A man accused of shooting six people following an altercation at the Virginia Beach Oceanfront said he was defending himself from a robbery, according to court documents ...

A 2021 change to Ohio law is making it more difficult for prosecutors to secure murder convictions when a defendant claims ...

After shootings in Columbus, suspects sometimes raise self-defense claims. Sometimes these claims are successful; sometimes they aren’t. The Dispatch spoke with a legal expert to figure out when ...

Fort Worth federal Judge Mark Pittman specifically named Benjamin Song as the person who nonfatally shot a police officer ...

Colorado’s second-highest court concluded last week that an incomplete self-defense instruction required the reversal of an El Paso County defendant’s murder convictions. Demetrius Montez Martin was ...

The New Year’s Day gunfire outside a Garden City bar has moved from the parking lot to the courtroom, where a Livonia man now insists he pulled the trigger to save his own life. Brian Jaron Lindsay ...

Derrick Long's attorney said he acted in self-defense during the Riverfront Live shooting. Franeek Cobb's attorney has said he fired in self-defense.

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Was it self-defense? That's the big question for Akira Fletcher. She's accused of shooting two women in Avondale, which resulted in the death of one of them. On Monday, Local 12 ...

At the beginning of class, Chijioke “Chi” Williams invites her trans self-defense students to “shake it out” and simply get moving. “There’s so many people with complicated relationships with their ...