All news on the topic: Gun crime

An off-duty police officer was shot multiple times in front of his own son and a number of young people by masked men in Omagh, Co Tyrone, in Northern Ireland

The youngster was standing beside his dad, Det Chief Insp John Caldwell, who was putting footballs in his car boot when the would-be assassins approached and opened fire outside a sports complex in Omagh

Det Chief Insp John Caldwell was putting footballs into his car boot after taking a training session for an under-15 team in Omagh, Northern Ireland yesterday, when two masked men opened fire

Reporters had been at the scene of the earlier fatal shooting in Pine Hills, Orlando, Florida, US, when the alleged shooter returned to the scene and opened fire killing a journalist and a nine-year-old girl

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar have condemned an attack on a serving police officer who was shot multiple times in Omagh, Northern Ireland

Apprentice crane operator Jake Davison, 22, used his legally held pump action shotgun to carry out one of the worst gun massacres in Britain for more than a decade

Georgia State University student Sherlyn 'Alicia' Drew 2 was killed when bullets were fired at her home in Charlotte, North Carolina, US, by a gunman who targeted the wrong house

CCTV captured Jake Davison attacking an innocent 16-year-old boy less than a year before he mercilessly shot five people dead in Plymouth

Andre 'AJ' Hernandez, from San Antonio, Texas, US, broke into a Toyota Corolla and put the stolen car into reverse when he was shot in the stomach by police on June 3, 2022

A popular city park has been forced to close after two men were shot in a suspected botched robbery, with no arrests yet made after armed police raced to the scene

Guelia Vallinas had been walking home from the shops and was not far from her Queens, New York, US, apartment when a bullet fired as part of a gang war hit her in the head

Richard Acosta, 34, from Texas, US, has been convicted of capital murder for driving away his son who allegedly shot dead three teenagers and injured one other on December 26, 2021

A measure on the best way to fight crime in Missouri, US, was debated with lawmakers on Wednesday which included banning kids from walking down the street with firearms

A man who killed three teenagers has been executed - we'll be bringing you the very latest updates, pictures and video on this breaking news story.

Adriana Lavin was working out in a fitness studio when two bullets were unintentionally fired through the window by a man police beleive was aiming for someone else. One of the bullets hit Ms Lavin

Reginald McCoy faces charges of child neglect and culpable negligence after allegedly putting the gun in his daughter's bag which she then took to school

Fiona Crooks had her six-year-old daughter in the car when she drove boyfriend Vincent Horsfall to an Aldi car park to hand over a gun to a gangster in April 2021

Protests have broken out across a neighbourhood after a 'happy and cheerful' girl was tragically killed in a random drive-by-shooting just two days before her 11th birthday

Huu Can Tran, 72, fired 42 rounds in the Star Ballroom Studio on Saturday night in California, US, killing 11 and injuring 9 during the Lunar New Year celebrations

Abigail Zwerner, 25, text a loved one complaining administrator's at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News weren't helping after she was concerned with a 6-year-old boy's behaviour

California has seen two mass shootings after Huu Can Tran, 72, shot dead 11 people at Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park and Chunli Zhao, 67, killed seven in Half Moon Bay, US

Patrick Crusius is accused of killing 23 people at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, in a racist mass shooting - he allegedly stalked the aisles armed with an assault rifle

At least seven people have been killed after shootings at two farms at Half Moon Bay, in California, with the suspected gunman, believed to be a fellow worker, taken into custody

Brandon Tsay, 26, whose family runs Lai Lai Ballroom & Studio, wrested the gun from Huu Can Tran, 72, after he heard doors slamming and gunshots in his office lobby

Gunman Huu Can Tran, 72, taught dance lessons at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio nearly five nights a week in the early 2000s and was reportedly "hostile to a lot of people" at the studio