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A man charged with shooting his wife of 45 years in a hospital intensive care unit in what may have been a mercy killing was charged Wednesday with aggravated murder, and his attorney said the man always acted out of love.

A coroner’s office scheduled an autopsy Monday for a northeast Ohio woman who was shot in her bed at a hospital’s intensive care unit, allegedly by her husband in what police believe was a mercy killing. Capt. Dan Zampelli said an initial court appearance for John Wise likely wouldn’t come until at least Tuesday or even Wednesday. He said police needed results of the autopsy to decide what charge would be appropriate.

A Texas woman was charged with capital murder Wednesday after allegedly shooting another woman and snatching her baby in the parking lot of a pediatric clinic, reports say. The newborn was later found safe.

An affidavit of probable cause in Florida's case against George Zimmerman for the shooting death of an unarmed 17-year-old says that the neighborhood watch volunteer "profiled" the victim, Trayvon Martin, and disregarded a police dispatcher's request that he await the arrival of police.

A teenage mother and her young daughter, snatched off a Cleveland street, were found shot to death in a garage early Sunday, Cleveland, Ohio, police said.

Rapper Corey "C-Murder" Miller was convicted Tuesday of second-degree murder for the 2002 shooting of a fan at a nightclub, capping tumultuous jury deliberations at his second trial in the killing. Please note, this is not ironic. His name involved murder and he murdered someone.

He is found dead in downtown Nashville with an unidentified female victim.

Steve McNair, a former NFL co-most valuable player, was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head today in downtown Nashville, police said.

A college student who was wounded in a shooting that killed his mother and brother told Va. police his father lured him to the family's house. The father later killed himself, authorities said.

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has reopened after a day of mourning for a guard authorities say was killed in an attack by a rifle-toting white supremacist.

The police on Thursday charged James W. von Brunn with murder in the death of a security guard at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.