By TERRY SPENCER, KELLI KENNEDY and TAMARA LUSH, Associated Press PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — The teenager accused of using a semi-automatic rifle to kill 17 people at a Florida high school confessed to carrying out one of the nation’s deadliest school shootings and concealing extra ammunition in his backpack, according to a sheriff’s department report released …
“If you think you’re going to scam people during this tragedy, you’re not.”
Student: “He started going after one of my friends, threatening her, and I cut him off from there”
Nicolas Cruz, the 19-year-old believed to have killed 17 people when he opened fire at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, was expelled from the school about a year earlier for disciplinary issues, police said. WSB-TV reported that Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said Cruz, 19, was expelled for disciplinary issues but did not elaborate. …
A classmate of the former student believed to have opened fire at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, described the suspected shooter as “troubled” and claimed he would show him pictures of his gun. According to Mediate, the unidentified student also told WSVN that suspected shooter Nicolas Cruz “played around” with the idea of shooting up …
The shooter, who was equipped with a gas mask and smoke grenades, set off a fire alarm to draw students out of their classrooms shortly before the school day ended, officials said.
Authorities have reportedly apprehended the suspect in a mass shooting incident at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Fox 10 News reports that police have a male suspect believed to be the gunman responsible for the deadly shooting in custody. He has not been identified but police say he was a former student at …
By MICHAEL BALSAMO and TOM TAIT, Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The much anticipated autopsy report on Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock did nothing to help explain why he carried out the deadliest shooting in modern U.S. history — his body didn’t hold diseases or drugs or other substances that could have caused aggressive behavior. …
By KEN RITTER, Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — FBI agents knew the gunman behind the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history left behind big caches of guns, ammunition and explosives when they sought warrants to search his properties and online accounts, according to court documents released Friday. A U.S. judge in Nevada unsealed the …
New details about the extremist views of convicted killer Dylann Roof have emerged in the form of a letter he reportedly wrote in response to a reformed white supremacist interested in reaching out to him. The initial letter presented an olive branch to Roof, according to the New York Daily News, but was met with …
By PAT EATON-ROBB, Associated Press NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — Out of a senseless tragedy, they have sought ways to find meaning in advocacy. Many relatives of the 26 children and educators killed five years ago at Sandy Hook Elementary School have dedicated themselves to charity, activism and other efforts to channel their grief and, in …
A 5-year-old boy who survived the Sutherland Springs church shooting is asking people to send him Christmas cards while he spends the holidays in the hospital. KSAT reported that Ryland Ward lost his stepmother, JoAnn, and two sisters, Brooke, 5, and Emily Garza, 7, in the November 5 shooting that killed a total of 26 …
