violence

Exhausted American cities are facing yet another challenge in addition to the coronavirus and the street protests over the police killing of George Floyd.

In a budget hearing late Tuesday, D.C. Councilman Charles Allen vowed to find funding to restore and continue investing in the District’s Violence Interrupter program, which is facing a major cut in the currently proposed budget. “We’re going to change that because I don’t believe that we can handle fewer violence interrupters, I think we need more – and...

Almost 100 members of the public testified before D.C. Council members Monday, most of them urging the District to shift money away from the Metropolitan Police Department. Many want the city to instead use those funds for community initiatives, including DC’s Violence Interrupter program. Jodie Fleischer and the News4 I-Team spoke with one violence interrupter about what he does.

The Justice Department is urging U.S. attorneys nationwide to use federal courts — where more serious charges are available — to prosecute people suspected of violence or property damage during the protests over George Floyd’s death....

Attorney General William Barr said Thursday that federal agents have arrested 51 people for acts of violence since the protests began. The U.S. Marshals service...

A mother and grandmother was shot to death over the weekend in Southeast D.C. while trying to protect her granddaughter during an attack, police and family members say. At 71 years old, Sheila Lucas’ children thought the coronavirus was the biggest threat to their mother’s life. But it was another of the District’s ills that took her life: gun...

A mother and grandmother was shot to death while trying to protect her granddaughter during an attack, family members say. News4’s Cory Smith reports.

Three people were killed and seven injured in numerous shootings over the weekend in D.C., police say.

A 19-year-old man was shot and killed outside an apartment building in Columbia Heights on Sunday. Some people who live in the building say they are outraged by the violence and management isn’t doing enough to keep them safe. News4’s Pat Collins reports.

Residents in Northeast DC expressed concern about recent shootings at a community meeting. News4’s Shomari Stone reports a double shooting happened just blocks away from the meeting.

A man died in a hail of bullets on Rhode Island Avenue NE on Saturday. News4’s Darcy Spencer spoke to a D.C. leader who says it’s going to take collective outrage to stop senseless gun violence.

Protesters defied an emergency decree and confronted police in Chile’s capital Monday, continuing disturbances that have left at least 11 dead and led the president to say the country is “at war.” Police used tear gas and streams of water to break up a march by hundreds of students and union members on one of Santiago’s main streets, but demonstrators...

A 66-year-old man accused of fatally shooting five of his neighbors on Chicago’s Northwest Side over the weekend left a note on his door with a haunting message written in Polish, prosecutors said in court Monday.

A 66-year-old man has been charged with murder after authorities say he fatally shot five of his neighbors Saturday evening at an apartment complex on Chicago’s Northwest Side, according to police. Krysztof Marek, of the 6700 block of West Irving Park Road, was charged with five felony counts of first degree murder, Chicago police said in a statement Monday morning.

The fifth victim, identified as 53-year-old Jolanta Topolska succumbed to her injuries Sunday afternoon, authorities said.

A teacher was arrested Friday after a fight with a student in a classroom at an alternative high school in Maywood, the sheriff’s department confirmed.

Crowds chanted “shut it down right now” as they marched down one of Chicago’s busiest expressways on Saturday.

Two Chicago policemen wounded in the Back of the Yards neighborhood Tuesday night were shot with a rifle powerful enough to penetrate the officers’ body armor, police say.

In a Tuesday Facebook post, the former CBS News anchor says the GOP presidential nominee “crossed a line with dangerous potential” by launching “a direct threat of violence against a political rival.”

Steven Simminger has been charged with murder after police say he stabbed Colin McGovern to death following an argument over sports teams.

Family members of two people killed by Chicago police officers spoke out Sunday afternoon, a day after the shooting, questioning why police resorted to firing their weapons at all.