- An ‘unarmed’ white teen was shot dead by police. His family asks: Where is the outrage?
Zachary Hammond was on a first date when he was fatally shot by a police officer in his car during a drug bust in South Carolina, his family says. At the time the 19-year-old was shot and killed, his date, Tori Morton, was eating an ice cream cone, according to the family’s attorney, Eric Bland. Morton, 23, was arrested and charged with possession of marijuana — all 10 grams of it — which, according to police, was the reason undercover agents set up the drug buy. Amid heightened scrutiny of fatal police shootings across the country, Hammond’s death has prompted numerous questions, few answers — and almost no national outrage. “It’s sad, but I think the reason is, unfortunately, the media and our government officials have treated the death of an unarmed white teenager differently than they would have if this were a death of an unarmed black teen,” Bland told The Washington Post this week. “The hypocrisy that has been shown toward this is really disconcerting.” Hammond’s family released the results of a private autopsy, which concluded that both bullets entered Hammond’s body from the back. - Parents of unarmed teen shot dead by police while on a first date claim he was murdered
- as private autopsy finds he was 'shot him from behind' Seneca Police chief John Covington, whose son has previously been arrested on drug charges, has stood by the account and insists the boy wasn't shot from behind. - All Lives Matter? Autopsy Pokes Holes in Police Account of Fatal Shooting of Unarmed White Teen Zachary Hammond
- Questions Arise After Police Kill an Unarmed White Teenager, Zachary Hammond
Zachary Hammond, a white teenager, pulled up to a drive-through window last week at a Hardee’s restaurant in Seneca, S.C. A sting operation was underway, with police officers suspecting a possible drug deal. Within minutes, an officer used his patrol car to block Mr. Hammond’s vehicle. According to the Oconee County coroner’s report, the officer then “felt threatened” as Mr. Hammond drove his car toward him. The officer fired two shots through the open window on the driver’s side, striking Mr. Hammond once in the shoulder and once fatally in the chest.
- Zachary Hammond in the news
- Lawyer: Officer who fatally shot teen says he had to push off oncoming car; police release ID
Seneca police released the name of the officer, Lt. Mark Tiller. A lawyer for Hammond's family says autopsy results show the teen was shot through the driver's side window from behind, indicating there was no danger to the officer. - Officer Gives Account of Fatal Shooting; Police ID Him
Tiller had his blue lights on when he got out of his cruiser and walked toward Hammond's car. The teen refused an order to show his hands, then rapidly backed toward Tiller's vehicle before accelerating forward toward the officer, Mussetto said.
SHAKER HEIGHTS, OH - The man arrested in the deadly hit and run of a Shaker Heights school teacher appeared in court Friday. Derick Allan Ward, 45, of Cleveland was taken into custody by Shaker Heights Police Department and charged with aggravated vehicular homicide in connection with the hit and run death of 
Police have arrested a man in the fatal shooting of a 65-year-old taxi cab driver. Justin Marquis Graves, 34, of Marietta, was arrested by the Marietta Police Department in connection with the shooting, which occurred early Thursday morning, according to a news release. Officers were called shortly before 3 a.m. to the Allround Suites in the 2200 block of Northwest Parkway on a report of an unresponsive driver, Officer Brittany Wallace said. The cab driver was dead in the driver’s seat from a gunshot wound, she said. Thursday afternoon, the cab driver was identified as 
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A police officer in Arlington, Tex., shot and killed a 19-year-old Angelo State University student Friday after responding to a report of a burglary in progress at a car dealership. Christian J. Taylor, 19, was shot after an “altercation” with an Arlington officer. Taylor was unarmed at the time, police said. Taylor, who would have started his sophomore year at the school this fall, played as a free safety on the university’s football team. As news of his death spread, friends and teammates responded with an outpouring of grief on social media. Police say Taylor’s death stemmed from an incident at a car dealership in Arlington, which is just west of Dallas. Police were summoned to the dealership about 1 a.m. after a security company monitoring the property noticed a figure on a surveillance camera and called 911. Police arrived to find that a vehicle had been driven through the front of the building, police said. Police confronted Taylor and a fight ensued during which at least one officer discharged his weapon, killing Taylor, police said. No weapon was found on Taylor. Police have identified the officer as 
ORANGEBURG COUNTY, SC - The sheriff of Orangeburg County says the father of the three children shot in a fatal Holly Hill shooting is responsible for two of their deaths because of his "lifestyle." Sheriff Leroy Ravenell announced Christopher Wright faces a total of five new charges: three counts of unlawful neglect of a child, one count of trafficking cocaine base and one count of obstruction of justice in connection with the July 15
Two of Christopher Wright's children, 
A fatal stabbing outside a Walgreens on Wednesday night followed stalking and a death threat from a man who had been romantically linked to the slain woman, according to a Las Vegas police report. The attack was caught on the pharmacy's surveillance cameras. Leonard Woods, 46, and 
A Manhattan judge Thursday sentenced one of the teen twin sisters accused of tying up and robbing an 85-year-old man they met on a sugar-daddy website to five years in prison. Justice Michael Obus told Shaina Foster, 18, he would not grant her youthful offender status, which would have sealed her criminal record. “This is a case in which far worse results could have happened if the victim had not been rescued,” the judge said in Manhattan Supreme Court. Shaina, who hatched the sinister scheme and brought her sister Shalaine along for the ride, copped to robbery in the second degree in June as part of a plea deal. The evil twin met retired lawyer 
A woman was allegedly raped at an abandoned home, and a neighbor’s video of it ended up on Facebook. Memphis police arrested 59-year-old Jimmy Woods and charged him with rape. “Investigators downloaded the Face Book page and it was plain that the defendant was sexually assaulting the victim while she was unconscious,” reads the affidavit. The affidavit said the 40-year-old victim admitted she was “extremely intoxicated,” adding she heard through rumors and Facebook that she was allegedly sexually assaulted when she passed out. The Franklin Street home where this happened is just one of the nearly 450 abandoned homes the City of Memphis noted yesterday during their announcement for a new program to eliminate blighted homes.
Memphis police are investigating a kidnapping and criminal assault that happened on Saturday, August 1 at approximately 11:30 p.m. The incident happened in the 700 block of W. Mitchell Rd. Police say when they arrived on the scene they found a 24-year-old female who reported she was walking in the area of Carbon and Argo when a male subject occupying an older model Chevrolet Tahoe offered her a ride. When she refused, the subject pointed a handgun at her and ordered her to get in the vehicle. The victim told police the suspect drover her to Alonzo Weaver Park, where he sexually assaulted her in his vehicle. The subject is a male Black with a dark complexion and gold teeth.
Willingboro Police are searching for a suspect involved in an armed robbery at an ATM on Wednesday, July 29 after surveillance footage captured images of the robber's face. 
A 27-year-old man has been charged with two counts of attempted homicide in a shooting outside a hip-hop concert at a popular New Jersey venue that critically injured two young men and caused panic among the crowd earlier this week, police say. Quran Powell of Holmdel was arrested Thursday in East Orange and is also charged with weapons charges in the shooting outside the PNC Bank Arts Center on Monday. 
PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia police are searching for a man who is accused of fraud. According to police, Harry Moore,44, listed a property at 8082 N. Fayette Street in West Oak Lane for rent through ads on Craigslist and showed the property. Police say Moore requested a deposit for the rental and set a date for move in. However, prior to the agreed upon move in date into the rental property, Moore is allegedly contacted the victims and created fabricated narratives explaining why the property is no longer available, according to investigators.
A burly Brooklyn electrician sobbed in court Thursday and apologized for a motorcycle mob beatdown of a Tribeca dad in front of his wife and toddler daughter — and the judge cut him a huge break. Justice Maxwell Wiley sentenced Robert Sims to 3¹/₂ years for attempted gang assault, the minimum allowed under law.
The second suspected shooter in a brutal Brooklyn drive-by that critically wounded a pregnant teen, causing her to lose her baby, turned himself in to cops Wednesday morning, cops said. Marquise “Kiki” Frederick, 19, walked into the 76th Precinct with his lawyer shortly before noon, sources said. Frederick is one of two alleged gunmen suspected in the gang-related attack on a group of five people in Red Hook late Monday. The gunfire is believed to have been in retaliation for a shooting near the Gowanus Houses at 3:18 a.m. that same day, sources have said. The shootings stem from an ongoing beef between two Brooklyn gangs known as the “Gangsta Money Makers” and the “Ow Ow Crew,” sources said. The young mother-to-be hit Monday night,
A homeless man with a history of mental illness has been arrested for breaking a woman’s jaw while spewing anti-Muslim remarks at her in Chinatown, police said Thursday. Zin McDade, 29, was busted for the hate crime Wednesday after cops from the NYPD’s Anti-Crime Unit recognized him, sources said.
An illegal alien from Mexico, 
A lesbian couple faked a hate crime that left their home a pile of charred rubble at their Venore, Tenn., property in 2010, local reports said. An insurance company caught on to the ruse months after the blaze and accused Carol Ann and Laura Stutte of perpetuating a hoax and blaming the fire on their neighbor, the Knoxville News Sentinel reported. A federal jury ruled in favor of the insurance company’s belief that the couple spray-painted an anti-gay slur on their own garage to spin the fire as a hate crime based on their sexual orientation. The homeowners intended to bank on an insurance claim of more than 
Molinelli says charges against the baby's father, 38-year-old 
Shreveport, LOUISIANA — The Shreveport police department have identified the suspect in Wednesday night’s killing of a police officer as 27-year-old Grover Cannon. The suspect is also wanted on an attempted murder charge from earlier this summer, according to reports. The fallen Officer has been identified as 
CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Charleston police say a woman suffered injuries to her head and face after a man threw to her the ground and stole her purse on King Street this weekend. Witnesses told police the 30-year-old woman was being chased by a man just before 6 p.m. Sunday near King and Maple streets when he grabbed her, threw her to the asphalt and then snatched her purse, according to an incident report. The man was last seen heading north on King Street. Police on Monday charged Michael Eugene Nickens, 25, of Bream Road in North Charleston with assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature and strong armed robbery. He is being held in the Sheriff Al Cannon Detention Center on $75,000 bond, according to the sheriff's office website. 
CHARLESTON, SC - Charleston Police arrested a second suspect in a strong armed robbery that happened Monday near America and Lee Streets in downtown Charleston. Michael Eugene Nickens, 22, of Dingle Street, has been charged with strong armed robbery. Nickens, who is on parole for grand larceny, is being held in the Charleston County Detention Center. According to police, the victim went to the corner of America Street and Lee Street to use the pay phone when he was grabbed from behind and held by one of the suspects. Then, at least three or four other suspects assaulted and robbed him. The victim was treated at the scene by EMS. Jamar Aikeem Brown, 19, of Jackson Street, was arrested about 40 minutes after the incident at Jackson Street and America Street. Brown, who also is charged with strong armed robbery, is also being held in the Charleston County Detention Center. 
One was a repeat criminal and the other two were using her Credit cards all over Charleston!!!She put up a brave fight, she has martial arts training but could not handle all three at once, but she fought them hard enough not to be dragged into that car! They would have killed her no doubt!! Thank you all for your prayers!!! PLEASE say prayers for this young lady, She was a guest at my wedding and she was in Charleston this weekend, she was putting her car in the shop and was trying to hail a cab when a car with three black men pulled up next to her and started yelling obscenities at her she tried to ignore them and they got out and beat her severely and tried to get her into their car. She is
An 'angry and obsessive' thug is facing life in jail for shoving his girlfriend to her death through a 14th floor window. 
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – Grand Rapids police say they have identified several people seen in cell phone video assaulting a man on July 28. The case has been sent to the Kent County Prosecutor for review. Investigators say the group of people in the video were punching and kicking a man who had been walking past around 10:15 p.m. July 28 near Monroe Ave. and Louis St. NW, not far from Rosa Parks Circle. "If you watch the video from beginning to end, you can hear them laughing and you can hear different voices in the video," said Sgt. Terry Dixon. Police have not yet determined a motive for the attack.
CINCINNATI —Police are investigating a six-vehicle crash on SB Interstate 71 at Deerfield Road in Sycamore Township. Dispatch said multiple 911 calls were received and a staffer reported seeing a naked man running on the highway. "A black man is running bare butt naked," said one caller. Witnesses said a naked man was driving a truck down the left shoulder, hitting cars as he went. Investigators said witnesses told them he was traveling 80 miles an hour. Investigators have identified the suspect as Tracy Martin, 44, of Chagrin Falls, Ohio. He's accused of driving his pickup truck on the left shoulder of southbound I-71 at a high rate of speed, side-swiping four vehicles, and rear-ending a fifth vehicle. Investigators say he eventually struck the concrete median wall, overturned, and then struck a sixth vehicle. 
San Francisco police are looking for a posse of brazen burglary suspects who ransacked a department store in the Richmond District, making off with thousands of dollars worth of expensive perfume and body products, authorities said.
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A judge has ruled that a 23-year-old Akron man is intellectually disabled and ineligible to face the death penalty in the 2013 New Year’s Eve slayings of two Barberton teens and their father. The aggravated murder trial of Michael Deon Hendon, one of two Akron brothers indicted for the crime, was scheduled to begin Wednesday with jury selection in Summit County Common Pleas Court. After a hearing on the matter Tuesday, Judge Amy Corrigall Jones rescheduled jury selection to Aug. 12 and 13, with opening statements Aug. 18. Hendon and his older brother, Eric Donta Hendon, 32, were both charged in capital murder indictments with the shooting deaths of 
KANSAS CITY, MO – A Kansas City man says he doesn’t remember a thing about the brutal attack that shattered his face and sent him to the hospital. However, 
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – Indianapolis Metropolitan police arrested a 16-year-old after a woman died last month when she was hit with a stray bullet. 
Some metro parents are concerned after a man exposes himself to kids in front of a northwest Oklahoma City apartment complex. Oklahoma CIty Police responded to where a woman told officers she saw a man pull down his pants in front of a group of kids and performed lewd acts on a tree. When police showed up they found the suspect with a Victoria's Secret catalog in his hand. Police say sickened and disturbed was the common reaction from metro parents when they heard what this man, Edward Porter, did in front of a group of children. 
NORTH OGDEN, Utah — A 20-year-old man was taken into custody in connection with the rape of 
LENEXA, Kan. — Johnson County prosecutors charged a man with one count of aggravated kidnapping and two counts of rape after police were called to a home at 77th and Halsey Sunday night, where police believe a woman was held captive since April. The woman reportedly got a note to her apartment manager that she was being held against her will and needed help. Anthony Darryl Allen, 34, faces rape and kidnapping charges, after police say he was controlling and raping his girlfriend for four months before she escaped, with the help of people at Lenexa Pointe apartments.
AUSTIN -Vontrey Clark, former Austin Police Officer who is wanted in connection to the death of 
A man who allegedly attacked a 64-year-old California woman and brutally raped her is an illegal alien from Mexico who has been arrested four times in the past two years. The victim, 
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The man who police say lied about a car theft and the abduction of his girlfriend's toddler and who is charged with child neglect is now considered a suspect the disappearance of the boy. A massive search for 
MEMPHIS -- A fugitive suspected of fatally shooting a Memphis police officer was on federal parole at the time of the killing, according to federal probation officials, and the marijuana found in the car he was riding in may have constituted a violation of his parole. Twenty-nine-year-old Tremaine Wilbourn faces a first-degree murder charge in the death of 
SHREVEPORT, LA - Shreveport police have arrested a man for his alleged role in striking a woman in the face with a metal object last month at a convenience store. Just before 9:30 p.m. on July 26, officers were called to a convenience store in the 4400 block of Hilry Huckaby III Avenue on reports of an assault and battery. When officers arrived, they found 18-year-old 
A man apologized on Monday for fatally striking a 69-year-old grandpa, but a Brooklyn judge wasn’t convinced he appreciated “the seriousness of the crime” and sentenced him to three to 10 years in prison. Vaughan Keith wept as he addressed victim 
A Mid-City man who pleaded guilty 19 months ago to sexually assaulting 
Police arrested 
LILBURN, Ga. - 
(Black) Philadelphia Mayor Michael A. Nutter scaled back cooperation with the Department of Homeland Security’s immigration- enforcement efforts in April 2014, accusing agents of aggressively targeting for deportation illegal immigrants who led otherwise law-abiding lives. 
NEWTON COUNTY, Ga. -- A local leader is under fire for racist remarks he made online. His controversial comments were spotted by a viewer who sent the image before it was taken down. Newton County Commissioner 
A home health care aide who allegedly stole thousands of dollars from an elderly client has been indicted on a theft charge. Camden County prosecutors say 31-year-old Latoya Williams, of Pennsauken, is also charged with fraudulent use of a credit card in the indictment recently handed up by a county grand jury. Prosecutors say Williams provided in-home care for an
Prosecutors say a New York City man has been convicted of beating his 
KANSAS CITY, MO - A barking dog sparked a neighborhood’s curiosity and what they found was a pet left in extreme filth and poor health. 
A high-risk registered sex offender has been arrested for reportedly sexually assaulting a male in the dressing room of a store in the Longview Mall. Police responded to the call and arrived while the assault, allegedly at the hands of Lester Levelle Reedy, 41, was happening. Reedy, who is also a cross-dresser and goes by a female alias at times, was convicted of sexually assaulting 
TAMPA — An 18-year-old man was arrested Wednesday, accused in the slaying of 
The FDNY firefighter who launched a campaign that raised $41,500 for a disciplined deputy chief wound up in hot water himself, sources told The Post. Firefighter Anthony Henry of Engine 10, on Liberty Street next to the World Trade Center, started a GoFundMe campaign on July 24 for 
SANTA CRUZ >> As a sharper picture formed Thursday of a shy 15-year-old raised in a troubled and sometimes violent home, 
