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pablohart/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — An 8-year-old Florida boy was accidentally shot when a burn barrel with guns inside was set on fire, authorities said. The boy was cleaning up a backyard with his grandmother and other children at the time of the Monday incident, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said. A burn barrel was filled […]

Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.) — Albuquerque police are investigating after an 11-year-old boy was fatally shot and a woman was critically injured in a car near a minor league baseball stadium late Wednesday. Police said someone fired “several shots” at a truck that the boy and woman were in as it was moving. The […]

Aitor Diago/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A 12-year-old boy was shot on Friday night across the street from a Baltimore high school where a football game was being played, police said. Officers patrolling near the scene heard a gun shot in the area near Dunbar High School and found the boy suffering from a gunshot […]

Gabriel Esparza has been arrested as a suspect in the kidnapping and murder of Andrea Vazquez in Whittier, Calif., Aug. 21, 2023. — Whittier Police Dept. (WHITTIER, Calif.) — A 19-year-old woman who was kidnapped from a Southern California park and killed appears to have been randomly targeted, according to police. Gabriel Esparza, 20, was […]

Omaha Police Department via AP (NEBRASKA) — The driver of a day care van was arrested after a 1-year-old girl who was left in the vehicle for several hours amid sweltering temperatures died, police said. Police responded to a day care center Monday afternoon “for an unresponsive child who was left in a van,” the […]

Newport News Police Department (NEWPORT NEWS, Va.) — The mother of a 6-year-old boy accused of shooting his first-grade teacher during class in Newport News, Virginia, in January has pleaded guilty to a felony charge in connection with the shooting. Deja Taylor was indicted in April for felony child neglect and a misdemeanor charge of […]

Billy Schuerman/The Virginian-Pilot/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (NEWPORT NEWS, Va.) — The 6-year-old boy accused of shooting his first-grade teacher, Abby Zwerner, during class in Newport News, Virginia in January allegedly admitted to doing so that same day, according to newly released court documents. Probable cause documents, provided to ABC News by ABC affiliate station […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — At least two people have been killed by severe weather that slammed the East Coast. Marquin Russell, 28, died after he was struck by lightning in Florence, Alabama, on Monday, according to police. Evan Kinley, 15, died after being hit by a falling tree outside his grandparents’ home in Anderson, South […]

Lincoln Police Department (LINCOLN, Neb.) — A 26-year-old Nebraska man accused of posing as a high school student at two different schools has been arrested on sex crime charges, police said. Zachary Scheich, of Lincoln, faces three felony charges — two counts of sexual assault, use of an electronic device, and one count of sex […]