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A man who police said made bomb threats was shot and killed by an officer just after midnight in Worcester, Massachusetts, according to authorities. The officer who shot the man, Phet Gouvonvong of Worcester, has been placed on administrative leave following department protocol.

Investigators say the man was armed with an assault rifle, body armor and an explosive device.

An armed man who made bomb threats was shot and killed by police around midnight in Worcester, Massachusetts, according to authorities.

Worcester County District Attorney Joseph Early gave an update after an armed man who made bomb threats was shot and killed by police around midnight in Worcester, Massachusetts Wednesday.

Protesters gathered for a second time in Boston this weekend to call for justice and change following last weekend’s police shooting death of Daunte Wright. Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, was shot and killed by former Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter during an April 11 traffic stop in suburban Minneapolis, Minnesota — just miles from where George Floyd was...

Two people died after a driver opened fire at a police officer during a traffic stop in San Antonio, Texas. A woman passenger and the police officer are being treated for injuries at a nearby hospital.

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Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon released body camera footage of a police shooting incident that led to the killing of 20-year-old Daunte Wright. In the video, the officer who fired the shot that killed Wright can be heard yelling “Taser.” Gannon says it is his belief the officer meant to pull a Taser and not a gun and the...

Protestors marched in the streets of Brooklyn Center, Minn., after the family of 20-year-old Daunte Wright says he was shot by police at a traffic stop. Minnesota Gov. Tim Waltz tweeted that he and his wife are “praying for Daunte Wright’s family as our state mourns another life of a Black man taken by law enforcement.”

A person was fatally shot by police Wednesday during a shootout with authorities in Claremont, New Hampshire. Members of the New Hampshire State Police SWAT team responded to 247 Sullivan Street Wednesday evening to assist Claremont police with a barricaded male, Deputy Attorney General Jane E. Young said. According to Young, gunfire was exchanged between the person and six members…

A man in a stolen Rockland police cruiser who’d robbed a 7-Eleven was shot by police after a long standoff, officials said. The hourslong incident caused chaos in several Massachusetts towns.

Nashville officials are seeking a $2.25 million settlement with the family of a Black man who was fatally shot by a white Nashville police officer from behind during a 2018 foot chase

A 23-year-old New Hampshire man has been charged with murdering his mother at her Wakefield, Massachusetts home earlier this week, prosecutors said Thursday. Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan said in a statement Thursday morning that Timothy Martin, of Manchester, had been arrested and charged with murdering his 61-year-old mother, Pamela Wood. Martin has also been charged with three counts of…

Police checking on a speech therapist’s wellbeing found her dead in the basement of her home in Wakefield, Massachusetts, where her son charged police officers investigating the home armed with a knife, prosecutors said Tuesday. The officers shot the 23-year-old man, who remains in intensive care after surgery at a local hospital, Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan said at...

A Massachusetts prosecutor said Thursday that a deadly police shooting last year was justified. Thomas Murray, a 31-year-old Dracut man, was shot and killed by a Massachusetts State Police trooper at a Newbury gas station on Feb. 16, 2020. Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz said the trooper, Steven Buccheri, did not act unlawfully in Murray’s death. Buccheri “reasonably believed…

Protesters clashed outside the Newton Police Department one day after police officers shot and killed a man in the Massachusetts city. Michael Conlon, a 28-year-old Newton man, was shot to death after he allegedly entered Indulge!, a Newton Highlands candy store, with a knife. He lived above the store. The group “Defund Newton Police” believes Conlon was having a mental…

Police shot a man who was armed with a knife when he entered a candy shop in his building in the Newton Highlands, then fled from officers who were called to help, Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan said at a news conference, adding that officers tried less-than-lethal methods of subduing him.

A man who authorities said had a knife was shot and killed by police in Newton Highlands in a confrontation that began at a candy store.

A person was shot in a police confrontation in Newton Highlands, authorities say.

Police in Minneapolis on Thursday released body-camera video from a traffic stop one night earlier that ended with a man shot dead