Posts Tagged ‘mass violence’
Suspect in Riviera Beach mass shooting: voices told me to kill demons
Riviera Beach police say they now believe the suspect in a mass shooting in Riviera Beach was hearing voices in his head telling him to kill people. The shooting began inside the Azure Estates community in Riviera Beach around 6:15 Monday night. A man police have identified as 20-year-old Terrell Gibson of West Palm Beach…
Read MoreWhite supremacist content grips teens plotting attacks in Southeast Asia
When police detained an Indonesian teenager accused of bombing his high-school campus in Jakarta in November, he had a life-size toy rifle inscribed with “welcome to hell” and the names of white supremacist mass killers. The November 7 attack, which injured 96 people, may have been the first in the country inspired by white supremacists…
Read MoreFamily of Tumbler Ridge shooting victim suing OpenAI
The family of one of the victims of the mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge is suing OpenAI. The mother of Maya Gebala, a 12-year-old who remains in hospital after the shooting on Feb. 10, alleges the tech company failed to alert authorities to chat prompts from the shooter related to violence. The claim was filed…
Read MoreAPD: Mom’s 988 call may have stopped a mass shooting in Albuquerque
Albuquerque police officers say a January call to the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline may have prevented a violent attack at a local medical facility. According to APD, a mother contacted 988 on January 5, reporting that her son — Evan Michael Williamson — was armed, making threats, and heading toward the facility where he…
Read MoreTriple murder suspect arrested after fleeing Utah in victim’s car: Officials
A suspect in a triple murder investigation was taken into custody Thursday morning after investigators tracked him in one of the victim’s vehicles, according to the Utah Department of Public Safety. Three women were found murdered on Wednesday in two locations. The suspect — 22-year-old Ivan Miller from Blakesburg, Iowa — is believed to have…
Read MoreSocial media believed to be tied to Austin shooter is full of antisemitic, anti-Christian, misogynistic posts
The attacker who gunned down revelers at a bar in Austin, Texas, over the weekend appears to have posted antisemitic, anti-Christian and misogynistic posts in the year and a half leading up to the deadly shooting, according to law enforcement sources in Texas. Three people were killed and more than a dozen others wounded in…
Read MoreSuspected school shooter’s father convicted of murder
A Georgia jury found Colin Gray guilty Tuesday on charges including second-degree murder and manslaughter, stemming from a 2024 mass shooting allegedly committed by his teenage son with a rifle he gifted him as a Christmas present. The jury found the 55-year-old Gray guilty of 27 counts. Two other counts were dropped. The jury deliberated…
Read MoreUlukhaktok RCMP make arrest after ‘threats alluding to a mass shooting’
Northwest Territories RCMP say they have made an arrest after police in Ulukhaktok received reports of threats alluding to a mass shooting. Ulukhaktok RCMP received numerous reports on Sunday from concerned citizens saying that someone had posted threats on social media alluding to committing a mass shooting, police said in a news release Tuesday. Officers…
Read MoreAt least 169 people killed in South Sudan ‘surprise’ attack
The authorities in South Sudan have said at least 169 people, including senior officials, were killed on Sunday when a group of unidentified men launched an assault on an area in the north of the country. Describing the attack as carried out by dozens of armed youth, Ruweng Administrative Area’s Information Minister James Monyluak Mijok…
Read MoreTwo dead after I-495 road rage incident leads to stabbing, Virginia State Police shooting
A release issued by the Virginia State Police said a trooper fatally shot a man after responding to a report of a road rage incident on the southbound lanes of I-495 just before 1:30 p.m. at exit 52, near the Little River Turnpike. The man, transferred to a hospital with serious injuries, has been pronounced…
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