Police shootings

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.

A jury found former officer Brett Hankison not guilty of felony wanton endangerment for shots that went through a neighbor's wall. He's the only officer who has faced charges in the March 2020 raid.

Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden says a deputy was shot during a traffic stop in Charlotte then returned fire and hit the shooter.

Concord police say an officer shot and killed a burglary suspect after a confrontation at a car dealership early Sunday. On Friday night, police in Mount Holly shot and wounded a man they say tried to hit officers with a car. Both cities are suburbs of Charlotte.

Video released Friday afternoon shows new angles of Daniel Turcios being tased and shot by Raleigh police after a car crash alongside Interstate 440 on Jan. 11. Activists for police reform blame Raleigh police officers for escalating the situation, saying it could have been avoided.

Incidents in which police officers kill or injure someone in North Carolina are going to be recorded statewide for the first time in a database. But the information will not be made available to the public.