Archive for the ‘Mass shooting’ Category
Pennsylvania: “…. it started as a fight at the cash register between two customers……[A] man grabbed a gun out of a woman’s wristband and began shooting. Police say at least 10 shots were fired…..[A]t least 5 wounded….”
Wednesday, August 15th, 2018
What prompted a 29-year old man to fire a handgun into restaurants and cafes in Toronto’s Greektown, killing a 10-year-old girl and an 18-year-old woman and wounding 13 others.
Tuesday, July 24th, 2018A mass shooting punctured a busy neighborhood of Toronto on Sunday night, shooting 14, killing 1. The shooter was also killed.
Monday, July 23rd, 2018My evening was nice until I heard shooting right out of my place on the danforth. So scary!! The gun violence in Toronto is crazy. pic.twitter.com/eNHLlUlp6r
— n💫 (@nsxoxoii) July 23, 2018
Fourteen people have been wounded, some seriously, in a knife attack on a bus in Lübeck, Germany
Friday, July 20th, 20187/20/2012: A mass shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, CO that killed 12 and wounded 70 others.
Friday, July 20th, 2018“……On this day in 2012, gunman James Holmes started a mass shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, a Denver suburb, killing 12 people—the youngest a 6-year-old girl—and injuring at least 70 others.
The Aurora shooting took place shortly after the start of a crowded midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises, which opened across the United States that day. It was the deadliest mass shooting in Colorado since the 1999 Columbine shooting…..”
7/18/1984: An active shooter situation develops in a crowded McDonald’s restaurant in San Ysidro, California, killing 21 and wounding 19 others
Wednesday, July 18th, 2018Boise, Idaho: 6 children, ages four to 12, were injured in a knife attack, along with 3 adults who rushed to their defense.
Sunday, July 1st, 2018
Capital Gazette: Hit, but still on the job!
Thursday, June 28th, 2018“…….Five dead, others ‘gravely injured’ in shooting at Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis ……”
Active shooter reported at Capital Gazette newsroom in Annapolis
Thursday, June 28th, 2018Orlando, its police department, and 31 officers are being sued by Pulse survivors and the families of the dead.
Friday, June 8th, 2018“The federal lawsuit…..claims Orlando police officer Adam Gluber, acting as club security, failed to prevent Omar Mateen from entering the club on June 12, 2016 with an assault-style rifle, killing 49 people.
Another 30 unnamed officers are accused of poorly responding, not charging after Mateen sooner and holding fleeing patrons against their will…..”