The Crime Report (https://thecrimereport.org/category/shootings/)
There were no shootings in New York City last Friday, Saturday and Sunday, marking the first weekend free of shootings in at least a quarter-century. Mayor
Bill de Blasio says, “Isn’t that amazing?”
A white Michigan homeowner was convicted Friday of shooting at a lost black teenager who showed up at his door seeking directions to his school. The incident prompted accusations of racial bias.
The agency may launch a broad-based study involving interviews with many mass shooters to seek patterns in their backgrounds, thinking and behavior. There were 30 “active shooter” incidents last year.
A player believed to be a 24-year-old man from Baltimore gunned down two people, wounded 11 others, and killed himself at a video-game tournament in Jacksonville, Fl. “In the world of competitive video games, mental health issues loom so large and come up so often that the problem somehow becomes invisible,” wrote Tyler Erzberger, who covers esports for ESPN.
Police Chief Michael Harrison called it a “volatile and tense situation” after two shooters fired into a crowd at a strip mall in New Orleans.
Cleveland’s Wolfpack Gunshot Response Team is part of a national “Stop the Bleed” movement to train citizens to apply first aid to victims of violence or accidents.
Michael Drejka, 47, shot and killed Markeis McGlockton, 28, last week outside a Clearwater convenience store. The local sheriff said Drejka is protected by Florida’s controversial self-defense law, though a prosecutor will make the final decision.
A federal appeals court threw out the four life sentences that Lee Boyd Malvo received for his role in the 2002 Beltway sniper shootings that occurred in Virginia when he was 17. The ruling cites the 2012 Supreme Court decision that mandatory life sentences without the possibility of parole are unconstitutional for juveniles.
A 24-hour celebration that showcases local artists in Trenton, N.J., became the Wild West early Sunday amidst a fight inside a warehouse. One person was killed and numerous others were injured in a shootout at the Art All Night celebration. The violence was predicted in a Facebook post on Saturday morning.
Jonathan Oddi removed a flag from the back of the Trump National Doral Miami resort and entered the lobby shouting “anti-Trump rhetoric,” later shooting into the ceiling and chandeliers as officer rushed in. Five officers fired and Oddi suffered multiple gunshot wounds to the legs.