Seven people were killed at a Walmart in Virginia on Tuesday night in a shooting rampage that an employee claimed was carried out by a store manager who then turned the gun on himself.
Officers responded about 10:15 p.m. to a report of a shooting at the Walmart on Sam’s Circle in Chesapeake, where they found multiple dead people and injured, police said.
The city said in a tweet at 4:30 a.m. Wednesday that there were seven fatalities, including the shooter.
Did red flag laws in Colorado fail to stop the mass murder in Colorado Springs? Or did the failure start earlier — with an arrest and charges in 2021 that mysteriously went nowhere?
The Associated Press opts for the gun-control argument to frame its report today that Anderson Lee Aldrich “evaded” the red flag law in Colorado. However, the suspect didn’t evade anything, as it turns out that law enforcement and his family didn’t bother to employ it in the first place. And while they headline that claim about the red-flag law, their lead focuses on a much bigger failure…
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The man suspected of killing five people and injuring others at a gay bar in Colorado Springs is facing murder and hate crime charges, according to online court records obtained Monday.
Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22, faces five murder charges and five charges of committing a bias-motivated crime causing bodily injury, the records show.
A law enforcement official said the suspect used an AR-15-style semiautomatic weapon in Saturday night’s attack, but a handgun and additional ammunition magazines also were recovered. The official could not discuss details of the investigation publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
Late Saturday night, police responded to a shooting at a gay nightclub called “Club Q” in Colorado Springs, Colo. According to reports, five people are dead and at least another 18 were injured.
It’s early enough that those numbers could change. Yet, before we even know all the facts, the left has already decided who is to blame: Republicans.
Shooter threatened his own Mother last year. That says Cray Cray Crazy!
Update Suspect Named – Police said a suspect, named as Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22, is in custody and being treated for injuries. No motive indicated so far.
Heavy.com has some detail indicating the shooter may have a past criminal history and is likely unstable.
Five people are confirmed dead and several others were injured in a shooting at an LGBT club in Colorado.
Colorado Springs police confirmed five people had been killed and another 18 were injured during the shooting at the gay nightclub Club Q on Saturday.
Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD) Lt. Pamela Castro briefed gathered media overnight. In a video of the briefing posted on Twitter, she said: “It’s with a heavy heart that I have to tell you that we had a shooting at a local club this evening.
WATCH: #BNNUS Reports
Lt. Pamela Castro briefs the media at 3 a.m. on the mass shooting in Colorado Springs that left 18 injured and five dead at a gay and lesbian nightclub, #ClubQ. pic.twitter.com/EbTfdu6Bpx
— Gurbaksh Singh Chahal (@gchahal) November 20, 2022
AP is going on like it’s a hate crime but no evidence is supplied.
Lots of blame assigned to “Right Wing Evangelical Trumpers” etc on Twitter with zero evidence to back it up, the very definition of knee jerk dogma triumphing over reason.
From the DM … FBI joins probe into Colorado Springs gay club shooting that left five dead and 18 injured after gunman opened fire following a drag show: Gunman is in custody after being ‘subdued by patrons’
The white supremacist who killed 10 people in a racist mass shooting at a Buffalo supermarket plans to plead guilty to all of the state charges against him, according to lawyers representing families of the victims.
Payton Gendron, 19, is scheduled to appear in court Monday, according to court records. His lawyers didn’t respond to phone messages or emails Thursday and prosecutors declined to comment on the nature of the court appearance.
John Elmore, an attorney for the families of two of the 10 Black people who were killed in the shooting, said Gendron´s lawyers disclosed in recent weeks that he planned to plead guilty to all of the counts in the state indictment and waive his right to appeal.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A fatal shooting at a University of Virginia parking garage killed three people wounded two others and sent police on a manhunt Monday in search of a student suspected in the attack, officials said.
Classes at the school were canceled Monday a day after the shooting and the Charlottesville campus seemed deserted as authorities searched for the suspect, who University of Virginia President Jim Ryan identified as Christopher Darnell Jones Jr.
A Texas trooper who was among the first to arrive on the scene of the mass school shooting in Uvalde, Texas in May has been fired. The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) fired Sgt. Juan Maldonado, the first trooper to be fired.
Michigan school shooter Ethan Crumbley will plead guilty to murder and terrorism charges, avoiding a trial.
He was not offered any form of plea deal, and is expected to spend the rest of his life in prison.
It’s unclear if he has reached any form of plea deal that is incentivizing him to plead guilty.
MOSCOW (AP) — Two volunteer soldiers on Saturday fired at other troops at a Russian military firing range near Ukraine, killing 11 and wounding 15 others, before getting killed, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
The ministry said in a statement that the shooting took place in the Belgorod region in southwestern Russia that borders Ukraine. It said that the two volunteers from an unnamed ex-Soviet nation fired on other soldiers during target practice and were killed by return fire.
The ministry called the incident a terrorist attack.
Police in Raleigh, North Carolina, revealed on Friday morning that the five victims killed by a 15-year-old suspect on a deadly shooting rampage included an off-duty officer on his way to work and a 16-year-old boy.
Raleigh Police Chief Estella Patterson identified the deceased victims in the Thursday evening shooting as officer Gabriel Torres, 29, Nicole Conners, 52, Mary Marshall, 35, Susan Karnatz, 49, and James Thompson, 16.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Nikolas Cruz, the profoundly disturbed young man who carried out a massacre in the hallways of his former high school four years ago, igniting an anti-gun-violence movement led by students raised in an era of mass shootings, should not be condemned to death and instead should spend the rest of his life in prison, a state jury said on Thursday.
In a swift decision that stunned many of the victims’ families, the jury of seven men and five women sentenced Mr. Cruz to life in prison without the possibility of parole for all 17 first-degree murder counts, after about seven hours of deliberations in a grueling and often emotional sentencing trial.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Uvalde’s school district suspended its entire police force Friday amid fresh outrage over the hesitant law enforcement response to the gunman who massacred 21 people at Robb Elementary School.
The extraordinary move follows the revelation that the district hired a former state trooper who was among hundreds of officers who rushed to the scene of the May 24 shooting.
School leaders also put two members of the district police department on administrative leave, one of whom chose to retire instead, according to a statement released by the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District. Remaining officers will be reassigned to other jobs in the district.
A gunman who attacked a child care center in Thailand and then fired from his car as he fled killed more than 30 people Thursday, including two dozen children, authorities said.
It was the deadliest mass shooting in the country’s history. The assailant, identified as a former police officer, killed his wife and child before taking his own life.
Photos and videos posted online of the day care showed the floor of one room was smeared with blood and sleeping mats scattered about. Pictures of the alphabet and other colorful decorations adorned the walls.
It has been five years since Stephen Paddock stashed an arsenal of weapons in his Las Vegas hotel room and began spraying outdoor concertgoers with more than a thousand rounds of rifle fire, killing 58 people and wounding 869. Since the Oct. 1, 2017, massacre, there’s been neither an official nor satisfactory explanation for why Paddock took his assorted rifles and shot those country music fans. But now, an FBI whistleblower believes he has the motive.
