Teens
STOCK IMAGE/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Many teenagers and college students reported being among those who received racist text messages sent to phone numbers across the U.S. last week. The texts, which tell the user they’re going to be taken to a plantation to “pick cotton,” have been reported in at least 24 states, plus […]
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images/STOCK (GREENBELT, Md.) — Five teenagers were injured after gunfire rang out at a large gathering of high school students taking part in a senior skip day in Maryland, police said. Officers from several law enforcement agencies were responding to help control a crowd of 500 to 600 students who had gathered in […]
ABC News (LOS ANGELES) — “Everywhere I look, everything that I see, I just see his face,” said Reanell Hartley, looking through the barbed wire fencing of Camp Scott for the first time in more than two decades. As a teenager in the early 2000s, she was locked up inside the fences of Camp Scott, […]
ABC News/WKRN (NASHVILLE, Tn.) — At least three assailants were being sought Monday in the killings of two teenagers police said were “targeted” in a shooting at a Nashville apartment complex over the weekend. One of the victims was identified as 17-year-old Camron McGlothen, who lived at the Hermitage Flats Apartments in East Nashville, according […]
avid_creative/Getty Images (AUGUSTA, Ga.) — Two juveniles who escaped from police while being transported to a youth detention center in Augusta, Georgia, are back in custody after allegedly knocking out a deputy on Thursday, according to authorities. The two teenagers, a 14-year-old and a 15-year-old, were being transported to the Augusta Regional Youth Detention Center […]
Taylorsville Police Department (NEW YORK) – Two teenage boys have been arrested and charged in connection with the murder of a 21-year-old man whose body was found in a remote desert area in Utah County, according to police. The 15-year-old and a 17-year-old have been booked into the Salt Lake Valley Detention Center on multiple […]
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Ten teens were charged on Monday in a string of carjackings in Washington, D.C., authorities said, amid what law enforcement calls a sharp rise in the crime in the nation’s capital. The 10 suspects are believed to be involved in two separate carjacking rings in D.C., authorities said: The teens, […]
KTRK (HOUSTON) — Two teenagers have been arrested in connection with a spate of robberies along a popular Houston bike trail, as police look for more suspects in the attacks, authorities said Tuesday. Since May 16, five people have been robbed and assaulted and “held up at gunpoint” while riding along the Columbia Tap Bike Trail, […]
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (YUMA, Ariz.) — Two teenagers have been arrested in a mass shooting that erupted at a house party in Yuma, Arizona, over the weekend in which more than 30 shots were fired, leaving two people dead and five injured, police said. Jose Lopez, 18, was arrested on suspicion of two counts of […]
Jason marz/Getty Images (CHICAGO) — Four teenagers, including a 16-year-old, have been charged in the murder of a beloved 24-year-old Chicago police officer, authorities announced Wednesday. Officer Aréanah Preston had just finished her shift and was still in uniform when she was shot and killed at about 1:42 a.m. Saturday, according to Chicago police. The four […]