Posts Tagged ‘mass violence’
Gunman opens fire in a Prague university, killing 14 people in Czech Republic’s worst mass shooting
A student opened fire Thursday at a university in Prague, killing at least 14 people, officials said, and injuring more than 20 in the Czech Republic’s worst mass shooting. The bloodshed took place in the philosophy department building of Charles University, where the shooter was a student, Prague Police Chief Martin Vondrasek said. The gunman…
Read More13-year-old charged after allegedly planning a mass shooting at an Ohio synagogue, according to court docs
A 13-year-old in Ohio is facing criminal charges after allegedly crafting “a detailed plan” for a mass shooting at a synagogue in September, according to court documents obtained by CNN. The teen, whom authorities have not publicly identified, posted “a detailed plan to complete a mass shooting” at Temple Israel in Canton, according to the…
Read MoreAlleged Texas mass shooter had warrants, family violence history yet he wasn’t in police custody
The man accused of killing six people in a violent spree across Texas last week had repeated encounters with police over the years, including a mental health crisis just three months before the shootings. In August, sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to a home in East Bexar County. According to a retelling of the incident by…
Read MoreHighland Park massacre suspect to represent himself in trial now set for February
The Highland Park massacre suspect will represent himself in his criminal trial, which a judge on Monday set for February, a year sooner than lawyers were preparing for. Robert Crimo III asked a Lake County judge to allow him to proceed without the aid of his assistant public defenders and invoked his right to a…
Read MoreOxford High School shooter sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole
Two years after the massacre, teenager Ethan Crumbley was sentenced Friday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for murdering four Oxford High School students and injuring seven other people in a rampage he carried out with a gun that his parents had bought him as an early Christmas present. In handing down…
Read MoreUNLV gunman wrote about Zodiac killer, vanished Malaysia Airlines flight, conspiracy theories
One day after a mass shooting at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, left three people and the gunman dead, a picture emerged of a quiet, lonesome academic with obsessive tendencies who was upset by being rejected for a position at the university, according to law enforcement sources, neighbors and the man’s personal website. Las…
Read MoreVegas Shooter Who Killed 3 Was A Professor Who Recently Applied For A Job At Unlv, Ap Source Says
Terrified students and professors cowered in classrooms and dorms as a gunman roamed the floors of a University of Nevada, Las Vegas building, killing three people and critically wounding a fourth before dying in a shootout with police. The gunman in Wednesday’s shooting was a professor who had unsuccessfully sought a job at the school,…
Read MoreSuspect arrested in Texas fatally shot his parents before killing 4 other people, authorities say
A 34-year-old Texas man who was arrested after a string of homicides is believed to have first fatally shot his parents before killing four other people in another county, authorities said Wednesday. The suspect, identified by police as Shane James, was charged in Travis County with multiple counts of capital murder and is expected to…
Read MoreRussia: 2 dead, several injured in school shooting
A 14-year-old girl shot and killed a classmate and wounded five others before killing herself at a school in the western Russian city of Bryansk, investigators said Thursday. Regional Governor Alexander Bogomaz described the shooting as a “terrible tragedy.” He said the five people wounded were all children with minor or moderate injuries. “According to…
Read MoreArizona man charged for allegedly inciting “religiously motivated terrorist attack” that killed 2 officers, bystander in Australia
A U.S. citizen has been charged in Arizona over online comments that allegedly incited what police describe as a “religiously motivated terrorist attack” in Australia a year ago in which six people died, officials said Wednesday. Queensland state police officers Rachel McCrow and Matthew Arnold and innocent bystander Alan Dare were fatally shot by Gareth…
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