Police chief gives first detailed description of last week’s classroom shooting that has shocked US
The shooting of a Virginia teacher by a six-year-old boy in her classroom last week happened without warning, and with no fight or physical struggle, authorities have said.
“What we know today is that she was providing instruction. He displayed a firearm, he pointed it and he fired one round,” said the Newport News police chief, Steve Drew.
Continue reading...Albuquerque police say houses and workplaces of state and county politicians have been hit by gunfire over the last month
New Mexico authorities are investigating at least five shootings apparently directed at the homes and offices of local elected officials, the Albuquerque police department said on Thursday.
The shootings occurred over approximately the past month and were directed at two county commissioners, two state senators and New Mexico’s new attorney general, according to KQRE News.
Continue reading...Authorities said they had arrested the boy for shooting a female teacher at Richneck elementary school in Newport News
A six-year-old child deliberately shot a teacher at an elementary school in Virginia on Friday afternoon, according to police.
Police said in a statement that they have arrested the boy accused of shooting a female teacher at Richneck elementary school in Newport News, Virginia, a city in the south-eastern part of the state.
Continue reading...Francesco Velli, 73, had history of harassing neighbours before killing three members of the condo board and two others
The man who shot and killed five people at a suburban Toronto condominium on Sunday evening had spent years harassing his neighbours and threatening the building’s condo board over a belief that the building’s electrical room was making him sick.
At a news conference on Monday, York region police chief James MacSween identified the gunman in Sunday night’s attack in the city of Vaughn as Francesco Velli.
Continue reading...Police in Canada shoot dead suspect after receiving reports of an active male shooter in Vaughan on Sunday night
Five people have been shot and killed in a residential unit in a Toronto suburb before the gunman was killed by police, authorities have said.
Police were called to a residential building in Vaughan, Ontario, at about 7.20pm on Sunday to reports of an active male shooter who had shot several victims at a condo in Vaughan, Ontario.
Continue reading...Rapper takes stand in case against Canadian-born musician, emotionally recounting night when she was shot
Megan Thee Stallion delivered emotional testimony on Tuesday in the trial of Tory Lanez, the fellow musician and former friend who allegedly shot her following a party in Los Angeles.
The Texas-born rapper, whose real name is Megan Pete, shared the most in-depth account yet about the moment that led to the shooting in 2020. She described how the attack left her with constant pain in her feet and said the reliving the incident in the public eye had been “torture”.
Continue reading...California woman says shooting at gay club could have been prevented had earlier charges not been dismissed
A California woman who warned a judge last year about the danger posed by the suspect in the Colorado Springs gay nightclub shooting said on Friday that the deaths could have been prevented if earlier charges against the suspect had not been dismissed.
Jeanie Streltzoff – a relative of alleged shooter Anderson Lee Aldrich – urged Colorado judge Robin Chittum in a letter last November to incarcerate the suspect following a 2021 standoff with Swat teams that uncovered a stockpile of more than 100 pounds (45kg) of explosive material, firearms and ammunition.
Continue reading...Gunman bought firearm at a local store, police say, and took it to the Virginia branch where had worked since 2010
The gunman who killed six people on Tuesday at a Walmart store in Chesapeake, Virginia, purchased the handgun legally the same day, authorities said.
The 31-year-old suspect bought the 9mm handgun at a local store, according to police. He took it to the Walmart branch where he had worked since 2010 shortly before the store was due to close. Investigators have said he was carrying several magazines of ammunition, and killed himself with the weapon before authorities arrived.
Continue reading...Patrons at Club Q flipped over tables for shelter after shots suddenly rang out across the venue
Deanne VanScyoc said she had dropped to the floor behind a pool table at Club Q and called 911 as the first shots rang out just before midnight, hitting people at the bar.
VanScyoc was facing the entrance from behind a glass wall when the shooter came in, she said. The shooter turned right and fired a single shot toward the bar, then three more in rapid succession, then a flurry of shots. As pop music pounded and a strobe light flashed, VanScyoc saw the shooter, in body armor, move in a crouch down a ramp, rifle at eye level, and head toward the dance floor.
Continue reading...Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22, scheduled to appear by video from jail over attack that left five dead and at least 17 wounded
The alleged gunman facing possible hate crime charges in the fatal shooting of five people at a Colorado Springs nightclub was scheduled to make a first court appearance on Wednesday from jail, after being released from hospital.
Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22, who was beaten into submission by patrons at Club Q on Saturday night, was scheduled to appear by video. Motive was under investigation but authorities said Aldrich faced possible murder and hate crime charges.
Continue reading...Walmart employee says gunman, who police say killed himself, was manager who opened fire on workers gathered in break room
Six people were killed when a gunman opened fire at a Walmart store in southern Virginia late on Tuesday, in the latest mass shooting to strike the US, this time shortly before the Thanksgiving holiday. The gunman killed himself, police said.
A witness, Jessie Wilczewski, told a local TV station, WAVY, the gunman began shooting at a group of about 14 employees gathered in a meeting room at the start of their shift in the store, located in the city of Chesapeake.
Continue reading...Shooter faces five murder charges and five charges of committing a bias-motivated crime causing bodily injury, records show
The suspect in a weekend gun attack on a LBGTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs will face five murder charges, and five additional hate crime counts of causing injury with “bias motivation”, records released on Monday afternoon show.
The details came as police updated the number of injured in the Saturday night rampage at Club Q to 18, and said the alleged shooter, 22-year-old Anderson Lee Aldrich, remained in custody at a local hospital.
Continue reading...A crowd-pleasing bartender, another who was a good listener and an outgoing, caring woman were among five killed at Club Q
What we know so far about those killed in Saturday’s attack on Club Q in Colorado Springs that left five people dead and 25 injured:
Continue reading...Gunman, 20, shot and killed two people at Central Visual and Performing Arts high school before police shot him dead
A gunman broke into a St Louis high school on Monday and killed two people before police shot him dead.
Several other people were wounded in a deadly intrusion that is certain to reignite debate about gun control in the US, even after Congress passed a bill earlier this year that tightened restrictions on access to firearms for some people who are considered to be at risk of carrying out violence.
Continue reading...Authorities have not commented on what charges teen could face after five people killed and two injured
A 15-year-old boy alleged to have killed five people and injured two in a shooting rampage in Raleigh, North Carolina will be charged as an adult, authorities said.
The Wake county district attorney, Lorrin Freeman, said adult charges would be brought. Authorities have not commented on what charges the teen could face.
Continue reading...White juvenile male arrested with one survivor in critical condition after shooter opens fire on walking trail in Raleigh
Five people were killed by a shooter who opened fire along a walking trail in North Carolina’s capital city and eluded officers for hours before he was cornered in a home and arrested, police said.
A 15-year-old white male suspect is in custody and in critical condition, the Raleigh police commissioner, Estella Patterson, told a press conference on Friday.
Continue reading...Valeriy Tarasenko was left with ‘significant injuries’ but expected to survive, according to Quebec police
An associate of the Ukrainian woman who posed as a member of the Rothschild banking family at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club was reportedly shot outside a lakeside resort north-west of Montreal, Canadian newspaper LaPresse has reported.
The shooting left Valeriy Tarasenko, 44, with “significant injuries”, but he was expected to survive, said the Sûreté du Québec, the Quebec provincial police. The police said it had launched a search for the shooter and any accomplices behind the attack.
Continue reading...Nation in shock after 37 people, mostly children, killed by former police officer who was due in court on drug charge
Thailand was in a state of mourning on Friday after a gun and knife attack at a nursery left dozens dead and prompted calls for gun control and a crackdown on illicit drugs.
Thirty-seven people were killed when a former police officer opened fire and stabbed children as they slept at the preschool in Uthai Sawan, a town 310 miles north-east of Bangkok on Thursday.
Continue reading...37 people, most young children, killed by former police officer at preschool centre in north-east of country
Thirty-seven people have been killed, most of them young children, in an unprecedented gun and knife attack at a preschool centre in north-east Thailand that has horrified the country.
The attacker, a former police officer, opened fire as children were sleeping at the centre in Na Klang district in Nong Bua Lamphu province at about noon on Thursday, police and witnesses said.
Continue reading...However, lack of information limits understanding whether the data suggests heightened enforcement or improved reporting
Murder rose at an unprecedented rate in the United States in 2020 and likely rose again in 2021, but concrete answers about why this surge occurred have been hard to come by.
New data from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) provides enticing clues regarding the potential role of newly purchased firearms in the nationwide increase in murders.
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