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 …
A former Air Force colleague of the Texas church shooter says that the gunman told her he bought pets to use as target practice, and that the Dylann Roof church massacre was “cool.” Devin Kelley, the gunman responsible for Sunday’s deadly mass shooting at a church in Sutherland Springs, reportedly told his Holloman Air Force …
By NOMAAN MERCHANT, JIM VERTUNO and WILL WEISSERT, Associated Press SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas (AP) — The gunman who carried out the massacre at a small-town Texas church briefly escaped from a mental health center in New Mexico in 2012 and got in trouble for bringing guns onto a military base and threatening his superiors there, police …
Although they weren’t in the church at the time, officials confirmed that the in-laws of a man who opened fire on Sunday at a Texas-based church attended services there previously. “We know that his ex-in-law, or in-laws, came to church here from time to time. They were not here yesterday to attend church,” Wilson County Sheriff Joe …
By DAVE COLLINS, Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — There was evidence the Newtown school shooter had an interest in children that could be categorized as pedophilia, but there was no proof he acted on it, according to FBI documents released Tuesday. The records were among more than 1,500 pages of documents released by the FBI …
Staffers at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino have been tight-lipped on the tragic events of the weekend
The man who shot at a crowd of concertgoers while perched from his 32nd floor hotel room at the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, was an unknown outsider to his neighbors in a close-knit retirement community in a Mesquite, Nevada, neighborhood. Reuters reports that Paddock’s neighbors in Mesquite, Nevada, knew little about Paddock, …
A California woman who lost her eye during Sunday’s shooting in Las Vegas is currently in a coma. The San Diego Tribune reported Wednesday that Tina Frost, 27, is in critical condition. Frost was at the country music concert with nine friends when one of Stephen Paddock’s bullets hit her in the eye. Her boyfriend is …
The gunman who killed 59 people at a country music concert Sunday night might have originally targeted another Las Vegas festival a week earlier. A law enforcement source told the Daily Beast that they’re investigating whether Stephen Paddock rented several condos at The Odgen. The 21-story tower’s north side overlooked this year’s “Life Is Beautiful” …
By KEN RITTER and GENE JOHNSON, Associated Press MESQUITE, Nev. (AP) — Stephen Paddock had a penchant for guns, high-limit video poker and real estate deals. His father was a notorious fugitive bank robber. He had a recent live-in girlfriend and two ex-wives and seemed to live a comfortable life in a Nevada retirement community. His …
A Big Sandy, Tennessee, man was reportedly among the more than 50 people killed in Sunday’s mass shooting in Las Vegas. Family members have confirmed to WZTV that Sonny Melton, a registered nurse at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital, was fatally shot at the Route 91 Harvest Festival. “At this point, I’m in complete disbelief and despair. …
CLOVIS, N.M. (AP) — Two people were killed and four others injured when gunfire erupted inside a public library on Monday, throwing an eastern New Mexico community into a panic as officers swarmed the building with their guns drawn. Authorities and elected officials in the city of Clovis said the shooter had been taken into …
