Gun violence

  • Why court shifted Megan Thee Stallion’s protection order against rapper Tory Lanez to 2030

    Megan Thee Stallion has been granted a restraining order from imprisoned rapper Tory Lanez until early 2030. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Richard Bloom on Thursday granted Megan Thee Stallion’s request for a protective order after the hip-hop star alleged that Lanez is harassing her from prison through surrogates as he serves a 10-year sentence for shooting…

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  • Key Takeaways At first glance, the assassin seemed too meticulous to be an amateur and too careless to be a professional. But the man suspected of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a New York City sidewalk managed to evade capture for days – puzzling even law enforcement experts. “What surprises me is how well planned the…

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  • Biden’s pardon to Hunter, who has struggled with drug and alcohol addiction isn’t a threat to rule of law

    Democrats spent much of the presidential campaign warning that Donald Trump is a threat to the rule of law, to faith in public institutions — even to the truth itself. In pardoning his son, President Joe Biden undercut each of those arguments while giving Trump political cover to pursue the far-right ambitions that Democrats fear will…

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  • UK police arrest man for firing directly into car with children

    A 22-year-old man has been arrested after an eight-year-old girl and a man were seriously injured in a shooting in west London. The incident on Southern Row in Ladbroke Grove involved a number of people in a vehicle – including a two-year-old child – just after 5.30pm on Sunday. The eight-year-old girl remains in surgery…

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  • The U.S. military trained him in explosives and battlefield tactics. Now the Iraq War veteran and enlisted National Guard member was calling for taking up arms against police and government officials in his own country. Standing in the North Carolina woods, Chris Arthur warned about a coming civil war. Videos he posted publicly on YouTube…

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  • GUN ATTACKS: Father of Georgia school shooter charged in murders – FBI received warnings in 2023

    The father of Colt Gray, the 14-year-old suspect being charged in the murder of four people at Apalachee High School, was arrested Thursday, law enforcement officials in Georgia said. Colin Gray, 54, was charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second-degree murder and eight counts of cruelty to children, the Georgia Bureau…

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  • Families mourn victims of Georgia high school shooting

    A rural Georgia community is mourning the loss of four people who were killed Wednesday after a 14-year-old student opened fire at a high school — sending students and staff rushing to shelter in their classrooms as schools throughout the county went into lockdown. The four victims killed were identified as two students and two teachers at Apalachee High…

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  • The Georgia Bureau of Investigation reported that at least four people are dead, and nine others have been hospitalized with injuries after students were evacuated from Apalachee High School in Winder, Ga., on Wednesday following a school shooting. A suspect is in police custody. All schools in Barrow County, near Atlanta, went into lockdown following an unspecified…

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  • Gunman kills 1 during art exhibition Seattle, US

    A man was killed in a shooting at an art gathering in Seattle, U.S. state of Washington, late Thursday, police said. The gathering took place at the rooftop of a building in the city’s Pioneer Square neighborhood as part of the satellite art fair Forest For The Trees and the after-party of what organizers called…

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  • 2Baba reacts to assassination attempt on Donald Trump

    Nigerian singer, 2Baba, has insinuated that the assassination attempt on former US President Donald Trump was staged. MEZIESBLOG reported that Trump escaped assassination at his presidential rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday. The FBI identified 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks as the “subject involved” in the attempted assassination of Trump. Despite security agencies’ confirmation, 2Baba insisted that…

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  • Biden condemns Trump rally shooting – tells Americans to relax

    In a primetime address Sunday from the Oval Office, one day after what the FBI described as an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, President Biden delivered a message that sought to cool the heated political rhetoric of the 2024 campaign. “My fellow Americans,” Biden began his address, “I want to speak to you tonight…

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  • FBI identifies 20-year-old shooter who almost killed Trump

    Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt Saturday night after a shooter opened fire at his campaign rally near Butler, Pa. Trump was injured in the attack and was quickly rushed offstage, but soon after declared in a statement he was “fine.” The suspected shooter was killed, as was a rally attendee. Two other attendees were critically injured,…

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  • 3 Reported dead in Toronto office building shooting

    Three people, including the shooter, died on Monday following a shooting incident in Toronto, the largest city in Canada. According to local media, police were called to an office building in the Don Mills area for reports of gunshots at approximately 3:25 p.m. local time (1925 GMT) on Monday. Two men and a woman were…

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  • Hunter Biden’s ex-wife, ex-girlfriend to testify in gun trial

    Hunter Biden’s ex-wife Kathleen Buhle and ex-girlfriend Zoe Kestan were called to testify on Wednesday in the third day of his federal gun trial in Wilmington, U.S. state of Delaware. Hunter Biden, the youngest son and only surviving son of U.S. President Joe Biden, faces three felony gun charges in the historic trial that carries…

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  • Suspect who shot Slovak PM remanded in prison

    The Specialised Criminal Court in Pezinok, Slovakia, has remanded in custody the man accused of the attempted murder of Prime Minister Robert Fico, court spokeswoman Katarina Kudjakova said on Saturday. The decision is not yet final, the spokeswoman was quoted by the News Agency of the Slovak Republic (TASR) as saying. A prosecutor of the…

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  • Nearly half of respondents in Seattle, in the northwestern U.S. state of Washington, identified drug use as their biggest public safety concern, while 33 percent were most concerned about gun violence, according to a poll published on Monday. The poll by Seattle Times and Suffolk University also finds that less than 8 percent of respondents…

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