Posts Tagged ‘mass violence’
Highland 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…
Read MoreLas Vegas teen arrested for terroristic threats linked to ISIS, explosive components found at home
On Nov. 28, 2023, Las Vegas police identified a terroristic threat made on a social media platform. The threat involved a suspect claiming he was planning an attack in Las Vegas in furtherance to support the Islamic State terrorist organization, also known as ISIS. Upon discovering this threat, a joint investigation between the FBI Joint…
Read MoreFlorida man arrested in Austin after allegedly threatening ‘mass casualty event’ at Tesla event
A 28-year-old Florida man was arrested in Austin the day before Tesla’s Cybertruck delivery event after allegedly planning to “shoot up Elon Musk and the plant,” according to an arrest affidavit. The document states that the Senior Manager of Security Operations with Tesla filed a Suspicious Activity report regarding threatening messages that were sent on…
Read MoreKnifeman kills German tourist, wounds others near France’s Eiffel Tower
A man armed with a knife and a hammer killed a German tourist and left two people, including a British man, wounded near the Eiffel Tower in Paris late on Saturday in what President Emmanuel Macron called “a terrorist attack”. A 26-year-old suspect, a French national arrested after the attack, had pledged allegiance to Islamic…
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