12 wounded, 2 critically, in shooting near Ohio festival: Police
Toledo Police Deputy Chief Joseph Hefferman gives an update on the shooting to the media. (Toledo Police Department/Facebook)
(TOLEDO, Ohio) — Twelve people were wounded, two critically, after gunfire broke out near an outdoor festival in Toledo, Ohio, on Saturday evening, police said.
Toledo Police Deputy Chief Joseph Heffernan said it appears there were at least two shooters who “probably” began shooting toward each other, with the victims caught in the crossfire.
Lt. Dan Gerkin said the ages of those shot ranged from 14 to 61.
No suspects are in custody.
The incident began unfolding around 5:37 p.m. local time when police received a call for a shooting near the Old West End Festival, a community event celebrating the historic neighborhood.
Police said the investigation continues.
“We’ll dissect what happened and who was responsible and certainly the motives are going to be one of them,” the deputy chief said. “You know, why would somebody do something like this? It’s horrible.”
He added later, “This is a perfect example of when bullets start flying, they can go anywhere. They can strike anybody.”
George Kral, the city’s director of public safety, urged anyone with information or evidence to come forward.
“There were several hundred people there tonight and everyone has one of these,” said,” he said, holding up a cellphone. “I know in my heart that footage is out there. So I am imploring my fellow Toledoans to look through your cellphone video and reach out to [the Toledo Police Department] and help them catch the people who did this.”
He added, “This is one of the most iconic festivals in Toledo, and it’s a shame that something like this had to ruin it.”
Anyone with information can text or call Crime Stoppers at 419-255-1111.
Toledo, a city of about 270,000 people, is located in Northwest Ohio.
In a message posted to its website, the festival announced that further events planned for Sunday were cancelled.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on March 24, 2026 in New York, New York. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
(BIDDLEFORD, Maine) — Federal immigration authorities were involved in a fatal shooting in Biddeford, Maine, on Monday, according to the local elected leaders and multiple sources.
Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, said he was briefed on the incident by Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin. He said he was informed that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were involved in the deadly shooting.
King said the man was fatally shot after federal agents tried to stop the vehicle he was driving.
“He was in a vehicle — pulled out in the vehicle, and the term the secretary used was ‘weaponized’ the vehicle and was shot by an ICE agent,” King told reporters Monday morning.
King said the man who was shot was the target of the operation and that ICE agents had been given a final order for the man to be removed from the country.
“Body cameras were not on the agents. So we have no video evidence of what occurred in this case,” King said. “State and local officials, of course, are attending to it. The FBI will be leading the investigation because it was a federal operation.”
The Maine Attorney General’s Office also released a statement, confirming that the ICE operation on Monday morning was targeting a man related to a final order to remove him from the country. The Attorney General’s Office alleged, “the suspect attempted to flee in the vehicle in the direction of the officer and was fatally shot.”
“The male subject is not being named until positive identification is made and family members are notified,” according to the statement from the state Attorney General’s Office.
Maine Gov. Janet Mills said she was also briefed on the shooting and was informed that federal law enforcement was involved.
“I know situations like these are alarming and frightening,” Mills said in a statement. “The Maine State Police are at the scene supporting and working cooperatively with the Attorney General’s Office, Maine’s Office of Chief Medical Examiner, and Federal officials to determine the facts of what occurred this morning.”
Two Maine immigration advocacy groups — Maine Immigrants’ Rights Coalition (MIRC) and the Presente! — issued a joint statement, saying the individual who was killed was a 26-year-old Colombian man, who they claimed was authorized to work in the United States and had a Social Security number.
The groups called for a “prompt, independent, and transparent investigation.” The groups also called for a full accounting of every agency and officer involved as well as the preservation of all body-camera footage, surveillance footage, and communications between the federal officials involved.
“ICE must not be allowed to investigate itself or control the public narrative surrounding a death in which its personnel or operations were involved,” the groups said.
The FBI said the agency “responded to assist on-scene immediately following this morning’s shooting incident in Biddeford, Maine. We have no additional comment at this time.”
The Department of Homeland Security has not yet responded to ABC News’ requests for comment.
A bystander video verified by ABC News showed what appeared to be federal immigration agents and uniformed law enforcement officers in the aftermath of the shooting performing first aid on an individual on the ground at an intersection.
A Ring camera video obtained by ABC News from a residence near the shooting scene captured the sound of what appeared to be at least five gunshots.
Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, said in a social media post that she is “aware of reports that someone was fatally shot in Biddeford this morning, and ICE may be involved.”
A bystander video verified by ABC News showed what appeared to be federal immigration agents and uniformed law enforcement officers in the aftermath of the shooting performing first aid on an individual on the ground at an intersection.
A Ring camera video obtained by ABC News from a residence near the shooting scene captured the sound of what appeared to be at least five gunshots.
Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, said in a social media post that she is “aware of reports that someone was fatally shot in Biddeford this morning, and ICE may be involved.”
A bystander video verified by ABC News showed what appeared to be federal immigration agents and uniformed law enforcement officers in the aftermath of the shooting performing first aid on an individual on the ground at an intersection.
A Ring camera video obtained by ABC News from a residence near the shooting scene captured the sound of what appeared to be at least five gunshots.
Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, said in a social media post that she is “aware of reports that someone was fatally shot in Biddeford this morning, and ICE may be involved.”
She added, “My team and I are working to get more information and will share more as we learn it.”
Em Akerley, who lives near the shooting scene, told ABC affiliate station WMTW, that she was inside her home having her morning coffee when she heard the gunshots.
“I thought it was a backfire, and then I kept hearing them,” Akerley said. “I thought it was a drive-by shooting.”
She said she looked out her window and saw a small white car being corralled by two men, who appeared to be trying to stop the vehicle from losing control in the intersection.
“All of a sudden, all of these plain-clothes vested men started running down the street, abandoning their cars,” Akerley said.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
Law enforcement at the scene of a shooting in San, Jose, Calif., June 8, 2026. (KGO)
(SAN JOSE, Calif.) — Two people suffered life-threatening injuries in a shooting at the Kaiser medical offices in San Jose, California, authorities said.
The San Jose Police Department described the victims as a man and a woman and said both have been taken to the hospital.
Police said the shooting is believed to be an isolated incident and said there’s no threat to the public.
(NEW YORK) — Ernesto Alvarez paid off about $70,000 of credit card debt in just over a year. The fix: a plan that combined his credit card debt into a single loan.
Alvarez, 55, said he repaid debt on 12 to 15 different credit cards through a plan with the nonprofit Money Management International, which helped him negotiate lower interest rates and consolidated the debt.
After repaying his debt last year, Alvarez said he and his wife sold their house, moved to an apartment and began saving money for his daughter’s college education.
“Personally, I feel a huge weight off my shoulders,” said Alvarez, who works at a Whole Foods in Newport, California. “It’s a feeling of accomplishment, elation.”
A surge of inflation is squeezing household budgets as many American shoppers weather mounting credit card debt and elevated interest rates. Some cardholders have sought out ways to consolidate their debt, slash their payments and cut down what they owe.
Analysts who spoke to ABC News outlined options such as credit cards that offer a months-long grace period without interest payments, as well as consolidated bank loans with fixed interest payments at comparatively low rates.
The nation’s credit card debt burden drew attention after the Federal Reserve hiked benchmark interest rates last month, since credit card rates typically rise in response to such a move.
Investors peg the chances of another rate increase in October at one in three, meaning credit card rates may face additional upward pressure within weeks, according to CME Group’s FedWatch Tool, a measure of market sentiment.
“People do have more power in this situation than they think,” Matt Schulz, chief credit analyst at LendingTree, told ABC News. “The things that you can do to get your interest rates down can be far more powerful and outweigh any single move the Fed is going to take.”
Total U.S. credit card debt registered at $1.26 trillion in the second quarter of this year, marking an increase of $21 billion from the previous three-month period, a recent New York Federal Reserve study found.
Outstanding credit card balances stand just below an all-time record of $1.28 trillion set in the fourth quarter of last year.
Credit card rates have jumped significantly in recent years. In the second quarter of this year, the average interest rate on all credit card accounts with a commercial bank stood at 20.94%, up from 15.13% at the same time in 2022, Federal Reserve data shows.
Cardholders can avail themselves of widely available financial instruments that consolidate their debt and reduce their payments, some analysts told ABC News.
A 0% balance transfer credit card, for instance, offers an initial interest-free period lasting as long as 15 months before payments take hold, Schulz said.
“A 0% balance transfer credit card is about the best consolidation offer you can get,” Schulz said.
Such credit cards typically carry one-time fees amounting to between 3% and 5% of a customer’s transferred debt, Schulz said. Depending on the amount of debt at issue, the one-time payment can prove steep, Schulz added, but it usually pales in comparison to the savings gained over time from a significantly lower interest rate.
A new credit card at a lower interest rate holds another downside, Schulz said: The temptation to run up more debt.
“It requires some discipline,” Schulz said.
If debt holders find they cannot qualify for the minimum credit score necessary to access a 0% balance transfer credit card, they may be able to secure a personal loan with a favorable interest rate.
Under that approach, a debtholder can take out a bank loan in an amount matching his or her credit card debt and use it to pay off the credit card. The remaining bank loan, in theory, would provide a fixed interest payment at a lower rate than the credit card, offering a measure of predictability and financial relief, Schulz said.
On the other hand, the fixed nature of the interest payments may be unwelcome to some debtholders who prefer the flexibility afforded by many credit cards, Schulz added.
“It can be a positive in a lot of ways because the predictability can be easier to budget for,” Schulz added.
Carol Jones, a hospital recruiter, racked up tens of thousands of dollars in debt after stepping down from a second job and running up travel expenses to attend her stepdaughter’s basketball games, she said.
She said she sought out ways to consolidate her debt and slash her interest rates, knowing the hole would deepen otherwise.
Jones, who lives in Wichita, Kansas, took out two consolidation loans in an attempt to pay off her debt, but she had to use the credit cards again to make ends meet, leaving her unable to fulfill the terms of the consolidated loans, Lara Ceccarelli, a credit counselor with American Financial Solutions, told ABC News.
American Financial then worked with Jones on a debt management plan to modify the interest rates on her credit cards, another option available to debtholders, Ceccarelli said.
Jones took responsibility for her debt, but she said rising prices have exacerbated the difficulty of climbing out of her financial hole.
“It’s stressful when everything keeps inflating, and I know I’m going to have to hurry to try to pay this off, or I’m going to continuously just be in debt,” Jones said.
