LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — A gunman opened fire at a movie theater in Lousiana on Thursday evening, killing three people and injuring at least seven others before shooting himself, officials said. The gunman, a 58-year-old “lone white male,” fired his weapon “numerous times” before shooting himself at the Grand Theatre in Lafayette, city Police Chief […]
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — A gunman unleashed a barrage of fire at a recruiting center and another U.S. military site a few miles apart in Chattanooga on Thursday, killing at least four Marines, officials said. The attacker was also killed. Federal authorities said they were investigating the possibility it was an act of terrorism, and […]
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — Colorado theater shooter James Holmes was convicted Thursday in the chilling 2012 attack on defenseless moviegoers at a midnight Batman premiere after jurors swiftly rejected defense arguments that the former graduate student was insane and driven to murder by delusions. The 27-year-old Holmes, who had been working toward his Ph.D. in […]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The first of several packages mailed by a man who shot three people at a Florida State University library was delivered in Texas, a law enforcement official said Friday. Authorities thought the packages could contain videos and journals from Myron May, who was killed by police officers outside the library Thursday, […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI says the number of shootings in which a gunman opens fire on a crowd of people has increased in recent years. The bureau released a report Wednesday analyzing 160 mass shootings between 2000 and 2013. The report focuses on what the FBI calls “active shooter incidents,” or cases in which […]
WASHINGTON — Despite increased security put in place after the massacre at Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012, there’s been no real reduction…
ELKHART, Ind. (AP) — A gunman walked into a northern Indiana grocery store and fatally shot two people Wednesday night before he was killed by police, authorities said. Elkhart police received a call about an active shooter at Martin’s Super Market about 10 p.m. Wednesday, Indiana State Police Sgt. Trent Smith said at a news […]
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Some fled in panic as gunshots echoed through a sprawling Reno hospital complex while others locked themselves in medical offices as dozens of police cars and SWAT teams sealed off a three-block area and heavily armed officers began a nervous room-to-room search. A suicidal gunman killed one person and wounded two […]
