Posts Tagged ‘mass violence’
DOJ review on law enforcement response to Uvalde school shooting to be released Thursday
The US Department of Justice is expected to release its “critical incident” report on the law enforcement response to the shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde on Thursday. Uvalde CISD Superintendent Ashley Chohlis said she was notified by DOJ officials about releasing the report at the district’s school board meeting Monday night. The report comes…
Read MoreClub Q shooter charged with 50 federal hate crimes
The shooter who killed five people and injured 40 at an LGBTQIA+ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado, pleaded not guilty to federal hate crimes Tuesday. Anderson Aldrich was charged with more than 50 federal hate crime violations stemming from the November 2022 shooting at Club Q. Aldrich, who opened with an AR-15 style rifle, pleaded…
Read MoreUpdate Expected In Case Of Buffalo Supermarket Gunman As Families Await Decision On Death Penalty
Relatives of victims of a racist mass shooting at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket have been called to federal court Friday for a “substantial update” in the legal case against the gunman, their attorney said. The meeting between Department of Justice representatives and victims of Payton Gendron will take place ahead of a previously scheduled…
Read MoreFBI arrests Florida man accused of threatening ‘mass casualty event’
A Florida man accused of posting online threats to carry out mass violence has been arrested and charged with making an interstate threat and a weapon violation, federal court records show. Alexander Lightner, 26, of Venice, Florida, allegedly posted comments online that were “intended to convey the message that he was planning to conduct a…
Read MoreEcuador’s escalating gang violence is broadcast live to the nation as masked gunmen storm TV studio
It was a day like any other at the TC Television studio in Guayaquil, Ecuador, with its mid-afternoon newscast underway, when the masked gunmen burst in unleashing at least 15 minutes of threats and fear – all broadcast live First a man with a pistol appeared in the middle of the public TV station’s live…
Read MoreSixth-grade student killed in Iowa school shooting, suspect dead
A sixth-grade student was killed on Thursday morning and five other people wounded when a 17-year-old opened fire at an Iowa school on the first day of classes following the winter break, law enforcement officials said. The suspect was identified as Dylan Butler, a student at Perry High School, officials said at a news briefing.…
Read MoreThree injured in stabbing incident on Tokyo train, woman in custody
Three men were injured on Wednesday in a stabbing incident and taken to hospital after a woman wielded a knife on a train at Akihabara Station in Tokyo, Japanese police said. The police received an emergency call at just before 11 p.m. local time (1400 GMT) saying the woman had inflicted injuries with a knife…
Read MorePrague gunman reportedly confessed to murdering a father and baby in suicide note
The gunman who killed 14 people at a university in Prague before killing himself, reportedly left a suicide note confessing to the murder of a father and his baby six days earlier, Czech media have reported. A note found at the home of David Kozak, 24, was said to have contained the admission he shot…
Read MoreMan arrested in stabbing at Grand Central Terminal charged with hate crimes
A New York City man has been charged with attempted murder and assault as hate crimes following the Christmas Day stabbing of two teenage tourists from Paraguay at an eatery inside Grand Central Terminal, authorities said. Witnesses said Esteban Esono-Asue, 36, also known as Steven Hutcherson, made derogatory comments about white people shortly before the…
Read MoreSlovakia arrest over threat to copy Prague attack
Police in Slovakia say they have arrested a man who had threatened to carry out a massacre similar to Thursday’s mass shooting in Prague. They say a 64-year-old was held in the northern city of Zilina after he called emergency services claiming he intended to do “what happened in Prague”. He now faces prosecution for…
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