Two 17-year-olds arrested Thursday at Westside High School were charged as adults Friday with conspiracy to commit capital murder and possession of a firearm by a minor on school property. Authorities say Dakota Hayes took a gun to school Thursday and handed it off in the boy’s bathroom to Patrick Houston. A third student saw the gun hand-off and reported it. The school was placed on lockdown, officials said,…

Channel 2 Action News has obtained shocking surveillance video that shows the moment a store clerk thought he was going to die. A gunman entered the Roswell Shell station store on Holcomb Bridge Road and attacked the clerk. The attack happened a few weeks ago. The clerk, who did not want to be identified, said when he saw a man with his face covered come walking in, he knew what…

Demitrius Moore, 15, finished his chores before walking out the door of his North Philadelphia home on Saturday afternoon, washing three loads of laundry for his mother and younger brothers before leaving to visit his father’s house. Moore never made it. On the way, he was shot twice in the chest by a gunman who remained at large Monday, leaving Moore’s relatives wondering why he was gunned down and…

AS POLICE ANNOUNCED THE ARREST OF A TEENAGER IN A SHOOTING AT A HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL GAME IN DALLAS THAT INJURED TWO PEOPLE, EDUCATORS ON MONDAY EXPRESSED OUTRAGE OVER A SURGE IN GUN VIOLENCE IN THE CITY AND SAID THEY WILL IMMEDIATELY TAKE UNPRECEDENTED ACTION TO BOOST SECURITY AT SCHOOL SPORTING EVENTS. DALLAS INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT MICHAEL HINOJOSA SAID THE VIOLENCE THAT ERUPTED AT THE BASKETBALL GAME SIGNALED A LONG-HELD "TRUCE" HAS BEEN BROKEN IN THE CITY THAT SCHOOL SPORTING EVENTS AND OTHER EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES WERE OFF-LIMITS AS VENUES FOR SETTLING FEUDS.

A CASUAL GLANCE AT A CRIME MAP OF DALLAS SUGGESTS THE VIOLENCE THAT BARRELED THROUGH THE CITY LAST YEAR WAS AIMLESS. BUT A MORE DETAILED LOOK AT NORTH DALLAS REVEALS A HIGH-RISK SETTING FOR GUN VIOLENCE STEMS IN PART FROM A CONCENTRATION OF USED-GOODS STORES, APARTMENT COMPLEXES AND CAR WASHES. IN SOUTHEAST DALLAS, THE CONSTELLATION OF MOTELS, GAS STATIONS AND PHARMACIES SERVES AS ANOTHER PRIME LOCATION. THOSE CONCLUSIONS WERE BASED ON AN ANALYSIS BY THE CHILD POVERTY ACTION LAB, A DALLAS-BASED NONPROFIT FOCUSED ON IMPROVING THE LIVES OF KIDS.

BACK IN THE EARLY 1990S, THERE WAS OPERATION TRIGGERLOCK. A FEW YEARS LATER, IN RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, THEY CALLED THE POLICY PROJECT EXILE. NOW IT’S CALLED PROJECT SAFE NEIGHBORHOODS. THROUGH THREE DECADES OF DEBATE ABOUT GUN CONTROL AND HOW TO PREVENT VIOLENT CRIME, POLICYMAKERS OF BOTH PARTIES HAVE CONSISTENTLY AGREED TO CRACK DOWN ON PEOPLE WITH CRIMINAL RECORDS WHO ARE CAUGHT POSSESSING A FIREARM.

With city leaders scrambling to combat high levels of gun violence, Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas is dusting off an old legal tactic: suing the gun industry. Such lawsuits were relatively common in the 1980s and 1990s, until Congress passed a law in 2005 that largely curtailed the tactic. Speaking Tuesday at a news conference at City Hall, Lucas said the case represents the first municipal lawsuit filed against…

A USA TODAY OP-ED STATING IT WAS "TERRIFYING" THAT SEVERAL PARISHIONERS WERE ARMED WHEN A GUNMAN OPENED FIRE DURING A CHURCH SERVICE IN TEXAS WAS ROASTED ON SOCIAL MEDIA. THE BLOWBACK COMES AFTER PARISHIONER JACK WILSON SHOT AND KILLED THE GUNMAN AT WEST FREEWAY CHURCH OF CHRIST IN WHITE SETTLEMENT, TEXAS, ON SUNDAY. TWO OTHER PARISHIONERS WERE KILLED IN THE ATTACK.

CA – GUN CRIME - 156 GUNS SEIZED AFTER ANAHEIM MAN TRIPS OWN BURGLARY ALARM, ROOMMATE INVITES POLICE TO INVESTIGATE
A MAN ACCIDENTALLY TRIPPED A BURGLARY ALARM IN HIS ANAHEIM HOME AND WAS ARRESTED ALONG WITH HIS HOUSEMATE, WHO TOLD OFFICERS OVER THE PHONE TO INSPECT THEIR HOUSE, RESULTING IN THE DISCOVERY AND SEIZURE OF OVER 150 GUNS FROM THE RESIDENCE ON MONDAY, DEC. 16.