“Mass Shooting”

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.

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.

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.

Five years after a lone gunman opened fire from a Las Vegas hotel on a country music festival crowd, there is little comfort and no answers to what triggered the massacre of scores of people — the worst mass shooting America had ever witnessed.

Today, a memorial at the northeast corner of festival grounds that turned into a killing field is still in the planning stages by Clark County government officials, who hope the victims of the Oct. 1, 2017, bloodshed are never forgotten.

The memories of that carnage still haunt country music executive J.R. Schumann.

Prosecutors in a high-profile US school shooting case have argued that the gunman should get the death penalty. While each mass shooting in the US is its own tragedy, experts say the killers share many things in common. Could identifying these traits help stop the next attack?

In the days and months leading up to the attack in Parkland, Florida, the killer listened to the same song on repeat: “Pumped up kicks,” by Foster the People.

The song’s plucky, whistle-tuned melody clashes with lyrics about a bullied teen who seeks revenge by shooting up his school.

UVALDE, Texas (AP) — The Uvalde school district fired police chief Pete Arrendondo on Wednesday, making him the first officer to lose his job over the hesitant and fumbled response by law enforcement at Robb Elementary School as a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers in a fourth-grade classroom.

In a unanimous vote that arrived after months of angry calls for his ouster, the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District’s board of trustees fired Arredondo in an auditorium of parents and survivors of the May 24 massacre. His ouster came three months to the day after one of the deadliest classroom shootings in U.S. history.