The Crime Report (https://thecrimereport.org/category/mass-shootings/)
Brenton Tarrant, the alleged shooter in the New Zealand mosque massacre, is a globe-trotting Australian and avowed racist who immersed himself in an Internet subculture of extreme anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim, white supremacist ideology.
Gary Martin, 45, killed five employees after he was fired from a manufacturing job in Aurora, Il. His felony record in Mississippi did not prevent him from acquiring a gun. Martin was killed by police after wounding five officers.
In a presentation to Nevada lawmakers Wednesday, officials reflecting on the emergency response to the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting said that first responders should be dispersed between the scene of a major incident and area hospitals to help with the influx of patients.
Despite convening a panel of experts and devoting more time and resources to its investigation, the FBI reaches the same uncertain conclusion that local police announced last summer.
As the first anniversary of the Parkland, Fl.,school massacre nears, two researchers offer some suggestions for how media coverage of mass shooting can avoid the “copycat” phenomenon.
A gunman killed five people at SunTrust Bank in Sebring, Fla. Wednesday afternoon before surrendering to a SWAT team.
A University of Arizona researcher argues that special protection orders allowing police or family members to remove access to guns from dangerously unstable individuals, now in place in 13 states, can reduce firearm deaths among the elderly, who are most at risk for committing suicide with a firearm.
“I hope people call me insane,” said Ian Long on Facebook before he killed 12 people at a California bar last week. Facebook and Instagram, where Long also posted, deleted his accounts.
The case of synagogue shooter Robert Bowers may illustrate how the Internet and social media have created new pathways from strident ideology to radicalism.
In the two deadliest shootings in the U.S. this year, the accused gunman displayed warning signs before his killing spree. Neither Nikolas Cruz in Florida nor Ian David Long in California were committed for treatment.