Posts Tagged ‘mass violence’
BPD: Suspect at large after 5 injured in shooting at Morgan State University
Baltimore police are searching for a suspect after five young adults were injured Tuesday night in a shooting on Morgan State University’s campus that prompted active shooter alerts. Baltimore Police Commissioner Richard Worley and Morgan State University Police Chief Lance Hatcher said university police officers were on patrol around 9:25 p.m. when they heard discharging…
Read More14-year-old suspect in fatal Bangkok mall shooting used modified mock gun, police say
The teenage boy accused of killing two people and wounding five others in an upscale Bangkok shopping mall used a mock handgun that had been modified to fire real bullets, police said Wednesday. The suspect, whom Thai media reported to be 14 years old, was taken into custody less than an hour after the first…
Read More3 dead in shooting in major shopping mall in Bangkok; suspected attacker is in police custody
Three people were killed and six were injured when a shooter opened fire in a major shopping mall in the center of Thailand’s capital on Tuesday afternoon before being apprehended, authorities said. Police spokesman Archayon Kraithong told reporters a suspect was taken into custody after the shooting at the Siam Paragon Mall and the situation…
Read MoreGang violence in Haiti escalating and spreading, UN says
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…
Read MoreMonterrey gangs: Bodies dumped in Mexico’s business capital
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.…
Read MoreEl Paso Walmart shooter agrees to pay more than $5.5 million in restitution in federal case
The gunman who killed 23 people and wounded 22 others at an El Paso Walmart in one of the deadliest attacks targeting Latinos in modern US history has agreed to pay more than $5.5 million in restitution to those impacted by the shooting. Patrick Crusius, who pleaded guilty to federal charges in the attack, reached…
Read MoreKosovar police surround a village after Serb gunmen storm a monastery in violence that has killed 4
Dozens of Serb gunmen dressed in combat uniforms killed a Kosovar Albanian police officer then stormed an Orthodox monastery in Kosovo near its border with Serbia, setting off gunbattles that left three assailants dead and further raised tensions between the two former wartime foes as they seek to normalize ties. Kosovo police surrounded Banjska, a…
Read MoreIndictment alleges mass shooting threat at Stanley Cup game in Las Vegas
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…
Read More‘Maybe become the next shooter’: Former Monona student charged in school threats
A former Monona Grove School District student was charged Tuesday with felony terrorist threats after authorities say the student said they’d harm students at a high school. Authorities said at least two tips about Emma Hardiman, 18, came through the Wisconsin Department of Justice’s Speak Up, Speak Out portal. The site in the Office of…
Read MoreBrooklyn subway shooter Frank James seeking 18 years in N train attack
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.…
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