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 died after head 'slammed into bolt in police van', reports say. Injury on head of man whose death sparked Baltimore riots matched a bolt in the back of police van, according to local ABC news station. This article is 1 year old. Jon Swaine and Oliver Laughland in Baltimore.