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 ...

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.

The family of Win Rozario, a 19-year-old Queens man shot dead by police in March 2024, sued the city Monday, alleging the officers violated a range of NYPD regulations and forced the deadly confron… ...

A mentally ill man armed with a large knife refused numerous commands to drop his weapon and was shot to death by NYPD cops when he lunged at them on a Queens street Monday morning, police and ...

A mentally ill man shot and seriously wounded a policewoman in Jerusalem on Thursday when she accompanied rescue services into his apartment following reports that he presented a danger to himself ...

Police agencies — under scrutiny and worried about their own liability — increasingly won’t respond to someone in a mental health crisis unless that person is committing a crime. So who will ...

The mentally ill gunman who shot and wounded two kindergartners at a small California school Wednesday wrote that he was deploying a “countermeasure involving child executions” in response to ...

A man talked about his brother who was shot and killed by a Peoria police officer and said he struggled with mental illness and shouldn't have been shot. Andrew Cardon said his brother, Matthew ...

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — The rapper Silentó will spend 30 years in prison after pleading guilty but mentally ill to shooting and killing his cousin back in 2021.

A Homestead Cop Fatally Shot a Mentally Ill Man. She Won't Face Charges. Daniel Kempf, a 24-year-old man with schizophrenia, pointed a knife at his chest, admonishing cops to shoot him. They did.

The family of a mentally ill man killed by a sheriff’s deputy as he brandished a machete has sued Sacramento County in federal court.

The family of a Jersey City man who was fatally shot by police last summer after his aunt called for help while he was experiencing a mental health crisis is suing local officials over what they ...