SALT LAKE CITY — The U.S. Army says the soldier who shot a Salt Lake City police officer in the leg was being sought as a deserter. Police returned fire Friday and killed Brandon S. Barrett, who was in military fatigues and heavily armed on a busy downtown intersection. The Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Tacoma, Wash., is releasing details about Barrett's ...

McKINNEY, Texas — The man who killed himself during a shootout with a suburban Dallas police department once worked as a jailer and security guard and even praised the very officers he attacked, according to associates and records. Patrick Gray Sharp, 29, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, the Collin County Medical Examiner's office said Wednesday. The announcement ...

POTERO CANYON, AZ - Jaime Martinez-Garcia, 26, of Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico, was found guilty of two counts of assault on a federal officer and one count of illegal re-entry after deportation by a federal jury in Tucson according to a report obtained by the National Association of Chiefs of Police on Friday. The case was tried before United States District Court ...

MIAMI - Police Sunday investigated two police-involved shootings in different parts of South Florida. And in a third case, police searched for a person who fired at a K-9 officer. On Sunday, police identified the man shot dead a day earlier by Miami police as Gibson Junior Belizaire, 21, of Miami. Police said that on Saturday they responded to a home ...