Posts Tagged ‘mass violence’
Chinese Police Say A Suspect Is In Custody In The Stabbing Of 4 Us College Instructors
Chinese police have detained a suspect in a stabbing attack on four instructors from Iowa’s Cornell College who were teaching at a Chinese university in the northeast city of Jilin, officials said Tuesday. Jilin city police said a 55-year-old man surnamed Cui was walking in a public park on Monday when he bumped into a…
Read MoreAlleged Planned Parenthood shooter can be forced to take anti-psychotic medication, court rules
The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that a man charged in the killings of three people at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood in 2015 can be forced to take anti-psychotic medicine in order to become competent to stand trial. Robert Dear, 66, had previously been diagnosed with delusional disorder. The case has…
Read MoreA Member Of A German Far-Right Party Stabbed And Wounded In Another Attack On A Politician
A member of a German far-right party was stabbed and wounded in the southwestern city of Mannheim, German news agency dpa reported Wednesday, only days after a knife attack killed one police officer and left five other people injured in the same city. Dpa reported that a candidate with the far-right Alternative for Germany, or…
Read MoreGerman Authorities See Islamic Extremist Motive In Mannheim Knife Attack
German authorities say they have uncovered evidence of an Islamic extremist motive in last week’s knife attack in the southwestern city of Mannheim in which a police officer was fatally injured. Justice Minister Marco Buschmann wrote on the social media platform X late Monday that “there are now clear indications of an Islamist motive” for…
Read MoreSuspect in Massachusetts stabbing spree linked to Connecticut death investigation
A 26-year-old man accused in a weekend stabbing spree in Massachusetts that injured six people, including four girls, was ordered to undergo a court-ordered evaluation Tuesday. Jared Ravizza, 26, is accused of attacking four girls at a movie theater in Braintree and stabbing two employees of a McDonald’s at a rest stop in Plymouth. He…
Read MorePolice release video of the suspect vehicle in Jewish girls school shooting, as rally calls for strength, solidarity
Video footage of the suspect vehicle in a weekend shooting at a Jewish girl’s elementary school has been released by police, following a rally where speakers urged for strength and solidarity. Toronto police say two suspects were inside a vehicle when they fired shots at Bais Chaya Mushka Elementary School just before 5 a.m. on…
Read MoreSwitzerland: Police arrest knife attack suspect
Two passersby were severely wounded and another four slightly wounded in an indiscriminate knife attack in the northern Swiss town of Zofingen, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) south of the city of Basel and the German border, according to local police. “We have several injured,” a police spokesperson told the dpa news agency, adding that…
Read MoreMan accused in Los Angeles Jewish hate crime shooting agrees to plead guilty
The man accused of shooting two Jewish men in Los Angeles last year has agreed to plead guilty to hate crime and firearm charges, the Justice Department announced Tuesday. Jamie Tran is expected to plead guilty as charged to two counts of hate crimes with intent to kill and two counts of using a firearm…
Read MoreNew Jersey Marine accused of threats to kill white people, commit mass shooting
A former Marine from New Jersey was arrested Friday and accused of threatening to kill white people and carry out a mass shooting, federal prosecutors said Monday. Joshua Cobb, 23, of Trenton, wrote on social media in December 2022, before he joined the Marines last year: “I want to cause mayhem on the white community”…
Read MoreLouisiana parishioners confront teen who entered church with a gun during children’s Mass, police say
A Mass celebrating dozens of children’s first Communion at a church in southern Louisiana was interrupted Saturday when a 16-year-old boy armed with a gun walked in, the church and police said. No one was injured during the incident in Abbeville at the St. Mary Magdalen Church, during which a “suspicious person” opened the back…
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