Should Police Say 'This Is Not Our Lane' In Case Of 6-Year-Old Shooter?
He was six, in his first-grade class in Newport News, Va. He pointed a handgun at his teacher, and then pulled the trigger. Across the...
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Jan 13, 20232 min read
90 New Metal Detectors In VA District After Shooting By Boy, 6
The shooting of a first-grade teacher by a 6-year-old boy plunged the nation into uncharted waters of school violence, with many in the...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 12, 20232 min read
Schools Boost Security Measures Amid Rising Gun Safety Concerns
Across the nation, more schools have installed security cameras, added locks inside classrooms, and stepped up other security measures in...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 10, 20232 min read
VA Boy Who Shot Teacher Brought Legally Purchased Gun From Home
The six-year-old boy who shot Newport News Va., teacher Abigail Zwerner used a 9mm handgun he had brought from home. The bullet tore...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 13, 20222 min read
A Decade After Sandy Hook, Families Still Fighting For Change
The children killed at the Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14, 2012 should have spent this year thinking about college, taking their...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 1, 20222 min read
Survivors Of Uvalde School Massacre Seek $27B In Damages
Survivors of the fatal mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Tx., have filed a $27 billion class action lawsuit against...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 30, 20221 min read
School Shooting Case Against Parents Paused By MI High Court
The Michigan Supreme Court sent the involuntary manslaughter case of the parents of accused Oxford High shooter Ethan Crumbley back to a...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 29, 20222 min read
Whistleblowers Argue Signs Were Ignored Before MI School Shooting
The morning Ethan Crumbley drew a picture of a gun and blood on his math homework sheet, and scrawled the words "The thoughts won't stop,...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 15, 20222 min read
VA Students Try to Deal With Deal With Trauma Over Campus Killings
Responding to the threat of an on-campus shooting was a moment University of Virginia students had prepared for since their first years...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 11, 20222 min read
Alex Jones Ordered To Pay $473M More to Sandy Hook Families
Infowars host Alex Jones and his company were ordered by a judge Thursday to pay an extra $473 million for promoting false conspiracy...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 2, 20222 min read
Life Term Likely in Parkland Case, Although Some Families Seek Death
Nikolas Cruz, 24, is expected to get a sentence of life in prison without parole Wednesday for the murders of 17 people at a Parkland,...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 28, 20222 min read
Texas DPS Chief Steve McCraw Says His Agency 'Did Not Fail' Uvalde
Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw said he would resign if his troopers had “any culpability” in the botched police...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 28, 20222 min read
Ex-Phila. Deputy Accused Of Illegal Sale Of Guns In School Shooting
A former Philadelphia sheriff's deputy was charged with illegally selling firearms used in a fatal school shooting. Samir Ahmad, 29, was...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 27, 20222 min read
St. Louis School Shooter Regained Gun After Police Arranged Removal
The 19-year-old who killed a teacher and a 15-year-old student in a shooting spree at a St Louis high school on Monday had the assault...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 26, 20221 min read
St. Louis School Shooter Called Himself An 'Isolated Loner'
Orlando Harris, the gunman who killed a student and teacher at a south St. Louis high school before police killed him Monday, had about...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 25, 20222 min read
Mental Illness Suspected In St. Louis School Shooting Where Two Died
An armed former student broke into a St. Louis high school warning, “You are all going to die!” before fatally shooting a teacher and a...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 24, 20221 min read
Michigan School Shooter Pleads to Terrorism Charge
In what may be the first terrorism conviction in a school shooting case, a Michigan teen accused of killing four classmates and injuring...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 14, 20222 min read
School Lockdown Drills: Do They Do More Harm Than Good?
Lockdown drills have been a way of life for U.S. children for more than a decade, The Trace reports. According to The Department of...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 14, 20222 min read
Juror In Parkland Shooting Case Cites Threat By Fellow Panelist
The deliberation room where 12 jurors decided the fate of confessed mass shooter Nikolas Cruz may have been a crime scene itself, reports...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 13, 20222 min read
Jury Spares Nikolas Cruz From Death In Parkland School Massacre
Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz will be sentenced to life without parole for the 2018 murder of 17 people at Parkland’s Marjory...
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