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A sheriff's deputy investigating a report of gunfire at a trailer park was shot dead Saturday, and the shooting suspect was killed after a gun battle with police, authorities said. A police officer was wounded....

An Atlanta man has been charged with gunning down a young man he thought threw eggs at his Mercedes in a Halloween prank.Police spokesman Carlos Campos says officers arrested 20-year-old Michael Hunnicutt around 1:35 p.m. Friday and charged him with murder in the death of 18-year-old Tavarus Erving on Oct. 31.

Top Mexican drug lord Ezequiel "Tony Tormenta" Cardenas died in a shootout with security forces on Friday in the border city of Matamoros across from Brownsville, Texas, Mexico's navy said.

One person is in custody after two people were shot in the New Hampshire town of Pittsburg, authorities say. New Hampshire State Police say one suspect is in custody following the shootings, which occurred around 11 a.m. and left one person dead and two others wounded.

Fourteen people were shot and killed at a soccer field in northern Honduras, a police spokesman said Saturday.

A shooting outside a restaurant in downtown Buffalo early Saturday left four people dead and four wounded, police said.

Among the six wounded were two police officers, including one whose bullet-resistant vest stopped a round from entering his chest.

Authorities say several people were killed when a warehouse worker who had been told to resign opened fire at a beer distributor in Connecticut.

Three people were killed and at least six more wounded in an apparent drive-by shooting in southeast Washington on Tuesday evening, NBC affiliate WRC reported.