Little Rock AR Feb 25 2019 A Philander Smith College student was robbed in a campus parking lot Friday night, according to Little Rock police. The 20-year-old victim told police that an 18-year-old fellow student approached him about 7:30 p.m., pointed a gun at him and demanded his property, the report states. The student alerted campus […]
Little Rock Arkansas Feb 25 2019 A man was arrested Friday evening after trying to steal an item from a Home Depot by taking it off the shelf and returning it to customer service for store credit, according to a Little Rock police report. Demetrius Mitchell, 49, of Bartlett, Tenn., was arrested at the store […]
Chattanooga TN Feb 24 2019 A Chattanooga police officer was killed in a hit-and-run late Saturday night. Officer Nicholas Galinger, 38, was inspecting a manhole cover that had water flowing from it in the 2900 block of Hamill Road just after 11 p.m. when a vehicle traveling north struck him and fled the scene. Galinger […]
New Orleans LA February 24 2019 For the second time this week, a gun stolen from a security officer has been used to kill a person and injure three others. This time, the security officer’s gun was taken in New Orleans while he was trying to remove a man from a bar on Bobrun Street. […]
BALDWIN PA Feb 24 2019 A fight inside Baldwin High School cafeteria sent a school security guard to the hospital Friday. Fists were being thrown, students were kicking one another, and it all unfolded in the cafeteria during lunch. Security guards tried to intervene to break up the fight but were pulled to the ground in […]
Chicago IL Feb 24 2019 Security at Palmer House came to the rescue after an Indiana man was beaten and robbed near the landmarked Loop hotel, police said. A hotel security officer was watching as 26-year-old Dashaun Patrick of the Chatham neighborhood 12 miles south of the Loop walked up to the tourist near the corner […]
Honolulu HI Feb 24 2019 On Wednesday evening, two plainclothes police officers in Honolulu, Hawaii, shot and killed a man suspected of shoplifting at Walmart. “It’s unnecessary,” Police Chief Susan Ballard said of the shootings. “Just listen to the officers and do what they say and everything will turn out fine.” The three officers were in […]
Chicago IL Feb 24 2019 The Cook County Board voted to destroy the county’s gang database Thursday, setting legal steps and guidelines to make sure the database can’t be restarted. The vote was the death knell for the contentious database, also called the Regional Gang Intelligence Database. Last month, the Cook County Sheriff’s Office announced it […]
NEW ORLEANS LA Feb 24 2019 — A man being removed from Willie’s Chicken Shack got hold of a security guard’s gun and fired several shots, killing a female bystander and wounding the guard and another person early Sunday morning on Bourbon Street, according to the NOPD. The suspected shooter was also injured, though it […]
Nashville TN February 23, 2019 Several employees of the Tennessee security firm, “November Group” were presented Medal of Honor awards in Nashville Thursday. The CEO of Private Officer International, an organization of private security and law enforcement officers made the presentation to Aaron Myers-CEO, Michael Hill-COO and Christian Irvine -Uniformed Security Manager for their heroic actions at a […]