Charlotte NC Aug 26 2017 Three fatal shootings involving private security officers during a twenty four hour period shows the sudden risks and unpredictability of volatile conditions that threatens security officers working at both the “low” risk and mundane assignments and in areas known to be more dangerous. An armed security officer working at a Charlotte […]
DENVER CO Aug 24 2017— A man was killed in a shooting involving two armed RTD officers at a light rail station on Wednesday night. The shooting happened just north of the parking garage after 7 p.m. at the Sheridan station at West Ninth Avenue and Sheridan Boulevard on the Denver/Lakewood line. Two security guards […]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. August 24 2017- Police say they are conducting a homicide investigation after a robber was shot and killed overnight inside a sweepstakes parlor. The shooting happened at the Queen City Skillsville, along Albemarle Road near Reddman Road. Investigators said that the shooting stemmed from an attempted robbery and that a security officer inside the […]
Chico CA Aug 23 2017 After a 34-year-old Ventura man was fatally shot last month by a security guard and police officer in downtown Chico, the man’s parents have undertaken efforts to piece together their son’s last days. Paula and Scott Rushing of Ventura say they believe their son, Tyler Rushing, was in Chico for several […]
San Francisco CA Aug 16 2017 Police have taken an armed security officer and a shoplifter into custody after a reported theft ended in a shooting. A call of a shooting at the Burlington Coat Factory Tuesday was the result of an alleged shoplifter being shot and wounded by an armed security guard, police said. […]
LYNCHBURG, Va. Aug 12 2017 Centra has been named in a $100 million lawsuit after a shooting at Lynchburg General in 2016. Centra is being sued for negligence, along with the architecture firm Baskervill as well as the Commonwealth of Virginia. Surveillance video gives insight into what happened in 2016 when a Centra security guard shot […]
RICHMOND, Va. Aug 9 2017 – The conviction of a former security guard at the VCU Medical Ambulatory Pharmacy was affirmed last week in circuit court, and he will begin to serve his two-year sentence soon. Brown had remained free on bond pending his appeal. George Brown Jr. was sentenced to 10 years with eight years […]
INDIANAPOLIS IN Aug 6 2017 — Two men were shot in the parking lot of Club Venus early Saturday morning. The shooting happened around 1:30 a.m. at the gentlemen’s club on the city’s West Side. According to Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers on the scene of the shooting, a victim was shot in the hip, leg […]
New York City NY Aug 6 2017 One of the members of an iconic New York group that played an instrumental role in cementing hip-hop’s place in music was arrested Wednesday for the fatal stabbing of a homeless man in Midtown, police said. Nathaniel Glover, best known as The Kidd Creole from Bronx-bred outfit Grandmaster Flash […]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. Aug 4 2017 – Police are investigating after they said a security guard shot a man at a north Charlotte motel overnight. Investigators told Eyewitness News that two women asked a security guard for help after they said a man assaulted them inside one of the motel rooms. Officers were called to the Travel […]