6 Security Officers Shot or Killed in 7 Days
Charlotte NC May 6 2021
At least six security officers, including a TSA employee, have been shot or killed during the past seven days.
Detroit police are investigating a homicide of a security officer while police in Miami investigate the homicide of a TSA security officer who was shot to death just after leaving her job at the Miami International Airport.
A shooter in a dark four-door Nissan killed Leshonte Jones on Monday at the Coral Bay Cove apartments in south Miami-Dade County police said.
Investigators say that it appears to have been a targeted drive-by shooting but has few leads.
In Richland County South Carolina, deputies are looking for the shooter who wounded a security officer on duty at the Hookah on the River club on Broad River Road.
He was shot in the upper body and appears to be in critical condition.
Chicago police are also still investigating the shooting of an on-duty security officer who was assigned to a high-rise building in the Park Manor neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side.
38-year-old Keiona James was also the victim of a drive-by shooting but police don’t think that she was the target. No arrests have been made.
An off-duty AlliedUniveral security officer was gunned down in Baltimore and police say that no arrests have been made there.
Demetris Henry, 24, died after being shot in the 3400 block of Fairview Avenue.
Police are investigating but have not determined a motive.
An attempted carjacking and robbery of a Brinks armored truck in Atlanta has left a security officer shot and police and FBI agents searching for answers and suspects.
The security employees stopped at a café at 2225 Marietta Blvd at around 6:09 a.m Tuesday to grab breakfast when the shooting happened according to the Atlanta police.
Three nightclub security officers at separate businesses were also involved in shootings over the weekend.
A bar patron was shot and killed by a security guard outside the bar in Tucson early Sunday.
Tucson police were dispatched to Bojangles for a shooting near Nogales Highway and Olive Street just after 2 a.m., said a press release by the department.
A security guard in the parking lot was performing CPR on an unresponsive man. Officers took over and found obvious signs of gunshot trauma.
Police said that the security guard shot him while he was shooting a gun into the air.
An incident at a San Antonio bar has also left a security officer shot. Police report that the incident occurred at the Social Spot Bar during an argument.
An altercation happened, someone grabbed their gun and started shooting. Police have not made any arrests.
A security officer was also cut with a knife while trying to stop a theft suspect at the Love’s Truck Stop
in East Nashville. The man was arrested and the security officer was treated and released
from an area hospital.