Billings Police Department

According to the Billings Police Department, officers responded Saturday afternoon to a disturbance at a business involving the 35-year-old woman. BPD says the woman displayed a firearm, shot a round in the air and then fled in a stolen vehicle.

Members of law enforcement and the U.S. Attorney for the District of Montana spoke about gun violence at an event in Billings this week.

The unnamed suspect is being detained on suspicion of deliberate homicide, attempted deliberate homicide and robbery.

A police officer shot and wounded a woman in the Billings Clinic emergency department Sunday evening while responding to a report of an individual with a “loaded gun” threatening to shoot herself.

Police Chief Rich St. John said at a news conference on Monday a six-year veteran of the police department shot the man in the lower abdomen as officers responded to a report of a domestic dispute between the man and a woman.

Billings police offers shot at and killed a 19-year-old Billings man during an incident late Monday night. This is the second fatal police-involved shooting in one week, and the third this year.

The police department and the Department of Criminal Investigation will investigate the shooting to determine whether the use of force was justified.

While the number of calls for service, drug-related offenses and murders all decreased last year, violent crimes rose, continuing a years-long trend.

Residents in some of Montana's larger cities are calling for police departments to revise use of force policy and bolster social services in the wake of several high profile instances of police violence against people of color.

The Billings Police Department received a grant Tuesday up to $50,000 from the Federal Railroad Administration to support reducing railroad trespassing...