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In Kansas City Super Bowl Parade Shooting, Law Enforcement Seek Answers
A shooting on Wednesday afternoon as thousands of football fans had crowded into downtown Kansas City, Missouri, left one dead and 21...
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Feb 15, 20241 min read
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Police Acknowledge Missed Chances To End Maine Shooter Manhunt
Police who testified before an independent commission investigating the response to a mass shooting in Maine acknowledged potential...
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Feb 9, 20241 min read
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Officers May Not Face Charges in Uvalde Shooting Response Case
After more than a year of pressure to file criminal charges against some of the Texas law enforcement officers responsible for the...
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Feb 7, 20242 min read
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No Verdict After First Day of the Trial of School Shooter's Mother
A jury in Michigan did not reach a verdict on Monday and will return Tuesday to court, reports the Associated Press. Jennifer Crumbley is...
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Feb 6, 20241 min read
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Training Police Through Simulations Could Avoid Uvalde-Type Failures
The pop-pop-pop of gunfire cracked just as the rain started to fall. Then the screams began. Within moments, civilians lay strewn across...
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Feb 5, 20242 min read
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Opinion: How Mass Shootings Are Defined Directly Affects How We Respond
We are one month into 2024 and, depending on who you ask, we’ve had 32 mass shootings, five mass shootings, or, according to some, no...
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Jan 31, 20242 min read
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Maine Panel Questions Why No One Acted To Stop Mass Shooter
The office of the Sagadahoc Couinty, Me., sheriff, the site of a mass killing in October, will explore the creation of a...
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Jan 26, 20242 min read
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Most Victims In Chicago Shooting Related To Suspect
A man suspected of shooting and killing eight people in suburban Chicago this weekend was related to most of the victims, authorities...
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Jan 24, 20241 min read
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Colorado LGBTQ Club Shooter To Plead Guilty To Federal Charges
Federal prosecutors on Tuesday filed 74 charges against the person who killed five people and injured 19 others at a Colorado Springs...
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Jan 17, 20242 min read
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Friend of Maine Gunman Warned Officials of Potential Mass Shooting
Sean Hodgson watched and worried as his best friend of nearly two decades unraveled. His former roommate and fellow U.S. Army reservist’s...
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Jan 11, 20241 min read
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Report Clears Maine Police Agency For Acts Before Mass Shooting
An independent report cleared a Maine police agency’s response to growing concerns about the mental health of a man who went on to commit...
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Dec 18, 20232 min read
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Michigan State U. Shooting Families Receive $15M Settlement
Michigan State University's board of trustees approved a $15 million settlement with the families of three students who were killed...
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Dec 18, 20232 min read
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National Record Set On Sunday By Two More Mass Shootings
On Sunday, two mass shootings in Texas and Washington set what the Washington Post described as a “gruesome milestone.” The tragedies...
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Dec 5, 20231 min read
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Study Finds Most School Shootings Aren’t ‘Mass’ Shootings
Many Americans think of school shootings as mass casualty events involving an adolescent with an assault-style weapon. But a new study...
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Nov 28, 20232 min read
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What Were The Decisions Behind The Post's Mass Shooting Article?
On Thursday, the Washington Post published an article called “Terror on Repeat,” that displayed mass shootings in a way no other...
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Nov 17, 20231 min read
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Mother Whose Daughter Died In The Uvalde Shooting Loses Bid To Become Mayor
Kimberly Mata-Rubio, whose daughter was killed in the Robb Elementary School shooting nearly 18 months ago, lost her bid to become...
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Nov 8, 20231 min read
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7 Of 10 Deadliest Mass Shooters This Year Had Signaled Their Troubles
A long series of warnings about Robert Card, who would carry out this year’s deadliest mass killing, did nothing to prevent his attack,...
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Nov 6, 20232 min read
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Maine Shooter Thought Businesses Had Called Him A Pedophile
Maine State Police documents showed that Robert Card, a U.S. Army reservist who shot and killed 18 people in Lewiston last week,...
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Nov 1, 20231 min read
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Mass Shooting Total On Pace To Set U.S. Record This Year
The Gun Violence Archive classifies a mass shooting as one in which four or more people are injured or killed. Since 2020, the U.S. has...
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Oct 31, 20232 min read
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Maine Gunman's Family Alerted Sheriff To His Mental State, Guns
Five months before Maine's deadliest mass shooting, the gunman’s family alerted a sheriff that they were becoming concerned about his...
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Oct 31, 20232 min read
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