Violent Crime and Public Safety

A registered sex offender is accused of committing six sexual assaults in a single day in the Los Angeles Valley, an episode that intensified fears as a reported crime surge hits the area.

Sheridan Gorman, an 18-year-old Loyola University Chicago freshman, was fatally shot; her parents urge accountability over politics in the immigration debate.

A repeat offender released early from jail was arrested and charged with capital murder in the killing of a pregnant Texas woman. Fox News reported the arrest and the capital murder charge, saying the woman was pregnant when she was killed. Authorities allege the suspect had a previous criminal record and had been let out of custody ahead of schedule.

Former Virginia lieutenant governor Justin Fairfax allegedly shot his wife and then killed himself early Thursday at their Annandale home.

A Michigan teen escaped an alleged gunpoint kidnapping after slipping an SOS note to someone at a gas station, police say. Surveillance video captured the teen being grabbed at a bus stop earlier, according to local reports. The teen later managed to alert someone at the gas station by slipping an SOS note, police said, and that action allowed her to escape the alleged abductor.