Fil-Am killed in California shooting
MANILA, Philippines — A Filipino-American student was among the 12 people killed in a mass shooting at a country music bar packed with college students in Los Angeles, California late Wednesday.
The Department of Foreign Affairs has expressed its condolences to the family of 18-year-old Alaina Punzalan Housley, a freshman student at Pepperdine University.
Consul General Adel Angelito Cruz of the Philippine Consulate General in Los Angeles conveyed this information to the DFA, according to spokesperson Elmer Cato.
"The Consulate General continues to monitor developments related to the incident that took place inside a crowded dance bar in Thousand Oaks, California, about 40 minutes west of Los Angeles," Cato said.
The Consulate General is coordinating with authorities to check if other Filipinos and Filipino-Americans were killed or injured in the mass shooting.
Authorities have identified the suspect in a mass shooting at a Southern California bar as 28-year-old Ian David Long.
Ventura County Sheriff Geoff Dean said Long is believed to have killed himself late Wednesday at the Borderline Bar and Grill in the city of Thousand Oaks.
Dean said his department had several previous contacts with the former Marine including a call to his home in April when deputies found him acting irate and irrationally.
The sheriff said a mental health crisis team was called at that time and concluded that Long did not need to be taken into custody.
Dean said the other prior encounters were a traffic accident and an incident when he was the victim of a battery at a bar.
Long was found dead in the Borderline Bar and Grill after 12 people were shot to death late Wednesday. — Patricia Lourdes Viray with AP
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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
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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
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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
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
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