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A 30-year-old Philadelphia policeman was shot and killed yesterday by a wanted felon who fired several times into the fallen officer as he lay wounded on a North Philadelphia street. "He stood over the top of him and killed him," said Homicide Capt. James Clark, who called the killing of Officer Patrick McDonald an "execution." --snip-- The gunman was identified as Daniel Giddings, 27, who was recently released from state prison after serving time for a 1998 robbery and aggravated assault

Gunmen killed a senior police homicide investigator in Ciudad Juarez on the U.S.-Mexico border, the fourth policeman killed in the city this week, an attorney general's office said on Wednesday. State police commander Vidal Barraza, who was investigating the 600 drug murders in Ciudad Juarez this year, was shot on Tuesday night as he stepped out of his house to meet a friend, the Chihuahua state attorney general's office said. Barraza was appointed Chihuahua state murder investigator in July. He was barefoot and wearing only a pair of shorts when he was shot in his driveway. "Witnesses told us they...

A Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy gunned down Saturday outside his boyhood home in Cypress Park had been assigned to guard the most dangerous inmates in the county, including members of the notorious Mexican Mafia gang, authorities said Sunday. Los Angeles police and sheriff's officials said the prospect that Deputy Juan Abel Escalante was killed because of his work at the jail remained one of three possible motives. Investigators were also considering the possibility that neighborhood gang violence or a personal grudge were behind the killing. As of right now, all of those possibilities are on the table," said Los...

Authorities are investigating the shooting death of an off-duty sheriff's deputy at sunrise today in the gang-ridden Cypress Park area of Los Angeles, authorities said. Police chief William Bratton and sheriff Lee Baca rushed to the scene, and Baca called this "a difficult day." Baca said "we know that the public at large is grieving the loss of a deputy sheriff, a new deputy sheriff who was in the department for just two years, working at our central jail." The name of the slain deputy sheriff has not been released, although neighbors told Los Angeles station KNX that the victim's...

Twinsburg, OH - A Twinsburg Police Officer gunned down in the line of duty early Sunday morning. Now - in a stunning development - the alleged triggerman is claiming self-defense as a reason behind the violence. The fatal shooting of Officer Joshua Miktarian happened around 2AM on Route 91 at Glenwood during a traffic stop. Miktarian and his canine partner were called out to search an area when they made a traffic stop along the way.

HIS life blood was ebbing away as four bullets, fired by evil, blasted into his body. As a cop staring death stark in the face, Anthony Mosomillo had one last job. He blasted away with four shots at a cockroach called José Serrano, and hell greeted another lowlife into Satan's lap. Ten years ago, Anthony Mosomillo and partner Miriam Torres went to Serrano's apartment to arrest the career criminal, who had skipped out on two bench warrants. When they found Serrano, the 210-pound weight lifter wrestled Miriam's service pistol away from her and shot Anthony four times, mortally wounding him....

MEXICO CITY — Assassins gunned down a senior police official in the border city of Ciudad Juarez early Saturday as Mexico's gangsters pressed their counteroffensive against the country's security forces. Municipal Police Chief Juan Antonio Roman was shot about 2 a.m. in front of his house on the outskirts of the city, which is across the Rio Grande from El Paso. Another of Roman's police commanders was shot shortly before he was killed. Roman's was one of more than 100 deaths, including those of at least 20 police officers, attributed to organized crime last week across Mexico. Among those killed...

<p>MEXICO CITY — An official says the acting chief of Mexico's federal police has been shot dead.</p> <p>The Public Safety Department says Edgar Millan Gomez was shot 10 times and died hours later in a Mexico City hospital. Two of his bodyguards were wounded.</p>

HOUSTON -- An illegal immigrant accused of murdering a Houston police officer two years ago now faces the death penalty after a jury convicts him of capital murder. Jurors convicted Juan Leonardo Quintero-Perez  of capital murder shortly before 6 p.m. Thursday.  The jury began deliberating the illegal immigrant's fate shortly after noon. The sentencing phase of the trial is scheduled to begin Tuesday at 10 a.m. Quintero faces the death penalty. Quintero, 34, faced the capital murder charge in the 2006 death of  Houston Police Department Officer Rodney Johnson. Investigators said Perez shot Johnson four times in the head during...

A senior Mexican police official has been gunned down in the capital, Mexico City, officials have said. Edgar Millan Gomez was in charge of co-ordinating national police operations against drugs traffickers. He was shot nine times outside his home early on Thursday and died later in hospital, officials said. Two of his bodyguards were wounded in the attack. Police are investigating if the attack was drug-related. Several top policemen have been killed in the past week. Police said a group of gunmen had attacked Mr Millan. "They were hunting him," a spokesman for the security ministry told Reuters news agency....

As the reward for the third suspect in the weekend slaying of Philadelphia Police Sgt. Stephen Liczbinski grew yesterday to more than $123,000, authorities intensified their wide-reaching dragnet for a man they called "armed and dangerous." Police pursued leads from Lancaster, Pa., to Newark, N.J., in search of 33-year-old Eric DeShann Floyd, who they say was the "muscle" in a trio that on Saturday robbed a Port Richmond bank and then killed the pursuing sergeant. But investigators believed Floyd, a convicted armed robber who in February escaped from a Reading halfway house, most likely was still hiding in Philadelphia. Police...

Inquirer Staff Writers Howard Cain had a history of fighting with and fleeing police. He had served 9 years for robbery. The man who police said killed Sgt. Stephen Liczbinski was under parole supervision for a 1996 Philadelphia robbery after serving the minimum of a 9- to 18-year prison sentence, according to state officials. Howard Cain, 33, is alleged to have fired five shots from a high-powered Chinese SKS rifle at Liczbinski in a confrontation in Port Richmond after a bank robbery Saturday. Liczbinski, 39, died at Temple University Hospital from multiple gunshot wounds. Cain, whose last known residence was...

A Philadelphia police officer was shot and killed with a military assault rifle late this morning when he confronted at least two robbers who had just held up an Bank of America branch at a Shoprite supermarket in Port Richmond. --snip--- a police spokesman, described one as a man wearing “Muslim garb” and carrying a shoulder bag. He said that a second, who might have been a woman, was wearing “light brown Muslim garb.” A third possible robber, a man, was described as having worn a “dreadlock wig” and a “construction mask.” He had on blue jeans and a flannel...

Exclusive: Cops back from the war: What problems do they pose? March 12, 2008 Exclusive: Cops back from the war: What problems do they pose? By Chuck Remsberg, Senior PoliceOne Contributor Part 1 of a 3-part series Thousands of American law enforcement officers have been called to military service in Iraq and Afghanistan, and authorities are increasingly focusing attention on how well some of those can reintegrate into domestic policing once they return home. Isolated instances of serious problems have made headlines, raising concerns about potentially persistent negative effects of combat experience. • In Texas, an officer recently back from...

No indictment in death of police officer 03/13/08 By Mike Santa Rita After the death of Officer Scott Wheeler in June 2007, his photo was placed at the foot of a statue at county police headquarters. Family and colleagues of Howard County police Cpl. Scott Wheeler reacted with disappointment to a grand jury's March 5 decision not to indict a Columbia woman in connection with Wheeler's 2007 death as he worked a speeding detail near Savage. "I think that the end result in terms of charges is in no way proportionate to the loss," Howard County Police Chief William McMahon...

U.S. Immigration officials could not determine Friday whether the driver of the truck that killed a Harris County Sheriff's deputy had a valid visa that would have allowed the Mexican national to live or work in the country. Jose Jesus Vieyra, 56, is charged with criminally negligent homicide in a collision that killed Deputy Craig Miller Thursday night on a Katy Freeway access road. Although ICE officials originally identified Vieyra as an illegal immigrant, the agency said late Friday that it could not confirm if his visa — issued at a border checkpoint — is still valid. It is also...

AS FAMILY AND FRIENDS TRY to make sense of the San Fernando Valley bloodbath that took the lives of SWAT Officer Randal Simmons and three members of the gunman's family, and badly wounded Officer James Veenstra, word is emerging that Simmons probably stepped into the bullet's path to save the badly injured Veenstra seconds after he went down. "We believe Jim was hit first, and Randy did his training and moved up to cover Jim, and he was subsequently shot," SWAT Sergeant Chuck Buttitta, one of the supervisors that deadly February 6 night, tells L.A. Weekly. "He acted instinctively, and...

LOS ANGELES - One veteran SWAT officer was killed and another wounded during a shootout with a man who called police and said he had killed three members of his family, police said Thursday. The standoff with the barricaded gunman continued at 5 a.m., first-assistant police Chief Jim McDonnell said at a news conference. The standoff started at 9 p.m. Wednesday when a man called police and said he had killed three members of his family, McDonnell said. When the SWAT officers arrived, there was a shootout and the pair were shot.

New Orleans (AP) -- A vagrant wanted for questioning in a rape overpowered a police officer who was trying to handcuff him, then shot her to death with her own weapon Monday, police said. The officer's death was a blow to this city, where hopes were high that a new year could hold back a wave of crime that has been a dark backdrop to the rebuilding effort since Hurricane Katrina. "When it hits home like this, it hits you tremendously," said Police Superintendent Warren Riley, who was charged with energizing a demoralized police force in the 2005 storm's wake....

A U.S. citizen has surrendered to U.S. officials in connection with the death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent last Saturday, sources tell me. Macedonio Guerrero, a U.S. citizen, is a known fugitive wanted on marijuana trafficking charges out of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Yuma Office. Border Patrol agent Luis Aguilar was struck and killed while he was trying to put out a spike strip to stop a runaway Ford F250 and a Hummer in the Imperial Sand Dunes near Yuma, about 9:30 a.m. Saturday. Aguilar, 32, was a six year veteran of the Border Patrol. According to the San...

An El Paso family mourns after they get word that their son is killed in the California desert.  According to Border Patrol, the uniform he wore may have made him a target.  "This could have been a civilian ran over...but in this case they actually aimed for our agent," said Eric Anderson, Yuma Border Patrol Agent. The agent killed was Luis Aguilar, 32, an El Paso High Graduate.Yuma Border Patrol officials said Aguilar and several other agents were trying to stop an alleged smuggler from heading back into Mexico.  Aguilar set out road spikes to slow the SUV down, that's...

Virginia Cop Killed in Drug Raid; Suspect Says He Was Defending His HomeSaturday, January 19th, 2008 Officer Jarrod Shivers was shot and killed while executing a search warrant in Cheseapeake, Virginia Thursday night. The suspect had no criminal record (at least in the state of Virginia). And he says in an interview from jail he had no idea the undercover cops breaking into his home were police. The suspect, 28-year-old Ryan David Frederick, also says a burglar had broken into his home earlier this week.Thought the raid was apparently part of a drug investigation, police aren’t saying what if...

Sunday, 20 January 2008 Statement by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on the Killing of a Border Patrol Agent in the Line of Duty Earlier today the Border Patrol lost a brave agent assigned to the Yuma Sector in a heinous act of violence. The agent was struck and killed while attempting to stop two vehicles believed to have illegally entered the country and were absconding back into Mexico. Our thoughts and prayers are with the agent's family, and with the entire Border Patrol community. I am outraged by this tragic loss. I have spoken to the Mexican ambassador who...

YUMA, Ariz. - A Border Patrol agent trying to stop a vehicle that had illegally entered the U.S. was struck and killed Saturday in southeastern California, agency officials said. The agent was killed about 20 miles west of Yuma in the Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area, a spot along the border that is popular with off-road vehicle enthusiasts and frequently used by smugglers. The agent attempted to impede the vehicle's progress before he was hit, but the Border Patrol did not immediately have more information, said agent Eric Anderson, a spokesman for the agency's Yuma sector. The name of the...

YUMA, Ariz. — A Border Patrol agent trying to stop a vehicle that had illegally entered the U.S. was struck and killed Saturday in southeastern California, agency officials said. The agent was killed about 20 miles west of Yuma in the Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area, a spot along the border that is popular with off-road vehicle enthusiasts and frequently used by smugglers. The agent attempted to impede the vehicle's progress before he was hit, but the Border Patrol did not immediately have more information, said agent Eric Anderson, a spokesman for the agency's Yuma sector. The name of the...

A border agent laid down a spike strip in the road. Black Hummer driven by drug smuggler deliberately swerved, ran over, and killed the border agent. He fled into Mexico. The agent did not fire his weapon. .....more to follow

Flags are half staff and black bunting covers the FOP Officers Memorial Stone in front of the Chesapeake Police Department as the city mourns the death of an officer killed in the line of duty. Narcotics Detective Jarrod Shivers, 34, was shot Thursday night. Police have charged Ryan David Frederick, 28, with first-degree murder and use of a firearm. Shivers was serving a narcotics warrant at Frederick's home in the 900 block of Redstart Avenue when gunfire erupted. He was hit and other officers retreated. The SWAT team was called in, finally entered the home and didn't find anyone else....

CHESAPEAKEA Chesapeake police officer was fatally shot Thursday night as police attempted to serve a narcotics warrant at a home in the 900 block of Redstart Avenue, police said.Police spokesman Officer Charles Thiebaud said the officers went to the residence about 8:30 p.m.The officer was taken by ambulance with a police escort to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, soon followed by other officers and department officials.Later, two police department sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed the officer had died. The officer’s identity was not released.After the shooting, scores of officers and heavily armed SWAT team members descended on the scene.Officers...

EL PASO, Texas -- El Paso’s first murder happened on the border. Police said a border security guard was killed at the Paso Del Norte bridge. It happened around 5:30 Tuesday night. Investigators said a man trying to cross the border into Mexico stabbed a security guard. After the stabbing the attacker took off running towards El Paso, but officers said he didn’t get far. "Fortunately, a border patrol agent in the area was able to find him and detain him for us. So we do have someone in custody ,"said El Paso police Officer Chris Mears. Police said the...

Accused Killer Of Officer, Girlfriend Charged Friday, December 21, 2007 WBAL Radio as reported by Steve Fermier A man suspected of killing his former girlfriend and a Smithsburg police officer has been charged with one count of first-degree murder and two counts of second-degree murder. Douglas Pryor, 29, of Smithsburg, also faces charges of reckless endangerment, assault and violating a protective order that victim Alison Munson obtained seven weeks before she was killed Wednesday night. Police say Pryor stabbed the 31-year-old woman to death in Halfway, and then shot Officer Christopher Nicholson near Smithsburg. Pryor was wounded and captured during...

A police officer and a woman are shot to death near Hagerstown, now the woman's boyfriend faces two counts of murder. Suzanne Collins reports, it's a crime that went from Hagerstown North to Smithsburg and ended when the suspect was shot by police. Officer Christopher Nicholson of the Smithsburg Police Department went to back up a sheriff's deputy just north of town. That's where he died. His patrol car was found in the middle of a field, shot by a suspect wanted for killing his girlfriend near Hagerstown Wednesday. The mayor of Smithsburg says that Nicholson, one of three officers,...

Police Officer Shot And Killed In Western Maryland Thursday, December 20, 2007 - WBAL Radio Smithsburg Police Chief Charles R. Stanford says a department officer was shot and killed Wednesday night. A suspect in the shooting has been hospitalized. Officer Christopher Nicholson was shot about 10 p.m. while in the area of Welty Church Road, police say. Broadcast reports say the officer had been responding to some kind of domestic call when he was shot. He was pronounced dead at Washington County Hospital in Hagerstown. See video from the investigation courtesy WHAG TV in Hagerstown Hagerstown Police Sergeant Paul Kifer...

A Sacramento County sheriff's gang officer was shot and killed while on duty Wednesday afternoon in south Sacramento, Sacramento County John McGinness said. The report came in around 2 p.m. in the area of 42nd Avenue and 37th Street. The deputy, a 10-year veteran of the sheriff's department who has been a gang detective for three years, was with his partner in the neighborhood contacting gang members, according to Sgt. Tim Curran of the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department.

PAHOKEE -- Dozens of law officers were combing through a fog-shrouded cane field near Lake Okeechobee Wednesday morning in search of suspects who led authorities on a wild chase that ended with two deputies being killed. A third deputy suffered serious, though not life-threatening, injuries. It happened near the town of Pahokee, on the southern rim of the lake. The chase, which began just after 1:30 a.m. ended tragically when a car -- possibly the suspects' -- mowed down the Palm Beach sheriff's deputies after they had placed tire-deflation devices on the road in hopes of stopping the suspects, who...

Two Miami-Dade officers shot and killed two men they say rammed their police car in Little Haiti late Monday. They were pulling over a silver Cadillac sports utility vehicle for running a red light at North Miami Court and 68th Street just before 11 p.m. After a brief pursuit, the car stopped at a small dead-end on Northwest 65th Street. The officers got out of their marked patrol car and ordered the men out of the Cadillac, said Cristina Escobar, an attorney with the Police Benevolent Association, Miami-Dade's police union. The Cadillac suddenly reversed and smashed into the police car,...

The two youngest children of fallen Broward Sheriff's Deputy Sgt. Chris Reyka each received $15,000 college scholarship bonds from the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation on Monday. Reyka, who served in the Marine Corps between 1976 and 1978, was shot and killed Aug. 10 after attempting to check on two suspicious vehicles behind a Walgreens drug store in Pompano Beach. Authorities are offering $267,000 for information leading to the arrest of Reyka's shooter. No arrests have been made. "Your husband served the Marine Corps and this department with honor," Agostino von Hassell, a foundation representative, told Reyka's wife Kim during...

The father of a mentally disturbed teenager who fatally shot two Fairfax County police officers last year was sentenced to more than three years in prison yesterday for illegal weapons possession. Brian H. Kennedy, 50, of Centreville, pleaded guilty in August to weapons charges in U.S. District Court in Alexandria as part of a plea bargain. Kennedy admitted that he illegally purchased an AK-47 rifle by failing to disclose on federal background checks that he regularly used marijuana. His son, Michael, used the AK-47 in the May 2006 ambush that killed Detective Vicki O. Armel and Officer Michael E. Garbarino....

LAKELAND, Fla. — Officers fired 110 rounds of ammunition at the man suspected of killing a sheriff's deputy, killing the suspect, according to an autopsy released by the sheriff's office.

POMPANO BEACH, Fla. -- The Broward Sheriff's Office has announced a manhunt for a missing prisoner named Michael Mazza, who is believed to be driving a prisoner transport van after shooting and critically wounding a BSO deputy.

By WANDA J. DeMARZO, BREANNE GILPATRICK AND MARTIN MERZER AP PHOTO Police are looking for Michael Mazza, the man they believe shot a BSO deputy Wednesday morning. » More Photos Document | Mazza's criminal record Law enforcement officers have found the jail transport van involved in Wednesday's shooting of a Broward Sheriff's Office deputy, but the suspect remains at large, is armed and may be accompanied by one or more co-conspirators, police said.All 283 public schools and charter schools in Broward County are on lockdown. Parents were advised to stay away from the schools until the situation is resolved.The van...

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (AP) -- A police officer shot in the head during a robbery in a doughnut shop died Thursday morning, the police commissioner said, and his killer remained at large. He was the third city officer shot in the span of four days. Officer Charles Cassidy walked in on a robbery and was shot in the forehead, police officials say. Charles Cassidy, 54, was shot in the forehead Wednesday at a Dunkin' Donuts when a hooded robber spun from the counter and fired at him as he walked in the door, according to an employee. The 25-year police veteran...

A police officer shot in the head by a doughnut shop robber died Thursday morning, the police commissioner announced. The gunman went into the shop and demanded money just before Cassidy opened the door, said Sandra Kim, a Dunkin' Donuts employee who was behind the counter at the time. He then spun around and shot the officer as he held the door. Cassidy was a regular customer who came in twice a day for a large coffee with cream and sugar, Kim said. "He's always nice to all the employees," she said. "The officer was just coming in for a...

1 hour, 7 minutes ago PHOENIX - David Spade has donated $25,000 to the family of a slain Phoenix police officer. The 43-year-old comedian said that after reading about Officer Nick Erfle's death last month, he was "hit out of the blue" by the shooting and the fact that Erfle had overcome cancer to return to duty. "I'm from Arizona so I'm always a little aware of things that are going on there," Spade, a Scottsdale native, told The Associated Press on Monday. "It just struck me as such a rough situation just because cops in general get kind of...

REVERE - An officer in the Revere Police Department's gang unit died last night, hours after he was shot in the head early yesterday in an outburst of violence that sent dozens of law enforcement agents throughout the city knocking on doors and questioning residents as they searched for suspects. Officer Daniel Talbot, 30, had been in grave condition much of yesterday at Massachusetts General Hospital after being shot about 1:30 in the corner of the Revere High School parking lot near the bleachers by the school's baseball diamond, according to police officials and area residents. He died shortly before...

That trooper left his loaded gun in her car while having sex, where young children later found it, and also had affairs with two other women.

In rural Tipton after traffic stop; 2 teenage suspects held Police were holding two suspected Texas drug traffickers Sunday in the slaying of Tennessee State Trooper Calvin Jenks, 24, of Memphis, whose body was found lying beside his cruiser on a rural Tipton County road. The two suspects, Alejandro Guana, 17, and Orlando Garcia, 19, were arrested in Nashville and were being transferred to Tipton County Sunday night. They are expected to be charged today. Jenks, originally from Maury County, Tennessee, had been a trooper since April 2004 and had transferred in 2005 to be close to his fiancee in...

PHOENIX -- County Attorney Andrew Thomas said he intends to seek the death penalty against the man accused of killing Phoenix Police Officer George Cortez. Edward Rose, 20, was arrested following the shooting death of Cortez at a Phoenix check cashing store on July 27. Cortez had one of Rose's wrists cuffed when Rose allegedly pulled out a gun and shot Cortez in the chest. Rose and his companion, 19-year-old Norma Lopez, fled the scene

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PHOENIX (AP) - A Phoenix police officer was killed Tuesday by a man who was himself later fatally shot as he pointed a gun at a carjacking victim's head. The officer, 33-year-old Nick Erfle, had been trying to arrest the suspect on a warrant when the two got into a fight. The suspect pulled his gun and fired, police spokesman Sgt. Joel Tranter said. As Erfle was taken to a hospital, police scrambled to find the suspect. The man had run away, flung open the passenger door of a car stopped in traffic, pointed his gun at the man inside,...