COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) — Campus police at Georgia’s Columbus State University fatally shot a man this weekend after officers responded to a report of someone seen loading a gun, authorities said. Zikarious Jaquan Flint, 20, died Sunday after suffering two gunshot wounds, Muscogee County Coroner Buddy Bryan said Monday morning. Flint wasn’t a student at […]
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — A suburban Denver student shot at least one other student at a high school Friday before he apparently turned the gun on himself, authorities said. Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson said the student was wounded when he confronted the gunman at Arapahoe High School in Centennial. Officers found another injured student […]
VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — An 11-year-old middle school student accused of bringing a handgun, more than 400 rounds of ammunition and multiple knives to his school was arrested Wednesday night, police said. Police recovered the weapons and ammunition earlier in the day at Frontier Middle School. No one was hurt. The boy was interviewed by […]
DANVERS, Mass. (AP) — She had a bright smile, a preference for pink, and an admitted overenthusiasm for the subjects she taught. The lanky boy was just a decade younger, new to the school, with a pleasant manner but little to say. Sometime on their last day at the school together Tuesday, prosecutors say, teacher […]
DANVERS, Mass. (AP) — A 24-year-old Danvers High School teacher has been found dead in the woods behind the school and a 14-year-old student is facing a murder charge. Essex District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett on Wednesday identified the victim as Colleen Ritzer of Andover. He says police started investigating after they were told she had […]
SPARKS, Nev. (AP) — A shooting at a middle school in northern Nevada has left two people dead and two boys in critical condition, rattling parents, teachers and students as they showed up for the start of the school week. The identities of the shooter and victims weren’t immediately known. The suspect is “down,” police […]
NEW PRAGUE, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota school district locked down several buildings Wednesday after a 911 call that authorities later said was a prank, and a 12-year-old boy suspected of making the call was arrested. The 8 a.m. emergency call prompted a lockdown at the middle school, high school and Central Education Campus buildings […]
DETROIT (AP) — Detroit police say a 70-year-old high school basketball coach shot and killed a teenager during an attempted robbery outside the school. Police spokeswoman Officer Cassandra Lewis says assistant girls’ basketball coach Ernest Robinson was accosted by two males Friday evening while walking two team members outside King High School. Lewis says the […]
HOUSTON (AP) — Prosecutors on Monday dropped charges against a 22-year-old man who authorities initially believed was involved in a shooting that wounded him and two others at a Houston-area community college. Carlton Berry was arrested soon after the Jan. 22 shootings at Lone Star College and charged with two counts of aggravated assault with […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Violence that sometimes borders the University of Southern California crept onto campus when an argument outside a Halloween party escalated to a shooting that critically wounded one man and injured three other people and led administrators Thursday to reassess policies of the school near high-crime neighborhoods. Neither the victims nor the […]
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — Classmates and friends are questioning why a police officer fatally shot a University of South Alabama freshman who was naked and had been banging on a window at police headquarters. Campus officials didn't give any indication that Gil Collar, 18, of Wetumpka had a weapon when he was shot. A university […]
STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — A gunshot rang out at an Oklahoma junior high school before classes began Wednesday, terrifying teenagers who feared a gunman was on the loose. Soon, though, students learned no one else was in danger. One of their eighth-grade classmates had taken his own life, shooting himself in the head with a […]
