Police investigators are searching for two shooters who opened fire at a backyard party late Wednesday in Pennsylvania, killing five people and wounding three others, according to NBC News.

A 22-year-old Chicago man has been charged in the execution-style shooting of Tyshawn Lee, 9, whose death in November rankled the nation and became the latest symbol of problems with gun violence in America.

An English student’s comparison of a Ku Klux Klan member to a police officer in a school assignment rocked a Kentucky high school and brought about a contentious discussion regarding social injustice, WLKY reports. An Honors English teacher at North Oldham High School in Oldham County asked her students to read To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee […]

A 23-year-old has been arrested in the shooting death of a baby girl in Compton, California earlier this month, The LA Times reports. Ray Howard Patterson was taken into police custody by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Monday afternoon. Police believe Patterson was the same suspect who took off in a blue Chevrolet Impala […]

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Autumn Johnson, the 1-year-old who was fatally shot and killed in Compton, was laid to rest on Saturday.

One out of every three days in January had a mass shooting.

A haircut turned into an attempted murder when a woman tried to shoot a barber who gave her an alleged botched hairstyle.

In the first two months of 2016, there have been a reported seven school shootings.

The family of Autumn Johnson is mourning her death after the toddler was fatally shot just a week after her first birthday.

A Mardi Gras celebration in Mississippi ended tragically with the death of two people on Sunday afternoon

An 18-year-old Atlanta native livestreamed the moment after three men opened fire on her car as she, her mother, and a friend were ordering from a Burger King drive-thru in Florida early Tuesday morning. According to the Miami Herald, Donesha Gantt was with two women at a Burger King in Opa-locka, when three gunmen shot a total […]

The trend has been studied closely for a number of years, showing a slow increase in gun-related deaths.