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Neighbors on a quiet Mid-Wilshire street expressed shock early Sunday over the shooting death of Gabriel Aron Benmeir, who worked for MTV.

A Taco Bell customer enraged that the seven burritos he ordered had gone up in price fired a BB gun at an employee and later fired an assault rifle at officers, police said.

Four people were shot late Sunday afternoon outside a Walmart in Washington state, Kitsap County Sheriff's Department spokesman Scott Wilson said.

Police said a Boulder man who told police he woke up to a "bang" and realized he suffered a gunshot wound to his knee likely shot himself while sleepwalking. The Daily Camera reported that 63-year-old Sanford Rothman told investigators he had no clear recollection of the incident early Tuesday morning. No one else was in Rothman's home at the time.

Two people are dead and five injured after a series of shootings in and around Gainesville, Florida, police said.

A well-respected veteran Detroit, Michigan, police officer was gunned down early Monday, the first time in about five years a city officer has been killed in the line of duty, the city police chief said.

Shots were fired inside a Dallas bank and several people might have been wounded, KXAS TV reported as police raced to the scene.

A biology professor charged with killing three faculty members at the University of Alabama in Huntsville also has been charged with wounding three others, police said.

Chaos ensued after the police encountered a gunman in a thickly wooded area on Tuesday.

Police are trying to find a motive today behind a shooting on the city's east side Monday night that killed three people and wounded one. According to Detroit Police 2nd Deputy Chief John Roach, the incident occurred at about 9 pm at home in ...