Gun violence

  • A$AP Rocky has been released on $550 000 bail after he was arrested in connection with a shooting. The 33-year-old rapper – whose real name is Rakim Mayers – was detained by police when his private plane flew into Los Angeles International Airport on Wednesday in relation to an alleged incident that took place around…

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  • AS she foreshadowed in the aftermath of the Christchurch massacre last Friday, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has just announced a ban in that country on specific military-style firearms. It will soon become an offence to own or possess semi-automatic firearms and shotguns with detachable magazines capable of firing more than five cartridges. Later this month, the government…

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  •   A mother of four adopted Chinese girls s‌h‌o‌t and k‌‌ill‌e‌‌d her daughters before taking her own life in their Tennessee home, according to an autopsy report of the m‌u‌‌r‌d‌er-s‌u‌ic‌i‌d‌e. Davidson County Senior Associate Medical Ex‌a‌mi‌ner David Zimmerman said that Cynthia Collier’s 17-year-old daughter, Kaileigh Lin, was found with 13 g‌u‌n‌‌s‌h‌ot wounds on the bathroom floor in their…

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  • Investigators in New Jersey, USA, confirmed on Monday that a 16-year-old boy shot and killed his parents, brother, sister, and a family friend on New Year’s Eve while one of his brothers and grandfather managed to escape. After the horrific bloodbath which happened shortly before midnight on 31 December at their home in the Long…

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