Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel identified the gunman as Nikolas Cruz, 19, a former student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland who had been expelled for “disciplinary reasons.” Cruz was arrested without incident in the nearby town of Coral Springs after the Valentine’s Day rampage and taken to hospital with minor injuries, the sheriff said. “We have already begun to dissect his websites and things on social media that he was on and some of the things… are very, very disturbing,” Israel said. “He had countless magazines, multiple magazines, and at this point, we believe he had one AR-15 rifle,” the sheriff added. Israel said both students and adults had been killed. He was uncertain about the exact number of people injured, but at least 14 were taken to hospital and two had died there of their wounds. The shooting, one of nearly 20 since the start of the year, will once again throw the spotlight on the epidemic of gun violence in the United States and the ready accessibility of weapons in a country with 33,000 gun-related deaths annually. “This is a terrible day for Parkland,” Israel said, speaking of the city of about 30,000 people, located 50 miles (80 kilometres) north of Miami. “My very own triplets went to that school.” A teacher at the school told The Miami Herald that Cruz had been identified previously as a potential threat to his classmates. “We were told last year that he wasn’t allowed on campus with a… [Read full story]
A 20-year-old gunman went on a shooting rampage at a community college in the US state of Oregon, killing 10 people and wounding seven before he died in a shootout with police. Hannah Miles, center, is reunited with her sister Hailey Miles, left, and father Gary Miles, right, after a shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore., on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015. A visibly angry President Barack Obama made an impassioned plea for gun control in the wake of the shooting, blasting Congress for its failure to act in the face of "routine" mass killings. The unidentified man opened…... [read more]
A man was arrested after sheriff's deputy and 7 others shot in Mississippi. A Mississippi man went on a shooting spree overnight, killing a sheriff's deputy and seven other people in three separate locations in rural Lincoln County before the suspect was taken into custody by police, authorities said on Sunday. Willie Corey Godbolt, 35, was arrested and was being treated in a hospital for a gunshot wound, according to Warren Strain, a spokesman for the Mississippi Department of Public Safety. The sheriff's deputy, identified as William Durr, was fatally shot after responding to an emergency call regarding a domestic…... [read more]
The injured are two children and a teacher at Townville elementary — AFP Photo Viet Nam News MIAMI — A teenage gunman, who injured three people at a South Carolina elementary school before being arrested, carried out the attack after killing his father, local officials said on Wednesday. The teen, whom the authorities did not identify, shot two boys -- one in the leg, the other in the foot -- as well as a teacher in the shoulder at Townville Elementary in the west of the southeastern US state, area officials told reporters. The attack with a handgun, carried out…... [read more]
WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Jan 22 - Four people were killed and others injured in a school shooting in a remote part of Saskatchewan on Friday and a male suspect is in custody, Canadian police said. Officials have not given a motivation for the shooting in La Loche, about 600 km (375 miles) north of the city of Saskatoon. "Obviously this is every parent's worst nightmare," said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who initially reported five people were killed. He was in Davos, Switzerland, for the annual World Economic Forum. Mass shootings are relatively rare in Canada, which has stricter gun laws than…... [read more]
A teenager opened fire at a school in the US state of Nevada Monday, killing a teacher and critically wounding two students, police and reports said. Law enforcement gather in the parking lot at Sparks Middle School on October 21, 2013, in Sparks, Nevada, where a staff member was killed and two students were injured after a student opened fire (Source: AFP) The shooting, which a witness said happened near a basketball court at the Sparks Middle School in Reno, also left the young gunman dead."The one deceased is a staff member of the school," Washoe County School District police…... [read more]
