The footage shows Porter Burks attempting to run toward or quickly approach the officers, who began shooting almost immediately, firing 38 rounds in three seconds.
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Glock claimed it has immunity from the suit under the federal Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act and that the state law it is accused of violating is unconstitutional.
The trial must happen despite Nikolas Cruz’ guilty plea because Florida law requires that a jury determine a sentence of either death or life in prison for capital felonies.
Retired Juneau County, Wisconsin judge John “Jack” Roemer was shot and killed in his home in what the state attorney general described as a “targeted act” against the judicial system by a man who also had several high-profile government officials as potential targets.
The gunman killed one person and wounded five others before being detained by parishioners, who tied his legs with an extension cord and took his two handguns,
There were 728 road-rage incidents with a gun last year, with more than 500 people injured or killed. A report by Everytown for Gun Safety says this is the highest rate in six years.
A gunfight between two people at a car show injured bystanders including six children, in what was the largest mass casualty event due to gun violence so far this year. There is no indication that the shooters were targeting anyone else but each other.
The number of recent violent events spread across the country has many questioning whether the rising level of violence will continue to climb throughout the summer—and what that will do to communities. Some are trying to find alternatives, like summer anti-violence programs, while others are taking their frustration to the streets to demand change.
A U.S. Army special forces sergeant based in Florida has been charged in an apparently random shooting at a Rockford, Il., bowling alley that left three people dead and three wounded.
Alluding to a man who filmed the encounter in which jogger Amaud Arbery was killed, “the footage clearly documents that [William] Bryan used his truck to block Ahmaud from escaping,” said Ben Crump, an attorney representing Arbery’s family.