There will be no third criminal trial for a U.S. Border Patrol agent acquitted twice in the death of a Mexican teen he shot in 2012 through an urban fence separating Arizona from Mexico, federal prosecutors said Thursday.
Read moreA small, loud protest erupted outside the Evo A. DeConcini Courthouse Wednesday after a federal jury acquitted a U.S. Border Patrol agent of involuntary manslaughter in the 2012 shooting death of a Mexican teenager.
Read moreFormer Border Patrol Agent Lonnie Swartz wasn’t scared for his life in October 2012 when he fired his handgun through a border fence, killing a Mexican teen who was lobbing rocks up and over the barrier, the lead prosecutor in Swartz’s federal manslaughter trial told the jury Friday.
Read moreThe parents of an unarmed black man shot and killed after a Dallas cop apparently mistook his apartment for her own sued the officer Friday, claiming he was subjected to excessive force and that her social media posts indicate violent behavior.
Read moreA federal jury heard opening arguments Tuesday in the retrial of former Border Patrol Agent Lonnie Swartz, who was acquitted in April of second-degree murder in the 2012 shooting death of a Mexican teen.
Read moreA second federal trial starts Tuesday for a former U.S. Border Patrol agent who six years ago this month opened fire through a fence at the U.S.-Mexico border, striking and killing a Mexican teenager.
Read moreAt the sentencing of rap producer Marion “Suge” Knight on Thursday, family of the man Knight ran over in a Compton parking lot in 2015 said they were forced to watch the man’s death multiple times as surveillance footage leaked by TMZ played out in the media.
Read moreDays ahead of a long-awaited trial on murder charges, embattled rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight pleaded no contest Thursday to voluntary manslaughter stemming from a 2015 fatal hit and run.
Read moreAttorneys for the family of an unarmed black man who was shot and killed by a white Dallas cop who mistook his apartment for her own disputed Tuesday her claims that his door was ajar, citing witnesses who say they heard a female voice commanding the door be opened.
Read moreA white Dallas police officer was charged Sunday evening with manslaughter for killing a black male resident in an apartment she mistook for her own but was on the wrong floor.
Read moreDallas police said Friday afternoon that an off-duty white female cop who mistook another apartment for her own will face manslaughter charges for shooting and killing the black man inside.
Read moreState prosecutors filed court papers Wednesday claiming the former Minnesota police officer who fatally shot an Australian woman last year had shown signs of a reckless disregard for human life, citing training records and his responses to prior calls.
Read moreA former Oklahoma cop acquitted in the shooting death of an unarmed black motorist defied protestors Tuesday night, going through with teaching a class to sheriff’s deputies on how to handle the aftermath of police-involved shootings.
Read moreA judge on Monday ordered Michigan’s state health director to stand trial for involuntary manslaughter in two deaths linked to Legionnaires’ disease in the Flint area, the highest ranking official to stand trial as a result of the tainted water scandal.
Read moreIn an unusual move, a California judge on Friday rejected the plea deals of two men who were charged with 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter after a 2016 California warehouse fire.
Read moreThe father of an Australian woman who was fatally shot by a former Minneapolis police officer last summer filed a $50 million lawsuit Monday claiming he and his partner covered up the circumstances of the shooting by not activating their body cameras.
Read moreKenyan police are charging with manslaughter two managers of a private farm where a dam burst due to seasonal rains, flooding a village and killing at least 47 people.
Read moreTwo men pleaded no contest Tuesday to involuntary manslaughter charges over the deaths of 36 people who perished in the Ghost Ship warehouse fire in Oakland and accepted county jail sentences of nine and six years.
Read moreTwo men who fled from unmarked police claim in a federal complaint that they spent years in prison because officers planted drugs on them to avoid liability for an innocent bystander’s death in the chase.
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A state judge on Friday said there is enough evidence for a manslaughter trial to proceed against two men connected to the 2016 Ghost Ship warehouse fire that killed 36 people.
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