Posts Tagged ‘mass violence’
Robert Crimo III pleads guilty in Highland Park parade shooting
Robert Crimo III is pleading guilty in the Highland Park 4th of July Parade shooting. The change in plea comes as opening statements were set to begin in the trial Monday. Robert Crimo III is accused of planning and carrying out the mass shooting during Highland Park’s Fourth of July Parade in 2022, killing seven…
Read MoreMan with “violent extremist ideology” charged with possessing videos of child sexual abuse
A federal grandy jury indicted a Pennsylvania man with possession of child sexual abuse material and heard evidence that he holds a “racially-motivated violent extremist ideology” that saw him praise mass shooters, prosecutors announced Wednesday. Aidan Harding, 20, of Glenwillard, Pennsylvania, was indicted on a charge of possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of…
Read MoreFormer Navy Sailor Pleads Guilty to Plotting to Attack Naval Station Great Lakes in North Chicago
A former Navy sailor has pleaded guilty in federal court in Chicago to plotting to attack Naval Station Great Lakes in North Chicago, Illinois, purportedly on behalf of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Xuanyu Harry Pang, 38, of North Chicago, Illinois, pleaded guilty to conspiring to and attempting to willfully injure and destroy national…
Read MoreTeenager plotted mass shooting at Edinburgh school
A teenager obsessed by murder wanted to carry out a mass shooting at his own school in Edinburgh. A court heard how the boy “idolised” the killers behind the Columbine High School massacre in Colorado in the United States in 1999, which saw 12 students and a teacher murdered. He repeatedly spoke about doing the…
Read MoreColombian city faces worst violence in decades as armed groups wreak havoc
Residents of a violence-torn province in northern Colombia are bracing for further bloodshed as a conflict between rival armed groups spread to a regional capital in scenes residents said they had not witnessed since the cartel unrest of the 1990s. The mayor of Cúcuta imposed a 48-hour curfew on the population of 1 million inhabitants…
Read More21-year-old arrested, accused of planning attack on Corpus Christi police, FBI says
Houston FBI officials announced Monday they partnered with the Corpus Christi Police Department to stop an alleged attack on police. Federal and local authorities said 21-year-old Seth “Andrea” Gregori was arrested Monday on a warrant for terroristic threat. The FBI was notified of Gregori making threats against Corpus Christi Police Department officers, the local department…
Read MoreArizona woman accused of threatening co-workers with plan to attack the workplace: Court documents
Court documents state a Cave Creek woman is accused of threats and terrorism-related offenses over an alleged plot to attack her workplace. Investigators say the suspect, identified as 20-year-old Keelin Paige Pascoe, allegedly sent text messages to a co-worker, where Pascoe outlined “her plans to carry out a mass casualty event at her workplace,” described…
Read MoreMotive revealed in Pennsylvania hospital shooting that left 1 officer dead, 5 injured
Anguish and anger at the very recent loss of a loved one apparently spurred on the man who would target the intensive care unit at a Pennsylvania hospital Saturday morning, a senior law enforcement official briefed on the investigation told ABC News. One officer was killed and at least five others were shot in the…
Read MoreMacron says deadly knife attack in eastern France an ‘Islamist terror act’
French police have made several arrests since a man went on a stabbing rampage, killing one and wounding several others in what President Emmanuel Macron called an “Islamist terrorist act”, anti-terror prosecutors told AFP Sunday. The knife-wielding suspect, identified by prosecutors as a 37-year-old Algerian-born man, was arrested at the site of Saturday’s attack in…
Read MoreThree shot and killed outside Louisville motor vehicle office, police say
Three people were shot and killed outside a motor vehicle office in Louisville on Friday, police said. Officers were called to the office around noon and found a man dead and two women wounded in the parking lot, according to a statement from the Louisville Metro Police Department. The two wounded were taken to the…
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