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Chicago Mass Shooting Kills 1, Injures 5
Shootings in
Chicago Leave 2 Dead

Shootings in Chicago Leave 2 Dead

Mass shooting left 1 dead, 5 injured, while other shootings also took place

(Newser) - A 22-year-old woman is dead after being shot in the back early Sunday on Chicago's West Side. The mass shooting also left five others, ranging in age from 17 to 29, injured, NBC Chicago reports. Three were in critical condition after the 2:48am shooting. Three separate shootings took...

Montana Authorities: Fugitive in Bar Shooting Is in Custody

Manhunt stretched over a week after four people were killed in Anaconda

(Newser) - A man suspected of killing four people in a small-town bar is in custody after a weeklong search in the Montana mountains, authorities said Friday, per the AP. Lewis and Clark County Sheriff Leo Dutton said Michael Brown, 45, was taken alive, per KTVH . Gov. Greg Gianforte announced the arrest...

Unarmed Soldiers Who Stopped Gunman Are Honored

Soldiers get medals after taking down suspect in Fort Stewart shooting

(Newser) - The soldiers who subdued the alleged Fort Stewart gunman were unarmed when they tackled him, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll said Thursday. Six soldiers have been honored with the Meritorious Service Medal for their actions during the Georgia shooting, CBS News reports. "They were unarmed and ran at and tackled...

Tennessee Man Charged With Killing 4 Faces Death Penalty

Austin Robert Drummond ordered held without bond after first hearing

(Newser) - Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty against a Tennessee man charged with killing the parents, grandmother, and uncle of an infant found abandoned in a home's front yard. Austin Robert Drummond, 28, appeared Thursday via a video feed from jail before a judge in Tiptonville, two days after...

Alleged Army Shooter Sent a Telling Text

Sgt. Quornelius Radford had complained of racism at Fort Stewart, father says

(Newser) - The Army sergeant accused of shooting five people at Georgia's Fort Stewart on Wednesday first sent a text to an aunt, indicating he was about to die. Sgt. Quornelius Radford, 28, texted the aunt to say "that he loved everybody, and that he'll be in a better...

Grocery Store Mass Shooter Gets Life Without Parole

Travis Posey killed 4, injured 11 in Arkansas shooting

(Newser) - An Arkansas man who killed four people and injured 11 others in a mass shooting at a grocery store last year was sentenced Monday to life in prison without parole. A state judge sentenced Travis Eugene Posey to four life sentences for each count of capital murder, the AP reports....

After Shooting, Montana Suspect Stripped Down

4 victims in bar shooting are identified

(Newser) - Authorities have expanded the search for Montana bar shooting suspect Michael Paul Brown to include national forest land outside Anaconda, where he may be traveling on foot. "This is an unstable individual who walked in and murdered four people in cold blood for no reason whatsoever," Montana Attorney...

Bar Owner on Alleged Gunman: 'I Just Think He Snapped'

Authorities find truck belonging to Michael Paul Brown, but manhunt for him in Montana continues

(Newser) - The manhunt continues for Michael Paul Brown, a suspect in the Friday morning shooting at a Montana bar, but it appears his vehicle has been found. Lee Johnson, the administrator for the state's Division of Criminal Investigation, said in a presser later Friday that investigators had recovered the white...

Shooting Kills 4 in Bar, Sparking Montana Manhunt

"Everybody's pretty rattled,' one resident says

(Newser) - Four people were killed in a shooting at a Montana bar on Friday, authorities said after launching a manhunt for the suspect. The shooting happened around 10:30am at the Owl Bar in Anaconda, according to the Montana Division of Criminal Investigation, which is leading the investigation. The suspect, who...

Reno Mass Shooting Suspect Dies
Reno Mass Shooting
Suspect Dies

Reno Mass Shooting Suspect Dies

Dakota Hawver was critically injured in exchange of fire with police

(Newser) - The motive in Monday's mass shooting at a casino in Reno might forever remain a mystery. Police say the suspected gunman, 26-year-old Dakota Hawver, died overnight, the Reno Gazette Journal reports. Hawver, a Reno resident, had been hospitalized in critical condition since the Monday shooting, reports the AP . He...

NYC Shooter Took Out a 'Beloved' Lobby Presence

Cornell graduate Julia Hyman, unarmed guard Aland Etienne named as victims

(Newser) - An off-duty police officer was the first victim of the Manhattan mass shooting. A 27-year-old Cornell University graduate was the last. Julia Hyman, an employee of the real estate company which owns and manages 345 Park Avenue, was shot and killed in the Rudin Management offices on the 33rd floor...

Workers Were Not About to Let the Gunman Into Their Office

Photos circulate of barricade erected by Blackstone workers during Park Avenue shooting

(Newser) - As a gunman went on a murderous rampage in a Manhattan high-rise on Monday that left four dead and five others injured before authorities say he took his own life, workers from one financial firm were determined to prevent him from gaining entry to their office space. ABC7 reports on...

Gunned-Down Cop Was 'a True Blue New Yorker'

Didarul Islam 'made the ultimate sacrifice,' died 'a hero' in Manhattan shooting

(Newser) - He was a father of two, with another child on the way. And he was the first to die inside a Midtown Manhattan skyscraper on Monday. Didarul Islam, who'd been a New York City police officer for 3.5 years, was working a corporate security detail at 345 Park...

Manhattan Shooter's Note Reportedly Referenced CTE

Gunman killed 4 in skyscraper that included NFL offices

(Newser) - Police were still trying to piece together what prompted Monday's deadly shooting inside a Manhattan high-rise, but the gunman's suicide note may provide clues. Both CNN and ABC News report that the shooter claimed in the note to have suffered from the brain disease CTE. The skyscraper where...

Gunman Kills 4, Including an Officer, at Manhattan Offices

Police say suspect killed himself in building that houses NFL headquarters

(Newser) - A gunman killed at least four people at a Manhattan office building on Monday evening, the AP reports, one of them an off-duty New York City police officer shot while exchanging fire with the shooter in the lobby, NBC News reports. The suspect then disappeared into the skyscraper, and panicked...

British Territory Sees Its First Mass Shooting

3 dead, 10 wounded in Turks and Caicos

(Newser) - Three young men were killed and 10 others injured at a popular nightspot in the Turks and Caicos Islands in what authorities called the British territory's first mass shooting in recent history. At least four suspects were involved in the shooting early Sunday on the island of Providenciales, but...

Mass Shooting Kills a Rising Football Star

Ole Miss' Corey Adams, 18, was considered one of the top defensive linemen recruits

(Newser) - A freshman football player at the University of Mississippi, considered one of the top defensive linemen recruits in the country, has died in a shooting in Tennessee. Corey Adams, 18, was found with a gunshot wound inside a vehicle at an intersection in Cordova, just outside Memphis, following a shooting...

2 Women Dead in Kentucky Church Shooting

Suspect also killed, multiple others wounded

(Newser) - Two women died Sunday at a church in Lexington, Kentucky, in a shooting rampage that began when a state trooper was wounded after making a traffic stop, police said. The suspect in both shootings was also killed, the AP reports. The suspect carjacked a vehicle after the traffic stop near...

Trooper, Multiple People in Church Shot: Police

Suspect was killed, Kentucky authorities say

(Newser) - A suspect shot and wounded a state trooper Sunday morning in Kentucky and then fled to a church, where multiple people were injured in a second shooting, authorities said. The suspect was killed at Richmond Road Baptist Church in Lexington, Kentucky State Police posted on social media.

55 Shot, 8 Killed Over Long Weekend in Chicago

That makes it the city's least violent Fourth of July weekend in at least 6 years

(Newser) - It was another violent long weekend in Chicago—but not as violent as other Fourth of July weekends in recent years. ABC7 , which has a detailed list of incidents, reports that police say at least 55 people were shot, eight of them fatally, between Thursday morning and midnight Sunday. The...

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