Police Shooting Minnesota

A 46-year-old man killed his wife, former partner and his two sons before shooting himself in the US state of Minnesota, authorities said.

Prosecutors in Minnesota on Sunday dismissed charges against a state trooper accused of unintentional murder and manslaughter in the shooting death of Black motorist Ricky Cobb II last year, citing new evidence that weakened their case.

America's largest mall went into lockdown Thursday over what police described as an "active incident," with reports of shots being fired, sparking scenes of chaos inside the giant complex in midwestern Minnesota.

Two campus police officers were shot and killed at a college in the US state of Virginia Tuesday, while one student was killed and another wounded in a shooting at a school in Minnesota the same day.

A five-year-old child was shot and killed in Minnesota by a teen who was filming a social-media video with friends, police said.

Police in the US state of Minnesota were startled by a loud sound prior to shooting an Australian woman who had called them to report a possible assault, investigators revealed Tuesday.

Before Monday, before the 911 call and police investigation, Pedro Ruiz III, an aspiring YouTube star in rural Minnesota, spent considerable time convincing his girlfriend to shoot a gun at his chest.

In the back seat of a patrol car, moments after witnessing a Minnesota police officer fire seven shots at Philando Castile, Diamond Reynolds' 4-year-old daughter begged her mother to stop screaming, in fear that officers would shoot her, too.

Police car video of a Minnesota officer shooting a black motorist, whose dying moments were livestreamed on Facebook, was made public for the first time Tuesday, days after the officer was acquitted at trial.

In a Minnesota neighborhood still reeling from the police shooting death of Philando Castile last month, a group of mostly black citizens and white police officers worked in tandem Monday evening to save a life.

US President Barack Obama on today denounced the "despicable" attacks in Dallas in which snipers shot dead five police officers during a protest against police shootings of black men.

Five police officers were fatally shot and seven wounded in one of the worst shootings of police in recent US history, by snipers who targeted them during rallies in Dallas to protest against the fatal shooting of two black men by police this week.

Philando Castile, 32, was quick with a hug, gentle, and so smart that he was considered over-qualified for his cafeteria supervisor job at a Minnesota public school where kids loved him, recalled friends, family and others who knew him.

After the latest deadly shooting of a black American by police, President Barack Obama on Thursday said US police departments needed to move more quickly to reform.

A woman who watched as a police officer fatally shot her boyfriend during a traffic stop streamed the gruesome aftermath of the slaying live on Facebook, telling a worldwide audience that her companion had been shot "for no apparent reason" while reaching for his wallet.

A 46-year-old man killed his wife, former partner and his two sons before shooting himself in the US state of Minnesota, authorities said.

Prosecutors in Minnesota on Sunday dismissed charges against a state trooper accused of unintentional murder and manslaughter in the shooting death of Black motorist Ricky Cobb II last year, citing new evidence that weakened their case.

America's largest mall went into lockdown Thursday over what police described as an "active incident," with reports of shots being fired, sparking scenes of chaos inside the giant complex in midwestern Minnesota.

Two campus police officers were shot and killed at a college in the US state of Virginia Tuesday, while one student was killed and another wounded in a shooting at a school in Minnesota the same day.

A five-year-old child was shot and killed in Minnesota by a teen who was filming a social-media video with friends, police said.

Police in the US state of Minnesota were startled by a loud sound prior to shooting an Australian woman who had called them to report a possible assault, investigators revealed Tuesday.

Before Monday, before the 911 call and police investigation, Pedro Ruiz III, an aspiring YouTube star in rural Minnesota, spent considerable time convincing his girlfriend to shoot a gun at his chest.

In the back seat of a patrol car, moments after witnessing a Minnesota police officer fire seven shots at Philando Castile, Diamond Reynolds' 4-year-old daughter begged her mother to stop screaming, in fear that officers would shoot her, too.

Police car video of a Minnesota officer shooting a black motorist, whose dying moments were livestreamed on Facebook, was made public for the first time Tuesday, days after the officer was acquitted at trial.

In a Minnesota neighborhood still reeling from the police shooting death of Philando Castile last month, a group of mostly black citizens and white police officers worked in tandem Monday evening to save a life.

US President Barack Obama on today denounced the "despicable" attacks in Dallas in which snipers shot dead five police officers during a protest against police shootings of black men.

Five police officers were fatally shot and seven wounded in one of the worst shootings of police in recent US history, by snipers who targeted them during rallies in Dallas to protest against the fatal shooting of two black men by police this week.

Philando Castile, 32, was quick with a hug, gentle, and so smart that he was considered over-qualified for his cafeteria supervisor job at a Minnesota public school where kids loved him, recalled friends, family and others who knew him.

After the latest deadly shooting of a black American by police, President Barack Obama on Thursday said US police departments needed to move more quickly to reform.

A woman who watched as a police officer fatally shot her boyfriend during a traffic stop streamed the gruesome aftermath of the slaying live on Facebook, telling a worldwide audience that her companion had been shot "for no apparent reason" while reaching for his wallet.