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A survivor of the workplace shooting in Maryland on Oct. 18 described running away as the shooter fired at him. The shooter, Radee Prince, punched one co-worker, then shot five others. Michael Serra, an employee at Advanced Granite Solutions in Edgewood, Maryland, witnessed the whole attack. “He hit a friend of mine, and then my […]

When the sniper’s bullet shattered Paola Bautista’s arm, her sister and a stranger in the crowd at the Route 91 Harvest Festival got her to cover. Then they focused on the bleeding. Daisy Bautista stuffed a sock into the hole in her sister’s arm, and the man who was helping them pulled a belt tight […]

Las Vegas police are getting closer to finding an explanation for why a gunman carried out the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, the city’s police chief said on Wednesday, as he defended the speed of the department’s response to the massacre. Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo, who oversees the police department, told the […]

LAS VEGAS—The U.S. gun lobby, which has seldom embraced new firearms-control measures, expressed a willingness to support a restriction on the rifle accessory that enabled a Las Vegas gunman to strafe a crowd with bursts of sustained gunfire as if from an automatic weapon. The gunman Stephen Paddock, police said, fitted 12 of his weapons […]

LAS VEGAS—The Las Vegas gunman who killed 58 people and himself in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history stockpiled weapons and ammunition over decades, and meticulously planned the attack, authorities believe. But what led Stephen Paddock, 64, to unleash the carnage he did remains largely a mystery. “What we know is that Stephen […]

LAS VEGAS—The girlfriend of the Las Vegas gunman who killed 58 people and himself in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history was questioned by the FBI on Wednesday and said she had no idea he was “planning violence against anyone.” Marilou Danley, who returned late on Tuesday from a family visit to the […]

LAS VEGAS— Police sought clues on Tuesday to explain why a retiree with a penchant for gambling but no criminal record set up a sniper’s nest in a high-rise Las Vegas hotel and poured gunfire onto a concert below, slaying dozens of people before killing himself. The Sunday night shooting spree from a 32nd-floor window […]

A gunman fired from the 32nd floor of a hotel tower at an outdoor concert crowd in Las Vegas, killing at least 50 people and wounding over 400 in what is now the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, ABC News Reported. The shooter has been identified as 64-year-old Stephen Paddock. He was killed when […]

A masked gunman killed a woman in the parking lot of a Tennessee church on Sunday morning and wounded six worshipers inside the building before shooting himself in a scuffle with an usher who rushed to stop the attack. The shooter, identified as Emanuel Kidega Samson, 25, walked into Nashville’s Burnette Chapel Church of Christ […]

A young mother in a close knit quiet neighborhood shot and killed a home intruder early Thursday morning, Aug. 3, in Marietta, Georgia. The Marietta Police Department dispatched officers to 98 Griggs St. at 2:23 a.m. after a woman called 911 from inside the home to report someone had attempted to break in and she […]

OAKLAND, Calif.— Police say at least eight people were injured during a shooting outside an Oakland nightclub. None of the injuries was considered life-threatening. Acting Lt. Rachael Van Sloten says the shooting happened just after midnight Saturday outside Vinyl nightclub. No motive has been determined, and no one was in custody early Saturday.

A shooting was reported at a school in Townville, South Carolina, according to local media outlets. WYFF-TV reported that two students and a teacher were injured at Townville Elementary. It’s unclear how severe their injuries are or if there were any deaths. Deputies with the Anderson County Sheriff’s Department said a suspect was taken into custody following […]

A 19-year-old Marine who was shot in the head while visiting his girlfriend in South Los Angeles has been declared brain dead. Carlos Segovia had just left his girlfriend’s residence when he was struck in the head with a bullet near 31st Street and Western Avenue at around 11 p.m. on Sept. 15. He was […]

A college in Macon, Georgia, was placed on lockdown after reports of shots fired on Monday morning. As of Monday afternoon, a spokesperson for Central Georgia Technical College said the lockdown was lifted following a sweep of the campus by police as well as Bibb County Sheriff’s deputies, WMAZ-TV reported. Police got a call of […]

PHILADELPHIA—Authorities say police officers came under fire in Philadelphia for the second night in a row, but no one was injured. Police says officers noticed two men apparently smoking marijuana late Saturday in an area of central Philadelphia that’s packed with restaurants, shops and clubs. They pursued the men to a nearby street, where authorities […]

Houston police are scouring social media posts in the homicide investigation of a young mother killed hours before her birthday. LeKendra Childs, 19, was fatally shot on Sept. 13 during a drive-by shooting after a passenger in a black Chevrolet Camaro fired five shots into her second-floor apartment, police said. Childs was pronounced dead at […]

A 3-year-old boy accidentally shot and wounded himself in Nashville on Tuesday, according to officials. The boy shot himself in the wrist on Tuesday night inside an apartment complex in on Glastonbury road, police said in a release. The injuries he sustained are non-life threatening, police said. Metro Nashville Police officials stated that 24-year-old Tevin Tyson, […]

The family of a deaf man shot dead by a North Carolina state trooper is calling for improved law enforcement training on how to handle citizens with disabilities. Daniel Harris was shot by trooper Jermaine Saunders during a traffic stop in Charlotte on the evening of Aug. 18. Saunders made several unsuccessful attempts to pull […]

A New Mexico police officer was gunned down during a traffic stop and a motorist was shot during a rest stop carjacking before authorities were able to chase down three suspects and take them into custody, Dona Ana County law enforcement officials say.

A self-described neighborhood watchman was arrested on Aug. 7 and charged in the shooting death of an unarmed black man outside his home in Raleigh, N.C., according to local reports. Chad Cameron Copley, 39, was charged with first-degree murder after fatally wounding 20-year-old Kouren-Rodney Bernard Thomas. Copley was taken to the Wake County Detention Center […]