Posts Tagged ‘mass violence’

Gang violence in Haiti is escalating and spreading from the capital Port-au-Prince through the center of the country to its two other major cities, Gonaives and Cap-Hatien, with a significant increase in killings, kidnappings and rapes in the past few months, the U.N. chief said in a report circulated Wednesday. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in…

The mutilated remains of up to a dozen people were found strewn across the northern Mexican city of Monterrey on Tuesday. Messages left with the remains suggest the victims were killed as part of a purge within a gang. Monterrey is the industrial and business capital of Mexico and the seat of many large companies.…

A Nevada grand jury has indicted a man on felony charges alleging he threatened to carry out a mass shooting in June at a Stanley Cup Final hockey game on the Las Vegas Strip. The six-count indictment handed down this week in state court charges Matthew DeSavio, 34, with threatening an act of terrorism, burglary…

Attorneys for a man who opened fire on a crowded New York subway train, injuring 10 and sparking an intense city-wide manhunt, are asking that he be sentenced to 18 years in prison. Frank James, now 64, has been “tormented by lifelong paranoid schizophrenia,” his federal public defenders wrote in a sentencing memorandum this week.…

Shortly after 10pm on December 14, moments after France defeated Morocco en route to the World Cup final in Qatar, a flood of football fans hit the streets of Paris, converging on the Champs-Elysées, the French capital’s traditional rallying point for jubilant supporters. Most were draped in the French tricolour, though a sizeable contingent –…