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A study in JAMA shows the U.S. is 10th in the world for percentage of homicides involving firearms.

Three robbers have been found guilty of murder and manslaughter after torturing and “beat[ing] to death” a father before one entered his jewellery shop disguised in an Islamic burqa.

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Greek police say they have arrested eight migrants on suspicion of the murder of a Pakistani man trying to leave the country illegally.

Shooting fatalities in the heavily migrant-populated Swedish city of Malmö are set to exceed 2017’s total, the morbid statistic propelled forward by the recent gang shooting in the area.

A suspended Pennsylvania school teacher was shot dead while standing in her mother’s driveway on the evening of Mother’s Day, police said.

There has been a 22 per cent surge in knife crime and an 11 per cent increase in gun crime, with offences “disproportionately concentrated in London” and other cities, the Office of National Statistics (ONS) has said.

The new year was only 16 hours old before Baltimore, Maryland, racked up its first murders of 2018. This news comes on the tail of a 2017 that saw the city suffer its highest murder rates ever.

An illegal alien wanted for murder and attempted homicide in Guatemala has been arrested by federal immigration officials.

Police discovered a man’s severed head on the front porch of a home in Jackson, Mississippi Saturday morning.

At least 15 individuals were wounded and another six killed, during violence in gun-controlled Chicago over the weekend.

Three teenage girls in Illinois are accused of killing a father of seven and stealing his iPhone, police say.

A Pennsylvania man is accused of raping and killing his girlfriend’s four-year-old son, while the suspect’s mother is accused of helping him evade police.

An illegal immigrant has been charged with the death of a United States airman after a four-vehicle crash.

During his February 28 speech to a Joint Session of Congress, President Trump denounced violence, saying: ” In Chicago, more than 4,000 people were shot last year alone.”

Venezuela, home to the deadliest city in the world, experienced the homicides of nearly 10,000 underaged individuals in 2016, and 35 percent of homicide victims were under the age of 20.

The City of San Jose’s homicide total officially reached a 25-year high on Christmas Eve, after a woman was stabbed to death at a home in downtown San Jose in what authorities are calling a domestic dispute.

Homicides rose across most major cities in the U.S. throughout 2016, worsening the crime wave that began in 2014, according to new data.

Violent crime in England and Wales has shot up by 24 per cent. In the 12 months to June, murder was up 20 per cent, knife crime 9 per cent, and gun crime surged 7 per cent, according to police recorded crime figures.

The left-leaning Brennan Center for Justice admitted the ongoing spike in murders nationwide when it released its September report on crime.

A landlord was in the middle of showing his vacant rental home in Atlanta, GA when he discovered what could be a deal-breaker. Per a Fox 5 report, Salvatore DiMauro was showing his home to a family when one of them

Police found a double homicide suspect in Florida biting off parts of a victim’s face Monday, Fox 31 reports. Martin County Sheriff’s Office was called to a home in Tequesta, FL by a neighbor who said he had been stabbed while trying to break

The body of a 2-year-old little girl was found in a duffel bag being carried into Mexico by a California couple. Officials believe the couple was attempting to hide a homicide.

A 24-year-old woman “snapped” and strangled her 64-year-old grandmother — by whom she was raised, and with whom she lived on-and-off as an adult — to death with her bare hands.

One person was killed and three others injured after a gunman opened fire outside the Standard Hotel in downtown Los Angeles Sunday morning.

Payne County District Attorney officially filed second-degree murder charges and 46 counts of felony assault against Adacia Chambers, who is accused of purposely driving into the Oklahoma State University homecoming parade. The judge demanded Chambers undergo a psychological evaluation.

A ghost-hunting couple, who had guest-starred on a reality television program about the paranormal, were found dead inside their daughter’s Sparks, Nevada, apartment earlier this week, police said Thursday.

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s detectives are investigating an apparent double homicide at a Compton marijuana dispensary that appears to share a name with rapper Chief Keef.

In the wake of recent anti-police backlash in New York and Baltimore, crime has spiked considerably in those cities. Murder rates, robbery and theft have risen in the wake of what many believe may be officers’ hesitance to engage suspects for fear of being caught up in some public controversy over how they do their jobs. Worse yet, officers may have started to question themselves and become more fearful for their own safety in the wake of such uncertainty.

Deputies responded to reports of shots fired in Highland, California on Wednesday night and found a 4-year-old boy, Daniel Munoz suffering from an apparent gunshot wound. He was playing with stuffed animals in his front yard when he was struck down.

An elderly, blind man’s decapitated body was found just after noon on Thursday in his Inglewood, California home, a woman identifying herself as his cousin said.

A week after rapping “you don’t even know how to shoot” in an online music video aimed at members of a rival gang, Chicago rapper Young Pappy has been shot and killed. According to the Chicago Tribune, around 1:35 a.m.

Las Vegas police will investigate the May 14 death of B.B. King as a possible homicide after two of the blues guitar legend’s daughters accused his personal assistants of poisoning him. The 89-year-old died in Las Vegas while under hospice

Rescue teams in the Mediterranean Sea are giving up hope of finding more than 28 survivors from a vessel that was carrying 850 migrants, as the captain of the ship and one of his crew members are charged by Italian authorities with reckless homicide and engaging in human smuggling activities.

HOUSTON, Texas – Seventy-three people have lost their lives at the hands of another person in Houston, Texas during the first quarter of 2015. This represents an increase in Houston homicides of 59 percent compared to the same timeframe in 2014 according to information from the Houston Police Department (HPD).

Mexican research group the Citizen Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice has released its annual study of the world’s most dangerous cities, and Latin America has once again topped the list, with 43 of the 50 located in the region, and 19 of them located in Brazil alone.