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Recordings From Uvalde Shooting Released By Officials After Lawsuit
As law enforcement officers hung back outside Khloie Torres’ fourth-grade classroom in Uvalde, Texas, she begged for help in a series of...
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Aug 12, 20242 min read
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'Multiple Failures' Cited Leading Up To Maine Army Reservist Shooting
A military investigation found “multiple failures” leading to the deaths of 18 people in a mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine by an Army...
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Jul 24, 20242 min read
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Illinois Man Rejects Plea Deal in Highland Park Mass Shooting
The man accused of killing seven people and injuring dozens more at a 2022 Independence Day parade in a Chicago suburb rejected a deal...
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Jun 27, 20241 min read
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Should Mass Violence Sites Be Demolished Or Preserved?
Wrecking equipment has begun demolishing the building at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., where a gunman’s rampage...
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Jun 18, 20242 min read
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Colorado Gay Nightclub Killer Getting A Federal Life Term
The shooter who killed five people in a 2022 attack at a Colorado gay nightclub is due to plead guilty to federal hate crime and gun...
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Jun 18, 20241 min read
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Divided High Court: Law Doesn't Permit Ban On 'Bump Stocks'
The Supreme Court on Friday overturned a federal ban on "bump stocks," which can allow semiautomatic weapons to fire rapidly, like...
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Jun 14, 20243 min read
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Minneapolis Mass Shooting Leaves Police Officer and Two Others Dead
On Thursday evening, a shooting killed a Minneapolis police officer, a suspected gunman and a civilian and injured at least four others,...
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May 31, 20241 min read
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Podcast Explores the Nation's Relationship With Guns
Through interviews with legislators, family members of victims and key figures like the principal of Columbine High School principal, a...
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May 31, 20241 min read
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Uvalde Families Sue Instagram, Gun Maker For 'Grooming' Mass Shooter
The families of schoolchildren shot at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Tex., in 2022 filed two lawsuits on Friday accusing Instagram,...
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May 27, 20242 min read
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11 Injured In Savannah Weekend Mass Shooting
Late Saturday in the tourist area of Savannah, Ga., an argument between two women escalated into a gunfight, resulting in 11 people being...
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May 20, 20241 min read
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Family of Maine Shooter Details Efforts for Psychiatric Aid
Family members of the Army reservist who killed 18 people last fall in Lewiston, Maine shared wrenching accounts of the months leading up...
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May 17, 20242 min read
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Girl, 9, Killed, Three Boys, Seven Adults Shot In Chicago
Saturday should have been a joyous one for Alejandra Velasquez and her family as they gathered to celebrate a relative's confirmation...
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Apr 15, 20242 min read
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Parents of Michigan School Shooter Sentenced to 10 to 15 Years in Prison
Jennifer and James Crumbley, who were convicted of involuntary manslaughter for failing to prevent their teenage son from killing four...
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Apr 10, 20242 min read
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Las Vegas Study Shows Long Mental Health Ills Of Shooting Survivors
Survivors of Las Vegas' Route 91 Harvest festival shooting continued to struggle with mental health ailments years after the Oct. 1,...
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Apr 8, 20242 min read
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Maine Panel Says Mass Shooter's Guns Should Have Been Seized
The events leading up to Army reservist Robert Card's killing 18 people at a bowling alley and a bar in Lewiston, Maine, on Oct. 25,...
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Mar 18, 20242 min read
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Uvalde Police Chief Resigns After City Report On Shooting
The Uvalde police chief who was on vacation during the Robb Elementary School shooting submitted his resignation Tuesday, less than a...
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Mar 13, 20242 min read
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Uvalde Parents Angered by Report That Clears Police of Missteps
Family members of the victims of the Robb Elementary School shooting yelled "cowards" and angrily walked out of a Uvalde City Council...
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Mar 8, 20242 min read
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States Fund Digital Maps of School Campuses for First Responders
In response to mass shootings, school districts are hiring companies to create digital maps of their campuses for quicker emergency...
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Mar 8, 20241 min read
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Traumatic Brain Injury Evidence In Maine Shooter Who Killed 18
An Army reservist who shot and killed 18 people in Maine last year had evidence of traumatic brain injuries, according to an analysis by...
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Mar 7, 20242 min read
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Jury Selection Begins For Father of Michigan School Shooter
Jury selection started Tuesday morning in the trial of James Crumbley, the father of the Oxford High School shooter, and his role in the...
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Mar 6, 20241 min read
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