On Tuesday afternoon, at YouTube’s headquarters in San Bruno, California, three people sustained gunshot wounds, one critically, after a shooter reportedly opened fire with a handgun in an outdoor courtyard. A few hours after the story broke, the New York Times reported that police believed the shooter to be an as of…
The singer Christina Grimmie was 22 when she was fatally shot on June 10, 2016 at Orlando’s Plaza Live theater, where she’d just performed, by a man who then shot himself, and subsequently died, at the scene.
A mass shooting has been reported in a church in Antioch, Tennessee, the Tennessean reports. Police responded to calls at 11:15 AM and are investigating.
One woman was killed and eight others—including three children—were wounded at a gender reveal party in Ohio on Saturday night, and police have yet to arrest any suspects.
Early Wednesday morning, several people were wounded in a shooting that took place in San Francisco’s Potrero Hill neighborhood, according to ABC News. At least three people were struck, though there may be more.
Alexandre Bissonnette was well-known in his community as an anti-immigration Laval University student who frequently made xenophobic comments on social media about Islam. He allegedly shot six people dead, injuring eight more, in a Canadian mosque on Sunday, and was charged with six counts of murder on Monday.
Early in the morning on New Year’s Day, 39 people were killed by a gunman in an Istanbul nightclub called Reina. ISIS soon took credit for the attack, and now the man who allegedly wielded the weapons has been apprehended, and has reportedly confessed.
It’s only natural that after shooting up a pizza parlor because you believed it could be operating a child sex ring on behalf of Hillary Clinton and you just wanted the facts, you might come to regret some stuff. According to a New York Times article published on Wednesday, “Pizzagate” shooter Edgar Welch, apparently…
Texas police fatally shot a 42-year-old mother after she refused to put down the gun she used to murder two of her own daughters in a Houston suburb.
On Thursday, Sen. John McCain revealed he is functioning on heavy Republican autopilot when he said that Barack Obama is “directly responsible” for the historic mass shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, which left 49 dead.
On Wednesday night, T.I.’s Irving Plaza concert erupted in violence when Roland Collins, a.k.a. Troy Ave, allegedly opened fire in a greenroom. A bodyguard to Troy Ave, 30-year-old Edgar McPhatter, was shot in the torso and died at Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital.
Jamie Gilt, a 31-year-old Jacksonville, Florida woman, was shot with a legally-purchased gun by her four-year-old son on Tuesday. Authorities found her in the driver’s seat of a truck by the side of a road; her son was sitting in the back seat.
Every school in the Los Angeles Unified School District was shuttered on Tuesday after an unspecified, wide-ranging threat was called in.
In wake of Friday’s shooting at a Planned Parenthood location in Colorado Springs, celebrities such as Chrissy Teigen, Kerry Washington and Kathy Griffin are offering their support for the women’s healthcare organization.
On Friday afternoon, police were called to a situation involving an active shooter at a Planned Parenthood location in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The Denver Post reports at least three police officers have been injured, as well as multiple civilians. There are no details as to how many victims there are, whether…
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The alleged gunman in the murder of a Virginia TV reporter and cameraman this morning has been identified by police as Vester Lee Flanagan, who anchored WDBJ for one year using the name Bryce Williams. Someone identifying themselves as Williams on Twitter has confessed to the shooting and uploaded video footage of…
John Russel Houser has been identified as the gunman who opened fire in a movie theater in Lafayette, Louisiana, killing two people and himself.
Though Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church will be likely summed up in the news over the next couple of weeks as a “black church,” perhaps a “historic black church” if people are feeling generous, the church’s two-plus centuries as a site of unwavering community resistance to state-sponsored racism give it a…