Year: 2017

ChiccoDodiFC/iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- The nation’s largest police force Thursday released, for the first time, video footage from officers’ body cameras that captured a fatal shooting this month in New York City.The NYPD acted, over the objection of local prosecutors, in response to public pressure over the Sept. 6 fatal shooting in the Bronx of a knife-wielding man with a history of mental illness.The footage showed two officers instructing the man, […]

artolympic/iStock/Thinkstock(OLNEY, Md.) -- Investigators are awaiting autopsy results as they work to piece together details of what led to the killing of a pregnant Maryland high school teacher found dead nine days after being reported missing.The Montgomery County Police Department announced Wednesday night that Laura Wallen's boyfriend, Tyler Tessier, was arrested and charged in her slaying.A judge in Rockville District Court ruled Thursday afternoon that Tessier be held until trial […]

Rex_Wholster/iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- In December of 2009, 15-year old high school student Jahveel Ocampo, her boyfriend and a few of his family members decided to drive east from Encinitas, California, up into the mountains to see the first big snowfall of winter.They pulled over to a rest stop to use the bathroom and were suddenly blocked by an unmarked truck. A man in a dark blue jacket shouted from the […]

diego_cervo/iStock/Thinkstock(HOLLYWOOD, Fla.) -- Some patients who were admitted to a South Florida hospital after they were evacuated from a nearby nursing home that had lost air conditioning due to Hurricane Irma had temperatures of up to 106 degrees, officials from Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood told ABC News.Eight residents of the Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills, which is affiliated with the Larkin Community Hospital, died this week after the facility's […]

iStock/Thinkstock(FORT BRAGG, N.C.) -- One soldier is dead and seven more were injured in a demolitions training mishap at a Fort Bragg, North Carolina, firing range. The injuries were caused by an explosion, according to ABC station WTVD-TV. The severity of the injuries is under investigation.A U.S. official confirmed to ABC News that the soldiers are part of U.S. Army Special Operations Command.The incident comes a day after a U.S. […]

ABC News(ROCKFORD, Wash.) -- A Washington State Patrol trooper called Wednesday the "worst day" in his law enforcement career after responding to his own children's school for an active shooter.   Trooper Jeff Sevigney tweeted hours after a high school student allegedly shot four classmates, killing one and wounding three, inside their school. Worst day in my LE career. To respond to your own kids school for active shooter. Prayers for […]

ABC News(TAMPA, Fla.) -- The death toll from Hurricane Irma continued to climb Thursday in the United States, with at least 31 dead across three states. The latest death blamed on Irma was announced on Wednesday night by the Polk County Sheriff's Office, which said a 7-year-old died from carbon monoxide poisoning after a generator was used inside her home. In Florida, 24 people have died in connection with the […]

Timothy Fadek/Redux for ABC News(KEY WEST, Fla.) -- Hurricane Irma destroyed as many as 25 percent of homes in the Florida Keys, with up to 65 percent of homes suffering major damage, a FEMA official said on Tuesday.And all of this devastation was captured by photographer Timothy Fadek, who is covering the story for ABC News.Fadek was at a shopping center in Key West when two Chinook helicopters from the […]

aijohn784/iStock/Thinkstock(SPOKANE, Wash.) -- A student was shot and killed while confronting a heavily armed gunman during a school shooting Wednesday near Spokane, Washington, police said.The shooter -- also a student -- has been apprehended and is in custody at the Spokane County juvenile jail, police said. Three others were wounded in the attack. They were transported to a local hospital and are expected to survive, authorities said.The suspect brought multiple […]