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Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was a 14-year-old African American youth who was abducted and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store.
Over a three-day period between December 24 and December 26, 1992, a juvenile gang, who called themselves the "Downtown Posse", led by the 19-year-old ringleader Marvallous Matthew Keene (July 5, 1973 – July 21, 2009), committed a series of six murders and multiple robberies across Dayton, Ohio.
[6] After crashing into an aerial work platform, [10] Jabbar exited the truck and began shooting a gun. New Orleans police officers returned fire [10] and killed Jabbar in the shootout by shooting him four times in the torso and giving him a grazing wound. [11] Jabbar wounded two police officers in the gunfight. [10] [11]
The quake killed 17 and injured more than 900 others. Lam Yik Fei—The New York Times/Redux Migrants from China warm themselves in Campo, Calif., after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in a ...
A 55-year-old man was killed trying to protect his Malibu, Calif., home from the devastating wildfires in the Los Angeles area, according to his mother. “He’d been through so many of these ...
The remains of 17 Guatemalans were flown home after they were killed by a fire in March at a migration center in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, near the border with Texas, that left a total of 40 people ...
Ronald L. Haeberle (born c. 1941) is a former United States Army combat photographer best known for the photographs he took of the My Lai Massacre on March 16, 1968. The photographs were definitive evidence of a massacre, making it impossible for the U.S. Army or government to ignore or cover up. [2]
In the 55-hour span - between 6 p.m. Friday and 1 a.m. Monday - six people were killed within city limits during four separate incidents. Five were shot to death and one man was fatally stabbed.