A cyber group known as Purgatory is reportedly behind an alarming spate of AI-enhanced swatting calls that have generated active shooter alerts and the resulting fear and chaos on college campuses in recent weeks.
An “active shooter incident” was reported at Georgia’s Fort Stewart Wednesday and the base was placed on lockdown just after 11:00 a.m.
A gunman believed to be behind an active shooting was “neutralized” Saturday morning at York County, Pennsylvania’s, UPMC Memorial Hospital.
The British band Sports Team was robbed at gunpoint Tuesday in Vallejo, California, just minutes after they had begun their U.S. tour.
California is already No. 1 for gun control among states in the Union, according to Mike Bloomberg-affiliated Everytown for Gun Safety, yet Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed 24 new gun controls on Tuesday.
CNN and the Washington Post are facing backlash for publishing biased headlines that failed to acknowledge former President Donald Trump was injured after shots were fired at his Saturday rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
A Secret Service agent was reportedly robbed at gunpoint in California while off-duty during President Joe Biden’s campaign stop with former President Barack Obama and some celebrities.
CBS47 and FOX30 reported that “active shooter calls” shut down numerous schools across Georgia on Wednesday morning.
A suspected gunman is in a Texas Panhandle hospital after sheriff’s deputies shot him. The gunman allegedly shot three people, including two first responders.
Police and medical personnel were dispatched to Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois, on Sunday when a shooter reportedly injured three people.
An FBI report on ‘Active Shooter Incidents’ in 2021 shows that California was the number one state for such incidents, with six incidents total.
A stampede occurred after midnight Sunday at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn when rumors spread about an active shooter nearby.
Former CBP Commissioner Mark Morgan defended the actions by Uvalde police after Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw told reporters he believed, in hindsight, that the incident commander made the wrong decisions.
Some of the features designed to keep students safe in an active shooter situation actually worked to protect the shooter and slow the Uvalde police response to the Texas school shooting on Tuesday. The shooter managed to barricade himself behind two locked doors, forcing police to wait to find keys.
Border Patrol agents placed themselves between the Robb Elementary School shooter and children to save lives, says the chief of the U.S. Border Patrol. At least one sustained a gunshot wound during an exchange of gunfire.
The sound of gunfire at the Kickapoo Lucky Eagle Casino sent patrons running for the exits in a state of panic shortly after midnight Sunday morning. Local and state law enforcement authorities converged on the casino after receiving reports of an active shooter in the area.
Officials in Austin, Texas, report a former Travis County Sheriff’s Office detective allegedly killed two men and a woman Sunday afternoon. The suspect, who is wanted for the alleged sexual abuse of a child is at large and police are engaged in a manhunt.
Police in Boulder, Colorado, are responding Monday to reports of an active shooter at a King Soopers on Table Mesa Drive near South Broadway.
More than a dozen Texas police officers took down a man who went into a border-area Walmart store dressed in black and carrying multiple weapons he allegedly utilized to threaten shoppers. Officers shot the suspect several times after he fired at them during the confrontation. The alleged gunman died at the scene.
An active shooter alert was issued Tuesday morning at the 29 Palms Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in California.
A concealed carry permit holder shot and killed an alleged attacker in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Friday night, thwarting a mass shooting in the process.
Three people are dead after a gunman opened fire at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola on Friday morning.
A Texas grand jury handed down capital murder indictments against the man who allegedly opened fire on customers and employees at an El Paso Walmart, killing 22 and wounding many more. If convicted, the man will face the death penalty or life in prison without parole.
Police in Odessa, Texas, say a gunman armed with an AR-15 style rifle killed seven people and injured 22 others in a shooting rampage that began after a routine traffic stop on Saturday afternoon. Police say the shooter, whose name they released privately to media, acted alone in the shooting. He has a criminal record that includes evading police.
El Paso prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty against the man who allegedly killed 20 people and wounded 26 others in the mass-casualty shooting on Saturday. The U.S. Attorney’s Office says they will treat the shooting “as domestic terrorism.”
President Donald Trump condemned Saturday’s deadly shooting in El Paso, Texas, as “an act of cowardice” and expressed condolences to the people of the Lone Star State.
Police in El Paso, Texas, report 20 people died in a shooting at an area Walmart store Saturday morning. Earlier in the day, officials walked back their multi-shooter and gang-related terrorism statements. Officials say one suspect is in custody. El Paso police called an alleged manifesto a “potential nexus to a hate crime.”
Over 30 armed teachers gathered in Spanish Fork, Utah, for police training in locating and taking out active shooters.
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) — Faculty members at Oakland University in suburban Detroit have received hockey pucks and are being trained to use them to potentially thwart active shooters.
An active shooter situation is unfolding at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland, according to Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD).
Shots were fired Monday near Chicago’s Mercy Hospital in what could be an active shooter situation, according to emerging reports.
Five individuals are dead and at least seven persons are injured after a suspect opened on the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland.
Authorities are responding to reports of a shooting in downtown San Diego not far from the finish line of an annual marathon.
Law enforcement personnel have responded to active shooter who is barricaded in an apartment complex in Panama City, Florida. Witnesses report numerous shots being fired and the Walton County Sheriff’s Office believes the suspect is tied to a “suspicious death” uncovered earlier in the day.
The gunman who carried out the heinous attack on Santa Fe High School in Texas used a .38 Special revolver and a shotgun. Ten innocents were killed in the attack, another ten were wounded.
The weapons policy of Santa Fe High School in Texas makes clear that no firearms, imitation firearms, BB guns, or ammunition is allowed on campus.
A North Texas sheriff left no doubt about his policy on engaging active shooters. The sheriff made it clear his deputies will not wait for SWAT or other agencies. “We go into engage and stop the shooter and save lives,” the sheriff wrote in a memorandum on Wednesday.
News reports and social media messages indicate there may have been a shooting at the Memorial City Mall on Saturday night.
A professor at the University of Southern California has been detained after an “episode” she suffered on campus led people to believe that there was an active shooter Monday afternoon, police said.
Despite the chaos that consumed Evergreen State College earlier this year, administrators are refusing to properly arm campus law enforcement.
