gun violence

After five people were killed in Brightwood Park, a longtime business owner says her customers are scared to move around. News4’s Jackie Bensen reports.

A neighborhood is rattled after a Maryland man was shot and killed Friday in the District.

News4’s Derrick Ward has reaction from neighbors and community leaders.

Police said an argument preceded gunfire at the Haunted Hills Hayride in North Versailles on Saturday night.

“She didn’t deserve this,” the victim’s sister said. “Nobody deserves to feel this pain, her children, her mom.” News4’s Jackie Bensen reports.

The killings of a woman and two men on Longfellow Street in Northwest D.C. have frustrated loved ones, neighbors and local leaders — but not everyone agrees on how to stop the surge in gun violence.

News4’s Darcy Spencer reports on the triple murder on Longfellow Street in D.C.

The shootings occurred on the 600 block of Morton Street in Northwest D.C.

News4’s Darcy Spencer reports that neighbors in the community and across the District are frustrated with the gun violence.

San Francisco is launching a pilot program in October that effectively pays people $300 a month not to commit gun crimes.

Devontae Gliss is on his way to Morgan State University six years after his mother was killed in D.C. But this day may not have come without the support he received not just from family, but from the wider community. News4’s Darcy Spencer reports.

Backyard Squabbles is an L.A. fight club that allows its members to take their anger out in the ring rather than on the streets. But while the group took shape in response to frustrations exacerbated by COVID-19, the pandemic has also created challenges to keep the club in operation. (Produced by NBCLX Contributor Matteo Ghidoni)

Prince George’s County police went back to the Landover apartment building where an 8-year-old was shot and killed when someone opened fire. News4’s Darcy Spencer reports.

Peyton “PJ” Evans was playing video games inside a Landover apartment when someone started shooting into the building, striking and killing him. News4’s Darcy Spencer spoke with the boy’s mother.

Chicago’s watchdog agency has concluded that the gunshot detection system used by police rarely produces evidence of gun-related crime in the city.

Amid a wave of gun violence in D.C., two people were found shot and killed in cars within 30 minutes of each other in two parts of the District on Wednesday. The first shooting occurred in the NoMa area before 1 p.m., at the rear of the unit block of L Street NW, Chief of Police Robert Contee said. ...

News4’s Cory Smith reports on the arrest of a man who allegedly killed his girlfriend.

Talaya Campbell was fatally shot Friday afternoon inside a home on Irving Street NW. Over the weekend, police arrested her boyfriend.

More than a year after a little girl was shot and wounded in D.C., her family was able to thank the first responders who helped save her life.  My’onna Hinton was seriously hurt on Memorial Day last year in what police called an accidental shooting inside a home in Southeast D.C.  Members of D.C. Fire and EMS and the...

First responders rushed My’onna Hinton to Children’s National Hospital after an accidental shooting last year. Her family was able to thank first responders on Monday.