A man shot dead by the Quebec police at his home on July 27 has been identified as an RCMP officer who allegedly seriously injured a woman and a teenager. The incident occurred at approximately 2:05 a.m. on July 27 in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu—a city about 40 kilometres southeast of Montreal—according to a French-language statement from the province’s independent…

SAO PAULO—A local official from Brazil’s leftist opposition Workers’ Party (PT) was shot dead on Saturday by a federal prison guard, according to state law enforcement. Marcelo Arruda, a municipal guard and PT official, was celebrating his birthday party in the southern Brazilian city of Foz de Iguacu, in the state of Parana, when Jorge…

NEW DELHI—Indian police are investigating the killing of a popular Punjabi rapper, a day after he was fatally shot, officials said Monday. Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu, also known around the world by his stage name Sidhu Moose Wala, was killed Sunday evening while driving his car in Mansa, a district in northern India’s Punjab state. Moose…

A man accused of murdering Sergeant Matt Ratana at a custody centre in south London in 2020 could face a “fitness to plea” hearing in hospital. In the early hours of Sep. 25 2020 Louis De Zoysa, 24, allegedly fired four shots while handcuffed inside Croydon police station, two of which struck 54-year-old Ratana. DeZoysa,…

COVINA, Calif.—A man who was among a group of people chasing another man they believed had stolen something from a vehicle in Covina was fatally shot by the suspect, who was still at large Dec. 22. The wounded man died at the scene of the shooting, which occurred about 11 p.m. Tuesday in the 1800 block of Covina…