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Mass shootings

July 20, 2023 | 12:48pm
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Mass shootings
July 20, 2023

A gunman killed two people and wounded six others at a building site in central Auckland Thursday, hours before New Zealand's biggest city was to host the opening match of the 2023 FIFA football World Cup.

Prime Minister Chris Hipkins said the gunman died at the scene and there was no national security threat, so the marquee tournament would go ahead as planned. 

The still-unnamed 24-year-old shooter tore through the waterfront property with a shotgun in the early morning, plunging the busy centre of New Zealand's largest city into lockdown.

A police officer was said to be among those seriously injured and rushed to hospital. His condition was said to be stable.

Little is known about the motive of the attack, but it is not believed to be directly linked to the World Cup or to have been politically or ideologically motivated.  — AFP

June 14, 2023

A teacher was seriously wounded during a shooting at an elementary school in the northeastern Bosnian city of Lukavac on Wednesday, according to officials, who said a minor had been arrested . 

"The child, who is not yet 14, is under police supervision at the premises of the Lukavac Police Department, while firearms and other discarded items are secured until the investigation begins," the interior ministry of Tuzla canton said in a statement. — AFP

June 7, 2023

Two people were killed and five injured Tuesday during a shooting near a high school graduation in the US state of Virginia, police said, the latest in an epidemic of mass shootings plaguing the country.

The shooting took place around 5 pm (2100 GMT) outside a theater in the state capital of Richmond, where students from a local high school were celebrating their graduation, Richmond interim police chief Rick Edwards told reporters.

The deceased included an 18-year-old graduate and a 36-year-old man, he added.

Of the five injured, one remained in critical condition.

"People scattered, it was very chaotic at the scene," Edwards said.

A nineteen-year-old suspect fled the scene, but was soon arrested and is to be charged with second-degree murder, Edwards said. 

The official did not name a possible motive for the crime, but said the suspect knew at least one of the victims. — AFP

June 5, 2023

Gunmen killed at least five people and wounded eight Sunday in a home in the Ecuadoran city of Guayaquil, hard hit by violence linked to drug trafficking.

One of the fatalities was a policeman shot in the head, said police colonel Fabary Montalvo.

Witnesses said three men on a motorcycle arrived at a home in the impoverished Isla Trinitaria part of the city, went inside and started shooting, Montalvo said.

Guayaquil, on Ecuador's southern coast, is the Pacific country's largest city, biggest port and economic hub.

In recent years, it has become one of the country's increasingly bloody centers of a turf war between rival drug trafficking gangs. — AFP

May 16, 2023

An 18-year-old gunman killed three people and injured several others including two police officers during a shooting in a New Mexico city on Monday, law enforcement say.

Officers responding to multiple emergency calls found "a chaotic scene where a male subject was actively firing upon individuals," local police deputy chief Baric Crum told a press conference.

Four officers confronted the subject and "were able to stop his actions," Crum says,

"The suspect is deceased, but prior to that, we know that three civilians were killed by this person's actions," he says.

The shooting took place in Farmington, a town of 50,000 people located some 200 miles (320 km) from state capital Santa Fe, and close to Navajo and Ute Native American reservations.— AFP

May 4, 2023

One person was killed and four were injured in the southern US city of Atlanta on Wednesday when a gunman opened fire in a hospital waiting room, police said.

Police named Deion Patterson, a former member of the Coast Guard, as the suspect in the shooting at the Northside Hospital, which occurred just after noon local time (1700 GMT). Patterson was still at-large as of Wednesday afternoon.

"The suspect is believed to be armed and dangerous and should not be approached," the Atlanta Police Department said on social media.

Victims ranged between the ages of 25 and 71, police said at a news conference later Wednesday afternoon. All were women, Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens noted. — AFP

March 28, 2023

A heavily armed former student killed three young children and three staff in what appeared to be a carefully planned attack at a private elementary school in Nashville on Monday, before being shot dead by police.

Chief of Police John Drake named the suspect as Audrey Hale, 28, who the officer later said identified as transgender.

Hale left behind a manifesto, had maps of the school detailing surveillance and entry-exit points, and was "prepared for a confrontation with law enforcement," the police chief told reporters following the latest outburst of gun violence to stun the United States.

In an interview with NBC News, he said the suspect was likely plotting a broader attack, as the manifesto "indicates that there was going to be shootings at multiple locations, and the school was one of them." — AFP

January 27, 2023

President Joe Biden has called the 26-year-old who wrestled the gun away from a suspected mass shooter in California, telling him: "You are America."

"I wanted to call and see how you're doing and thank you for taking such incredible action in the face of danger," Biden is heard telling Brandon Tsay on a recording of the call.

Biden posted a video on Twitter of his chat with Tsay, who wrestled the firearm from a 72-year-old man at a ballroom in Alhambra during Lunar New Year celebrations -- after the man had opened fire at a dance hall in nearby Monterey Park, killing 11 people.

After Tsay managed to secure the gun in an extended tussle -- captured on closed circuit video later released by US media -- the suspect left the Lai Lai Ballroom & Studio. The next morning, he shot himself dead as police closed in on his van.

"I don't think you understand just how much you've done for so many people who are never even going to know you. But I want them to know more about you," Biden said. — AFP

January 24, 2023

Two people died and a third was seriously wounded Monday in a shooting at a youth outreach center in Des Moines, Iowa, police say.

Police responded to a report of a shooting at Starts Right Here, which runs a program for at-risk youths, and found three people wounded, two of them critically.

"Those two people, both students, are dead now at the hospital. The third person, who is an employee of the school, is in serious condition," said Paul Parizek, a spokesman for the Des Moines police department. — AFP

November 26, 2022

Officials say at least three people including an adolescent girl were killed and 11 others wounded Friday when a 16-year-old shooter wearing Nazi symbols opened fire on two schools in southeastern Brazil.

Authorities in the city of Aracruz, in Espirito Santo state, say the shooter fired on a group of teachers at his former school, killing two people and leaving nine others wounded.

He then left that school -- a public primary and secondary school -- and went to a nearby private school where he killed an adolescent girl and wounded two other people, officials say. — AFP

November 23, 2022

Police and city officials say a gunman shot and killed multiple people in a Walmart store late Tuesday in the US state of Virginia, adding that the shooter too is dead.

"We were able to find multiple fatalities and multiple injured parties," Chesapeake Police Department officer Leo Kosinski told reporters at the scene, saying rapid response officers entered the store "immediately" as they arrived. 

"We believe it is a single shooter and that single shooter is deceased at this time," he adds. — AFP

October 14, 2022

A shooting Thursday in North Carolina's capital Raleigh left at least five people dead, including an off-duty police officer, officials in the southeast US city said, adding that a suspect had been captured.

Raleigh Mayor Mary-Ann Baldwin said the shooting occurred near the Neuse River Greenway, a popular trail in the area.

"This is a sad and tragic day for the city of Raleigh. Just after 5:00 pm today, multiple people were shot," she told a press conference.

The Raleigh Police Department "has confirmed five fatalities. One of them was an off-duty Raleigh police officer." — AFP

July 18, 2022

Three people were killed and another three injured Sunday at a mall in the US state of Indiana, officials said, the latest in a spate of gun violence in the country.

"We experienced a mass shooting this evening at the Greenwood Park Mall," Mark Myers, the mayor of Greenwood, Indiana, said in a statement.

"We have three fatalities at this time and three others injured."

Myers said that the gunman had been shot dead by "an armed individual."

The Greenwood police shared a post on their Facebook page asking for witnesses to the shooting to contact the department with information.

The attack is the latest in a wave of gun violence plaguing the United States, where about 40,000 deaths a year are caused by firearms, according to the Gun Violence Archive. -- AFP

July 5, 2022

A massive manhunt is underway Monday for a gunman who shot dead six people with a high-powered rifle at a US Independence Day parade in a wealthy Chicago suburb -- the latest in a series of shocking mass shootings.

Firing into the holiday crowd from a rooftop, the gunman triggered scenes of total chaos as panicked onlookers ran for their lives, leaving behind a July 4 parade route strewn with chairs, abandoned balloons and personal belongings.

Emergency officials said around two dozen people, including children, were treated for gunshot injuries, with some in critical condition. — AFP

May 27, 2022

US President Joe Biden and his wife Jill will head to Texas on Sunday to offer condolences to the loved ones of victims of the deadly shooting at Robb Elementary School, the White House says.

The Bidens will "grieve with the community that lost 21 lives," the White House said in a brief statement about the trip to Uvalde, which had been expected in the wake of Tuesday's carnage. — AFP

November 16, 2019

The sheriff's department says the teenager who shot dead two classmates at his California high school before turning the gun on himself died in a hospital.

Nathaniel Berhow went on a rampage at Saugus High School near Los Angeles before shooting himself in the head on Thursday, his 16th birthday.

"He died at 3:32 pm" on Friday, Marvin Crowder of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department says. — AFP

September 1, 2019

At least five people have been killed in a mass shooting that left 21 victims, police in the US state of Texas says.

"We have at least 21 victims, 21 shooting victims and at least five deceased at this point in time," a public affairs officer for Odessa police tells reporters.

Midland Mayor Jerry Morales tells Fox News that three police officers were among those shot, but they were expected to survive. — AFP

August 16, 2019

President Donald Trump says more mental hospitals are needed to take potential mass killers off the streets in response to recent mass shootings, while staying quiet on a pledge to toughen gun laws.

Speaking to a crowd of supporters estimated at around 12,000 in Manchester, New Hampshire, Trump did not once mention his efforts to push for background checks on would-be gun purchasers.

Instead, he focused on the theory that the endless spate of mass killings carried out by men with easily obtained semi-automatic rifles is mostly down to lack of mental facilities. —  AFP

August 4, 2019

Texas authorities are investigating the mass shooting at a Walmart store in El Paso as a possible hate crime, the city's police chief says, as authorities study an online manifesto linked to the suspect.

A 21-year-old from Allen, a suburb of Dallas, surrendered to police outside the store after the rampage that left 20 people dead and 26 wounded.

US media identified him as Patrick Crusius, who is white, and linked him to a "manifesto" posted online that includes passages railing against the "Hispanic invasion" of Texas. — AFP

March 23, 2019

Local media report that the.teenager who survived the Parkland school shooting in Florida has killed herself while struggling with survivors' guilt.

Sydney Aiello, 19, was a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas last February 14 when a former student opened fire with a semiautomatic weapon, killing 14 students and three staff members.

Among the dead were two of Aiello's best friends, Meadow Pollack and Joaquin Oliver. — AFP

February 16, 2019

Authorities say five people were killed and multiple police officers were shot when a gunman opened fire in an industrial area on the outskirts of Chicago, the latest mass shooting to hit the United States.

The shooting took place at approximately 1:28 pm (1928 GMT), at a giant  manufacturing complex in Aurora, Illinois -- a small suburb 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of central Chicago. — AFP

January 5, 2019

"Multiple victims" in shooting near Los Angeles, say local police.

November 10, 2018

The mayor of Thousand Oaks says that three-quarters of his city is under fire evacuation orders and that most likely includes people affected by the deadly bar shooting this week.

Mayor Andy Fox spoke Friday about the back-to-back crises his city faced when a wildfire threatened the city the day after a gunman killed 12 people at a country music bar.

Fox says the distinction between the two events is that the victims of the Borderline Bar and Grill and their family members experienced a permanent loss they may never recover from.

So far, he says, no one has died from the fire that has burned into the city.

Fox says that the fire is serious situation, but that homes can be rebuilt. — AP

November 9, 2018

Officials say five off-duty officers were inside Borderline Bar and Grill in the city of Thousand Oaks when gunfire erupted and helped get people to safety.

Ventura County Sheriff's Office Capt. Garo Kuredjian said Thursday that the two officers from the city of Oxnard and three from Los Angeles "assisted in evacuating those that were injured" and helped prevent others from being hurt.

When the gunfire ended Wednesday night, 12 people were dead and suspect David Long was dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Authorities have not determined a motive. — AP

November 9, 2018

Ventura County Sheriff Sgt. Eric Buschow says the gunman is dead inside a Southern California bar where 11 people were injured late Wednesday.

Authorities say a responding deputy was shot and taken to a hospital. No other information on the victims was immediately known. 

Ventura County Sheriff's Office Capt. Garo Kuredjian said the first reports of shots fired came around 11:20 p.m. at the Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks, which is about 40 miles west of Los Angeles.

The bar's website says its hosts "College Country Night" every Wednesday. Police said hundreds were inside when the shooting occurred. — AP

November 9, 2018

Authorities say multiple people were injured at a shooting at a bar in Southern California on Wednesday night.

Police tell the Los Angeles Times that at least 30 shots were fired at the Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks, which is about 40 miles west of Los Angeles. The extent of the victim's injuries has not yet been released.

The Times reports that there were multiple reports of shots fired and people hit. Law enforcement and emergency crews were flooding the scene.

Authorities urged the public to avoid the area.

November 3, 2018

Authorities have identified the shooter at a yoga studio in Tallahassee and the two people he killed, the Tallahassee Democrat reports.

The Tallahassee Police Department has identified the shooter as Scott Paul Beierle, 40, the newspaper reports. He killed himself at the scene Friday.

The department identified the two people who were killed as Dr. Nancy Van Vessem, 61, and Maura Binkley, 21, the Democrat reports.

The newspaper says that Van Vessem was internist who served as chief medical director for Capital Health Plan. — AP

August 4, 2018

A survivor of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history says it was gun-wrenching that Las Vegas police didn't determine a motive for the rampage.

Megan O'Donnell Clements of Wilmington, Delaware, told The Associated Press on Friday that not knowing why Stephen Paddock opened fire on the concert she attended in October is "kind of horrifying" and that she lacks closure.

Police released their final report from a 10-month investigation into the shooting that killed 58 people and injured hundreds of others.

It says Paddock became increasingly unstable and distant from loved ones but that there was no troubling behavior that would have led to a call to law enforcement. — AP

A thread of alerts and updates related to mass shootings — mostly in the US, where about 40,000 deaths a year are caused by firearms, according to the Gun Violence Archive.

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