SUMTER, S.C. March 20 2024 The Sumter Police Department (SPD) announced eight people were charged after a shooting at Backyard Bar & Grill in Sumter. On Sunday, March 10 at 6 p.m., authorities responded to reports of a fight at the bar, where they said they learned of possible gunfire. Police announced on Tuesday two […]
Williamsport, Pa. March 18 2024— A woman assaulted a security officer after being discharged from the emergency room at UPMC Williamsport. Khalifah Hadiyah Watson, 45, told staff “I’m f***ing going nowhere” on March 11 when they asked her to leave UPMC Williamsport, Officer Jacob Huling said. Watson swung at multiple people before striking the […]
Washington DC March 18th, 2024 Three teenagers were arrested in an armed carjacking in which they allegedly pointed a gun at the victim and told him to get his child out of the car before taking off, according to the Metropolitan Police Department. The suspects charged with armed carjacking are two 15-year-old boys and a 14-year-old […]
San Francisco CA March 18 2024 The family of a man fatally shot by a security guard in a San Francisco Walgreens last month during an apparent shoplifting altercation has filed a $25 million wrongful death lawsuit. Banko Brown, 24, died on April 27 following an altercation with the guard, police said. The guard, 33-year-old Michael […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. March 18 2024 An armed security officer was shot and killed early St. Patrick’s Day morning, according to the Metro Nashville Police Department. Police said Maurice Thomas, Jr., 33, was shot at around 2 a.m. on Sunday in the parking lot of the Illuzion Bar and Lounge on Murfreesboro Pike. Police said Thomas was […]
Charlotte NC March 17th, 2024 Nationwide, security officers, both those working with a contracted agency and those who are proprietary security personnel, are arrested while on duty more than 1500 times a year. Of those charges, more than one hundred are violent offenses including murder, manslaughter, assault, and sex crimes but most are property crimes […]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. March 16 2024 Memphis police are searching for a group of shoplifters who rushed out of a local grocery store without paying, but not before threatening to shoot the security guard who confronted them. Police say the assault happened on Sunday at the Superlo located at 3327 North Watkins Street. Surveillance video shows the […]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. March 15 2024— Two men tried to rob an armored truck driver making a cash drop at an ATM, shooting the driver in the arm, police said. The driver was crouched on the ground, loading an ATM inside a Circle K store at 2678 Getwell Road on Thursday afternoon when two men entered the […]
OAKLAND, Calif. March 16 2024 — A Northern California man who was part of the loosely organized anti-government “ boogaloo movement ” was sentenced to life in prison Friday for his role in the shooting death of a federal security guard and wounding of another. Robert Allen Justus was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez […]
UPPER MARLBORO, Md. March 16, 2024— A man has been sentenced for the murder and armed carjacking of a security guard. Desmond Mbah, 27, was sentenced to life on Friday for murdering Riyadh Al Janabi a little over three years ago. When handing down the sentence, the judge called Mbah’s crime “calculated and deliberate” and […]