Emblem of the NICS. The National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) is a U.S. system for determining if prospective firearms or explosives buyers' name and birth year match those of a person who is not eligible to buy.
Paul Gray, who founded heavy-metal band Slipknot, died of a drug overdose in an Iowa motel in 2010. His doctor, Dr Daniel Baldi, faces 9 counts of involuntary manslaughter stemming from the deaths of Gray and others he prescribed drugs to.
Freddie Gray, a Baltimore resident, died a week after he was arrested by police on April 12, suffering a nearly severed spine in the process. The Department of Justice opened a civil rights investigation into his death on Tuesday. Gray, who was running before police arrested him, was ostensibly healthy.