A young woman was struck and killed by gunfire while walking a child to a bus stop in Louisville, Kentucky, on Wednesday morning, authorities said.

At a news conference, Louisville Metro Police Chief Paul Humphrey said the shooting happened around 8 a.m. near 11th and Chestnut streets, near several bus stops. Humphrey said a woman was walking a child to the bus stop when she was shot and later taken to UofL Health Hospital,

A woman was shot and killed at a Louisville bus stop amid morning gunfire; police search for the suspect after a second school-area shooting this week.

Roughly nine hours after President Donald Trump declared a public safety emergency in Washington, D.C., and took control of the city's police force, a 33-year-old man was shot and killed in Logan Circle,

U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro provided an update Tuesday afternoon on Washington’s crime numbers as the number of homicides this year in the nation’s capital hits 100. The press conference came a day after President Trump declared a crime emergency in D.