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Rapper Lil Marlo was shot and killed in Atlanta over the weekend, law enforcement confirmed Sunday to TMZ. The Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office told Page Six on Sunday that the body of a Rudolph Johnson — Marlo’s real name — had been brought in. He was 30 years old. On Saturday evening, authorities responded …

The 4th of July weekend bloodshed in New York City continued Sunday night as at least seven people were shot, five fatally, in a span of about three hours, police said. The first murder, which police were notified of at 5:47 p.m., claimed the life of a 21-year-old man in Brownsville, Brooklyn, cops said. The …

Rapper Huey has been killed in a double shooting in his hometown of St. Louis, according to reports. He was 32. The “Pop, Lock & Drop It” star — real name Lawrence Franks Jr. — was shot at least once at about 11 p.m. Thursday while in a front yard, according to the St. Louis …

One of the police officers involved in the fatal shooting in March of 26-year-old Breonna Taylor has been fired, the Louisville Metro Police Department announced Tuesday. The Kentucky city’s police department released a termination letter to Officer Brett Hankison calling his actions “a shock to the conscience,” more than three months after Hankison shot Taylor, an …

Chicago recorded 102 shooting victims over the weekend, the highest number for a single weekend in 2020. The rash of shootings is part of a spate of violence that began after George Floyd demonstrations in late May descended into widespread looting and rioting that began after George Floyd was killed by a white Minneapolis police …

Atlanta media mogul Tyler Perry will pay college tuition for all four of Rayshard Brooks’ children, one day after he vowed to pick up the tab for the slain man’s funeral, according to a report. Perry, best known for his “Madea” film franchise, will make sure Brooks’ three daughters, ages 1, 2 and 8, and …

Video obtained by Fox 5 shows Washington, DC, residents having a wild west shootout right along the street Friday just before 7 p.m. Fox 5 reports the shootout lasted just under two minutes and left one person injured. Sirens can be heard on the video toward the end of the shootout and the shooters nonchalantly put …

Beyoncé called for the prosecution of the Louisville police officers involved in the death of Breonna Taylor in an open letter to the attorney general of Kentucky on Sunday. In the letter, posted on the singer’s official website, Beyoncé addressed Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, and demanded justice for Taylor’s family, who have “not been …

The Louisville, Ky., metro council has unanimously passed an ordinance banning “no-knock” search warrants after the fatal police shooting of Breonna Taylor. Taylor was shot after police entered her apartment on a no-knock warrant on March 13 as part of a narcotics investigation. Kenneth Walker, Taylor’s boyfriend, has stated that he did not hear the …

The white man who shot and killed Ahmaud Arbery allegedly called the young black man a racial slur after shooting him, according to a Georgia special prosecutor who said another suspect in the case heard the shooter say the racist epithet. Travis McMichael, 34, allegedly called Arbery a “f***ing n*****” after shooting the 25-year-old in the chest, causing him …