In a heartbreaking incident that has left the Akron, Ohio community reeling, 15-year-old Jazmir Tucker was shot and killed by police on Thanksgiving night. The shooting has raised serious ...

Ohio — A 7-year-old boy is in serious but stable condition at an Akron hospital after sustaining a gunshot wound early Saturday morning, police said. Officers responded to the shooting at around ...

AKRON, Ohio (WOIO) - Jury selection began Friday, Jan. 3 in the trial for three people accused in the deadly shooting on I-77 in Green in August 2023. Sirvonte Suggs, Giovanni Porter and Ahmere ...

AKRON, Ohio (WJW) — Akron police are investigating a fatal shooting early Saturday. Officers just after 3 a.m. responded to a shooting reported in the 500 block of Carpenter Street, according to ...

Officials say the city saw 25 murders in 2024, compared to 26 in 2023. That figure is still a sharp decline from the 2020 peak of 50 murders.

The newly released body camera footage does not provide full context into Tucker's actions that led to the shooting. City officials in Akron, Ohio, were left with more questions after bodycam ...

AKRON, Ohio WJW) — The president of the Akron Police Union is furious over recent comments from a councilman saying the city lawmaker called an officer involved in a police shooting a ...

AKRON, Ohio (WOIO) - The U.S. Marshals led Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force (NOVFTF) arrested the suspect in an October drive-by shooting Wednesday morning. According to a release ...

Akron, Ohio (WJW) — A man wanted in connection with a drive-by shooting that left a woman seriously injured is in custody. Matt Walker, 32, was arrested Wednesday morning by the U.S. Marshals ...

The Akron police officer who fatally shot 15-year-old Jazmir Tucker, Davon Fields, was previously involved in a fatal police shooting in 2022, according to Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation ...

But a special program in Summit County wants people to know that it is here for anyone who needs that extra help.

The number now totals 323 shootings, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and 267 victims. In Ohio, the number of mass shootings increased from 16 in Sept. 2024 to 18 as of Dec. 17 ...