Overview
- Sheffield police said a 20-year-old man remains in a critical, life-threatening condition after being shot in the chest late on Christmas Day, with four men aged 20 to 29 arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and a cordon maintained.
- In Gamesley near Glossop, Derbyshire Police reported two teens injured in a Christmas Day street incident that CCTV suggests involved a firearm discharge, with four arrests, both victims now expected to make full physical recoveries, searches ongoing and no gun recovered.
- Houston police said three officers opened fire at the CityScape Apartments early Friday, killing a man in his 50s, with multiple weapons found in his SUV, the officers placed on administrative leave and surveillance video released as investigators examine whether he fired.
- Police Scotland confirmed a 38-year-old man found injured on a Glasgow street on Christmas Day died in hospital, with the death treated as unexplained, forensic teams active and a post-mortem planned as cordons remain in place.
- U.S. holiday incidents also included Louisville’s three shootings and two stabbings with one man killed and a suspect arrested in a separate domestic shooting, Indianapolis cases that left one man dead with a named suspect in custody, and a Baltimore crash where a 27-year-old was found with an apparent gunshot wound under homicide investigation.