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Suspect accused of killing 3 University of Virginia football players is denied bond as new revelations emerge

By Joe Johns, Aileen Graef, Amir Vera and Holly Yan, CNN The student accused of killing three University of Virginia football players after a school field trip was denied bail Wednesday during a court hearing in Charlottesville. According to a witness, suspect Christopher Darnell Jones Jr. shot one of the players, Devin Chandler, while he

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A 9-year-old boy was among 2 stabbed in an unprovoked attack at a Target in Los Angeles, police say. The suspect was shot and killed by a security guard

By Taylor Romine, CNN Two people were stabbed, including a 9-year-old boy, at a Target store in downtown Los Angeles Tuesday evening in what police are describing as an “unprovoked” and “heinous act.” The suspect, a 40-year-old man, was shot and killed by a security guard who confronted him, according to Los Angeles Police Department

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Exclusive: Uvalde mayor vows senior cop who knew children needed rescuing from Robb Elementary will be gone ‘by the end of this week’

By Shimon Prokupecz, Matthew J. Friedman, Rachel Clarke and Jamiel Lynch, CNN Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin said he was outraged by the actions of Lt. Mariano Pargas whom a CNN report showed failing to organize help for children he knew were trapped with a gunman. “Lt. Pargas will not be a member of the Uvalde

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‘Yahtzee!! We’re full.’ Migrant flight recruiter worked in lockstep with top DeSantis official, text messages show

By Paul P. Murphy, CNN A top public safety official for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis worked in lockstep with Perla Huerta, the former Army counterintelligence agent who recruited migrants for a pair of September flights from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, new text messages obtained by CNN show. On September 12, for example, two days

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Attorney calls for criminal investigation after video shows corrections officers beating Black man while in custody

By Jamiel Lynch, CNN An attorney for a North Carolina man is calling for a criminal investigation into why his client, a 41-year-old Black man, was beaten while in custody at the Camden County, Georgia, Detention Center in September. In a news release, civil rights attorney Harry Daniels says his client Jarrett Hobbs was “mercilessly”

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What we know about the suspect in the University of Virginia shooting rampage that left 3 football players dead

By Steve Almasy, Theresa Waldrop, Dakin Andone and Holly Yan, CNN The 22-year-old University of Virginia student suspected of killing three football players and wounding two other people was facing school disciplinary action after UVA officials learned he failed to disclose his conviction last year on a misdemeanor concealed weapons charge, a school spokesperson says.

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Suspect captured after allegedly opening fire at an Arizona business, killing one person, then fleeing into the desert

By Amy Simonson and Chris Boyette, CNN A man was arrested Monday after allegedly shooting two people, killing one of them, in an unprovoked attack at an Arizona business before fleeing into the desert, officials said. The suspect entered a business in Whetstone, Arizona, twice Monday acting as a customer before returning and opening fire

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Police suspect ‘edged weapon’ was used in killings of 4 University of Idaho students. Here’s what we know

By Steve Almasy, Chris Boyette, Hannah Sarisohn and Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN Police believe an “edged weapon” was used to kill four college students who were found in a house near the University of Idaho — deaths that sent shock waves through the campus of about 11,500 students. “Investigators are continuing to work diligently on

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Attorney calls for criminal investigation after video shows corrections officers beating Black man while in custody

By Jamiel Lynch, CNN An attorney for a North Carolina man is calling for a criminal investigation into why his client, a 41-year-old Black man, was beaten while in custody at the Camden County, Georgia, Detention Center in September. In a news release, civil rights attorney Harry Daniels says his client Jarrett Hobbs was “mercilessly”

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Exclusive: New audio of phone call shows for the first time that a senior Uvalde officer was told children needed to be rescued from inside a classroom

By Shimon Prokupecz, Matthew J. Friedman and Rachel Clarke, CNN Uvalde’s acting police chief knew there were “eight to nine” children alive and needing rescue from a shooter in the classrooms at Robb Elementary but failed to organize help, new audio of a phone call and CNN analysis of newly obtained video shows. Lt. Mariano

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What we know about the suspect in the University of Virginia shooting rampage that left 3 football players dead

By Steve Almasy, Theresa Waldrop, Dakin Andone and Holly Yan, CNN The 22-year-old University of Virginia student suspected of killing three football players and wounding two other people was facing school disciplinary action after UVA officials learned he failed to disclose his conviction last year on a misdemeanor concealed weapons charge, a school spokesperson says.

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Retired detective and Kansas City drug kingpin charged with conspiring to run an underage sex-trafficking operation

By Scott Glover and Daniel A. Medina, CNN A veteran homicide detective in Kansas City, Kansas conspired with a local drug kingpin to help run a sex-trafficking operation involving underage girls, prosecutors alleged in an explosive indictment unsealed Monday. Roger Golubski, a retired 35-year-veteran of the Kansas City, Kansas Police Department allegedly used his position to shield the

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