Two dead, one in serious condition in West Palm Beach shooting | www.palmbeachpost.com

WEST PALM BEACH —

Two men died and a third was in serious condition Friday night after an afternoon shooting, a city police spokesman said.

Police identified the deceased as Avery Williams, 22, and Jamario Troutman, 24, but did not immediately release the hometowns of either man.

Police also did not immediately identify the third shooting victim.

The murders were the 29th and 30th of the year for Palm Beach County, according to local law-enforcement records. There have now been five homicides in the city of West Palm Beach this year.

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Family tries to generates leads in teen’s murder | News – Home

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -

One day after a $15,000 reward for information in the death of a Jacksonville teen, his family hit the streets, talking to neighbors and looking for answers.

It’s been five months since 19-year-old Thomas James Nunley was shot and killed walking along Fort Caroline Road after he left a friend’s house. He was just a half mile from his home.

“We’ve talked to a lot of grandparents and they realize our loss cause T.J. was just everything to us,” said his grandmother, Luci Nunley.

The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said the needed new leads in the case and worked with the family and the Justice Coalition to coordinate the award.

Reward for information on Nunley murder The family said the reward and the their efforts is about keeping what happened to him fresh on peoples mind’s and, hopefully, find someone who knows something about the teen’s murder.

They say doing something is better than doing nothing and just waiting.

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Little Rock man shot to death while defending woman from ex-boyf – KATV – Breaking News, Weather and Razorback Sports

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) – The shooting happened around eleven o’ clock Wednesday night when police say Kelshawn Mouton tried to protect a woman from her ex-boyfriend. That’s when he was shot to death.

“I heard gunshots,” said Dorothy Ramsey, a resident in the neighborhood where the shooting happened. “Many rounds of gunshots.”

It’s an unusual sound to hear in this quiet Little Rock neighborhood. Gun shots, one after the other in the middle of the night.

“First we thought it might have been someone,” said Larry Beene, another resident. “Just then we heard a few rounds go off again she said ‘No, that’s someone really shooting.”

Police say residents in the Blackjack Court cul-de-sac were hearing the fatal end of a confrontation between 21-year-old Kelshawn Mouton and 20-year-old Donavan Whittington.

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Police seek 2 “persons of interest” in NW Atlanta murder, home… | www.ajc.com

Police are looking for a pair of men they believe are connected with a fatal home invasion shooting early Tuesday morning.

Jerrick Jackson was shot multiple times in the torso as he attempted to ward off a group of armed robbers trying to force their way into his northwest Atlanta home as he and his fiancée returned home, police said.

Atlanta Police spokesman Sgt. Greg Lyon said police have photos of two individuals trying to use Jackson’s fiancée’s stolen debit card.

Lyon called the two men in the photos “persons of interest” whom investigators are trying to identify.

The images come from video footage recorded just nine hours after the fatal shooting at a store in the 3100 block of Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway, he said.

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Man shot and killed at Houston’s Bush Intercontinental Airport – CNN.com

(CNN) — A man was shot and killed Thursday in a pre-screening area at Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, authorities said.

Houston Police Department spokesman Kese Smith told reporters that the man had just come through the doors in Terminal B when he fired at least one shot into the ceiling.

A Homeland Security Investigations agent was working in an office near the scene, came out and told the man to drop his weapon. The agent fired once at the suspect, who appeared to try to shoot himself at the same time.

An autopsy will determine whose bullet killed the man, who has not been identified, police said.

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