Archive for July 2, 2024
Overnight Strike Kills 9 In Khan Younis, Hours After Israel Ordered A Mass Evacuation
An Israeli strike has killed at least nine people in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, Palestinian health officials said Tuesday, within a day of Israel ordering the evacuation of parts of the city ahead of a likely ground operation. The overnight strike hit a home near the European Hospital, which is inside the…
Read MoreOne year since Brooklyn Homes mass shooting
One year ago, gunshots rang out at a celebration in the Brooklyn Homes community. Two young adults, Kylis Fagbemi and Aaliyah Gonzalez, died, and 28 others were shot. “This tragic incident is another glaring, unfortunate example of the deep issues of violence in Baltimore, in Maryland, in this country, particularly gun violence,” Mayor Brandon Scott…
Read MoreNebraska shooting that wounded 7 immigrants may be racially motivated, police say
A shooting on Friday in Crete, Nebraska, that wounded seven Guatemalan immigrants, including four children, may have been racially motivated, police said, adding that the suspect later killed himself. The suspect identified by police as Billy Booth opened fire from his house in Crete with a shotgun on Friday afternoon. Crete Police Chief Gary Young…
Read MoreTeam Approach to Keeping Potential Attackers Off ‘Pathway to Violence’
When a Texas teenager made vague threats on social media in 2022 glorifying the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas—where a young man killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School just months earlier—tips started to come in. A police department investigator in Texas quickly developed a picture of the subject: a 19-year-old man…
Read MoreChinese social media companies condemn hate speech against Japanese after knife attack
China’s top social media companies have condemned online hate speech targeting Japanese, delivering a vigorous response to comments triggered by a knife attack last week that killed one person and injured a Japanese mother and child. Such waves of sentiment, and a vocal nationalist element, are not uncommon, but companies from WeChat-owner Tencent to TikTok’s…
Read MoreHagerstown man charged after threat to blow up Maryland MVA
A Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration employee has been charged with making a threat of mass violence after allegedly threatening to blow up his workplace south of Hagerstown, according to the Maryland Office of the State Fire Marshal. Investigators would later search Anthony Jacob Fritz’s home in Hagerstown’s North End and find 26 guns and 67…
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