By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI stepping into a controversial police shooting in Pasadena, Calif. involving an unarmed college student. The Los Angeles Times reports that the FBI will open a civil rights investigation into the shooting death of college student Kendrec McDade by the Pasadena Police. The FBI issued a statement, according to the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI has been questioning potential witnesses in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, trying to determine if the incident was racially motivated, NBC’s Michael Isikoff reports. NBC reported that the questioning by FBI agents in Sanford, Fla. is part of a a “parallel investigation.” The state is also investigating the…
Update: 12 p.m. Friday: The Los Angeles Times reported that all three ICE agents were supervisors, but the gunman was lower ranking. KTLA TV reported that the gunman opened fire during his disciplinary hearing. By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com One ICE agent was killed and another wounded in a bizarre shootout among agents at a…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A man in a Lincoln SUV refused to stop when Border Patrol agents attempted to pull him over, instead opting to try and run over an agent his vehicle. The agent shot the driver in the chest and killed him, reports Caller.com, of Corpus Christi, Tex. The incident took place on…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com FBI agents worked through the night Tuesday near the Crow Indian Reservation in Montana, searching for the gunman suspected of killing an elderly woman, her granddaughter and her granddaughter’s boyfriend, reports Reuters. Suspect Sheldon Bernard Chase, 22, is “considered armed and extremely dangerous,” the FBI said in a statement. The shootings…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The deadly drama at the Mexican border continues to play out in so many different way. The latest: The Associated Press reports that the Cochise County Sheriff’s Department on Monday said that a Border Patrol agent fatally shot a Mexican man three times in the back as he tried climbing a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com More is spilling out about Arizona shooter Jared Loughner in the weeks before he went on a shooting spree that would stun the country. The Washington Post’s Sari Horwitz reports that weeks and days before the shooting, Loughner surfed the Internet on his computer “in what investigators believe was an effort…
