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More gunfire broke out night near where two teenage boys died after they were shot in the head in Brooklyn on Sunday. One of the bullets struck a 22-year-old man, according to police. The NYPD says the incident occurred around 10:30 p.m. Monday at George Walker Park. Tracie Strahan reports.

Exhausted American cities are facing yet another challenge in addition to the coronavirus and the street protests over the police killing of George Floyd.

A 14-year-old has become the latest shooting victim in Queens as violence spikes throughout New York City. Katherince Creag reports.

Amongst all the peaceful protests, there still has been some push back from police, some violence directed at police, and some looting in certain parts of the city. Jonathan Dienst reports.

The Justice Department is urging U.S. attorneys nationwide to use federal courts — where more serious charges are available — to prosecute people suspected of violence or property damage during the protests over George Floyd’s death....

Attorney General William Barr said Thursday that federal agents have arrested 51 people for acts of violence since the protests began. The U.S. Marshals service...

Federal Investigators tare trying to figure out whether the violence at some New York City protests were spontaneous or planned. Jonathan Dienst reports.

Some students at Englewood High School have allegedly organized what they call “fight week” – a time when they are getting into fights and then posting videos on social media with the sole purpose of getting “likes.”

Protesters defied an emergency decree and confronted police in Chile’s capital Monday, continuing disturbances that have left at least 11 dead and led the president to say the country is “at war.” Police used tear gas and streams of water to break up a march by hundreds of students and union members on one of Santiago’s main streets, but demonstrators...

A 66-year-old man accused of fatally shooting five of his neighbors on Chicago’s Northwest Side over the weekend left a note on his door with a haunting message written in Polish, prosecutors said in court Monday.

A 66-year-old man has been charged with murder after authorities say he fatally shot five of his neighbors Saturday evening at an apartment complex on Chicago’s Northwest Side, according to police. Krysztof Marek, of the 6700 block of West Irving Park Road, was charged with five felony counts of first degree murder, Chicago police said in a statement Monday morning.

The fifth victim, identified as 53-year-old Jolanta Topolska succumbed to her injuries Sunday afternoon, authorities said.

A teacher was arrested Friday after a fight with a student in a classroom at an alternative high school in Maywood, the sheriff’s department confirmed.

A New Jersey man has been sentenced to 50 years in state prison for a 2014 shooting death, prosecutors say.

A dozen alleged gang members were indicted Wednesday in the shocking death of a 15-year-old boy killed in a caught-on-camera machete attack outside a bodega in the Bronx last month.

Police say a teenager stabbed to death in the Bronx was killed because his attackers thought he was part of a rival crew. Erica Byfield reports.

Crowds chanted “shut it down right now” as they marched down one of Chicago’s busiest expressways on Saturday.

Two Chicago policemen wounded in the Back of the Yards neighborhood Tuesday night were shot with a rifle powerful enough to penetrate the officers’ body armor, police say.

In a Tuesday Facebook post, the former CBS News anchor says the GOP presidential nominee “crossed a line with dangerous potential” by launching “a direct threat of violence against a political rival.”

Steven Simminger has been charged with murder after police say he stabbed Colin McGovern to death following an argument over sports teams.

Family members of two people killed by Chicago police officers spoke out Sunday afternoon, a day after the shooting, questioning why police resorted to firing their weapons at all.