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The Colfax massacre, sometimes referred to as the Colfax riot, occurred on Easter Sunday, April 13, 1873, in Colfax, Louisiana, the parish seat of Grant Parish. An estimated 62–153 Black militia men were murdered while surrendering to a mob of former Confederate soldiers and members of the Ku Klux Klan.
On July 17, 2016, Gavin Eugene Long shot six police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in an ambush attack, [9] in the wake of the shooting of Alton Sterling.Four died, including one who was critically wounded and died from complications in 2022, and two others were hospitalized; of the officers who initially died, two were members of the Baton Rouge Police Department, while the third worked ...
On July 5, 2016, Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old black man, was shot and killed by two Baton Rouge Police Department officers, Blane Salamoni and Howie Lake II, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The officers, who were attempting to control Sterling's arms, shot Sterling to death, which was preceded by Salamoni threatening Sterling with his gun before ...
A family of four were fatally shot in their South Los Angeles home. A suspect was arrested, charged and sentenced to death for the incident. July 24, 1984 Hot Springs, Arkansas: 5 [n 1] 2 7: After a traffic stop, the perpetrator engaged in a gun fight with the officer, injuring each other.
On the morning of September 4, 2005, six days after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, members of the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD), ostensibly responding to a call from an officer under fire, shot and killed two civilians at the Danziger Bridge: 17-year-old James Brissette and 40-year-old Ronald Madison.
Law enforcement officials said they arrested the suspected shooter, a 14-year-old student Tuesday after the shooting. A school shooting in Louisiana left 1 dead, 2 hurt. Classes are canceled until ...
Decided. March 1, 1969; 55 years ago (1969-03-01) Verdict. Not guilty. Court membership. Judge sitting. Edward Haggerty. Clay Shaw was acquitted by the jury after less than an hour of deliberation. On March 1, 1967, New Orleans District attorney Jim Garrison arrested and charged New Orleans businessman Clay Shaw with conspiring to assassinate ...
Killing of Yoshihiro Hattori. Yoshihiro Hattori (ζι¨ εδΈ, Hattori Yoshihiro, November 22, 1975 – October 17, 1992, often referred to as Yoshi Hattori[4]) was a Japanese student on an exchange program to the United States who was shot to death in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The shooting happened when Hattori, on his way to a Halloween party ...