Mass Shootings
GOP Shooting Called Attempt to ‘Win One For The Little Guy’
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Northeastern University criminologist James Alan Fox says this week’s shooting at a Republican baseball practice fits five factors identified in many episodes like this.
Mass Shootings
FL Woman Gets Prison Term for Newtown Parent Threat
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Lucy Richardson, 57, was sentenced to five months in prison for threatening Lenny Pozner, father of Noah, who was killed in the 2012 shooting at the school. Richardson didn’t believe the shooting actually happened. The judge told her, “This is reality … there are no alternative facts.”
Policing
Quick Response ‘Saved Lives’ in Kalamazoo Shooting Tragedy: Study
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A Police Foundation review of the February 2016 shooting in Michigan that took six lives credits the advance training of regional public safety organizations for limiting the impact of the tragedy. The lesson should be taken to heart by law enforcement agencies around the U.S., say the authors.
Mass Shootings
San Diego Gunman Shoots 7 from Poolside Deck Chair
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Peter Selis, 49, suddenly opened fire on 30 people gathered Sunday for a poolside birthday party at an upscale apartment complex. One woman was killed, and the gunman was shot and killed by police. One eyewitness said Selis was “relaxing and shooting people.”
Mass Shootings
Florida Airport Shooting Was a Crisis Management Fiasco
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It took just 90 seconds for deputies to capture the lone gunman who killed five people at the Fort Lauderdale airport in January. But 12 hours of turmoil followed, sparked by false reports of gunshots and aggravated by authorities who struggled to manage the crisis, says the Sun Sentinel.
Mass Shootings
VA Tech Massacre Spurred Overhaul of Campus Safety
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The shooting a decade ago prompted vast changes in safety protocols designed to protect students and faculty against mass shooters. But a survivor worries that some schools have forgotten the hard lessons learned and are short-shrifting violence preparation. “Fifteen minutes at the start of your freshman year is not the answer,” she says.
Mass Shootings
10 Years After Campus Carnage, Virginia Tech Still Grieves
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A gunman killed 32 men and women and wounded 17 others on the Blacksburg, Va., campus on April 16, 2007. People from around the world sent the school 90,000 tokens of comfort and healing that are still stored at a campus library.
Mass Shootings
Alabama Bill May Test Legal Limits on Church Police Forces
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Citing fear over church and school shootings, a megachurch near Birmingham seeks the right to hire its own police officers “to protect the safety and integrity of the church and its ministries.” The ACLU predicts that any law allowing a church-based police force would be struck down as unconstitutional.
Mass Shootings
Lawsuit Targets Wife, Employer of Orlando Nightclub Killer
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Survivors of the Pulse nightclub shooting last June charged in a federal lawsuit that Omar Mateen’s wife and the security firm where he worked knew that the mass killer was mentally unstable and potentially violent.
Mass Shootings
FBI Arrests Wife of Orlando Nightclub Attacker
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The FBI had been looking into whether Noor Zahi Salman had been involved with planning the attack by Omar Mateen in June that resulted in 49 deaths. Orlando Police Chief John Mina welcomed the arrest.