Posts Tagged ‘mass violence’
Bondi terror suspects threw unexploded bombs at crowd and practiced shooting ahead of attack, document reveals
The father and son accused of carrying out Australia’s worst terror attack undertook firearms training at an undisclosed location in the countryside, according to a statement of alleged facts released by a magistrate Monday. The court document, which contains redactions, includes images from a video of Sajid Akram, 50, and his son Naveed Akram, 24,…
Read MoreBrown, MIT suspect had 200 rounds, laser sights as authorities feared hit list: US attorney
It was Thursday morning when investigators definitively determined the same individual opened fire on a study group at Brown University and, two days later, murdered an MIT professor — raising fears among law enforcement officials that the killer may have had other intended targets, according to the top federal law enforcement official in Boston. “We…
Read MoreBrown University and MIT shooting suspect found dead; identified as former grad student
The suspect in last weekend’s mass shooting at Brown University that left two students dead and nine others wounded was found dead Thursday — and authorities said he is the same man who gunned down an MIT professor two days after the Rhode Island campus shooting. During a news conference Thursday, authorities identified the suspect…
Read MoreMan pleads guilty to killing 5 people in 2023 Philly mass shooting spree
A man pleaded guilty to killing five people and injuring five others during a mass shooting spree in Philadelphia’s Kingsessing neighborhood more than two years ago. On Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025, a judge accepted 43-year-old Kimbrady Carriker’s guilty plea to five counts of murder and five counts of attempted murder. Carriker was sentenced to 37…
Read MorePolish authorities foil Islamic State-inspired Christmas market attack plot
A first-year law student at the Catholic University of Lublin was arrested by Poland’s Internal Security Agency (ABW) over a foiled plan to commit a terrorist attack, officials said. Mateusz W, 19, a Polish citizen from a Catholic family, allegedly intended to join a terrorist organisation and was planning an attack in a public place…
Read More10-Year-Old Killed in Russia School Stabbing
A 15-year old student killed a 10-year-old on Tuesday in a knife attack at a school in the Moscow area. The attacker also stabbed a security guard and a staff member, according to Russia’s Investigative Committee. The attacker pleaded guilty, Olga Vradiy, a representative for the committee was quoted as saying by Russia’s state news…
Read MoreNew photo of person of interest in Brown University shooting is released as manhunt enters fourth day
Rhode Island officials on Tuesday released new images and video of a person of interest as the search continued for the shooter who killed two Brown University students and injured nine others Saturday. Like previously released images, the new enhanced photo shows a man with a black mask, a beanie and what appears to be…
Read MoreAustralian police say Bondi Beach mass shooting was inspired by Islamic State group
A mass shooting in which 15 people were killed during a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach was “a terrorist attack inspired by Islamic State,” Australia’s federal police commissioner Krissy Barrett said Tuesday. The suspects were a father and son, aged 50 and 24, authorities have said. The older man, whom state officials named as…
Read MoreGermany: 5 arrested for suspected Christmas market plot
German authorities have arrested five men suspected of planning an attack on a Christmas market, the Munich public prosecutor’s office said Saturday. The foiled plot was targeting a Christmas market in the area of Dingolfing in the southern German state of Bavaria, German authorities said. The exact name of the market that was the target…
Read MoreAt least 15 killed in mass shooting at Hanukkah event on Sydney’s Bondi Beach
A pair of father-and-son gunmen killed at least 15 people in a mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration on Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, on Sunday, according to officials. At least 42 people have been hospitalized. The elder gunman, aged 50, was shot and killed by police, authorities said. His 24-year-old son was wounded and…
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