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Bank worker kills five co-workers in Louisville, Kentucky shooting

Bank worker kills five co-workers in Louisville, Kentucky shooting

BRENDAN O'BRIEN A 23-year-old bank employee armed with a rifle shot dead five colleagues and wounded nine other people at his workplace in Louisville while livestreaming the attack on social media, police said. The gunman was fatally shot at the scene, Louisville police said. It was unclear whether he was slain by police or took his own life. The incident marked the latest in a long series of mass shootings in the U.S. Louisville police identified the shooter as Connor Sturgeon, who joined the downtown branch of the Old National Bank as a full-time employee last year. Police said they…
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California reels from back-to-back shootings that killed 18 

California reels from back-to-back shootings that killed 18 

TIM REID AND ALEXANDRA ULMER A deadly rampage by a 67-year-old suspect in Northern California was likely an act of workplace violence, authorities said, offering fresh details about the second in back-to-back mass shootings that killed 18 people and horrified the nation. The two shootings within three days have left the state of California reeling as investigators worked to identify the 11 people killed on Saturday at a Los Angeles-area dance hall and the seven killed on Monday in the seaside town of Half Moon Bay near San Francisco. Authorities were trying to determine the motives for both shootings. Officials said preliminary evidence indicated…
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Mass shootings in South Africa are often over group turf: how to stop the cycle of reprisals

Mass shootings in South Africa are often over group turf: how to stop the cycle of reprisals

IN just two days in early July, 25 people were shot dead in four separate incidents at taverns across South Africa. In one of these shootings, in Soweto, 16 people lost their lives. The killings made international headlines and were shocking even in South Africa, a society with one of the highest murder rates in the world. There has been intense speculation about the motives behind the killings in the absence of reliable evidence that explains why the multiple murders took place. Author GUY LAMB, Criminologist / Lecturer, Stellenbosch University To provide some insights into the possible reasons, I reflect…
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