gun violence

A Washington barber was in the middle of cutting an 8-year-old child’s hair when a gunman entered the shop and shot him several times.

A Washington barber was shot and killed while cutting an 8-year-old boy’s hair Wednesday evening.

A number of recent shootings on Interstate 95 have gone unsolved. NBC 6’s Heather Walker reports

The Walmart manager who killed six people and injured several more in a mass shooting at a Virginia store has been identified as Andre Bing.

A disgruntled Walmart employee killed at least six people inside a Virginia store before taking his own life.

A University of Virginia football player who was seriously wounded in a shooting that killed three of his teammates last week has been released from the hospital Monday.

There have been 523 mass killings since 2006 resulting in 2,727 deaths as of Nov. 19

A gunman opened fire with a semiautomatic rifle inside a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, killing five people and leaving 25 injured before he was subdued by “heroic” patrons and arrested by police.

Authorities said they were looking for student Christopher Darnell Jones, considered “armed and dangerous,” in connection with the deadly shooting.

A Las Vegas man who was fired from a McDonald’s for fighting with a customer now faces attempted murder charges after returning to the restaurant and shooting a former co-worker in the head. According to Telemundo affiliate KBLR-TV, Victor Villanueva, 28, of Las Vegas was arrested Saturday on a charge of attempted murder with a deadly weapon in connection with...

A student was shot to death at a Seattle high school Tuesday morning, with a suspect being arrested on a public bus about an hour later, officials said.

At least nine people were wounded in a mass shooting in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood Saturday night, police said.

Police say they have few leads in the fatal shooting of rapper Takeoff dead outside a private party at a downtown Houston bowling alley.

Police in Denver are investigating after a shooting left one person dead and four others injured on the city’s Colfax neighborhood Tuesday afternoon.

Migos rapper Takeoff was fatally shot early Tuesday outside a bowling alley in Houston, an attorney for the rapper confirmed to NBC News. He was 28. 

Investigators said the woman’s 6-year-old son rushed to a neighbor’s house pleading for help and the neighbor then called 911.

County sheriffs, unlike most law enforcement officers, are directly elected by voters in most parts of the country. Their races rarely garner much attention beyond their jurisdictions but are now attracting more national interest as advocacy groups on both sides of the ideological divide look for new places to help elect their allies.

Police say a 15-year-old boy fatally shot five people in an attack that stretched from the streets of a Raleigh neighborhood to a nearby walking trail.

Police in North Carolina say that the suspect who killed five people in a shooting was a juvenile male.