National

AURORA, CO—On July 25, 23-year-old Samuel Young fired a revolver into a crowd during a protest in Aurora, Colorado. The protest was over the death of Elijah McClain who died August 30, 2019, after being arrested by officers. The Aurora Police Department (APD) reported that "at approximately 6:35 P.M., protesters began to walk northbound on Interstate 225 from East Alameda...

ORLANDO—A Burger King employee was killed on Saturday, August 1, after getting into a fight with a woman about a delay in a food order.  Around 7:30 p.m. the Orange County Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call saying that someone had been shot at the Burger King in East Colonial Drive in Orlando, Florida. The victim was identified as Desmond...

CHICAGO, IL—The Chicago Police Department (CPD) is asking for the public’s help in identifying a gunman involved in a July 4 shooting that involved 8 victims, one of which was a 14-year-old boy. The video below shows the man they are searching for, who was wearing a yellow hoodie and yellow pants during the time of the crime. https://youtu.be/zU1pT0pg7nY   On July...

CHICAGO, IL—On Friday, July 31, Caleb Reed, 17, was shot on the north side of Chicago. Around 1 p.m., authorities found Reed with a gunshot wound in his head at the 1900 block of West Granville Avenue in Emerson Park. He was lying on the sidewalk. Reed was transported to St. Francis Hospital Evanston where he was pronounced dead...

DETROIT, MI—The White House is sending 42 federal agents to Detroit in the coming week as part of its new crime-fighting initiative, Operation Legend. In a July 29, press release, the United States Department of Justice announced Operation Legend would be expanding to Cleveland, Detroit, and Milwaukee. "Operation Legend is a sustained, systematic and coordinated law enforcement initiative in which federal...

UNITED STATES—On July 26, William Kirk English died at the age of 91 in San Rafael, California. He was born in Lexington, Kentucky on January 27, 1929. He studied Electrical Engineering at the University of Kentucky before joining the United States Navy. In 1964, English left the Navy to become the first person to join the Augmentation Research Center (ARC)...

PORTLAND—Hundreds of people gathered and marched on Saturday, August 1 in Portland for their 66th night of Black Lives Matter protests. One group protested peacefully near the downtown area, but another group conducted unlawful acts on its march to the Penumbra Kelly Building, according to the Portland Police Bureau. According to Portland Police Bureau, that one protest on August 1...

SEATTLE—Detectives are investigating a shooting that left two men injured in the Alki neighborhood of Seattle, Washington on early Sunday morning. Two men were shot and one was left unharmed in an incident that occurred on the 5500 block of Alki Avenue Southwest. According to Detective Patrick Michaud from the Seattle Police Department, after people in the area reported shots...

BALTIMORE—Leon Fleisher, a famous American pianist, died Sunday in Baltimore at the age of 92. Born in San Francisco, Fleisher saw great success as a concert pianist during the 1950s and 1960s. Throughout his career, he focused on classical works from the 19th century, including Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert, Rachmaninoff, Debussy and others.  Leon Fleisher was born in San Francisco in...

CHICAGO, IL—On Thursday, July 30, a police-involved shooting happened at 25th Grand Central District Police Station on the 5500 block of West Grand Avenue in Chicago. According to the Chicago Police Department, the shooting happened around at 9:40 p.m. on July 30, behind the Grand Central District Police Station. According to NBC Chicago, district officers were taking an offender, Lovelle...