A security officer was involved in the fatal shooting of a knife-wielding shoplifting suspect at the H-E-B grocery store located in northeast Austin on Friday, Austin Police say.

In response to concerns raised by local business owners, the City of Santa Fe has committed $750,000 to fund private security guards employed by Condor Security of America to patrol parts of the city’s iconic plaza and downtown.

The City of Somerville in Massachusetts is currently in the process of interviewing private security companies in the wake of “dozens” of incidents, some violent in nature, involving dangerous and reckless behavior by teenagers frequenting the public library.