When Adam Lanza walked out of his house for the last time, he left behind firearms and knives and more than 1,600 rounds of ammunition - taking only four guns. ...
04:46 AM, Mar 29, 2013
Supporters say this law could help prevent tragedies such as December's shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, in which 20 students and 6 teachers died. ...
09:01 AM, Mar 09, 2013
A male teenager has been arrested for allegedly shooting five people to death on the weekend in the city of Albuquerque, authorities said on Sunday. ...
12:26 PM, Jan 21, 2013
Salt Lake City: A Utah sixth-grader caught with a gun at school told administrators he brought the weapon to defend himself in case of an attack similar to last week's mass shooting at a Connecticut school, officials said on Tuesday. The 11-year-old was being held in juvenile detention on suspicion of possessing a dangerous weapon and aggravated assault after other students at the suburban Salt Lake City elementary school told...
07:22 AM, Dec 19, 2012
Newtown: The small Connecticut town shattered by an act President Barack Obama called "unconscionable evil," holds on Monday the first two of 20 funerals for schoolchildren massacred in their classrooms last week. Meanwhile, schools across the country will reopen their doors to confused and scared children full of questions about why the Newtown, Connecticut, shooting happened - and whether they are safe from the very same danger. Obama, addressing an...
12:57 PM, Dec 17, 2012
Newtown: The gunman in the Connecticut shooting rampage was carrying an arsenal of hundreds of rounds of especially deadly ammunition - enough to kill just about every student in the school if given enough time, authorities said Sunday, raising the chilling possibility that the bloodbath could have been even worse. Hours later, President Barack Obama told mourners at a vigil that the nation is failing to keep its children safe....
12:03 PM, Dec 17, 2012
The tragic massacre at a Connecticut elementary school has sparked a new debate about gun control in the US. ...
10:15 AM, Dec 17, 2012
US President Barack Obama attended a memorial service for the victims of the Newtown shooting on Monday. ...
09:40 AM, Dec 17, 2012
The suspect, sending shoppers at a crowded Southern California shopping mall sprinting for safety, was cooperative when officers took him into custody. ...
09:35 AM, Dec 17, 2012
Newtown: Fighting back tears and struggling to catch his breath, the father of a six-year-old gunned down in the school shooting in Connecticut told the world on Saturday about a little girl who loved to draw and was always smiling, and he also reserved surprising words of sympathy for the gunman. Robbie Parker's daughter Emilie was among the 20 children who died on Friday in the one of the worst...
09:37 AM, Dec 16, 2012
Authorities in Connecticut say they have now identified all 26 people killed in the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School. ...
09:04 AM, Dec 16, 2012
Washington: US President Barack Obama will attend an inter-faith memorial service on Sunday in Newtown, Connecticut, the site of Friday's deadly elementary school shooting. Twenty-six people, including 20 children, were killed when a man opened fire inside the school. Hours after the shooting, a tearful Obama said he grieved first as a father. In those remarks and later in his Saturday radio address, Obama called for "meaningful action" to prevent...
07:38 AM, Dec 16, 2012
In a shocking incident in Connecticut district 28 people including 20 children were killed when a 20-year-old man opened fire at an elementary school. The shooter also killed himself in the incident. ...
08:02 PM, Dec 15, 2012
New York: Over 100 people have died and about two dozen injured in campus shootings across the US over the last 20 years with the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007 being the deadliest claiming 33 lives, including that of two Indians, a study said. The shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut on Friday was America's second-deadliest campus shooting incident which left 28 dead including 20 children. On...
07:35 PM, Dec 15, 2012
Newtown: Residents of the small Connecticut community of Newtown were reeling on Saturday from one of the worst mass shootings in US history, as police sought answers about what drove a 20-year-old gunman to slaughter 20 children at an elementary school. The attacker, identified by law enforcement sources as Adam Lanza, opened fire on Friday morning at Sandy Hook Elementary School, which teaches children aged five to 10. He ultimately...
05:33 PM, Dec 15, 2012
Newtown: A shooter opened fire at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, on Friday, killing several people including children, the Hartford Courant newspaper reported. The shooter was also killed. Sandy Hook Elementary School teaches children from kindergarten through fourth grade - roughly ages 5 to 10. Television images showed police and ambulances at the scene, and parents rushing toward the school. Parents were seen reuniting with their children and taking...
11:13 PM, Dec 14, 2012
Portland: A gunman opened fire in a suburban Portland shopping mall on Tuesday, killing two people and wounding another before apparently killing himself as people were doing their Christmas shopping, authorities said. Witnesses described a scene of chaos and disbelief as the gunman wearing some sort of camouflage outfit and what looked like a hockey mask fired rounds from a military-style rifle near the food court at Clackamas Town Center....
06:40 PM, Dec 12, 2012
Fresno: A parolee who worked at a California chicken processing plant pulled a gun and opened fire at the business, killing two people and wounding two others, before taking his own life, authorities have said. Police said they didn't know what prompted the attack by Lawrence Jones, 42, on Tuesday, midway through his shift at Apple Valley Farms, although other workers told police he did not appear to be himself...
08:01 AM, Nov 07, 2012
Fresno: One person died and four others, including a suspected gunman, were wounded on Tuesday when he opened fire at a food service company in Fresno, California, police said. The suspect, a parolee who worked at the firm and was identified as Lawrence Jones, shot himself in the head outside the building and was in critical condition, police said. Two of the wounded victims were in critical condition and the...
01:01 AM, Nov 07, 2012
New York: A recently laid-off store worker shot a former colleague to death on Friday morning outside New York's iconic Empire State Building before being killed by police, police said. Nine others were hit by gunfire in the confrontation, but police said all were expected to survive. The shooting set off chaos in the heart of Manhattan at the height of the summer travel season and just after the morning...
09:57 PM, Aug 24, 2012
