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 ...

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 mentally ill man who fatally shot his parents in their Point Loma home the day after Thanksgiving 2014 was sentenced Friday to 100 years to life in state prison.

Alicia Smith, center, mother of Takar Smith, who was fatally shot by LAPD officers, is comforted by 14-year-old granddaughter Rashi Avery-Smith, left, and wife of Takar, Shameka Smith at a press ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Thomas Gilbert Jr. (left) fatally shot his father Thomas Sr. (right inset) in 2015. His mother Shelley felt helpless in the face of her son's mental issues. Bloomberg via Getty Images In 2005 ...