Posts Tagged ‘mass violence’
Ex-wife of Michigan shooting suspect warned of ‘danger’ before rampage
The ex-wife of the man accused of killing five people in a rural northern Michigan shooting rampage blames the local court system for failing to keep him behind bars. Chad Hickman, 39, was found dead on Aug. 14 following an extensive manhunt in Missaukee County, roughly 200 miles northwest of Detroit, according to Michigan State…
Read MorePhilippine student live-streamed fatal school shooting before taking own life, official say
A student live-streamed himself shooting and killing another student in a classroom in the southern Philippines on Tuesday before taking his own life, an official said, in the second school attack in the country in less than two months. Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr ordered law enforcement agencies to investigate and to determine measures to…
Read More6 dead, including suspect, in series of killings in Michigan
Five people were killed and a suspect is dead Friday in Michigan, where an extensive search unfolded around two homes and a wooded area, according to police. Law enforcement was responding to reports of a shooting at a home in Missaukee County, about 169 miles northwest of Detroit, just before noon when they found three…
Read MoreEx-Officer Held in New Orleans Shooting Plot Is Freed Without Indictment
A former North Carolina police officer who was accused of planning to carry out a mass shooting in New Orleans was quietly released over the summer after a grand jury did not indict him, according to state court records. The former officer, Christopher Gillum of Chapel Hill, N.C., had been held without bond in Louisiana…
Read MoreUnsealed documents reveal details of RCMP’s response, investigation into Tumbler Ridge shooting
Documents unsealed through efforts by CBC News and a consortium of media outlets reveal new details of the RCMP’s response and investigation into the February 2026 mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. The documents, which include search warrants, production orders and sealing orders, provide a snapshot of a complex investigation, laying out for the first…
Read MoreThailand school shooting toll rises to nine after 12-year-old dies
The death toll from a school shooting in Thailand rose to nine on Saturday, after police said a 12-year-old girl caught up in Friday’s incident had died. Police at the Plai Bang Police Station in Nonthaburi Province said the girl, who had been treated at hospital with critical wounds, had died, a day after a…
Read MoreStudent gunman kills at least 7 people at a high school and a home outside Bangkok
A student shot several people at a high school outside Bangkok on Friday morning, killing at least five and wounding several others, according to authorities, who said the gunman also appeared to have separately killed his two grandparents. The gunman took his own life, officials said. Five school staff members, including teachers and administrators, died…
Read MoreMan behind deadly Munich car ramming handed life sentence
A man has been sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty of driving his car into a crowd of people in Munich last year, killing two people. The 25-year-old man, named only as Farhad N in line with German privacy laws, is an Afghan national, who prosecutors say deliberately drove his Mini into a…
Read More4 stabbed in central London in what police believe was a mental health incident
London police said Wednesday that a woman was arrested after four people were stabbed in Covent Garden, a central area of the capital that is popular with visitors. The Metropolitan Police said early indications suggest it was a mental health-related incident and that scissors were recovered at the scene. Police said four men aged 34,…
Read MoreAuthorities seek a motive in the mass shooting at an Idaho In-N-Out Burger
A driver charging his electric taxi and a former law enforcement officer who tried to intervene were among the seven people wounded in a mass shooting at an Idaho fast food restaurant that also left three people dead, according to friends and relatives of the two men. The attack Saturday at a new In-N-Out Burger…
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