Year: 2017

iStock/Thinkstock(NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C.) -- Former North Charleston, South Carolina, police officer Michael Slager, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to using excessive force in the shooting death of unarmed black man Walter Scott, bringing a conclusion to the case two years after the police shooting was caught on video by a bystander.The plea deal in federal court will end the federal case and also resolve the state charges that were still pending […]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Rescuers resumed their search for an 18-month-old girl swept away by flood waters at 7 a.m. Tuesday, according to the Madison County, Arkansas, Sheriff's Office.The sheriff's office told ABC News that work to find the child started again after a break overnight. Floodwaters swept the little girl and her 4-year-old brother away while they were traveling in the car with their mother over the weekend. The remains […]

iStock/Thinkstock(AUSTIN, Texas) -- University of Texas-Austin student Elissa Garza said she and her friend, Ileanna Guerri, were having lunch, enjoying "a beautiful day" on campus Monday, when a fellow student came into the area and attacked multiple students with a knife, killing one and injuring three others."It didn't seem real," Garza said in an interview with ABC News on Monday. "I had never seen so many people's faces in utter […]

iStock/Thinkstock(AUSTIN, Texas) -- A student at the University of Texas at Austin accused of stabbing four students is believed to have suffered from mental health issues, officials said Tuesday.The suspect, Kendrex White, allegedly kicked a female student out of the way on campus on Monday before stabbing four male students, including one fatally, UT Austin Chief of Police David Carter said at a press conference.After White allegedly stabbed the first […]

Courtesy Limor Khorshidi(SAN DIEGO) -- Witness video shows the moment police took down the man accused of opening fire at a birthday pool party at a San Diego apartment complex, killing one and injuring seven others who were "just mere feet from him," police said.The suspected shooter, identified by officials as Peter Selis, 49, was shot and killed by police at the pool area of the La Jolla Crossroads apartment […]

iStock/Thinkstock(AUSTIN, Texas) -- University of Texas-Austin student Elissa Garza said she and her friend, Ileanna Guerri, were having lunch, enjoying "a beautiful day" on campus Monday, when a fellow student came into the area and attacked multiple students with a knife, killing one and injuring three others."It didn't seem real," Garza said in an interview with ABC News on Monday. "I had never seen so many people's faces in utter […]

Courtesy Jacqueline White(NINETY SIX, S.C.) -- Surveillance video captured the moment when a second-grader fell out of an emergency exit on a moving school bus in South Carolina last month.Jacqueline White, mother of 8-year-old Jaquez White, said she received a phone call from Ninety Six Primary School that her son had been in an accident on April 7."The school called me and said that an accident had happened and my […]

Courtesy Jacqueline White(NINETY SIX, S.C.) -- Surveillance video captured the moment when a second-grader fell out of an emergency exit on a moving school bus in South Carolina last month.Jacqueline White, mother of 8-year-old Jaquez White, said she received a phone call from Ninety Six Primary School that her son had been in an accident on April 7."The school called me and said that an accident had happened and my […]

iStock/Thinkstock(MYRTLE SPRINGS, Texas) -- Phillip and Emily Ocheltree, the parents of two children pulled from a submerged truck by good Samaritans during flooding in Texas, described the rescue as “mind boggling” and said the family had “guardian angels” with them that day.The Ocheltrees were driving near Myrtle Springs on Saturday, not far from an area just hit by deadly tornadoes. Their car flipped over in flood waters, leaving their infant […]