Posts Tagged ‘mass violence’
Teen charged over ‘Southport-style’ attack plan
A 16-year-old boy has been charged over an alleged plan to carry out a similar attack to the Southport stabbings. The teenager, who is white British and from Kirkby in Merseyside, faces one count of making threats to kill and four of possession of documents likely to be useful in preparing acts of terrorism. According…
Read MorePortland man gets 30 years for 2023 mass shooting plot at Smith Rock State Park
A Portland man was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Monday for plotting a mass shooting at Smith Rock State Park in 2023. According to the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office (DCSO), 41-year-old Samson Garner planned a mass shooting at a climbing event at the state park, near Redmond, in October 2023. The Portland Police…
Read MoreThreat that canceled Canandaigua holiday event leads to arrest of man wanted by U.S. marshals
Emails sent to Canandaigua Police Chief Mathew Nielsen in recent weeks led to the arrest of an Ontario County man accused of making a threat that led to the cancellation of a Canandaigua event. Michael J. Keitz, 56, was charged Nov. 9 with one count of making a terroristic threat, a class D felony, according…
Read MoreExplosions at high school mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia during Friday prayers wound dozens of students
Multiple explosions shook a mosque at a high school during Friday prayers in Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital, injuring at least 54 people, mostly students, police said. Witnesses told local television stations that they heard at least two loud blasts around midday, just as the sermon had started at the mosque at SMA 27, a state high…
Read MoreTown of Amherst employee under investigation after allegedly threatening to commit a mass shooting
Authorities have confiscated three guns from a Town of Amherst employee who allegedly threatened to commit a mass shooting. 7 News has obtained the application for a “Temporary Extreme Risk Protection Order” against the employee, a 24-year-old man who works at the town’s wastewater treatment plant. This order temporarily removes guns from someone who may…
Read MoreSwedish prosecutor charges man over planned Islamic State attack in Stockholm
Swedish prosecutors on Thursday charged a Syrian-Swedish dual national captured in an undercover sting operation with planning a suicide bomb attack on a crowded Stockholm culture festival, on behalf of the Islamic State militant group. The prosecutor said the 18-year-old, who was arrested in February, had been planning to blow himself up at the Stockholm…
Read MoreSuspect who attacked pro-Israel demonstration in Colorado with Molotov cocktails pleads not guilty
A man accused of attacking a pro-Israel demonstration advocating for the release of hostages held in Gaza pleaded not guilty to 184 state charges during his arraignment in state court Wednesday. Mohamed Soliman, 45, is accused of using a “makeshift flamethrower” and throwing an incendiary device into a crowd of people participating in a Run…
Read MoreFrance car ramming: suspect ‘spoke of self-radicalisation’ after attack
The driver who ploughed into pedestrians and cyclists on the French holiday island of Oléron is suspected of “self-radicalisation”, Laurent Nuñez, the interior minister, has said. Five people were injured, two critically, when the driver hit pedestrians and cyclists on Wednesday in a rampage lasting 35 minutes. A suspect, named as Jean G, was subsequently…
Read MorePolice investigating whether train attack suspect linked to stabbing of 14-year-old on Friday
Throughout the day we’ve heard vivid accounts from victims of, and eyewitnesses to, a knife attack on a train in Cambridgeshire on Saturday evening. One of the victims, Stephen Crean, told the BBC his hand was “sliced” as he confronted the alleged attacker on the train and “tussled” with him. Anthony Williams, 32, today appeared…
Read MoreFBI aid leads to arrest of Argentine teen planning attack at ex-school
A 16-year-old boy from the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Caballito was arrested over the weekend by Argentina’s Federal Police after the FBI alerted authorities to his social media posts expressing plans to carry out an armed attack at his former school. The investigation, overseen by Argentina’s Ministry of National Security, began after the FBI office…
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