DALTON, Ga. (AP) — Police officers responded Wednesday to a Georgia high school after reports of shots fired and a teacher barricaded in a classroom, authorities said. Police in Dalton tweeted that the teacher was in custody and no children were ever in danger. A student apparently suffered an ankle injury running inside the school …
By KELLI KENNEDY, BRENDAN FARRINGTON and CURT ANDERSON, Associated Press PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — The sheriff’s deputy assigned to guard the Florida high school that was the scene of a mass shooting never entered the building to confront the suspect because he believed the gunfire was coming from outside, his attorney said Monday. Scot Peterson has …
Nikolas Cruz, the teen accused of shooting and killing 17 people on February 14 at a Parkland, Florida, high school apparently called authorities for help after he couldn’t cope and flew into a rage, following the death of his mother last November. “The thing is I lost my mother a couple weeks ago, so, like, …
By ALINA HARTOUNIAN, Associated Press One student was teased about being a “brown, bald lesbian.” Another was the target of conspiracy theorists who claimed he was really an actor. When a group of teens posed for a photo, they were accused of lapping up attention from the news cameras and “partying like rock stars.” Just days …
A Florida teen was is accused of bringing a knife to school along with a list of students’ names with the caption “dead ha ha dead.” The Sun-Sentinel report that Benjamin Mendoza, 18, a student at Palmetto Ridge High School in Naples, was arrested Monday after police received a tip Friday that Mendoza had brought a gas …
The scene of one of America’s deadliest school shootings is scheduled to reopen in coming days, according to a statement from the Parkland, Florida, school. As Fox News reported, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School expects all classes to resume by Tuesday, nearly two weeks after a gunman opened fire, killing 17 students and faculty. Staff …
The suspected gunman behind last week’s school shooting in Parkland, Florida, had a bigger arsenal of weapons than previously known: In addition to the legally-purchased AR-15 Nikolas Cruz used to kill 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last Wednesday, the 19-year-old reportedly owned at least nine additional rifles. A law enforcement source reportedly …
Authorities in Missouri say a 13-year-old boy threatened to use an AK-47 rifle in a mass shooting at a local school. According to the Springfield News-Leader, police arrested the suspect Sunday morning on suspicion of making a terrorist threat. He reportedly made the threat in a video he shared online with someone else. A media …
Even before last week’s deadly mass shooting at a Florida high school, authorities in North Carolina were preparing to file serious charges against a 17-year-old student in that state who allegedly staged a bomb threat aimed at an area school. According to WSMV, the suspect first made intimidating comments regarding Clover Garden Charter School earlier …
“… when you’re 18 you have a right to bear arms, and there was pretty much nothing he could do.”
Alleged Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz would verbally and physically abuse his late adoptive mother on a regular basis, multiple police reports have revealed. Police reports obtained by CNN stated that Lynda Cruz had called 911 for various issues involving Nikolas and his younger brother, including “mentally ill person,” “child/elderly abuse,” “domestic disturbance,” and “missing person.” Lynda had …
The FBI acknowledges it failed to tracked down school shooter Nikolas Cruz after being tipped off to a threatening YouTube post, but that missed opportunity was not the only red flag missed. Nancy Grace discusses the investigation into the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School with experts, including Brian Levin, director of Center for …
