Officials say the 18-year-old German-Iranian man who killed nine people in Munich on Friday before turning the gun on himself was “obsessed” with shooting rampages and apparently spent a year planning his attack, The Guardian reports.
No professional group in America has a more direct interest in gun control than police officers. No labor group in America is more consistently despicable than police unions. There is an opportunity here.
Two bailiffs were killed and at least two other people were wounded on Monday after an inmate at a Michigan courthouse took an officer’s gun, the Associated Press reports. The gunman was later killed by police.
An unedited, extremely graphic bystander video provided to KDFW and played on air appeared to show a deadly shootout between a suspect in Thursday’s shooting in Dallas and a police officer.
According to Dallas Police, at least five officers are dead and six more have been injured after a shooting at a Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas Thursday night. Authorities say two suspects are in custody.
According to a report released by the Southern Poverty Law Center, the man suspected of killing Labor MP Jo Cox was a longtime supporter of white nationalist causes, having sent hundreds of dollars to the now-defunct American neo-Nazi group National Alliance.
Citing law enforcement sources, CBS News reports that the two people who died in today’s shooting at UCLA were an engineering professor and a student “apparently despondent about grades.”
According to reports, at least two people were shot on the UCLA campus, where the school is currently on lockdown while police search for the shooter.
One suspect and one civilian were killed in Houston on Sunday when at least one gunman began shooting at cars in an apparently random and unprovoked attack, CNN reports. Three bystanders, two police officers and one possible suspect were also wounded, though none of them seriously.
At least four people were shot, one fatally, on Wednesday when gunfire broke out at Manhattan’s Irving Plaza, where rapper T.I. was scheduled to perform.
On Tuesday, the police chief of Oregon’s largest city was placed on paid leave after allegedly misleading an investigator about a hunting accident last month.
According to police, a man attending a high school graduation in Kansas accidentally fired a pistol he had concealed in his sock on Sunday, shooting himself and a female bystander. Neither injury is believed to be life-threatening, The Washington Post reports.
On Tuesday, an attacker believed to have stabbed multiple people after crashing into a Macy’s store in Massachusetts was shot by an off-duty police officer, WCVB-TV reports. Authorities say two victims and the suspect have died.
According to The Washington Post, American children three years old or younger have shot at least 23 people in 2016, five more than they did over the same period in 2015.
A man in hedgehog pajamas and a bomb vest made of chocolate bars was shot by police on Thursday after threatening to “blow up” a Baltimore news station, WBFF-TV reports. Police say the suspect is in serious but stable condition and is expected to survive.
On Wednesday, a Baltimore police officer shot a fleeing 13-year-old boy holding a replica semiautomatic pistol, WBAL-TV reports. Authorities say the boy is expected to survive.
A Virginia state trooper and two other people were shot at a bus terminal in Richmond on Thursday afternoon. The trooper succumbed to his injuries, but the two civilians were expected to survive. The gunman was shot and killed by police. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports:
A man was arrested Monday afternoon after he allegedly tried to bring a gun into the Capitol, prompting a Capitol police officer to shoot him before taking him into custody. It’s still unclear why the man had the gun, but he has, according to court documents, a violent history with the building.
Art imitates life; the plot of Revenge of the Nerds is now becoming a reality in Cupertino.
Eight people were shot—five fatally, including a pregnant woman—in a shooting at a backyard cookout in Wilkinsburg, Pennslyvania, on Wednesday night. According to the Associated Press, the medical examiner ruled the death of the fetus a homicide on Thursday, bringing the number of those killed to six.
