#mass-shooting

#mass-shooting

When Rahmanullah Lakanwal came to the U.S. from Afghanistan he appeared lively and full of hope, but over the course of years, he slipped into isolation and was prone to taking cross country drives without telling his family, according to a volunteer who worked closely with his family. Lakanwal, an Afghan national, is accused of shooting two National Guard soldiers on November 26. One of those soldiers, 20-year-old Sarah Beckstrom, died from her wounds.

Gary Schuelke looked in the mirror. What looked like a pimple stared back. He squeezed. To his surprise, a tiny piece of bullet fell out. Another half inch higher and he might have lost an eyeball. The fragment struck Schuelke, then a San Bernardino police sergeant, during a firefight weeks earlier between police including Schuelke's son and a married couple who murdered 14 people and wounded 22 at a holiday-themed meeting of San Bernardino County workers on Dec. 2, 2015.

STOCKTON, Calif. -- Several people were injured in a mass shooting at a California child's birthday party, officials said Saturday night. The San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office says the shooting happened around 6 p.m. inside a strip mall shopping center in Stockton, California. The city of Stockton's vice mayor, Jason Lee, posted on Facebook saying the shooting happened at an ice cream shop during a child's birthday party.

Robert Dear, who killed three people and wounded nine others in a shooting rampage at a Colorado Planned Parenthood 10 years ago, died in federal custody over the weekend, officials announced. The Bureau of Prisons announced the news on Tuesday, confirming Dear died of natural causes on Saturday at a medical facility for federal inmates in Springfield, Mo. He was 67. No other details surrounding Dear's death have been provided.

A mass shooting in Newark left two people killed, including an 10-year-old boy, and three others injured Saturday night, according to the Essex County Prosecutor's Office. The office said Newark Police were called to the scene at the 300 block of Chancellor Ave. around 7:00 p.m. Saturday. A 21-year-old woman was also killed in the shooting. The woman and the boy were pronounced dead at University Hospital.

Wilkins said the shootings stemmed from two groups attending the event that attracted more than 300 people, with ages in attendance ranging from pre-teens to about 50. There's a lot of interviews taking place, but apparently there was a confrontation between a couple of groups of people and then gunfire between those two started, Wilkins told WBTW-TV. The sheriff's office later Saturday identified the other fatal shooting victim as 49-year-old Jessie Locklear Jr. of Lumberton.

Several San Francisco supervisors expressed their disapproval of Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff's comments last week supporting Trump's threat to send the National Guard into the city. Supervisor Jackie Fielder vowed to boycott Dreamforce events this year. [NBC Bay Area] Our first significant rainfall of the season is rolling in today after 11 am, and will last into Tuesday. The rest of the week is expected to be dry. [KRON4]

BEAUFORT, S.C. -- A mass shooting at a crowded bar on an idyllic South Carolina island has left four people dead and at least 20 injured, officials say. The shooting occurred early Sunday at Willie's Bar and Grill on St. Helena Island, officials said. A large crowd was at the scene when sheriff's deputies arrived and found several people suffering from gunshot wounds.

Four people were killed and another eight injured after a gunman opened fire and set ablaze a Mormon Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc Township, Michigan on Sunday. The suspected gunman, Thomas Jacob Sanford, was killed by police at the scene.

The U.S. Marine Corps veteran accused of killing three people and injuring five others in a mass shooting at a North Carolina waterfront restaurant on Saturday spent years filing federal lawsuits filled with sprawling conspiracies and anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric. His final complaint was filed just three days before the September 27 attack. Authorities say Nigel Max Edge, of Oak Island, positioned his center-console vessel alongside the deck of the American Fish Company, a popular bar and filming site for Nicholas Sparks' , and unleashed a burst of gunfire into a crowd gathered for live music.

a shooting at a church in Michigan left at least two people dead and the church in flames

The man suspected of ramming his truck into a Mormon church in Michigan before entering, shooting, and killing multiple people has been identified as Thomas Jacob Sanford, the New York Post reported on Sunday afternoon. Sanford is a 40-year-old former Marine who served in the Iraq War from 2004 to 2008, according to posts from his mom's Facebook account. He is a resident of Burton, Michigan, which is about eight miles from Grand Blanc Township, where the attack happened.

Joseph Rothrock, special agent-in-charge of the FBI's Dallas field office, told reporters at a news briefing that the attack as an "act of targeted violence." "Early evidence that we've seen from rounds that were found near the suspected shooter contain messages that were anti-ICE in nature," Rothrock said.

Additional charges likely will be brought, including for the additional shooting victims,

A gunman opened fire in a New Hampshire country club Saturday, killing one person and wounding several other people, authorities said. Attorney General John Formella and Nashua Police Chief Kevin Rourke said the person who died at the Sky Meadow Country Club in Nashua was an adult male. Authorities said the suspect, who was detained at the scene, was also an adult male, and earlier reports of two shooters were mistaken.

Charlie Kirk, a right-wing influencer known for his gun rights advocacy and anti-LGBTQ+ views, was killed at Utah Valley University, in Orem, on Wednesday (10 September) while holding one of his 'Prove Me Wrong' debating events. He was discussing the conservative conspiracy theory about trans shooters when a single shot hit him in the neck. He died later in hospital.