Category Archives: Gun crime

Miami rapper Baby Cino shot dead after leaving prison

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Unidentified gunman kills 20-year-old vocalist minutes after he was released on bond following arrest in Opa-locka, Florida

Tributes have been paid to Baby Cino, an aspiring rapper from Miami, who was shot and killed in a daylight ambush minutes after leaving a city jail on Wednesday.

The 20-year-old vocalist, whose real name was Timothy Starks, was arrested by Miami-Dade officers at 2am in Opa-locka, Florida on Tuesday after they pulled him over for driving with an obscured number plate. On searching his car, police found a fully loaded Glock 32 pistol.

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Las Vegas shooting: 13 wounded and one dead at hookah lounge, police say

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Two people reported critically injured in Nevada shooting, which happened early on Saturday morning

Fourteen people were shot before dawn on Saturday at a hookah lounge in Las Vegas. Police said one man died and two people suffered critical injuries.

The shooting happened at about 3.15am and preliminary information indicated there was a party during which two people got into an altercation and exchanged gunfire, striking multiple people, said police captain Dori Koren.

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Gunman kills four people and injures officer in Denver area

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Suspect also died after being shot, but it was not immediately clear if police officers had shot him

At least four people were killed and three injured, including a police officer, after a series of shootings across the Denver area.

Police did not immediately name the suspected gunman, who was also killed, and said the motive for the shootings on Monday, across several locations in and around Colorado’s capital, was unclear.

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Michigan shooting: suspect’s parents held on $1m bond after capture

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James and Jennifer Crumbley, who face manslaughter charges, entered not guilty pleas after being found hiding in a warehouse

The parents of Ethan Crumbley, the Michigan teen charged with killing four students at his high school this week, “could have stopped” the shooting, prosecutors alleged at the parents’ arraignment on Saturday, before the judge set a combined $1m bond.

In a Zoom hearing, James and Jennifer Crumbley entered not guilty pleas to each of four counts of involuntary manslaughter.

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‘Every parent’s worst nightmare’: Michigan school shooting leaves three students dead – video

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A 15-year-old boy killed three fellow pupils and wounded eight others after opening fire with a semi-automatic handgun at a school in Oxford, Michigan. Those killed were a 16-year-old boy, a 17-year-old girl and a 14-year-old girl. The suspect was believed to have acted alone and was arrested without resistance after firing 15 to 20 shots. The suspect has declined to speak to police. Michigan's governor, Gretchen Whitmer, offered condolences at the scene, saying: 'I think this is every parent's worst nightmare.'

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Man killed by stray bullet while eating Thanksgiving dinner at home

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District attorney names victim and suspect in incident in suburbs of Philadelphia on Thursday

A man eating Thanksgiving dinner inside a home in the suburbs of Philadelphia was killed by a stray bullet that pierced a window, authorities said.

Edilberto Miguel Palaez Moctezuma, 25, was shot in the torso just before 9.30pm on Thursday, the Montgomery county district attorney, Kevin Steele, said in a press release. Palaez Moctezuma was flown to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

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Tense scenes outside court as protesters await verdict of Kyle Rittenhouse – video

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As the jury in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial deliberated, dozens of protesters – some for Rittenhouse, some against – stood outside the Kenosha county courthouse in Wisconsin. Some talked quietly with those on the other side and others shouted. One group was chanting ‘Black Lives Matter!’ while others responded with ‘self-defense is not a crime!’ One woman could be heard repeatedly calling Rittenhouse supporters ‘white supremacists’

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Kyle Rittenhouse trial: yelling, tears and surprises reflect divided America

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Analysis: The jury is to hear closing arguments in a murder trial featuring prosecution missteps and a controversial judge

As testimony wrapped up this week in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, a wary America has realized that the trial of the young man on charges linked to his killing of two racial justice protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, has not played out like many people expected.

With more than 30 witnesses taking the stand throughout a tumultuous week, a few called on by the state appeared to help Rittenhouse’s legal team with its claim that he was acting in self-defense. That added to notable errors made by prosecutors, as well as a judge with a simultaneously stern and flamboyant courtroom style who has shocked with controversial comments and outbursts.

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Outrage as McDonald’s CEO appears to blame parents of slain Chicago children

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Chris Kempczinski said his comments about fatally shot children in text to Chicago mayor lacked ‘empathy and compassion’

McDonald’s chief executive, Chris Kempczinski, has sparked outrage after the emergence of a text exchange with the Chicago mayor, Lori Lightfoot, in which he appears to blame two Chicago parents whose children were fatally shot.

In the newly publicized texts between Kempczinski and Lightfoot from April, Kempczinski blamed the parents of 13-year-old Adam Toledo and seven-year-old Jaslyn Adams for their deaths.

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Parkland shooter pleads guilty to 17 counts of murder

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Defense attorneys turn their focus to saving Nikolas Cruz from a death sentence for 2018 shooting massacre at Florida high school

Nikolas Cruz has pleaded guilty to 17 counts of murder for the 2018 shooting massacre at a Florida high school, leaving a jury to decide whether he will be executed for one of the deadliest school shootings in US history.

Relatives of the victims who sat in the courtroom and watched the hearing via Zoom shook their heads or broke down in tears as Cruz entered his pleas and later apologized for his crimes.

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California synagogue killer not allowed to speak as he gets life without parole

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Judge denies white supremacist, 22, opportunity to address court as survivors of 2019 attack give moving statements

A 22-year-old white supremacist was denied a chance to address a courtroom before a judge sentenced him Thursday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for bursting into a southern California synagogue on the last day of Passover in 2019 with a semiautomatic rifle, killing one worshipper and wounding three others.

An agreement with prosecutors that spared John T Earnest the death penalty left little suspense about the outcome, but the hearing provided 13 victims and families a chance to address the killer and gave a sense of finality to a case illustrating how online hate speech can lead to extremist violence. Many gave heart-wrenching accounts of how their lives were upended and how determined they were to persevere despite such devastating loss.

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Inside the San Francisco Bay Area’s pandemic murder surge: ‘No one knows this pain but us’

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Guardian analysis reveals region-wide increase in violent deaths, but Black and Latino residents make up majority of victims

On the night of 3 September 2020, Sonya Mitchell got a call as she was leaving work. Her 23-year-old son, Daimon “Dada” Ferguson, had been shot in a drive-by outside his older sister’s home.

In the months before, Mitchell, 56, had been watching reports of shootings in her hometown of Vallejo, in the San Francisco Bay Area, with increasing concern. There was the shooting at a birthday party on 9 June that killed two women and injured a 10-year-old. Three separate shootings had rocked the city on 20 August, including a double homicide that left a 25-year-old man and his 24-year-old girlfriend dead in a car with their infant son.

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Police arrest one suspect, hunting for another after Austin shooting leaves 14 injured

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  • Incident occurred in early hours in entertainment district
  • Two victims in critical condition as one more suspect sought

Police in Austin, Texas, say they have arrested one man and are searching for another in connection with a shooting early on Saturday that injured 14 people in the city’s downtown entertainment district.

The Austin police department said in a news release that the US Marshals Lone Star fugitive task force assisted in making the arrest, but it provided no other details other than to say it is continuing to follow up on leads for the suspect still at large.

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‘Disgusting slap in the face’: California governor slams judge as assault rifles ban overturned

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Gavin Newsom responds after Judge Roger Benitez compares AR-15s to Swiss army knives ‘good for both home and battle’

The governor of California, Gavin Newsom, slammed a federal judge’s decision to overturn his state’s three-decade-old ban on assault rifles as “a direct threat to public safety and the lives of innocent Californians”.

Related: America’s gun obsession is rooted in slavery | Carol Anderson

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Police believe victims at Florida banquet shooting were targeted – video

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At least two people were killed and more than 20 injured in Miami early on Sunday as attackers opened fire on concertgoers outside a banquet hall. It was the city’s second deadly mass shooting in little more than 24 hours.

Alfredo Ramirez of Miami-Dade police department confirmed that two people died at the scene and ‘20 to 25’ people  were in hospital.

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Two dead and more than 20 injured in Florida banquet hall shooting

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  • Three people open fire indiscriminately on concert crowd
  • Police lament ‘despicable act of gun violence’

At least two people were killed and more than 20 injured in Miami early on Sunday as attackers opened fire on concertgoers outside a banquet hall. It was the city’s second deadly mass shooting in little more than 24 hours.

A police spokesman said the shooting happened in the Hialeah area. Three people got out of a white SUV and began firing on a line outside the El Mula banquet hall. The attackers used assault rifles and a handgun, authorities said.

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San Jose gunman stockpiled weapons and 22,000 rounds of ammunition

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Officials say the guns Samuel James Cassidy used to kill nine of his coworkers at a California rail yard appear to be legal

A gunman who killed nine of his co-workers at a rail yard in San Jose, California, had stockpiled weapons and ammunition at his home, including 12 guns and 22,000 rounds of ammunition, authorities said on Friday.

Investigators found the cache of weapons at the home of Samuel James Cassidy, the Santa Clara county sheriff’s office said in a news release. They also turned up multiple cans of gasoline and suspected molotov cocktails. Authorities have said that Cassidy set his house on fire using a timer or slow-burn device to coincide with his attack.

The guns he used to open fire on his co-workers appear to be legal, officials said. They have not said how he obtained them.

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‘What is going on?’: California governor reacts after nine people killed in shooting – video

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The California governor, Gavin Newsom, has spoken emotionally about the latest US mass killing, after an employee gunned down nine people at a San Jose rail yard and then killed himself as law enforcement arrived.

'There’s a numbness I imagine some of us are feeling about this. Because there’s a sameness to this,” he said. “It begs the damn question of what the hell is going on in the United States of America?'

It was the 15th mass killing in the nation this year, all of them shootings that have claimed at least four lives each for a total of 86 deaths, according to a database compiled by the Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University

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Ordered online, assembled at home: the deadly toll of California’s ‘ghost guns’

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Loopholes surrounding these weapons make them untraceable – and a hot commodity in many vulnerable communities

When Brian Muhammad, a program manager at a gun violence prevention group in California, asked a 16-year-old boy in 2018 how young people were getting guns, he assumed the answer would be Nevada, the neighboring state with looser gun laws.

“Who would waste time going to Nevada when you can just get them in the mail and put it together?” the Stockton teen nonchalantly replied.

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Nine injured in Rhode Island shooting, police say

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Incident that left at least three critically wounded is believed to be the capital city’s largest shooting

Nine people were wounded in a shooting on Thursday evening in Rhode Island’s capital in what police there believe to be the largest shooting in city history.

Of the nine, three were critically wounded in the shooting just before 7pm, the Providence police chief, Col Hugh T Clements, told reporters at the scene.

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