The Crime Report (https://thecrimereport.org/category/shootings/)
Two gunmen went on an hours-long shooting rampage Tuesday in Jersey City, N.J., targeting a Jewish grocery store and getting into a firefight with police that killed four people, including a police officer, as well as the two suspects.
Mohammed Alshamrani, 21, a second lieutenant in the Royal Saudi Air Force, killed three people on a Pensacola, Fl., U.S. base. “Our main goal … is to confirm whether he acted alone, or was he part of a larger network,” said an FBI agent.
The Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed “deep distress” after Ahmed Mohammed al-Shamrani opened fire in a classroom. The FBI is investigating the possibility of terrorism. Al-Shamrani was killed by sheriff’s deputies.
Two suspects who attempted to steal jewelry from a Coral Gables store hijacked a UPS delivery truck and led police on a 20-mile chase. The suspects, the truck driver and a bystander were killed.
Even though the number of shootings in the U.S. in which four or more people were killed has spiked to 32 this year, the U.S. should “stop obsessing over mass shootings,” contends Northeastern University criminologist James
Alan Fox.
New Orleans police are investigating an incident in which 10 people were shot early Sunday on Canal Street near many hotels.
Three people were shot and killed in a Walmart parking lot in the small city of Duncan, Ok. A man shot a man and woman in a car and then killed himself. The police chief said the three knew each other.
Concealed handgun permit holders, sometimes regarded as the “good guys,” are responsible for at least 1,335 deaths not involving self defense since 2007, according to a group’s research.
The Trace/Measure of America/THE CITY mapped the 12,000-plus shootings recorded by the NYPD between 2010 and October 2018 and found a correlation between gunshot deaths and proximity to trauma centers. Cities across the country have exhibited similar trends.
A white Florida man irritated by people who illegally park in handicapped spots was sentenced for the fatal shooting outside a convenience store. Judge Joseph Bulone called Michael Drejka a “wanna-be” law enforcement officer and a self-appointed “handicapped parking space monitor.”