mass shooting
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FBI Says Ohio Woman Planning 'Upscale Mass Murder' Was Dylann Roof's Penpal
A trove of social media activity and a sightseeing pilgrimage to Columbine preceded what authorities allege could have been a collaborative effort between would-be mass murderers. According to authorities, 23-year-old Elizabeth Lecron of Toledo, Ohio has been busy. Fortunately, police acted in time. Lecron was arrested today after authorities allege she purchased two pounds of…
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What Did You Think Would Happen?
Maybe the hardest I’ve ever laughed and the hardest I’ve ever been punched happened on the same day for the same reason. I don’t even remember what my older cousin was trying to cook, but I know it involved toasting four pieces of bread. Ever the impatient one, Reggie loomed over the toaster, wondering what…
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SC Police Officer Killed, 7 Injured After Armed Gunman Opens Fire on Cops
A South Carolina man barricaded himself inside a home, held his family hostage and opened fire on law enforcement officers on Wednesday, killing one officer and injuring seven others after officers attempted to serve a warrant at the man’s home. The Root spoke with the family of 52-year-old Florence, S.C., police officer Terrence Carraway, described…
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Snochia Moseley Identified as Alleged Mass Shooter in Maryland [Updated]
Mere hours after a mass shooting at an office complex in Middleton, Wis., and another one in Masontown, Penn., law enforcement officials confirm that three people are dead and three are wounded after a shooting by a woman at a Rite Aid facility near Aberdeen, Md., a village about two hours northeast of Washington, D.C.…
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There Was Another Mass Shooting This Weekend But No One Cares
“Black” is a magical word. Black is an adjective. Black is a noun. It is a verb, an adverb, pronoun, preposition … It is all the parts of speech in one. Yes, “black “ is a magical thing. In America, that simple word can render a thing invisible. It can make a whole human disappear…
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5 Dead, Others Injured at Maryland Newspaper; Alleged Shooter in Custody: Report [Updated]
Updated: Thursday, June 28, 2018, 7:15 p.m. EDT: CNN’s Jake Tapper is reporting that the unidentified shooting suspect may have altered his fingerprints so that he could not be identified. According to a tweet, the gunman has been identified using facial-recognition software, but his name has not yet been released to the press. Earlier: A…
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22 Injured at Trenton, NJ, Arts-Festival Shooting
A 13-year-old boy is among the 22 people injured after a shooter opened fire at a 24-hour arts festival in Trenton, N.J., early Sunday around 2:45 a.m. The suspect, a 33-year-old man, is reportedly dead and another suspect has been taken into custody, according to CNN. The shooting may have started with a “neighborhood beef”…
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Texas School Shooting Suspect Identified as 17-Year-Old Dimitrios Pagourtzis [Updated]
Updated: Friday, May 18, 2018, 2:17 p.m. EDT: A law enforcement official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, has identified the Santa Fe, Texas, school shooting suspect as 17-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis. According to the Associated Press, Pagourtzis plays on the Santa Fe High School junior varsity football team and was a member of a local Greek…
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Travis Reinking Is What Happens When Black People Are ‘Criminals’ and White People Are Allowed to Be Invisible
A few months ago, during a conversation on Facebook about one of the many mass shootings committed by a white man (I forget which one), the homie Sai Grundy wrote that (paraphrasing) one of the byproducts of the criminalization of blackness is that white people are often able to elude suspicion by virtue of their…
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How My Play Cousin Stopped a Mass Shooting and Disproved the Myth About Good Guys With Guns
I used to believe that one of the stupidest narratives in existence was the National Rifle Association’s assertion that “the only person who can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.” I also believed that turning mass shooters into celebrities creates more mass shooters. But I no longer…