Posts Tagged ‘mass violence’
Student arrested, charged with planning shooting at Southern California high school
A Southern California student was arrested over the weekend after police said they were able to determine that he was plotting a school shooting at Ontario Christian High School in San Bernardino County. The 18-year-old student, who has been identified as Sebastian Villasenor, was arrested Saturday after Ontario Police Department investigators were able to determine…
Read MoreGunfire At Chiefs’ Super Bowl Celebration Kills 1 And Wounds Nearly Two-Dozen, Including Children
A historic railway station on the edge of downtown Kansas City became the latest backdrop for a mass shooting as gunfire near the end of the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl celebration sent terrified fans scrambling for cover and left 21 people wounded — including at least eight children — and a mother of two…
Read More1 man killed, another wounded in stabbing at Manassas trade school; suspect fatally shot by police
One man was stabbed to death and another critically wounded before the suspect was fatally shot by police officers at a Manassas, Virginia, training center, Prince William County police say. The Prince William County Police Department said in a news release that officers responded to an apprenticeship training center in the 7000 block of Infantry…
Read MoreHow Texas Church Shooter Bought Rifle Despite Mental Illness And Criminal History Is Under Scrutiny
The shooter who opened fire at a Houston megachurch before being gunned down by security officers used an AR-style rifle that police say she legally purchased despite a years-long criminal record, a history of mental illness and allegations she threatened to shoot her ex-husband. Key questions remained Tuesday about Genesse Moreno’s motive in the shooting,…
Read MoreTexas neighbors said they tried to sound the alarm about Houston church shooter for months
Years before a shooter opened fire at Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church in Houston, residents in the small neighborhood said they had run-ins with the suspect, who frightened them. Six women who live in the neighborhood in Conroe, a north Houston suburb, said the woman, Genesse Ivonne Moreno, targeted them, harassed them, threatened them, displayed firearms…
Read MoreShooting At Greek Shipping Company Kills Four, Including Owner And Suspected Gunman
Three people were fatally shot Monday in the offices of a shipping company near Athens and the suspected gunman also took his life as police special forces prepared to confront him, authorities said. The shooting occurred in the shipping company office in Glyfada, a seaside suburb of the capital. The alleged gunman, an unidentified company…
Read MoreWoman who opened fire at megachurch killed by police
A female shooter opened fire on Sunday afternoon at pastor Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church in Houston, which has one of the nation’s largest congregations. She was fatally shot by off-duty officers. No one else at the church died. The woman, between the ages of 30 and 35, entered the church at 1:53 p.m. wearing a…
Read MoreJury finds Jennifer Crumbley guilty of involuntary manslaughter in son’s school shooting
A jury has found Jennifer Crumbley, the mother of Michigan school shooter Ethan Crumbley, guilty of involuntary manslaughter in connection with the shooting deaths of four students at Oxford High School in November 2021. Crumbley was found guilty of four counts of involuntary manslaughter in connection with the shooting, one for each victim: Madisyn Baldwin,…
Read MoreTeenager found guilty of Isle of Wight Festival terror plot
A 16-year-old boy has been found guilty of plotting a terror attack after researching the Isle of Wight Festival as a potential target. The teenager from Cowes on the Isle of Wight, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was planning to attack people he believed had insulted Islam. He also shared terrorist publications with…
Read MoreSouth Korean court convicts 23-year-old man in car-and-stabbing attack that killed 2
A South Korean judge convicted a man of murder Thursday for an unprovoked car-and-stabbing rampage that killed two people and injured 12 others in a city near Seoul last year. Prosecutors had sought a death penalty for 23-year-old Choi Won-jong, who was arrested in August after he rammed his car into pedestrians in a bustling…
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