Long Beach CA October 31 2021 Eddie F. Gonzalez, the former school safety officer for Long Beach Unified School District accused of wrongly shooting an 18-year-old woman, faces second-degree murder, a prosecutor disclosed at court on Friday, Oct. 29. At a press conference earlier this week, District Attorney George Gascón announced that Gonzalez faced murder but […]
OMAHA, Neb. October 31 2021 A security guard at Omaha South High School says he was assaulted as he worked to break-up a fight in the school. According to a police report, the incident took place on Monday, October 18th. The security officer filed a police report three days after the fight. According to the […]
Jacksonville, Florida October 29 2021 – Like many other U.S. employers struggling to fill job openings, Duval County Public Schools (DCPS) are finding it very difficult to hire and then retain its campus police officers. DCPS has 22 officer vacancies – five in secondary schools and 17 in primary schools, reports News4Jax. Of its 93 recent […]
PATERSON NJ October 27 2021— In a brawl outside Paterson’s School 15, a female student on Tuesday afternoon grabbed another girl by the hair and repeatedly banged her head against the pavement as others looked on — some laughing, screaming and recording video. The incident became the latest assault in an ongoing outbreak of violence at […]
RAEFORD, N.C. October 27 2021– Two Hoke County 11th grade students were found dead in a car over the weekend. A spokesperson for Hoke County Schools said the bodies of Britany Carolina Munoz Ramirez and Ailton Sebastian Tirado-Martinez were found in a vehicle on the campus of Don Steed Elementary School early Sunday morning. They […]
KERN COUNTY, Calif. October 26 2021— Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood said the Kern County Sheriff’s Office has requested to cancel its contracts with school districts where deputies serve as school resource officers due to understaffing. “It’s simple and boils down to the fact that we don’t have staff,” he said. “We don’t have enough […]
Philadelphia PA October 26 2021 Joshua Corneilius, 17, should be enjoying his senior year of high school, but instead, he is constantly worried about the violence occurring both inside and outside of his North Philadelphia school. In the last year, nine kids at Simon Gratz High School were shot to death — three of them just […]
Pomona CA October 25 2021 Three months after Pomona Unified School District leaders voted to remove dedicated police officers from campuses, the school board is now reconsidering the move on the heels of a shooting near a high school. Superintendent Richard Martinez has announced the board will have a special meeting to vote on […]
MANCHESTER, Mo. October 25 2021- A 73-year-old man is facing charges, accused of running over another man in act of road rage on the parking lot of Parkway South High School. Michael Gallagher, 73, of Ballwin, is charged with first-degree assault, second-degree robbery and armed criminal action. The incident started on Manchester Road and ended in […]
SOUNDVIEW, Bronx October 24 2021 The NYC School Safety Coalition held a news conference Friday following yet another day of gun violence near a public school. The event took place outside Adlai Stevenson High School in the Soundview section of the Bronx. The group said the City’s schools are facing a shortage of over 1,000 school […]