On Feb. 10, Jesse Van Rootselaar, an 18-year-old transgender-identifying biological male, committed one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history. One teacher, five students and Van Rootselaar’s own mother and half-brother were shot dead before Van Rootselaar used the gun to commit suicide, in a final act of cowardice. Dozens more were injured but survived.
Two separate mass shootings near South Africa’s two biggest cities killed at least 27 people, as the country grapples with one of the world’s highest murder rates amid investigations into corruption and criminality within the police.
The South African police service said on Sunday that 17 people were killed on Saturday night when eight suspects armed with AK-47 assault rifles and pistols opened fire at a bar in Wedela township, about 50 miles south-west of central Johannesburg. At least 15 other people sustained gunshot injuries in that attack, police said.
Mother Jones magazine has published new details outlining how the shooter in the Tumbler Ridge tragedy allegedly used OpenAI’s ChatGPT program to both plan the attack, and evade OpenAI’s own security protocols.
The report was written by the magazine’s national affairs editor Mark Follman, who has been investigating the connection between AI chatbots and violent attacks both in the United States and elsewhere.
A Canadian province is suing OpenAI over its alleged failure to notify authorities about concerning user interactions on ChatGPT prior to the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting.
The company has previously apologised for not flagging Jessie Van Rootselaar’s account to law enforcement before the 18-year-old killed eight people, including six children, in February.
OpenAI faces 30 new lawsuits filed on behalf of victims of the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting.
The suits, filed on Wednesday, allege the company’s ChatGPT chatbot induced the shooter to carry out the attack in rural Canada in February, in which eight people were killed and dozens more wounded – most of them children.
Being a drugged up tranny may have had something to do with it.
Like everything else, mass shootings have become politicized. The who/what/how many/which guns did they use, etc., are all part of a SNAFU situation, brought to you by the people with the most to hide: liberals.
Multiple people were killed, including children, after a madman opened fire at a house in Montana before setting the property ablaze.
Cops were called to the house in Billings just after 6 p.m. Sunday after reports of a shooting and a family disturbance, reported the Billings Gazette.
Officers arrived some 10 minutes later and heard gunfire from the back of the house, according to police.
Horrific story out of Billings, Montana.
Police say a family disturbance at 315 White Star Circle escalated into gunfire and a house fire Sunday night.
A 911 call came in at 6:01 p.m. with shots reportedly audible in the background. Officers arrived minutes later to more…
— MDBayNews (@MDBayNews) August 25, 2026
Chaos erupted across the US on Saturday, with three separate mass shootings threatening to snuff out dozens in Virginia, Kentucky and Chicago.
In Kentucky, five people were shot, one fatally, when gunshots rang out in a park near a packed downtown bar district Saturday evening. At least 13 shots sent revelers running for cover, footage posted by a local official showed.
‘My heart is broken. This evening we had a shooting at the park with multiple victims and one fighting for his life,’ ONE Lexington Director Devine Carama wrote.
🚨#Chicago cop appears to yell 'I'll kill you' before fatally shooting driver, video shows
▪️The slain man, #Derek_Jordan, was driving a car wanted in an earlier shooting on Interstate 290. But attorneys for his family argued that his death was “unnecessary” & was caused by the… pic.twitter.com/fBHzlAHBRj
— ⚡️🌎 World News 🌐⚡️ (@ferozwala) August 16, 2026
Nothing special just a regular Saturday night.
Lord have mercy.
A shooting involving multiple suspects and five people shot at Virginia State University prompted a campus lockdown and police investigation early Saturday.
It happened near the university’s Quad Annexes, where campus police and Chesterfield County officers discovered five people suffering from gunshot wounds outside campus dormitories. Officers responded just before 1:30 a.m. and the lockdown was lifted at about 9 a.m., county police said.
🚨 BREAKING: Virginia State University on LOCKDOWN
Multiple people shot on campus this morning. Multiple suspects involved.Police confirm several victims transported to hospitals. University says none of the injuries appear life-threatening at this time.
Campus remains locked… pic.twitter.com/9AY06mp3e3
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) August 15, 2026
A “Black” college.
How Toronto festivals this year were upended by congestion, cancellations and crime — and what we must do to fix it
It has been a summer of thwarted celebrations.
Marquee street festivals in Toronto were cut short, moved out of the city or cancelled outright over issues with financing, space, violence and thefts.
Some organizers say growing security costs and concerns since the deadly vehicle attack in Vancouver last year and shootings at Salsa on St. Clair last month made their events too expensive to host. This was worsened, they say, by the World Cup siphoning away corporate sponsorship money this year, forcing local events to make do with less. Even Taste of the Danforth, one of the city’s most storied, well-funded festivals, had supporters petition the federal government this week for more help with payments.
On Friday, the FBI released its report on active shooter incidents in 2025. The news, however, was quickly overshadowed by the active shooter incident that unfolded on Saturday afternoon in Twin Falls, Idaho, where a 24-year-old man opened fire on employees and customers at an In-N-Out restaurant before an off-duty police officer and an armed citizen sent him fleeing.
Like that shooting, the FBI report shows that the most common place for an active shooter incident in 2025 was businesses, though not all of them are open to the public. Of the 34 incidents recorded by the FBI last year, 14 of them took place in commercial areas. That’s double the number of shootings that happened in “open places,” which was the next most common category. There were six incidents in government buildings, four in educational settings, and three in houses of worship.
A 23-year-old California woman has been identified as one of those killed when a gunman opened fire at an Idaho In-N-Out this weekend.
Ashley Garibay, of Stockton, Calif., was an employee at the newly opened restaurant in Twin Falls when Chad Williams, 24, went on the deadly rifle-wielding rampage Saturday afternoon.
h/t Patti Jo
The armed civilian who’s been praised for his ‘heroic act’ of returning fire on the In-N-Out gunman in Idaho said he began self-defense training five years ago after another deadly shooting.
Jordan Salinas, 35, was headed out for a horseback riding date with his girlfriend on Saturday afternoon when he was suddenly faced with putting the techniques he had learned to use.
He pulled into the restaurant’s parking lot around 2.30pm, around the same time that Chad Williams, 24, opened fire on innocent people with an AR-style rifle, cops said.
🚨 NOW: Twin Falls, Idaho shooting hero Jordan Salinas is SPEAKING OUT as the entire nation praises him for saving lives and engaging the shooter
This man is a hero! Invite him to the White House!
"Please know I've seen your messages, and they mean more to me than I can put… pic.twitter.com/dBLLdCQ8zw
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) August 3, 2026
Police have identified the suicidal gunman who killed two people and wounded seven others when he opened fire at an Idaho In-N-Out.
Chad Williams, 24, went on a deadly rifle-wielding rampage at the In-N-Out Burger in Twin Falls on Saturday afternoon before killing himself with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police Chief Matthew Hicks said at a press conference Sunday.
A heroic armed citizen tried to take out a gunman as he opened fire on an Idaho In-N-Out, according to heart-stopping video and witnesses.
Harrowing footage shows a man with a handgun exchanging fire with the shooter outside the restaurant in Twin Falls, ID.
🚨 WOW! An absolute PATRIOT put his LIFE on the line and engaged the shooter at a Twin Falls, ID drive-thru
THIS is America 🇺🇸
This man exited his car and returned fire to force an active shooter to retreat, undoubtably saving COUNTLESS lives
A TRUE HERO pic.twitter.com/F1v4vrK1Um
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) August 2, 2026
