By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating the October 2014 fatal shooting of a black teenager in Chicago. The Chicago Tribune reports that the bureau opened an investigation into the death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, who was shot by on officer 16 times. The FBI is leading the criminal probe with the help of…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com For the second time in Texas in one week, a Border Patrol agent shot and killed man. The Associated Press reports that agents fatally shot the man after he drove through the inspection checkpoint at 5 p.m. Thursday. According to authorities, the motorist was in the inspection lane on Interstate 10…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A man who threatened on a video to kill police and FBI agents was fatally shot by police after they said they feared for their lives, the Associated Press reports. Authorities said police were planning to executive a search warrant after the video surfaced. Police spotted the man near his suburban…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Civil unrest over the fatal shooting of a black teenager by police turned into looting and vandalism Sunday evening as investigators try to piece together what happened. The Associated Press reports that the St. Louis County chapter of the NAACCP is urging the FBI to take over the case of 18-year-old Michael…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Two men were arrested Monday in connection with the robbery and fatal shooting of an off-duty Border Patrol agent while he was on vacation with his family, Valley Morning Star reports. Agent Javier Vega Jr., who was stationed in Ricardo, Texas, was killed following a gunshot wound to the chest, and his…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI agents were justified in fatally opening fire on a shooting suspect in Herkimer, New York, the Herkimer County district attorney has ruled, according to the Associated Press. Agents gunned down Kurt Myers, 64, in March 2013 after he was accused of fatally shooting four people. Myers was barricaded inside an abandoned…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI agent who fatally shot Ibragim Todashev in his small Orlando apartment last year has a troubling, controversial history as a former officer for the Oakland Police Department in California, the Boston Globe reports. Not much was known about the agent who killed the Chechen friend of Boston Marathon bombing suspect…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Justice Department investigation is to reveal this week that the FBI used appropriate force by fatally shooting Ibragim Todashev, a Chechen man tied to one of the brothers accused in the Boston Marathon bombings. The Washington Post reports that the report will clear the agent, but a Florida prosecutor warned that…
