What We Know About White Supremacist Links to the Texas & Colorado Shootings
After three assassinations in two months, top law enforcement officials are concerned that white supremacist prison gangs may be targeting them.
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A series of violent events culminated in Watertown, Massachusetts late Thursday night after two unidentified suspects engaged with as many as 100 police officers. Fleeing in a stolen Mercedes SUV and armed with explosives and firearms, the suspects in the SUV lost control and crashed the vehicle and made their way out of the situation by tossing a bomb towards authorities.
After three assassinations in two months, top law enforcement officials are concerned that white supremacist prison gangs may be targeting them.
Police and FBI negotiators are still in a standoff with a man who murdered a school bus driver before kidnapping a six-year-old child and holing up in an underground shelter.
In a mysterious, confusing case, there are so far very few surprises, but there are already lessons worth learning.
Can we talk about this now that so many people have died at a school in Newtown? And if we can't, why can't we? Why haven't we already?
What little bit of detail these "witnesses" have to offer doesn't seem to be worth the insensitive nature of the questioning, at least not according to the outcry online.
Confusion still reigns over Friday's shooting of a U.S. embassy vehicle in Mexico, and while authorities figure out what happened, they're keeping the 12 Mexican federal police officers involved in custody.
On July 20 we woke up to the news that a 24-year-old man had killed 12 people and wounded countless others in a shooting at the midnight premiere of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado. That July 20 was a summer Friday, like today. Today, there's another shooting.
An attack on a U.S. embassy vehicle that reportedly wounded two Americans now appears to be a mix-up by Mexican police who were pursuing kidnappers, and that the car was either targeted by mistake or caught in the crossfire between police and suspects.
Given Chicago's violent and gunshot riddled summer, and as callous as it may seem, violent news coming out of the city just isn't surprising anymore--in fact it's become depressingly commonplace.
One man was killed and nine other people injured when a gunman murdered a former co-worker in front of the Empire State Building on Friday morning, before being shot and killed by New York City police officers.
Family Research Council president Tony Perkins called the shooting attack on FRC's office last week an act of terrorism, but on Wednesday a federal grand jury showed it didn't agree with him, indicting Floyd Corkins on weapons and assault charges.
An autopsy report out on Monday calling an Arkansas man's gunshot death while in police custody a suicide, is so unlikely, it's no surprise many people don't believe it.
The morning after a man shot a security guard in the lobby of the conservative Family Research Council, we're learning more about the suspect, who may be charged with domestic terrorism depending on his motive in the shooting.
A gunman opened fire at the conservative Family Research Council on Wednesday, and while police haven't officially released his name, NBC cites "two law-enforcement sources" who said he was Floyd Corkins, 28, of Herndon, Virginia.
A man in Nevada apologized to his fellow movie patrons after the gun he was carrying fell from his pocket and went off, hitting him in the buttocks.
A joint investigation between the FBI and the South Milwaukee Police department has resulted in the arrest of Misty Cook, the ex-girlfriend of Wade Michael Page, the gunman who killed six people at a Sikh temple over the weekend.
A Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, was attacked on Sunday shortly after mass ended. A man opened fire on as many as 30 people. Seven people are dead, one of them being the shooter. The gunman reportedly held hostages inside until SWAT teams entered the building and were able to get people free. Witnesses claimed to see more than one shooter.
When something like this happens, what happened in Colorado, the meaningless shooting of a theater full of people there to do the simplest of things—watch a movie—it's hard to know how to react, on the Internet or off of it.
The Army soldier who killed his superior officer on Thursday and then shot himself, died from his wounds a day later.
A solider at Fort Bragg in North Carolina shot and killed a fellow soldier on Thursday before trying to kill himself.
This week's award for Easy Irony went to a man who claimed he was shot while hitchhiking across the country to write a book about "Kindness in America." Now gets a new award for admitting that he actually shot himself.
Three people are dead and more are injured after a fight escalated and someone started shooting in a student neighbourhood in Auburn, Alabama.
A man described as "disgruntled" by his own father shot and killed five people in Seattle yesterday, and then killed himself after being tracked down by police.
Police arrested a 28-year-old man this morning and charged him with capital murder in the deaths of two motorists who were shot in their cars on Mississippi highways.
The trial of Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik got underway in Oslo today, with the defendant admitting that he killed 77 people last July, but that he was acting in self-defense and doesn't recognize the authority of the court anyway.
Police in Tulsa announced that the two white men accused of shooting five black people last Friday confessed to the shootings almost immediately after they were arrested.
Police have arrested two men in Tulsa for the murders of three black men and the shooting of two others that happened on Friday.
A bizarre gang war erupted at a funeral in Miami. Two are dead, 12 injured.
We had a hunch Al Jazeera would decide not to air the video footage it received from Toulouse shooter Mohamed Merah, and on Tuesday the network tersely confirmed that while an official source told the AP that the video came from an accomplice, not Merah himself.
Police finally stormed the apartment of the man accused of shooting seven people in France and the gunman is now dead after a bloody shootout.
Reuters is reporting that Mohammed Merah has turned himself in. Merah is the prime suspect in the shootings last week which claimed the lives of three French soldiers and shooting four people (three children) at a Jewish school on Monday.
Whoever opened fire on a Jewish school in Toulouse, Southern France, used the same gun as the one that shot four paratroopers last week.
Four people, including two children, are reported dead after a shooting outside a Jewish school in France, in an attack that resembles the murders of three French soldiers last week.
We couldn't imagine how the story of the murder-suicide that left seven dead on Christmas Day could be even more heartbreaking -- not until we read the Associated Press's retelling of the events based on text messages sent by a 22-year-old victim.
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