Posts Tagged ‘mass violence’
Man seriously injured in stabbing at Berlin Holocaust memorial
A man has been seriously injured in a knife attack near Berlin’s Holocaust memorial. The incident took place at around 18:00 local time (17:00 GMT), police said on X, adding that investigations into what happened “are ongoing”. According to Tagesspiegel newspaper, officers had cordoned off the site and were carrying out a search. Police are…
Read MorePolice: Teenage girls planned shooting and pipe bomb attack at Memorial High School in Spring Branch ISD
Police are investigating after two students were accused of threatening to place pipe bombs in a Houston high school and shoot peers, according to police. The two teenage girls were in custody. According to authorities, one of the suspects, a Willis High School student, is currently being held on unrelated charges, while the second suspect,…
Read MoreCambria County man arrested over alleged mass shooting threat
A Salix man has been charged after he allegedly said he wanted to commit a mass shooting at a grocery store in Cambria County while speaking in an Xbox chat. Dylan Shaffer, 25, has been charged after an online friend from Minnesota reached out to police about a mass shooting threat that he allegedly made,…
Read MoreSudan: At least 200 killed in paramilitary attack
Sudan’s paramilitary forces launched a three-day assault near Khartoum, killing more than 200, the Emergency Lawyers network said Tuesday. The rights group said hundreds were injured or missing, and that hundreds had been subjected to “executions, kidnappings, forced disappearances and looting.” The lawyers’ network said the paramilitaries shot at villagers as they were trying to…
Read MoreMultiple Life Sentences For Maryland Mass Shooter: State’s Attorney
Jabre Griffith was sentenced to two life terms plus 120 years on Tuesday, Feb. 18, for the murders of Ernest Hall and Micah Strong, as well as for a violent shooting spree in March 2023, according to Baltimore City State’s Attorney Ivan Bates. “I do not take a sentence of this length lightly when it…
Read MoreColumbine High School shooting survivor dies decades after tragedy
While Columbine High School shooting survivor Anne Marie Hochhalter’s life was shaped by tragedy, the tenacious woman worked hard to ensure tragedy did not define her. Hochhalter was 17 when her life shifted from teen clarinet player to among the most injured survivors of the 1999 Columbine High School shooting. The high school junior was…
Read MoreMother, daughter die from injuries suffered in Munich car attack
A 37-year-old mother and her 2-year-old daughter have died from injuries they sustained in the Munich car attack on Thursday. They were from Munich and the mother was a city staff member, according to a spokesperson for the Bavarian State Office of Criminal Investigation. At least 37 other people, including several children, were injured after…
Read MoreAustria says stabbing attack suspect swore allegiance to Islamic State
The Syrian asylum seeker suspected of carrying out a deadly stabbing rampage in the Austrian town of Villach had sworn allegiance to Islamic State and was radicalised online, authorities said on Sunday. A 14-year-old boy was killed in Saturday afternoon’s attack in the centre of Villach and five other people were wounded, three of whom…
Read MoreOn eve of MSU mass shooting anniversary, former student sues university
A former Michigan State University student who was in Room 114 at Berkey Hall when a gunman shot several classmates, two fatally, nearly two years ago sued the university Wednesday. The complaint, filed one day before the second anniversary of the mass shooting that killed three students and wounded five others on Feb. 13, 2023,…
Read MoreSuspected Munich attacker named locally as counter-terrorism police take over investigation
At least 28 people have been injured after an Afghan asylum seeker drove at a crowd of people in Munich, police say. People had been gathering at a trade union rally when the car accelerated in their direction. An officer fired one shot at the suspect before he was arrested – he was injured, but…
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