Tag: Mass Shootings

Kamala Harris Visits Parkland and Urges States to Adopt Red-Flag Gun Laws

Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday toured the still-bloody and bullet-pocked classroom building in Parkland, Fla., where a gunman killed 14 students and three staff members in 2018, using the grim backdrop to announce a new federal resource center and to call for stricter enforcement of gun laws. The freshman building at Marjory Stoneman Douglas […]

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Sheriff Had Cause to Take Maine Gunman Into Custody Before Shootings

A commission investigating the mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, concluded on Friday that local law enforcement officers should have taken the gunman, Robert R. Card II, into custody and seized his weapons before he killed 18 people on Oct. 25. The decision to instead give Mr. Card’s family responsibility for removing his weapons was “an […]

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Michigan School Shooting: 5 Cases of Parents Convicted After Child’s Actions

A jury on Thursday found James Crumbley partially responsible for the deadliest school shooting in Michigan’s history. Mr. Crumbley’s son, Ethan, killed four people and injured seven more at Oxford High School in suburban Detroit on Nov. 30, 2021. Ethan Crumbley, who was 15 at the time of the shooting, later pleaded guilty to 24 […]

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James Crumbley Found Guilty in Michigan School Shooting Trial

A jury found James Crumbley guilty of involuntary manslaughter late Thursday after about 11 hours of deliberation, holding him partially responsible for failing to prevent his son from carrying out Michigan’s deadliest school shooting. Mr. Crumbley’s wife, Jennifer Crumbley, was convicted of identical charges last month in the same Pontiac, Mich., courtroom, after a jury […]

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James Crumbley Declines to Testify in Oxford High School Shooting Trial

Testimony ended Wednesday morning in the trial of James Crumbley, whose son carried out Michigan’s deadliest school shooting more than two years ago, and whose wife was convicted last month in the same courtroom for failing to prevent the rampage. Prosecutors took the rare step of seeking to hold the Crumbleys partially responsible for the […]

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Uvalde Police Chief Resigns After Robb Elementary School Shooting Investigation

The police chief in Uvalde, Texas, who was out of town during the school shooting that left 21 people dead in May 2022, announced on Tuesday that he would step down. His resignation is the latest fallout from the turmoil in law enforcement over the length of time it took for officers to confront the […]

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Lewiston Shooting Panel Presses Army Reservists on Maine Gunman

A commission investigating the October mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, interrogated Army Reserve colleagues of the gunman, Robert R. Card Jr., at a hearing Thursday, pressing for answers about their failed efforts to prevent him from inflicting harm and eliciting some of the most detailed accounts yet of the months leading up to the rampage. […]

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City Inquiry: Uvalde Officers Made Mistakes, but Did Not Violate Policy

An investigator for the city of Uvalde said on Thursday that despite the many documented failures of more than 20 city police officers who were among those responding to the shooting at Robb Elementary School in 2022, no punishment was warranted because the officers acted in good faith and did not violate department policy. During […]

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James Crumbley, Following His Wife and Son, Stands Trial for Michigan Shooting

Opening statements are set to begin Thursday morning in the trial of James Crumbley, in the same Pontiac, Mich., courtroom where his wife was convicted last month for failing to stop their son from carrying out the worst school shooting in Michigan history. Mr. Crumbley faces the same charges as his wife, Jennifer Crumbley: four […]

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Profound Damage Found in Maine Gunman’s Brain, Possibly From Blasts

A specialized laboratory examining the brain of the gunman who committed Maine’s deadliest mass shooting found profound brain damage of the kind that has been seen in veterans exposed to repeated blasts from weapons use. The lab’s findings were included in an autopsy report that was compiled by the Maine chief medical examiner’s office and […]

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Parkland Survivor Trolls Trump’s Sneaker Venture in an Awesome Way

But the opinion also quotes the Bible as reasoning for functionally killing IVF access within the aggressively pro-life state, turning to an eyebrow-raising verse from Jeremiah 1:5 for guidance before deciding to make it harder for Alabamans to have a family. “We believe that each human being, from the moment of conception, is made in […]

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A Game, a Parade, a Shooting: The Story of America in Three Acts

America’s most communal cultural event, the Super Bowl, featured a wildly popular team from Kansas City cheered by a global pop star who is dating the tight end. After the Chiefs won, she kissed her boyfriend under the falling confetti. Three days later, the city held a massive parade and celebration where gunfire broke out, […]

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Kansas City Players Post Messages of Support After Shooting

After several people were shot during a celebration for Kansas City’s latest Super Bowl title, quarterback Patrick Mahomes wrote on social media that he was “praying for Kansas City,” while other players shared similar messages of support to the community that had gathered downtown to honor the Chiefs at a victory parade and rally. Guard […]

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As Gunshots Rang Out, Super Bowl Parade in Kansas City Dissolved Into Chaos

The parade on Wednesday to celebrate the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory brought hundreds of thousands of people to the city’s streets, a sea of fans clad in the team’s trademark red. But when gunfire began near Union Station, a downtown transit center and tourist hub, around 2 p.m. local time, chaos erupted. Many […]

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Trump Bizarrely Bragged That His Administration ‘Did Nothing’ To Stop A Historic Wave Of Gun Violence

There’s a distinct possibility that Donald Trump, who this time last year was seen as a giant loser in part for dining with anti-Semites, could be re-elected. What would a second Trump presidency look like? Probably not great! For one thing there’s a strong possibility he’ll do nothing about one of the biggest problems in […]

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A Guilty Verdict for a Mass Shooter’s Mother

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A Rare Question for Michigan Jurors: Do a Son’s Crimes Merit His Mother’s Conviction?

In closing arguments at the trial against Jennifer Crumbley on Friday, lawyers for the prosecution and defense differed sharply over whether jurors should take the extraordinary step of holding a mother responsible for her child’s horrific crimes. But both sides agreed on one point: This has been a singular trial. Prosecutors are seeking to hold […]

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Joliet Police Conduct Manhunt for Suspect in 8 Fatal Shootings

The police in Joliet, Ill., were searching on Monday for a suspect in the fatal shooting of eight people, seven of whom were found dead in two homes on the same block on the city’s east side, the authorities said. The suspect, Romeo Nance, 23, was believed to be driving a red Toyota Camry, and […]

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A Grand Jury in Uvalde Is Set to Examine Response to School Massacre

The district attorney in Uvalde, Texas, has said for months that she intended to convene a grand jury to consider evidence from the 2022 shooting at Robb Elementary School, with the possibility that state criminal charges could come out of it over the botched police response to the massacre. The district attorney, Christina Mitchell, said […]

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After Uvalde, Challenges Endure for the Police Despite Clear Protocols

In its report this week on the deadly school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, Justice Department officials strongly criticized the local police and issued blunt, unambiguous guidance for the future: Officers must rapidly confront a gunman, even if it costs them their lives. The rebuke reflected the department’s frustration with the failure of police officials in […]

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Five Takeaways from the DOJ Report on the Uvalde School Shooting

More than a year and a half after the school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, the Justice Department on Thursday published a painstaking and independent examination of the law enforcement response, finding broad and “unimaginable” failures that delayed medical care to the victims. Nineteen children and two teachers were killed, and at least 17 others were […]

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DOJ Rips Into Police for Failing to Stop Uvalde School Shooting Sooner

“The jurors go by number, and they were instructed to not use their names, even with each other … and that is an extraordinary step, even in a criminal case—but that is the kind of measure that I think you’re going to see, whether it’s the Manhattan district attorney’s criminal case against Donald Trump or […]

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Justice Department Blasts Police for “Cascading Failures” in Response to Uvalde

“The jurors go by number, and they were instructed to not use their names, even with each other … and that is an extraordinary step, even in a criminal case—but that is the kind of measure that I think you’re going to see, whether it’s the Manhattan district attorney’s criminal case against Donald Trump or […]

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Uvalde School Shooting Response Was a ‘Significant Failure,’ DOJ Report Says

A Justice Department investigation released on Thursday found that a near-total breakdown in policing protocols hindered the response to the 2022 school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that left 21 people dead — but the gravest error was the reluctance of officials to confront the killer during the first few minutes of the attack. The department […]

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U.S. to Seek Death for Man Who Killed 10 in Racist Supermarket Massacre

The Justice Department on Friday said in court papers that it would seek to execute the gunman who killed 10 Black people in a racist massacre at a Buffalo supermarket in May 2022. It is the first time that President Biden’s administration has sought the death penalty in a new case. Payton Gendron, the 20-year-old […]

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After Nashville School Shooting, Parents Push for Gun Control Action

Mary Joyce told herself she would be kind, just as she always had been. Say enough, but not too much, she reminded herself. Surely, the members of the Tennessee General Assembly before her would be moved by her testimony at a special session dedicated to public safety. A moderate conservative herself, she would tell them […]

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Prague Searches for Motive in Its Worst Mass Shooting Since World War II Era

Investigators on Friday were working to establish a motive for a deadly gun rampage in the center of Prague a day earlier, the Czech Republic’s worst mass shooting since the immediate aftermath of World War II. The gunfire that erupted on Thursday at Charles University turned the historic center of one of Europe’s most serene […]

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Israel’s Destructive Bombs, and DeSantis’s Costly Ground Game

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As Israel Weighs Honoring Oct. 7 Victims, Exhibit Memorializes Trance Festival

A backgammon set suspended midgame. Tents and folding picnic chairs dotted among the trees. A psychedelic dance floor with downtempo and chillout trance playing in the background as video screens show images of flushed, ecstatic young people moving to a silent beat. The items, salvaged from the Oct. 7 “Tribe of Nova” trance festival at […]

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Alex Jones Says He Was Just Playing Devil’s Advocate on That “Whole Sandy Hook Thing”

ERIC, in truth, is nothing short of a software engineering marvel that allows states to compare their voter rolls against other states’. Operated by a staff of three with no philanthropic funding, ERIC provides election officials with reports on potential inaccuracies in voter lists and identifies people who are registered to vote in more than […]

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