CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner has now released the autopsy reports on the man and woman killed in a police chase and shooting last November. 30-year-old Malissa Williams was shot 24 times. She was shot in the head, neck, trunk and left arm. 43-year-old Timothy Russell was shot 23 times. He was […]

[Updated at 3:06 p.m. ET] Someone – a fourth person – suffered a heart attack, according to a federal law enforcement source who is receiving reports from the scene, CNN’s Carol Cratty reports. So, recapping what we’ve been told: – Three people, including a gunman, were wounded in a shooting between two people on the […]

CLEVELAND – Cleveland’s police chief spoke to council members on their public safety committee on a range of issues. He began by letting them know what the BCI, East Cleveland and Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Office is looking at while investigating the use of deadly force. Chief Mike McGrath said components of the investigation include measuring […]

CLEVELAND – Cleveland’s mayor and police chief gave an update on the Nov. 29 chase turned fatal shooting in the city, asking for an outside agency to investigate future use of force cases. Mayor Frank Jackson said hiring an outside agency to do the investigations into fatal shootings, firing at or in the direction of […]

WEBSTER, N.Y. — Authorities say four firefighters were shot, two of them killed while responding to a house fire in western New York. Officials in the town of Webster tell local media outlets that someone shot at firefighters around 6 a.m. Monday when they arrived at the scene of the blaze just east of Rochester. […]

(CNN) — The National Rifle Association responded Friday to a chorus of voices calling for gun control in the wake of last week’s horrific mass shooting in Connecticut by doubling down on its own position: more guns, not fewer, provide true security. After one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history — 20 children […]

CANTON, Ohio – Students at one Canton school have taken up a collection, making art for Sandy Hook Elementary School kids. The St. Michael Catholic School community has proven that once again the people of northeast Ohio have big hearts. At Tuesday morning’s Christmas program, donations were taken for the victims and families of Sandy […]

*The premiere for Quentin Tarantino’s violent slave revenge film “Django Unchained” was canceled on Monday in the wake of the school shooting in Connecticut last week, the film’s studio said. “Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families of the tragedy in Newtown, CT and in this time of national mourning we have decided […]

NEWTOWN, CT (RNN) – Investigators are searching smashed computers for clues to a motive behind the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. According to CNN, investigators are look at emails gunman Adam Lanza might have sent and websites he might have visited. Officials said one or more computers were seized from the home where Lanza lived. […]

At least 27 people, 18 of them children, were shot and killed Friday at a Connecticut elementary school, according to reports. As the tragic story continues to develop, the heroism of teachers on the scene is already recognized. “They will be applauded for their efforts,” an ABC newscaster said during the station’s live video report […]

CNN has identified the alleged gunman at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. as Ryan Lanza. According to CNN, Lanza, 24, is suspected of killing 26 people — including 18 children — at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. A neighbor of Ryan Lanza’s parents in Sandy Hook told The Huffington Post that […]

President Barack Obama became emotional as he delivered remarks on the Newtown elementary school shooting Friday. “I offered Governor Malloy my condolences on behalf of the nation, and made it clear he will have every resource he needs to investigate,” Obama said, noting the country has had “too many of these tragedies in the last […]