BNO News: NYPD confirms multiple people shot in Brooklyn, but cannot yet confirm scanner reports saying 7 shot — Michael van Poppel (@mpoppel) June 30, 2013

Police could not immediately comment on the identities of those hurt or the extent of their injuries. All were transported to Kings County Hospital and one of the victims has life-threatening injuries. So far police have made no arrests. 

Brooklyn: Clarendon Rd & East 52 St. NYPD o/s with 7 people shot 1 in traumatic arrest 4 in serious condition. Level 1 called. — New York City Alerts (@NYCityAlerts) June 30, 2013

It's standard operating procedure for the FBI to conduct an internal investigation when an agent shoots a suspect. Questions are being raised, though, after a report found that every single intentional shooting in the past 20 years was deemed 'justified.' Between 1993 and early 2011 FBI agents fatally shot 70 people and wounded approximately 80 others. In no incident, including one that led to a $1.3 million payout for a victim wrongfully identified as a bank robber, was an agent wrong to fire their weapon. The records were obtained by The New York Times through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. “The FBI takes very seriously any shooting incidents involving our agents, and as such we have an effective, time-tested process for addressing them internally,” an FBI spokesman said, adding that there have been no improper intentional shootings since 2011. The FBI investigation into the death of Ibragim Todashev a Chechen man connected to Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, is still ongoing. Todashev was fatally shot during an interview with FBI agents. Since the May 22 incident, unnamed agents have told media outlets Todashev threatened them with a knife, broomstick or metal pipe before the bureau admitted he was unarmed after all. Tim Murphy, a former deputy director of the FBI, told the Times that agents are generally older with more experience than the average police officer. He said officials plan to go into a situation with an “overwhelming presence,” which may help cut down on the number of shots fired. Critics simply do not believe it. Samuel Walker, who teaches criminal justice at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, said the FBI’s number of admitted mistakes is “suspiciously low.” Agents were disciplined in at least five cases since 1993, though, for so-called “bad shoots,” deemed so because they did not conform to FBI policy. The “bad shoots” came when an agent fired her weapon into the air to fend off a group of threatening men, when an agent shot at a gun lying on the ground in an attempt to disable it, twice when agents were pursuing fleeing suspects, and the fifth in a demonstration when an agent shot at a safe, the bullet ricocheting into a crowd and causing minor injuries. Independent analysis of the 289 deliberate shootings is nearly impossible because, in nearly every case, no alternative review of the incident was held. Perhaps the most suspicious case came when police pulled over a car in Maryland thought to be carrying a bank robber. Agents surrounded the vehicle, raised their weapons, and later claimed they shouted “show me your hands.” The passenger, a 20-year-old innocent, unarmed man, reached down at his face – at which point he was shot in the jaw. An independent review was conducted in this case and contained multiple differences with the FBI files, bringing into question the legitimacy of the other reports. One discrepancy, for instance, said the car was traveling at a mere 12 miles per hour, while the FBI file described a fleeing pursuit. The victim later filed suit and the bureau, and while a court found no evidence of wrongdoing, he was able to settle for $1.3 million.

At least 46 people were shot in Chicago, Illinois over the weekend in what is one of the bloodiest series of days yet this year in the Windy City.

By Monday morning, local news outlets reported that seven people died over the weekend from a number of incidents across the city. Six of the shooting deaths occurred at different locations, and a 16-year-old boy became the youngest victim fatally wounded after a passerby opened fired while riding a bicycle in the Little Village neighborhood in the city’s South Side, the Chicago Tribune reported. The paper acknowledged that 13 people were shot from Friday afternoon into Saturday, and another 33 people were hit from Saturday afternoon through Father’s Day evening on Sunday.

Chicago police spokesman Adam Collins told the Tribune that, so far, 2013 is on path to posting the lowest homicide totals in years. With the bloodshed brought out of this weekend’s tragedies, however, that trend could change. “There's going to be good days, and there's going to be bad days, which is why we've been calling this progress, not victory,” said Collins.

In an email to WBBM-TV, Collins wrote Monday morning that there is indeed room for improvement as the city tries to shed its reputation as being a violent, modern-day Wild West.

“While we’ve had fewer murders to date this year than any year since the mid-1960s, there’s more work to be done and we won’t rest until everyone in Chicago enjoys the same sense of safety,” Collins said. In 2012, the homicide count in the Windy City surpassed 500 for the first time since 2008. A study published last summer equated living in Chicago with being more dangerous than residing in Afghanistan, where the number of US serviceman killed overseas last year paled in comparison to figures in Chi Town.

According to WGN-TV, one of the nearly four-dozen fatalities this weekend resulted from a bullet fired by a Chicago Police Department officer. Anton Johnson, 24, was apparently shot and killed by police Sunday morning after he fled a car brandishing what appeared to be a gun.

“He fell. [Officers] could see as he was running that he had a gun in his belt in his back,” Fraternal Order of Police spokesperson Pat Camden told WGN. “As he fell to the ground, he was crawling and reaching for the gun at the same time. At that point the officers opened fire.”

Johnson’s mother, Stacy Liberty, disputed the department’s account.

“They didn’t even give him time to stop,” Liberty told WGN. “No call or anything. They just shot my son in the back.” The Tribune added that in one instance this weekend, a 40-year-old man died after gunfire erupted inside of a nightclub in the Grand Crossing neighborhood where three others were wounded. In another Little Village shooting, a 21-year-old man was the sole causality of a shootout that left at least five others wounded.