Police shootings

The family of Jayland Walker, a Black man who was fatally shot by eight police officers, will receive a $4.8 million settlement from the city of Akron, the mayor's office said.

Her family said Victoria Lee, 25, from Fort Lee, N.J., was experiencing a mental health crisis when her brother called 911 for medical help. An officer broke into their apartment and fired at her.

Sonya Massey ducked and apologized to an Illinois sheriff’s deputy seconds before he shot the Black woman three times in her home. An Illinois grand jury indicted former Sangamon County Sheriff’s Deputy Sean Grayson, 30, who is white, last week.

Police said they believed that Nyah Mway brandished a weapon after running away from three officers who were investigating a string of recent robberies. Authorities later said it was a pellet gun.

Officials in Mississippi made the footage available after calls from 11-year-old Aderrien Murry's mother and the family's attorney to make it public.

A now-former San Antonio police officer was charged Tuesday with aggravated assault by a peace officer for shooting and gravely wounding a teen eating a hamburger in his car in a parking lot.

The U.S. Justice Department announced civil rights charges Thursday against four Louisville police officers over the drug raid that led to the death of Breonna Taylor, a Black woman whose fatal shooting contributed to the racial justice protests that rocked the U.S. in the spring and summer of 2020.

The police chief in Raleigh says officers have shot and killed a man who was throwing Molotov cocktails and setting cars on fire near a police station.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Johnny Jennings says that the initial call involved someone chasing another person with a firearm. Police say an officer encountered a person at Annabelle Place early Wednesday, then fired his service weapon, striking the person in the leg.

The brother of Irvin D. Moorer Charley, a Black man shot to death by a deputy in South Carolina over the weekend, says he begged the deputy not to shoot and warned of the man’s mental health issues beforehand.