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The FBI acknowledged two days after the Feb. 14, 2018, shooting that it had received the tips about Nikolas Cruz suggesting that he might open fire at a school — but had not investigated them.
Eddie F. Gonzalez, who was assigned to a Long Beach, Calif., school, killed 18-year-old Manuela “Mona” Rodriguez as she fled in a car following a school fight. Police department policy forbids officers from firing at a fleeing person, a moving vehicle or through a vehicle window unless as “a final means of defense.”
New Mexico’s largest school district is reeling from a shooting that left one student dead and another in custody after, according to police, the victim tried to protect another boy who was being bullied. It’s the second shooting in Albuquerque in less than 24 hours and brings the city one step closer to shattering its homicide record this year.
Prosecutors in the trial of Nikolas Cruz, accused of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas school massacre in 2018, say a juror walk-through of the crime scene is crucial. But the defense argues this would traumatize the jurors and compromise chances for a fair trial.
A young girl opened fire in her Idaho middle school before being disarmed and restrained by a teacher.
A sheriff’s sergeant fired for sitting in his car and failing to react while a gunman slaughtered students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School should be reinstated, an arbitrator ruled. The Broward County Sheriff’s Office contends that the ruling was erroneous.
Police in Los Angeles arrested a 13-year-old boy who allegedly threatened to shoot students at his middle school and seized an assault-style rifle with a high-capacity magazine during a search of his house. Other teens have been arrested since a California school shooting Nov. 14.
The 16-year-old student who shot five fellow high school students before shooting himself used a .45-caliber pistol that he was too young to have bought legally.
A Secret Service examination of gun and knife attacks in schools from 2008 to 2017 found that most schools had security measures in place, but that those alone could not stop the violence. Nearly all attackers had signaled their intent in advance without triggering reports to authorities.
Traumatized students are more anxious, depressed, and they avoid going to school, according to documents obtained by Politico following shootings in Florida and Texas last year. The phenomenon is confirmed by experts who study the aftermath of mass shootings.