari Williams died last September after spending five days in the hospital with primary amoebic meningoencephalitis, a rare and

By Paradise Afshar, CNN Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington state signed a bill Thursday that creates the nation’s first alert system for missing Indigenous people. The bill, which was passed unanimously in both the House and the Senate, highlights that “indigenous people experience disproportionate rates of violence in Washington state,” and calls for the

CNN Editorial Research Here is some background information about the shootings at Virginia Tech in April 2007, one of the deadliest mass shootings in US history. Twenty-three-year-old Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people on the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University campus in Blacksburg, Virginia, before taking his own life. Facts Cho was a senior at

By Peter Nickeas, CNN Billions of dollars to address America’s exploding gun trafficking problem, to catch dangerous fugitives, and to fund initiatives at local law enforcement agencies. The increased funding for those items are at the heart of President Joe Biden’s expanded police spending plan in the federal budget as Democrats, many facing tough midterm

By Omar Jimenez, CNN Even as the bombs began to fall, Yevhenia Khomenko didn’t want to leave her home in Kyiv, Ukraine. “I would rather die there,” the 94-year-old said. But eventually, it became too much, and her daughter convinced her to leave the home she had known her entire life. When Khomenko was a

By Marianne Garvey Julia Temchenko and her two young children were in their living room in Kyiv, Ukraine when a rocket flew past, shattering the window. For so long, she believed Russia wouldn’t actually invade. Then it was reality. Temchenko, who moved with her family to Kyiv from Bucha, is a lawyer and human rights

By Dakin Andone, CNN A charge against a West Virginia University student previously accused of making terroristic threats was dismissed without prejudice in 2021, according to court documents obtained by CNN. The then-21-year-old freshman student was arrested in May 2019 after authorities said they learned he had threatened to carry out a “shooting spree,” university

By Jaide Timm-Garcia, CNN A Florida judge approved an $83 million settlement Wednesday for former condo owners and heirs of those killed last year when the Champlain Towers South residential building in Surfside partially collapsed. The compromise settlement was originally agreed upon in February, the Miami Herald reported. Nearly $50 million of the settlement would

By Paradise Afshar, CNN The body of Naomi Irion, a Nevada woman missing for more than two weeks, has been discovered, authorities said Wednesday. Investigators were called to a remote part of Churchill County on Tuesday after receiving a tip connected to the disappearance of Irion, according to a news release from the Churchill County

By Jamiel Lynch, CNN In a motion filed Wednesday, the parents of Brian Laundrie asked a Florida court to dismiss a civil lawsuit brought by Gabby Petito’s parents earlier this month. In their lawsuit, Petito’s parents alleged the Laundries knew that their son killed Petito and were working to help him flee the country. Their