A woman who North Branch police fatally shot on Thursday night was struggling with mental illness and alcohol, according to her husband.. Nick Williams said on Sunday that his wife, 36-year-old ...

The family of a knife-wielding Whittier-area man shot and killed by sheriff’s deputies in 2019 is poised to receive $2.2 million from Los Angeles County to settle a federal lawsuit alleging excessive ...

Jurors often are reluctant to acquit someone who committed a crime while mentally ill, or to find that person guilty. So they take a third option: guilty but mentally ill. It's far from perfect.

A woman who was shot to death by police last week in North Branch, Minn., had struggled with alcohol and mental illness, her husband said Saturday. Jamie Ann Crabtree, 36, was killed Thursday ...

FENTON, Mo. (WKRC) - An elderly man allegedly shot and killed his mentally ill wife because he was "exhausted" of taking care of her and didn't want her to die in a nursing home.

Two LAPD officers violated department rules in the fatal shooting of Takar Smith last January, the LAPD's civilian Police Commission ruled Tuesday.

The family of a man shot and killed by Homestead Police on Saturday morning is denouncing his death as an injustice, while the Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigates the shooting and ...

Above: Janet Delana at the grave of her husband, Tex Delana, in Lexington, Mo. He was fatally shot in 2012 by their daughter, Colby Sue Weathers, who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia.

SALEM, Ore. — One summer night, Misty Castillo stepped out of her house in Salem, Ore., called 911 and asked for the police, saying her son was mentally ill, was assaulting her and her husband ...

MOUNT VERNON — Pamela Radcliffe held a poster-size photo of her husband in court Monday and turned to his murderer. “Do you know who this is?” she asked Isaac Zamora. Zamora, 29, shot and ...

The mother was in tears and she said so much went wrong when she and her husband sought help for their mentally ill son. “He didn’t get his help. He got bullets,” she said through sobs.