By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN By his father’s final act of heroism, Aiden McCarthy survived Monday’s carnage at a July Fourth parade in suburban Chicago. But the 2-year-old now is left to grow up without either of his parents — an orphan of America’s bane of mass shootings. Kevin McCarthy, 37, and his wife, Irina, 35,
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EL PASO, TX– A man is now behind bars after sheriff’s deputies say he tried stabbing someone with a knife and fled the scene. 45 year-old Mark Anthony Bravo has been charged with aggravated assault and trying to flee. El Paso County Sheriff’s Office says Socorro police found him and turned him over to the
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EL PASO, Texas — Annunciation House will host a vigil for the victims who died in a trailer near San Antonio last week. The vigil will acknowledge the lives lost and call for an end to policies like Title 42. Annunciation House says policies like Title 42 lead migrants to risk their lives trying to get into
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso Police have identified a 15-year-old male as the victim of a shooting that occurred at the 7600 block of Franklin Loop at approximately 5:30 p.m. Monday. The suspected juveniles involved in the shooting are 15 and 16-year-old males who fled the scene before Mission Valley Patrol officers responded. Officers
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UPDATE: A resolution to deprioritize abortion investigations by the El Paso Police Department did not pass, El Paso City Council voted 5 to 4 against the item. Mayor Oscar Leeser cast the tie-breaking vote. City Representatives Alexsandra Annello, Henry Rivera and Peter Svarzbein voted in favor. While representatives Joe Molinar, Isabel Salcido, Claudia Rodriguez, Cissy
Continue Reading By Shimon Prokupecz and Matthew J. Friedman, CNN Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin told CNN he’s lost faith in Texas leaders investigating how law enforcement responded to the shooting at his town’s elementary school that killed 19 children and two adults. “I’m not confident, 100%, in DPS because I think it’s a cover-up,” he said of
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HIGHLAND PARK, Illinois — Officials say the person of interest in July 4th parade shooting pre-planned the attack for several weeks. Deputy Chief Chris Covelli said that Robert “Bobby” E. Crimo III used a high-power rifle “similar to an AR-15,” to fire over 70 high-power rounds. Covelli said Crimo accessed the roof of a business
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HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (AP) — Police say a seventh person has died as a result of the mass shooting at a July 4 parade in Highland Park, Illinois. This is a developing news story. Download the KVIA news app to get alerts the moment news breaks.
Continue Reading By Alisha Ebrahimji, Sara Smart, Sharif Paget and Caroll Alvarado, CNN What was supposed to be a patriotic celebration turned into a day of tragedy and fear when a gunman killed seven people and injured dozens more at a July Fourth parade in Highland Park, Illinois. Now, yet another community in America is grieving the
Continue Reading Highland Park, Illinois resident Dr. David Baum recounts to CNN’s John Berman why he decided to run back to help victims and the carnage he witnessed after a gunman opened fire on a July 4th parade.
Continue Reading By Dakin Andone, Steve Almasy and Curt Devine, CNN Hours after gunfire interrupted the Highland Park, Illinois, July Fourth parade, killing seven people and wounding dozens more, police apprehended the man they believe was responsible. Robert “Bobby” E. Crimo III, 21, faces seven charges of first-degree murder in connection with the shooting, which authorities said
Continue Reading A person of interest is arrested in connection to the Highland Park parade shooting
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UPDATE – El Paso police say one man died from his gunshot injuries after a shooting in the lower valley on July 4th. A spokesman with the police department said the shooting happened in a home during a gathering of several people. It’s unclear at this moment who shot the man. This happened around 5:30
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UPDATE 5:46 P.M.: Officials say a North Chicago police officer spotted the person of interest in the July 4th parade shooting and following a short pursuit, the person of interest has been taken into custody. HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (AP) — Police ID 22-year-old “person of interest” in July Fourth parade shooting who they describe as
Continue Reading By Jason Hanna, Adrienne Broaddus, Eric Levenson and Susannah Cullinane, CNN Zoe Pawelczak’s dad thought the repetitive pops ringing out at Highland Park’s Fourth of July parade Monday morning were part of the show, she says. But she felt something was off. “I’m like, ‘Dad, no … something is wrong,’ and I grabbed him” and
Continue Reading By Eric Levenson, Adrienne Broaddus, Shawn Nottingham, Brynn Gingras, Steve Almasy and Joe Sutton, CNN Robert E. Crimo III, the suspect in a mass shooting at a parade that left six dead and sent more than two dozen people to hospitals, has been taken into custody near Lake Forest, Illinois, authorities said during a brief
Continue Reading Several people have been shot at a Copenhagen mall, Danish police said. One person has been arrested in connection with the shooting at Field’s mall, Copenhagen police said.
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CHAPARRAL, New Mexico — Officials say one man is dead after firing shots at a Doña Ana County Sheriff deputy early this morning. It happened in a vacant area near the 100 block of Iron Horse in Chaparral, NM at around 5:38 A.M. According to the Doña Ana County Sheriff’s office, deputies responded to a
Continue Reading By Michelle Watson and Holly Yan, CNN Houston police are asking for the public’s help in finding whoever opened fire on a car overnight, killing a 5-year-old child and injuring an 8-year-old. Just after 1 a.m. Sunday, officers received calls about a shooting in the 13300 block of Northborough Drive, Houston Police Asst. Chief Chandra
Continue Reading By Michelle Watson and Aya Elamroussi, CNN A gunman in Texas killed two people and injured another person Saturday before fatally shooting himself, police in the Fort Worth area said. The shooting in Haltom City also left three officers with non-life-threatening gunshot wounds, police Sgt. Rick Alexander said during a news conference. The officers were
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Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this story indicated the incident happened at 3:45 a.m., as mentioned during the live news conference. Court documents later obtained by ABC-7 and a request for clarification from the Sheriff’s office confirm the time of the incident was 3:45 p.m. EL PASO, Texas — An El Paso detention officer
Continue Reading By Rosa Flores, Chris Boyette and Michelle Krupa, CNN The alleged driver of a tractor-trailer where sweltering conditions led to the death of 53 migrants this week in San Antonio didn’t realize the truck’s air conditioning unit had stopped working, according to a federal criminal complaint filed Wednesday in the investigation into the deadliest human
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UPDATE: Federal officials say the man who died after being shot by an officer Wednesday was 29-year-old Luis Angel Garcia. Officials say Garcia was shot by an officer during a Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF), enforcement action. The second person who fled the scene was later arrested and identified
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EL PASO, Texas – Court records obtained by ABC-7 state a man threatened to harm officers by giving them, “all the (expletive) Fentanyl to (expletive) end your life.” The threats, records state, even were aimed at one of the officer’s mother. Officials say the threats were caught on the market patrol unit’s video and audio
Continue Reading By Morgan Rimmer, Matthew Hoye, Joe Johns and Shawna Mizelle, CNN Rep. Judy Chu of California was among the more than 100 people arrested at an abortion rights protest in Washington, DC, on Thursday, according to a statement from her office. “When I first heard Roe was overturned, I immediately thought of who would be
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EL PASO, Texas — An El Paso man received 10 years in federal prison for attempting to entice a child into sexual activity. Officials say, Lawrence Allen Schmidt, 53, thought he was communicating with a 14-year-old girl via social media. Unbeknownst to him, he was actually communicating with an undercover FBI employee. Investigators say the
Continue Reading Andi Babineau, CNN The man who sold a semi-automatic weapon that was later used to take hostages in a Texas synagogue in January has pleaded guilty to a federal firearms charge, according to a release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas. Henry “Michael” Dwight Williams, 32, admitted Thursday to being
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – The scene at Desert Hope Apartments is a very different one today than it was just 10 months ago. Drugs, crime, and violence are prevalent, as reported by residents of both the apartments and neighbors of the complex. It’s a grim picture compared to the positive outlook that new residents
Continue Reading By Ray Sanchez, Joe Sutton and Rebekah Riess, CNN At least six migrants were killed and 10 others have been found in three separate human smuggling incidents in Texas in the past 24 hours, authorities said. Four migrants were killed and three people critically injured Thursday during a highway chase and crash in Encinal, Texas,
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UPATE: 7:20 p.m. — The Department of Homeland Security said one suspect was shot and another, who fled the scene, is now in custody. Officials with HSI said the shooting occurred between a suspect and an officer during an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement investigation. The officer shot the suspect on the 1900 block of Zaragoza.
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