The Crime Report (https://thecrimereport.org/category/shootings/)
High school student in tiny Rockford, Wa., brings a pistol and rifle to school, killing one student and injuring three others. He had warned the school that he was going to do “something stupid.”
Of the 10 cities with the highest teen shooting rates, most had populations of less than 250,000, according to an analysis by the Associated Press and USA Today Network of Gun Violence Archive data.
Mayor Martin Walsh called an urgent City Hall meeting today to brainstorm solutions ahead of the sweltering, often violent summer months. “It’s a strategy meeting, changing the strategy of what we’ve done so far,” Walsh said. “My concern is that there will be potentially innocent people that get caught in a drive-by.”
Rapper Ricky Hampton of Memphis, known as Finese 2Tymes, was arrested in Alabama Sunday, a day after a shooting at one of his concerts in Little Rock left 28 people injured. State regulators suspended the club’s liquor license Saturday and its landlord posted an eviction notice.
Wearing a white lab coat, Henry Bello opened fire on former colleagues in Bronx-Lebanon Hospital. He eventually killed another doctor and then himself.
James Hodgkinson, the Illinois gunman who targeted Republican congressmen at a baseball field in suburban Washington, D.C., was carrying a list with the names of at least three lawmakers, and had pictures of the ballpark stored on his cellphone.
Jimmy Lam, 38, killed fellow employees at a United Parcel Service facility in San Francisco before shooting himself to death. A union official said he had complained he was working excessive overtime.
A gunman opened fire on a Republican congressional team practice today in northern Virginia, and House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) was wounded. The suspect was identified as James Hodgkinson, 66, of the St. Louis suburb of Belleville, Il. He was killed by police.
“We’re going to have to change who we are, how we are and how we act,” said Mayor Mitch Landrieu after three people were shot dead and 10 people wounded by gunfire in five separate shootings on Saturday. As of Sunday morning, more than 300 people have been killed or wounded by gunfire in New Orleans, a rate of roughly two people a day.
Willie Cory Godbolt was arrested Sunday in a small Mississippi town after eight murder victims were found, including Lincoln County Sheriff’s Deputy William Durr. The incident began with a domestic call to the sheriff late Saturday night.