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Maine Mass Shooting Manhunt Ends After Suspect Found Dead: 'Threat To Public Is Over' Maine Mass Shooting Manhunt Ends After Suspect Found Dead: 'Threat To Public Is Over'
Maine Mass Shooting Manhunt Ends After Suspect Found Dead: 'Threat To Public Is Over' An urgent manhunt that began after 18 people were killed and 14 injured in a mass shooting at two locations in Lewiston, Maine, ended overnight with the discovery of the 40-year-old suspect's body.  Robert Card was found dead in Lisbon, Maine, about a mile from where a white Subaru Outback he was believed to be driving was located at a boat launch. Lisbon is located about 7 miles southeast of Lewiston. Card died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound inside a box trailer in an overflow parking lot at the Maine Recycling Corporation, which is where he once worked, according to authoriti…
Millions Raised Nationally For Four Children Of Teacher Killed In Texas Whose Husband Then Died Millions Raised Nationally For Four Children Of Teacher Killed In Texas Whose Husband Then Died
Millions Raised Nationally For Four Children Of Teacher Killed In Texas Whose Husband Then Died A GoFundMe effort launched to support the family of a slain teacher killed while protecting her students during the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas has raised around $2 million as news spread that her grieving husband died of a heart attack just two days later. Irma Garcia, age 48, was killed on Tuesday, May 24, along with another teacher when an 18-year-old gunman walked into her classroom with an AK-15 assault rifle and began shooting students. In the end, 19 little children were dead, along with Garcia, another teacher and the gunman. Many others were wounded. "She loved her classroom k…
ID Released Of Accused Teen Gunman In Mass Shooting Leaving 10 Dead At Buffalo Supermarket ID Released Of Accused Teen Gunman In Mass Shooting Leaving 10 Dead At Buffalo Supermarket
ID Released Of Accused Teen Gunman In Mass Shooting Leaving 10 Dead At Buffalo Supermarket The identity has been released of the teenage gunman now in custody who live-steamed a mass shooting at a a supermarket in Buffalo that left 10 dead in what authorities say was a racially motivated hate crime. A total of 13 people were shot in the incident that happened just after 2:30 p.m. Saturday, May 14, at Tops Market on Jefferson Avenue in a Black neighborhood, Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said. The three others shot have non life-threatening injuries. The alleged gunman, now identified as 18-year-old Payton Gendron, of the town of Conklin in Broome County, New Yo…
18-Year-Old Gunman Live-Streamed Mass Shooting Leaving 10 Dead At Buffalo Supermarket 18-Year-Old Gunman Live-Streamed Mass Shooting Leaving 10 Dead At Buffalo Supermarket
18-Year-Old Gunman Live-Streamed Mass Shooting Leaving 10 Dead At Buffalo Supermarket Updated story: ID Released Of Accused 18-Year-Old Gunman In Mass Shooting Of 10 At Buffalo Supermarket This story has been updated. Ten people are dead after a teenage gunman live-steaming the event who is now in custody opened fire inside a supermarket in Buffalo in what authorities say was a racially motivated hate crime. A total of 13 people were shot in the incident that happened just after 2:30 p.m. Saturday, May 14, at Tops Market on Jefferson Avenue, Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said. The three others shot have non life-threatening injuries. Gramaglia said…
10 Dead After Mass Shooting At Buffalo Supermarket 10 Dead After Mass Shooting At Buffalo Supermarket
10 Dead After Mass Shooting At Buffalo Supermarket Updated story: 18-Year-Old Gunman Live-Streamed Mass Shooting At Buffalo Supermarket That Left 10 Dead This story has been updated. Ten people are dead after a gunman opened fire inside a supermarket in Buffalo. A total of 13 people were shot in the incident that happened just after 2:30 p.m. Saturday, May 14, at Tops Market on Jefferson Avenue, Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said. The three others shot have non life-threatening injuries. The shooter is in custody, the Buffalo Police Department announced on Twitter. The suspect's identity has not yet been released.…
10 Shot, 16 Injured On NYC Subway By Suspect Possibly Wearing Gas Mask, Vest 10 Shot, 16 Injured On NYC Subway By Suspect Possibly Wearing Gas Mask, Vest
10 Shot, 16 Injured On NYC Subway By Suspect Possibly Wearing Gas Mask, Vest Click here for a new, updated story: Police ID Suspected Gunman In Rush-Hour NYC Subway Attack This story has been updated. Ten people were shot on the platform of a New York City subway station during the morning commute and 18 were injured on Tuesday, April 12, according to authorities. A male suspect, reportedly wearing a gas mask and construction vest, fled the scene in Brooklyn at Sunset Park in the area of 36th Street and 4th Avenue after events unfolded just before 8:30 a.m. The suspect is described as being Black, around 5-foot-5, heavy set, wearing a green vest and a gray swea…
Gun Manufacturer Settles With Sandy Hook Families For $73M, Marking Historic First Gun Manufacturer Settles With Sandy Hook Families For $73M, Marking Historic First
Gun Manufacturer Settles With Sandy Hook Families For $73M, Marking Historic First Families of five children and four adults killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting reached a historic $73 million settlement with gun manufacturer Remington, officials announced. Attorneys for the families who filed the suit against the now-bankrupt Remington and its four insurers, announced on Tuesday, Feb. 15 that they had reached the settlement, representing the first time a gun manufacturer has been held liable for a mass shooting in the US. As part of the settlement, lawyers for the families said that Remington agreed to release thousands of pages of internal company do…
Man, 22, 'Interested In Committing Mass Shooting' Nabbed In Norwalk With Weapons Cache Man, 22, 'Interested In Committing Mass Shooting' Nabbed In Norwalk With Weapons Cache
Man, 22, 'Interested In Committing Mass Shooting' Nabbed In Norwalk With Weapons Cache A 22-year-old Fairfield County man who authorities say had shown interest in “committing a mass shooting” in a post on social media was charged with possessing large capacity magazines. Norwalk Police Chief Thomas Kulhawik and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent-In-Charge Brian C. Turner announced late Thursday afternoon, Aug. 15 that Brandon Wagshol of Bedford Avenue in Norwalk was arrested and charged with four counts of illegal possession of large-capacity magazines. The Federal Bureau of Investigation National Threat Operations Center (NTOC) received a tip that Wagshol was att…
Police Increase Patrols At Jewish Centers, Synagogues After Pittsburgh Mass Shooting Police Increase Patrols At Jewish Centers, Synagogues After Pittsburgh Mass Shooting
Police Increase Patrols At Jewish Centers, Synagogues After Pittsburgh Mass Shooting Police departments are increasing patrols around Jewish centers and synagogues after a mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue on Saturday morning. Eleven people were killed at Tree of Life Congregation in the Squirrel Hill section of Pittsburgh during a baby-naming ceremony. Six were injured, including four police officers. The civilian injuries are described as critical, the injuries to the officers non-life threatening. A suspect, identified as 46-year-old Pittsburgh resident Rob Bower, is in custody and is being hospitalized with undisclosed injuries. Bower made anti-Semitic comments d…
Rye Country Day Teens Remember Shooting Victims In 'Just 17 Minute' Walkout Rye Country Day Teens Remember Shooting Victims In 'Just 17 Minute' Walkout
Rye Country Day Teens Remember Shooting Victims In 'Just 17 Minute' Walkout More than 200 students and faculty members from Rye Country Day School "walked out" for 17 minutes at noon on Thursday March 1 to memorialize the 17 victims of the Parkland, Fla., mass shooting on Feb. 14.  Warren Kennedy-Nolle, a junior at Rye Country Day, said, "I'm happy to say that these were not just students, but members of the faculty and administration." Kennedy-Nolle said that the staged walkout marked a remembrance of the victims of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. During "Just Seventeen Minutes," at the Garden-level courtyard in fr…
Record-High Gun Control Support After Florida Rampage, Quinnipiac Poll Says Record-High Gun Control Support After Florida Rampage, Quinnipiac Poll Says
Record-High Gun Control Support After Florida Rampage, Quinnipiac Poll Says In the wake of the mass shooting in Florida last week,  a new national poll shows that Americans are ready for tougher gun laws and are fed up with the lack of support from lawmakers. In the new independent Quinnipiac University poll released on Tuesday, American voters support stricter gun laws 66  to 31 percent, the highest level of support ever measured, the pollsters found. Today's result is up from a negative 47 to 50 percent measure of support in a December 23, 2015, survey by the University. "If you think Americans are largely unmoved by the mass shootings, you should think aga…