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Gun Manufacturer Remington Settles With Sandy Hook Families For $73M Gun Manufacturer Remington Settles With Sandy Hook Families For $73M
Gun Manufacturer Remington Settles With Sandy Hook Families For $73M 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…

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by Zak Failla
Police & Fire
UPDATE: Fugitive, 23, In Killings, Kidnapping Reportedly Compared Himself To Sandy Hook Shooter UPDATE: Fugitive, 23, In Killings, Kidnapping Reportedly Compared Himself To Sandy Hook Shooter
Update: Fugitive, 23, In Killings, Kidnapping Reportedly Compared Himself To Sandy Hook Shooter Authorities reportedly found a message in the apartment of accused Connecticut killer Peter Manfredonia in which he compared himself to the man who killed 26 people in the infamous Sandy Hook school shooting. "We saw what happened when Adam [Lanza] snapped," YourContent.com reported the message left on the wall said. "Now they see what happens when I snap.’ Authorities in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Connecticut continued searching for Manfredonia on Monday after they said he left a woman he'd kidnapped unharmed in Paterson before continuing on to Pennsylvania in a car belonging to one of t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Car Used In CT Murder Suspect's 3-Day Rampage Found In NJ Near PA Border Car Used In CT Murder Suspect's 3-Day Rampage Found In NJ Near PA Border
Car Used In CT Murder Suspect's 3-Day Rampage Found In NJ Near PA Border The car used by a Connecticut college student suspected of killing two people during a three-day rampage was located in New Jersey near the Pennsylvania border, authorities said. Peter Menfredonia on Sunday was driving a stolen black Volkswagen Jetta with a sticker paying tribute to victims of the Sandy Hook massacre in his hometown of Newtown, where he played varsity football at Newtown High School. Manfredonia, 23, was believed to be armed with several firearms -- pistols and long guns -- and presumed dangerous, Connecticut State Police said. He was suspected of killing one person o…

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by Joe Lombardi & Cecilia Levine