Shooting - Page 32

On Friday evening, a 15-year-old jihadi gunned down a civilian police employee as he was walking out of a suburban Sydney police station. Australian Islamist groups have refused to condemn the killing, which the authorities described as politically motivated terrorism, while playing coy as to the killer’s exact motivations.

On Friday, in response to the shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon in which Christians were targeted and murdered, Tennessee Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey minced no words in his concise message to Christians and those who believe in the values of Western Civilization: buy guns.

Let’s talk about the heroes of Umpqua instead of the psychotic killer. 30-year-old Army veteran Chris Mintz was shot seven times by the killer as he struggled to protect students. His aunt Sheila Brown told NBC News he served 10 years in the military, and had just started classes at the college. She also said he was on the wrestling team and had experience as a cage fighter. Several sources say Mintz was stationed at Fr. Lewis in Washington, and was deployed during his Army service.

Late Thursday evening, police named 26-year-old Chris Harper Mercer as the man who shot and killed at least nine students, many of them women, at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon.

A professor employed by Delta State University in Mississippi has been gunned down by an active shooter at Delta State University, a Bolivar County Deputy Coroner confirmed Monday, and the campus shooter remains at large, according to reports.

Washington, D.C.’s Union Station has been evacuated due to a shooting that reportedly happened in the transit center’s food court, reports have stated.

UPDATES BELOW – NEWEST AT THE TOP: In the manifest linked below, Flanagan says he was a gay man and appears to claim he was a victim of homophobia from his co-workers, including “black men and white females.” — ABC

The violence in Chicago rose to fever-pitch level again over the weekend, with 32 wounded and four killed. While most of these shootings are gang-on-gang warfare, on Friday, the Chicago Police were involved in a shooting that wounded a 16-year-old.

A man who allegedly brought a loaded firearm to the Esplanade area between Disneyland and the Disney California Adventure Park on July 9 has been arrested and charged with three felony criminal counts.

Authorities in the Florida Panhandle arrested two men for a brutal attack on a state wildlife officer last Friday. The men were charged with shooting the officer and then running him over with his own patrol boat, county officials reported.

On Friday afternoon, a man armed with a handgun in a shopping area in Studio City was shot and killed by police after he allegedly fired shots into the air.

At least three people — including the shooter — have been reported dead after a shooting Thursday night at The Grand 16 Theatre in Lafayette, Louisiana.

On July 23, a gunman allegedly opened fire at the Grand Theater in Lafayette, Louisiana, killing one and injuring six—the gunman is reportedly dead as well.

“We will continue to pray for their loved ones and also take action to protect our men and women in uniform who protect all Americans,” Boehner concluded. Boehner’s move comes a day after White House officials declined to explain why the President had not ordered the flag flown at half-staff to honor the fallen.

Peyton Manning, who reached quasi-legendary status in the Volunteer State when he starred for the University of Tennessee, validated that status on Saturday night when he visited the Naval Marine Corps Reserve Center in Chattanooga to spend time with military personnel and police officers.

The Chattanooga Times Free Press is reporting that four Marines “were killed in two attacks on military centers in separate parts of Chattanooga.”

Language warning Video has surfaced from D Magazine’s Youtube channel showing 2015 BYU football recruit Charles West being chased and shot at six times while playing basketball just outside of a school in Texas Sunday evening. West, who was arrested back in February

As Thursday and Friday kicked off the long Independence Day weekend, it was clear that Chicago was going to have a very violent Fourth. By Sunday night, the toll came in: up to 47 shot and 10 killed, including an 8-year-old boy.

Five-time deportee, seven-time convicted felon Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez said in a new interview Sunday with a local ABC News affiliate that he came to San Francisco because he knew the sanctuary city would not hand him over to immigration officials.

WASHINGTON DC—Law enforcement officials confirmed at a press conference on Thursday morning that no evidence of a shooter has been found at the DC Navy Yard. The Navy Yard remained on lockdown during the press conference.

In 1992, the children’s TV series Barney & Friends made its debut on PBS. Now, the man behind the show’s inspiration will spend more than a decade behind bars for shooting his neighbor.

WASHINGTON–The police have given the D.C. Navy Yard the all-clear after putting it on full lockdown as they responded to reports of a shots being fired. The shots were reported in building 197 around 7:30 AM. Employees had been evacuated.

A patrol boat allegedly opened fire on a raft carrying about 130 migrants off the coast of Libya on Monday, killing one and leaving another injured. According to witnesses from the raft, members of the Libyan military patrol were attempting to rob the passengers, but when they resisted, the militia answered with several rounds of gunfire.

The president has responded personally to the shooting, saying both he and Michelle Obama knew Pinckney as well as other members of the church.

In only a few hours time on Saturday evening, eleven people were shot in Detroit, one fatally. Ten of those were hit as they attended a block party in the Motor City. An eleventh person was shot in a separate incident only a short time later.

On Friday, a Democrat South Carolina state legislator appeared on CNN insisting that the 21-year-old man who killed nine churchgoers in Charleston last week was driven to his act because he watches Fox News. This is despite the fact that no one seems to know what media habits the killer possessed.

Referring to the church shooting in Charleston, Obama insisted that mass shootings were “unique” to America because of its gun laws, adding such events don’t happen as often in other “advanced countries.”

During an interview with people gathered outside the Mother Emmanuel American Methodist Church in Charleston, South Carolina, where Wednesday’s deadly shooting left nine black churchgoers dead, a woman called for a “race war” and discussed black anger.

Sources tell NBC News that during his confession, Roof said he “almost didn’t go through with it because everyone was so nice to him,” but in the end decided he had to “go through with his mission.”

An emotional President Obama delivered a personal statement in the White House press briefing this afternoon in reaction to the shooting at a church in South Carolina.

The Columbus Dispatch quoted police Sgt. David Sicilian of the homicide squad asserting, “It’s littered with four bodies, and it’s a pretty ugly scene inside. We obviously have a homicidal suspect out here who’s not afraid to kill somebody. We need to quickly find out who that is or the persons responsible for this.”

As bikers gear up for a planned peaceful protest on Sunday, while more of the bikers arrested after the deadly May 17th shooting incident outside a Waco Twin Peaks restaurant are released, and more details come out about the men and women detained and the circumstances of their arrest, more troubling unanswered questions remain about Waco police’s account of the incident.

Breitbart Texas has filed a formal request for the release of video tapes that might shed more light on the questions being raised about the mass arrest of bikers after the shooting incident outside a Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco, Texas on May 17th.

A biker bar shooting in San Diego ended with four people shot, one in custody and an eight-hour SWAT standoff that came up without a suspected second suspect. The incident follows violence between biker gangs in Texas that led to mass arrests and resulted in nine deaths.

Los Angeles Police Department Chief Charlie Beck is in hot water with police unions after commenting on the police shooting of an unarmed homeless man in Venice Tuesday evening. Beck said, “Any time an unarmed person is shot by a Los Angeles police officer, it takes extraordinary circumstances to justify that. I have not seen those extraordinary circumstances,” according to the Los Angeles Times.

On May 3, Sergio Valencia del Toro allegedly rode his bike to the Trestle Trail Bridge in Menasha, Wisconsin, pulled out two guns, and opened fire, randomly killing three people before taking his own life.