Posts Tagged ‘mass violence’
Florida police arrest student after video threat to ‘shoot up’ a high school
Florida police have arrested a high school student after video emerged of a potential gunman threatening to open fire at a school. The Sanford Police Department said it received an anonymous tip on Saturday “regarding a video of an unknown male threatening to shoot up Seminole High School.” “The video pictured the subject with multiple…
Read More17-year-old becomes first person in Harris County charged with terrorism under new Texas law
A Hockley teen has become the first person in Harris County to be charged with terrorism under a new state law. Seventeen-year-old Laith Adil Shehzad is being held on a $10 million bond. According to court documents, Shehzad was plotting to kill people in a mass shooting by using a Glock semi-automatic firearm equipped with…
Read MoreMan accused of making online threats to shoot up prominent Manhattan synagogue held without bail
Luis Ramirez smiled on his way into court for arraignment on charges he threatened to kill Jews, representing himself as “Adolf Hitler reincarnated.” He appeared in court on charges of making terroristic threats and making terroristic threats as a hate crime. Ramirez was arrested last month by Port Authority Police on the New Jersey side…
Read MoreMan pleads guilty to murder and attempted murder in shooting at suburban Chicago July 4 parade
An Illinois man pleaded guilty Monday to killing seven people and injuring dozens more when he opened fire on a 2022 Independence Day parade in a Chicago suburb, a stunning development moments before opening arguments in his trial on charges of murder and attempted murder. Appearing in a Lake County circuit courtroom, Robert E. Crimo…
Read MoreInvestigators will question a driver who allegedly rammed a car into a crowd in Germany, killing 2
Investigators on Tuesday will question a driver who allegedly rammed a car into a crowd in the southwestern German city of Mannheim, killing two people and injuring 11. Andreas Stenger, head of the State Criminal Police Office, told German news agency dpa that police hope the interview with the perpetrator will lead to information about…
Read MoreMannheim car ramming attack suspect a German with history of mental illness, say investigators
The suspected perpetrator in the car ramming attack which has killed at least two people in Mannheim on Monday is a 40-year-old German from Ludwigshafen with previous convictions related to drunk driving and right-wing hate speech. A 40-year-old German from the state of Rhineland-Palatinate has been detained in relation to the car ramming attack on…
Read MoreRobert Crimo III pleads guilty in Highland Park parade shooting
Robert Crimo III is pleading guilty in the Highland Park 4th of July Parade shooting. The change in plea comes as opening statements were set to begin in the trial Monday. Robert Crimo III is accused of planning and carrying out the mass shooting during Highland Park’s Fourth of July Parade in 2022, killing seven…
Read MoreMan with “violent extremist ideology” charged with possessing videos of child sexual abuse
A federal grandy jury indicted a Pennsylvania man with possession of child sexual abuse material and heard evidence that he holds a “racially-motivated violent extremist ideology” that saw him praise mass shooters, prosecutors announced Wednesday. Aidan Harding, 20, of Glenwillard, Pennsylvania, was indicted on a charge of possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of…
Read MoreFormer Navy Sailor Pleads Guilty to Plotting to Attack Naval Station Great Lakes in North Chicago
A former Navy sailor has pleaded guilty in federal court in Chicago to plotting to attack Naval Station Great Lakes in North Chicago, Illinois, purportedly on behalf of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Xuanyu Harry Pang, 38, of North Chicago, Illinois, pleaded guilty to conspiring to and attempting to willfully injure and destroy national…
Read MoreTeenager plotted mass shooting at Edinburgh school
A teenager obsessed by murder wanted to carry out a mass shooting at his own school in Edinburgh. A court heard how the boy “idolised” the killers behind the Columbine High School massacre in Colorado in the United States in 1999, which saw 12 students and a teacher murdered. He repeatedly spoke about doing the…
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