STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A police officer wrestled a 55-year-old man to the ground after the defendant allegedly pointed a sword ...

The man who was shot by Dayton police officers after charging at them with a sword while naked will not face prison time for the incident. David Showalter, 34, avoided prison time and was sentenced to ...

DAYTON — Dayton Police have identified the man shot by officers after wielding a sword Wednesday evening, as well as the officers that fired the shots. In a press conference Thursday afternoon, Dayton ...

Alan Weber, 54, was wielding swords when officers responded to a 911 call, police say Samira Asma-Sadeque is a legal reporter at PEOPLE's crime desk. He work also appears in The New York Times, The ...

A Massachusetts police officer shot and wounded a man who was moving toward the officer armed with a sword, authorities said. The man was shot in Oxford on Sunday morning and was treated at a hospital ...

OXFORD, Mass. (AP) — A man shot by police in Massachusetts last weekend was holding a sword over his head and running at an officer at a "full sprint," police said. The 23-year-old man faces attempted ...

A Wrightsville police officer fatally shot a man who attacked him and a firefighter with a sword outside a convenience store around midnight Monday. The firefighter suffered severe arm injuries but is ...