Massachusetts Institute of Technology said police have issued an all clear after reports of a man in the university campus carrying a long rifle and body armour went unconfirmed. The university had been put on lockdown for a few hours. ...
10:26 PM, Feb 23, 2013
Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Saturday was put on lockdown after the university was informed by police that a person with a long rifle and body armor was holed up in the Main Group Building of the campus. The university posted the information on its website. ...
08:40 PM, Feb 23, 2013
This town of 2,400 nestled amid peanut farms and cotton fields has long relied on a strong Christian faith, a policy of "love thy neighbor," and the power of group prayer. ...
06:36 PM, Feb 04, 2013
Four people were dead including the gunman following a hostage-taking on Saturday in Aurora, Colorado, the same town where a gunman shot dead 12 people and wounded 58 more at a movie theatre in July 2012, KUSA television reported. ...
10:29 PM, Jan 05, 2013
US Police have found "human remains" in the torched home of a New York man, who shot dead two firefighters on Christmas eve before dying of a self-inflicted gun shot wound. Police suspect that the "human remains" are of his sister with whom he shared a bitter relationship. ...
02:13 PM, Dec 26, 2012
A gunman who killed two volunteer firefighters and wounded two others in a Christmas Eve ambush in upstate New York left a typewritten note saying he planned to burn down his neighborhood and start "killing people," authorities said on Tuesday. ...
02:21 AM, Dec 26, 2012
Four people died on a Pennsylvania highway on Friday when a gunman shot dead three people and later was killed in a shootout with police, according to Pennsylvania media, citing authorities. Three state troopers were injured in the incident in Frankstown Township, about 160 km east of Pittsburgh. ...
02:07 PM, Dec 22, 2012
Newton, Connecticut: At the very start of their lives, the schoolchildren are remembered for their love of horses, or for the games they couldn't get enough of, or for always saying grace at dinner. The adult victims found their life's work in sheltering little ones, teaching them, caring for them, treating them as their own. The gunfire on Friday at Sandy Hook Elementary School left a toll both unbearable and...
08:27 AM, Dec 17, 2012
According CNN's Tom Foreman the shooter came from the front door and people started hearing shots right away. By 9:41 or so calls were coming in for 911. The principal, vice principal and psychologist who were in a meeting, came out and went towards the gunfire. The VP came back wounded. Authorities say the shooting happened in a relatively short period of time and they say the gunman did not ...
11:04 AM, Dec 15, 2012
United Nations: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday voiced his 'deepest condolences over the victims of a school shooting in the US state of Connecticut which killed 20 children. In a letter to Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy, Ban called the Sandy Hook Elementary School rampage 'shocking murders', spokesman Martin Nesirky said. "The secretary-general said that the targeting of children is heinous and unthinkable, and extended his thoughts and prayers...
10:34 AM, Dec 15, 2012
Los Angeles: Academy-award-winner Sean Penn is in talks for a starring role in action thriller 'Prone Gunman'. Based on a Jean-Patrick Manchette novel about an international operative betrayed by the organization he works for, the thriller is being produced by Silver Pictures' Joel Silver and Andrew Rona. Manchette was a leftist French author, and his books -- in the French noir genre -- have been described as existentialist and involving...
03:06 PM, Nov 13, 2012
Tucson: Convicted Tucson gunman Jared Loughner was sentenced to seven consecutive life terms plus 140 years in prison on Thursday for killing six people and wounding 13 others, including former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, in a rampage in 2011. Loughner, 24, a college dropout with a history of psychiatric disorders, was handed the sentence following a plea deal with prosecutors in August that spared him the death penalty. ...
01:00 AM, Nov 09, 2012
New York: Neighbours of Jeffrey Johnson assumed the man who greeted them as he left home in a suit each morning was on his way to work -- until Friday when police say he started a gunfight near the Empire State Building that left him and a former co-worker dead. It turns out that Johnson, 58, had not been heading off all those mornings to his job as an accessories...
02:55 AM, Aug 26, 2012
Washington: Voicing regret over the shooting incident at a Wisconsin gurudwara that killed six Sikh worshippers, Oak Creek Mayor Steve Scaffidi briefed Indian envoy to the US, Nirupama Rao, about the measures he would put in place to upgrade the security at the shrine. During a meeting with Rao, who was in the city on Wednesday, the Mayor also informed her of the steps that would be taken for better...
12:00 PM, Aug 09, 2012
Wisconsin: The investigation that was initiated into the massacre in a gurudwara in Wisconsin in the USA where six people were killed before the gunman, Michael Page, was shot dead has not yet revealed the motive behind the killings. According to the police, no tell-tale writings or note was left behind by the 40-year-old ex-army veteran. However, Page's friends and former boss revealed that he was a regular at hate...
07:48 AM, Aug 08, 2012
A close friend of the gunman confirmed in an interview to CNN that he hated non-whites. ...
11:59 AM, Aug 07, 2012
Washington: Hours after releasing photo of "a person of interest" in the Wisconsin Gurudwara shooting incident, the FBI has ruled out involvement of the second suspect saying the shooting was carried out by the lone gunman Wade Michael Page. The second person was interviewed by the FBI before being cleared by it. "The unidentified subject has been located interviewed and does not appear to be connected with the yesterday's shooting...
09:30 AM, Aug 07, 2012
New York: A deadly shooting in a gurudwara in Oak Creek in the state of Wisconsin has left six people dead. The gunman identified as a white male was killed by a police officer who responded to the 911 call. Three people including the police officer were critically injured and rushed to hospital. The shooting happened at around 11 am (US time). The police recovered two semi-automatic handguns from the...
07:40 AM, Aug 06, 2012
Norway: The right-wing fanatic on trial for massacring 77 people in Norway says he wants either freedom or death, calling the country's prison terms "pathetic" and arguing for the return of capital punishment, which was last used here to execute Nazi collaborators after World War II. On the third day of his terror trial, Anders Behring Breivik was grilled by prosecutors about the anti-Muslim militant group he claims to belong...
03:28 AM, Apr 19, 2012
Toulouse, France: A 23-year-old gunman suspected of killing seven people in southwestern France in the name of Al Qaeda, jumped from a window to his death in a hail of bullets after police stormed his apartment on Thursday. "At the moment when a video probe was sent into the bathroom, the killer came out of the bathroom, firing with extreme violence," Interior Minister Claude Gueant said, adding that Merah was...
05:31 PM, Mar 22, 2012
