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Dec

2023

Gunman kills at least 15 people in Prague university shooting

A gunman killed at least 15 people and wounded at least 24 others at a Prague university before he was "eliminated", according to police and Prague emergency services, marking the country's worst-ever mass shooting. Czech police responded to the shooting at Charles University's Faculty of Arts building in Jan Palach Square shortly after 3 p.m. (1400 GMT). Police said the father of the shooter - a student at the faculty - was found dead earlier on Thursday. "We always thought that this was a thing that did not concern us. Now it turns out that, unfortunately, our world is also…

Dec

2023

By The African Mirror

Swiss police detain suspect after shooting kills two

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A gunman killed two people and wounded a third in the Swiss alpine town of Sion, and a suspect was later arrested, police said. Several shots were fired in two parts of the town, police in the southwestern Valais canton said. The victims were a 34-year-old woman and a 41-year-old man who lived in the area, police added. After the shooting, officers cordoned off the scene and set up a checkpoint, stopping and searching cars on the main road out of the canton. Switzerland has a high rate of gun ownership. The Swiss-based Small Arms Survey research group estimates that…

Dec

2023

By STEVE GORMAN

Las Vegas campus gunman described as struggling academic with ‘target list’

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THE gunman who killed three professors and wounded one at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, was a financially struggling academic whose job applications were rejected by several higher-education institutions in Nevada, police said. Anthony James Polito, 67, also had mailed nearly two dozen suspicious letters to faculty at universities across the country and had prepared a "target list" of people at both UNLV and a North Carolina university where he once worked, police said. Polito, facing eviction from his home in the Las Vegas suburb of Henderson, had a criminal record of computer trespass dating to 1992 in Virginia,…

Jun

2023

By DANIEL TROTTA and STEVE GORMAN

Gunman shoots two dead, wounds five others at Virginia high school graduation

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A man armed with four handguns killed two people and wounded five others when he fired into a crowd outside a high school graduation ceremony in Richmond, Virginia, police said. Police said they arrested one suspect, a 19-year-old man who knew one of the victims and shot at him amid the crowd that had just emerged from the Huguenot High School's commencement ceremony inside a theatre on the campus of Virginia Commonwealth University. The suspect was likely to be charged with two counts of second-degree murder in addition to other offences, interim Richmond Police Chief Rick Edwards told a press…

May

2023

By The African Mirror

At least 8 people killed by gunman at Texas mall, police kill shooter

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BRAD BROOKS and BRENDAN O'BRIEN A gunman shot and killed eight people and wounded at least seven others at a busy mall north of Dallas, police said. The gunman, whom authorities said they think acted alone and whose motive was not yet known, was killed by a police officer after he began firing outside of the Allen Premium Outlets mall in Allen, Texas, the city's police chief Brian Harvey said at a press conference. Allen fire department chief Jon Boyd told the same press conference that his department took at least nine victims with gunshot wounds to area hospitals. Two…

Apr

2023

By The African Mirror

Former Indian lawmaker slain live on TV while in police custody

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A former lawmaker in India's parliament, convicted of kidnapping, was shot dead along with his brother while police were escorting them for a medical check-up in a slaying caught on live television. The dramatic footage of the men being killed was shared across broadcast channels and social media. A gunman is seen reaching over the shoulders of police to point a pistol at the temple of the former lawmaker, Atiq Ahmed, whose turban is blown off as the gun discharges. His brother, Ashraf Ahmed, was shot a split second later. In other footage, filmed by Reuters partner ANI, one gunman…

Feb

2023

By The African Mirror

Florida TV journalist shot dead while reporting on a murder – police

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STEVE GORMAN A gunman opened fire on two television journalists reporting on a murder near Orlando, Florida, killing one and wounding the other before fatally shooting a 9-year-old girl and wounding her mother in a nearby home, authorities said. A suspect identified as Keith Melvin Moses, 19, was arrested shortly after the assaults on the TV news team and the mother and daughter, about a block away from each other, in the Orlando suburb of Pine Hills, said Orange County Sheriff John Mina. Moses was detained as a suspect in both those attacks and was formally charged in the killing…

Feb

2023

By The African Mirror

Six dead as gunman goes on rampage in small Mississippi town

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MARIA ALEJANDRA CARDONA A gunman went on a rampage in a small Mississippi town, killing his ex-wife and five other people in three locations before sheriff's deputies arrested him, the county sheriff and witnesses said. The bloodshed occurred in Arkabutla, a rural hamlet of fewer than 300 people in Tate County in northern Mississippi, about 40 miles (60 km) south of Memphis, Tennessee. The gunman, identified as Richard Dale Crum, 51, was charged with first-degree murder, Tate County Sheriff Brad Lance told reporters. President Joe Biden condemned the shooting and urged Congress to enact gun control including background checks, an…

Jan

2023

By The African Mirror

Seven killed in synagogue attack as West Bank violence spirals

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JAMES MACKENZIE and NIDAL AL-MUGHRABI A gunman killed at least seven people and wounded 10 others in a synagogue on the outskirts of Jerusalem in an attack that heightened fears of a spiral in violence, a day after the deadliest Israeli raid in the West Bank in years. Police said the gunman arrived at around 8.15 p.m. and opened fire, hitting a number of people before he was killed by police. TV footage showed several victims lying in the road outside the synagogue being tended to by emergency workers. The attack, which police described as a "terrorist incident", underlined fears…

Dec

2022

By The African Mirror

Gunman kills three women at Rome residents’ meeting

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THREE women were killed when a man pulled out a gun and opened fire at a meeting of residents of an apartment block in Rome, Italian media reported. The reports said a 57-year-old man had been detained after the shooting, which happened at a bar in the Fidene district where the meeting was being held. "He came into the room, closed the door and shouted 'I'll kill you all' and then started to shoot," Italian news agency Ansa quoted a witness as saying. Four other people were wounded in the shooting, with at least one of them suffering serious injuries.…