The facts support that (the officer’s) actions were responsive and defensive in nature,” the Jackson County prosecutor said, “and, therefore, under these circumstances the State cannot disprove the Shooting Officer’s anticipated claims of self-defense beyond a reasonable doubt.

A 14-year-old shot and killed a police officer and wounded another Friday evening in New Jersey, authorities said, in a chaotic scene that witnesses described as seeing officers running down a busy street before they heard a volley of a dozen or more gunshots.

A teenager is charged with murder after a Newark, New Jersey police officer was shot and killed. A second officer is hospitalized.

A Newark police officer was killed in the line of duty Friday night in a shooting that also wounded a second officer, according to police union officials. The officers were shot at 6:37 p.m. in the area of Broadway and Carteret Street in Newark, according to a statement from the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office.

A police officer from the northwest Georgia city of Chickamauga has died several days after he was shot and critically injured in a murder-suicide that killed three other people. Officer Charles “Chuck” Dunn died on Thursday night,

An off-duty Chickamauga police officer left wounded in a murder-suicide that killed three people has died, officials confirm. The City of Chickamauga shared the update on its Facebook page that Officer Charles "Chuck" Dunn died Thursday after being hospitalized in the incident for nearly a week.