Mass shooting
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President Donald Trump said Sunday the armed suspect who breached security at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner had a manifesto expressing anti-Christian hate. Cole Tomas Allen, 31, of Torrance, California, was taken into custody after law enforcement said he ran through a security checkpoint at the Washington Hilton on Saturday night and exchanged gunfire…
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Security measures at shopping centres across Malaysia will be tightened following a shooting at a mall in Selangor state on Saturday (Feb 8), while a minister has assured the public that national security and public order continue to be the authorities’ top priorities. Inspector-General of Police Razarudin Husain said on Sunday that auxiliary police officers and security guards…
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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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Police have launched a manhunt as up to 20 people are feared dead after a shooting in the US state of Maine. The authorities in Lewiston have released images of a man with a military-style assault rifle in a bowling alley and say they are looking for “armed and dangerous” Robert Card. Here’s what we…
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A man who bravely disarmed a shooter about a half-hour after the shooter gunned down 10 people at a Lunar New Year celebration near Los Angeles recounted the chilling encounter — and his first thought: that he “was going to die.” After the Saturday night carnage in Monterey Park, California, the shooter, identified as 72-year-old Huu Can…
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The man accused of spraying gunfire into a Chicago-area Independence Day parade from a rooftop, killing at least seven people and wounding dozens more, has confessed to the attack, prosecutors said Wednesday as bail was denied on seven first-degree murder charges. The suspect, Robert Crimo III, 21, dressed in black as he appeared from jail…
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No, it’s not your imagination: Mass shootings have become much more common in recent years. The Gun Violence Archive (GVA) defines a mass shooting as an act of gun violence with four or more victims shot. According to the GVA, the annual number of mass shootings in the United States: was already growing steadily before the pandemic. The…
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Every day, new information surfaces about how law enforcement responded to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, that left 19 students and two teachers dead. Critics have pointed out failures at nearly every step of that response: the school’s resource officer drove by the shooter as he crouched between cars; police waited more than…
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Pope Francis on Wednesday said he was “heartbroken” by the shooting at a school in Texas that killed at least 19 children and two teachers, calling for greater controls on weapons. The crowd in St. Peter’s Square for his weekly general audience applauded his appeal, made a day after worst school shooting in the United…
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The United States was in mourning Wednesday in the aftermath of the country’s latest mass killing, a teenage gunman’s assault on an elementary school in the southwestern state of Texas that left at least 19 children and two adults dead. It was one of the deadliest rampages at a school in the country’s history. The…
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The death toll in Sunday’s Nova Scotia shooting rampage has gone up to 17, including the gunman, the CBC and Global News report. That makes it the deadliest mass shooting in Canada’s history, according to the Associated Press. A Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer is among the dead. The gunman identified as Gabriel Wortman age 51 was shot and killedafter a…
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