Testimony ends in Chicago officer’s murder trial for fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald
Testimony in the murder trial of a Chicago police officer in the 2014 shooting of Laquan McDonald concluded Wednesday morning, a quiet ending to a trial just a day after the officer himself provided sometimes emotional and sometimes defiant testimony…
Defense for Chicago police officer puts slain teen on trial
After days of prosecutors making their case to jurors that Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke committed first-degree murder in 2014 when he shot Laquan McDonald 16 times, attorneys for the white officer are presenting their own evidence and contenting…
Doctor testifies that the order of Laquan McDonald’s 16 gunshot wounds cannot be determined
Dr. Ponni Arunkumar, Cook County's chief medical examiner, testified about each gunshot wound as jurors viewed autopsy photos of them.
Texas officer faces manslaughter charge in neighbor Botham Jean’s death
A white Dallas police officer who shot and killed a black neighbor in his home and later said she mistook his apartment for her own parked on the wrong floor of the complex's garage after getting home from work that…
The officer who shot 26-year-old Botham Jean said that she believed the victim's apartment was her own when she entered it. It's not clear whether investigators believe race was a factor in the shooting.
A Texas jury this week convicted former officer Roy Oliver for murdering 15-year-old Jordan Edwards and sentenced him to 15 years in prison. That outcome was very different from most high-profile police shootings; it's extremely rare for on-duty officers to…
The white Chicago police officer charged with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of black teenager Laquan McDonald says he was doing what he was trained to do and that the case against him shows prosecutors are bowing to political…
After about 15 hours of deliberation, a Dallas County jury found a former police officer guilty in the 2017 fatal shooting of 15-year-old Jordan Edwards.
Here’s what we know about what happened, what police and the community have said about the Pennsylvania shooting, and what's next.
