Posts Tagged ‘school safety’
Pauls Valley school shooting suspect inspired by Columbine, tried to shoot multiple students before shooting principal
Newly released court documents obtained by News 4 say the suspect in Tuesday’s Pauls Valley High School shooting studied the Columbine school shooting and tried to shoot multiple students before shooting Principal Kirk Moore. The documents say his gun also malfunctioned multiple times, allowing students time to escape the building. According to the arrest affidavit…
Read MoreLawsuit planned against ChatGPT over alleged link to accused FSU gunman
Phoenix Ikner, the accused gunman in the April 17, 2025, mass shooting that left two dead and six injured at Florida State University, was in “constant communication” with ChatGPT, a leading AI chatbot, before the rampage, according the lawyer for one of the victims’ widow. Ryan Hobbs, a Tallahassee attorney representing Betty Morales, whose husband,…
Read MoreYouth charged in Manitoba school attack plot had threatened kids with knife, parents say
Parents in a small southwestern Manitoba community allege a 14-year-old boy charged in connection with a school attack threat had a history of threatening others, in some cases holding other youth at knifepoint. Three individual parents of teens who attend Rivers Collegiate in Rivers, about 225 kilometres west of Winnipeg, allege the accused youth threatened…
Read MoreCCSO: Cumberland County elementary school student charged with threats of mass violence
A Cumberland County elementary school student is charged with threats of mass violence after making “alarming statements” to other students, according to the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office. CCSO said the threats were made on April 6 by a student at Homestead Elementary, and the District Threat Response Team, consisting of school officials, members of the…
Read MoreBill passed to require that any Tenn. school threats have to be credible before any charges are filed
The Tennessee Senate and House unanimously passed a bill Monday that would change how school threats are handled, sending the legislation to Governor Bill Lee’s desk to be signed into law. Following the Covenant School shooting in 2023, state lawmakers made any threat of mass violence against a school a felony. Tennessee’s school threat laws…
Read MoreArmed man allegedly sent manifesto to schools, govt promising to become NZ’s ‘most deadly mass shooter
An armed man sent a manifesto to schools, the police and the government promising to “kill everyone” and become the country’s “most deadly mass shooter”, police allege. The man – who has never had a firearms licence – is accused of possessing a pump action shotgun with more than 350 shotgun cartridges, “suspected components of…
Read MoreMachete-wielding man attacks Ugandan nursery school, killing 4 children
A man killed four children in a machete attack inside a nursery school in the Ugandan capital of Kampala on Thursday, police said. The man gained access to the Gaba Early Childhood Development Program in Kampala by disguising himself as a parent, the Daily Monitor newspaper reported. He first entered the school offices, where he…
Read MorePolice: 18-year-old from Brockport arrested after making terroristic threats online outside a Palmyra school
The Palmyra Police Department said they arrested a Brockport man after an investigation into a threat made against the Palmyra-Macedon School District. Police say they were told about a social media post on Tuesday that showed a gun being pointed at a school, along with a threatening message. The report said the suspect was a…
Read MoreB.C. youth charged over alleged school shooting threats in chats with U.S. teen
Police on Vancouver Island say a youth who lives in Sooke, B.C., has been charged after allegedly making threats about a school shooting in online chats with a 15-year-old in the United States. Sooke RCMP said in a statement Monday that the investigation was spurred after police in Louisville, Ky., made contact earlier this month…
Read MoreTexas high school shooting leaves student dead, teacher hospitalized
A 15-year-old student shot a teacher at Hill Country College Preparatory High School in Bulverde before shooting himself, according to the Comal County Sheriff’s Office. The student died at the scene, and the teacher was transported to a San Antonio hospital. The teacher’s name has not been released. “At this time, we do not have…
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