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Latest Mass Shooting Goes Down in a New Mexico Park

It's not yet clear how many were injured or killed in Las Cruces

(Newser) - Police in Las Cruces, New Mexico, were investigating Saturday after multiple people were injured in a mass shooting overnight at a city park. Officers responded shortly after 10pm Friday to reports of gunfire at Young Park, where police and fire personnel discovered an undisclosed number of people with gunshot injuries,...

Cops: Dog Shot Man in Bed With Girlfriend

Not an Onion headline, but a true story out of Tennessee; the man wasn't critically injured

(Newser) - Are pit bulls trigger happy? One Tennessee man may be inclined to say so, after his dog shot him as he lounged in bed (the man, not the dog). WREG reports that the Memphis Police Department responded to an accidental-injury call before dawn on Monday, where Jerald Kirkwood informed them...

FBI Investigates Shooting at Oregon Tesla Dealership

Shots fired damage Tesla vehicles and shatter store windows, but no one was inside building

(Newser) - Police in Tigard, Oregon, are investigating gunshots fired at a Tesla dealership overnight, one of several recent incidents targeting Tesla dealerships that, police say, are politically motivated. The latest incident occurred at about 1:46am Thursday, the AP reports. Surveillance footage indicates at least seven shots were fired, damaging three...

Men Gun Down Rapper, His 5-Year-Old Daughter

Daughter of G$ Lil Ronnie had celebrated her birthday only the day before, says a relative

(Newser) - Texas rapper G$ Lil Ronnie and his young daughter were shot dead in a targeted shooting at a car wash in Texas on Monday. A witness in the Forth Worth suburb of Forest Hill reported hearing 20 to 30 gunshots just before 11am local time, per USA Today . Police said...

Highland Park Suspect Changes His Plea

Robert Crimo III now pleads guilty in 2022 mass shooting near Chicago that left 7 dead, dozens hurt

(Newser) - The Illinois man accused of killing seven people and injuring dozens at a 2022 Independence Day parade in a Chicago suburb pleaded guilty Monday to murder and attempted murder, just moments before opening arguments in his trial. Appearing in a Lake County courtroom, Robert E. Crimo III, reported to be...

Hospital Gunman Was Told His Wife Couldn't Be Saved

Physician assistant describes Diogenes Archangel-Ortiz as 'broken' by the news

(Newser) - The gunman who took a Pennsylvania hospital's ICU staff hostage before killing a police officer and injuring five others was devasted after hearing there was nothing more to be done to save his wife, a terminally-ill patient in the same ICU. Diogenes Archangel-Ortiz, 49, had become irate in the...

Indiana Man Who Killed Dutch Soldier Gets 105 Years

Shamar Duncan injured 2 others in Indianapolis shooting in 2022

(Newser) - An Indiana man has been sentenced to 105 years in prison for the 2022 fatal shooting of a Dutch soldier and wounding of two others in downtown Indianapolis. On Monday, a judge ordered Shamar Duncan to serve 60 years for murder, 35 years for attempted murder, and 10 years for...

Hospital Shootout Kills Officer After Gunman Takes Hostages

Five other people are wounded in ICU gunfire

(Newser) - A police officer was killed and five other people were wounded Saturday when a gunman took staff members hostage in the intensive care unit at a Pennsylvania hospital. Police said the gunman was holding an employee at gunpoint when officers arrived and opened fire, ABC News reports. Officials said West...

US Man Targeting Palestinians Allegedly Shoots 2 Israelis

There are calls for hate crime charges against Mordechai Brafman in Miami Beach shooting

(Newser) - A Jewish man in Miami Beach allegedly tried to kill two men he believed were Palestinians, but turned out to be from Israel. Surveillance video allegedly shows driver Mordechai Brafman, 27, doing a U-turn and exiting his truck before using a semiautomatic handgun to fire 17 times on a passing...

Cosmetics Warehouse Shooting Suspect Is Arrested

One dead, 5 injured in 'targeted' attack in New Albany cosmetics facility

(Newser) - The man suspected of shooting dead a co-worker and wounding five others at an Ohio cosmetics warehouse has been arrested. Bruce Reginald Foster III, 28, was taken into custody by US Marshals around 10:30am after being located at a home in Columbus, about 15 miles from the New Albany...

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10 Dead at Adult Education Center in Sweden

Gunman in rare shooting among those killed, but the death toll is not definitive

(Newser) - Swedish police said that about 10 people, including the gunman, were killed during a shooting Tuesday at an adult education center. But a final death toll and a conclusive number of wounded hadn't yet been determined, per the AP . The damage at the crime scene was so extensive that...

Washington Woman Charged in Death of Border Patrol Agent

The FBI says it arrested a 21-year-old woman in connection to the fatal shooting

(Newser) - A Washington state woman has been charged in the fatal shooting of a US Border Patrol agent in Vermont, which happened days after authorities began watching her and a German companion who also died in the roadside shootout, the FBI said Friday. The AP reports Teresa Youngblut, 21, faces two...

7 Police Officers Shot After Call About Suicide in Progress

Suspect was found dead in San Antonio apartment after standoff

(Newser) - Seven police officers were shot in San Antonio on Wednesday night after responding to a call about a "suicide in progress" in the city's Stone Oak neighborhood. "Scene still hot!!" San Antonio Police Chief Bill McManus said in a post on X at 10:13pm local...

After Bar Fight, Bar Owner and His Kids Are Shot Dead

They're among the 13 dead, including the shooter, in Montenegro mass shooting

(Newser) - The violence began with a bar fight and ended with 13 people dead. Authorities have released more details on the New Year's Day mass shooting in the small Balkan country of Montenegro, noting the suspected gunman, Aleksandar Aco Martinovic, died following a search. He'd been drinking at a...

First Mass Shooting of 2025 Comes Quickly

10 teens injured in shooting outside NYC nightclub; 4 suspects sought

(Newser) - The first US mass shooting of 2025 came on New Year's Day, per the Independent . Ten teenagers were injured Wednesday when four people opened fire into a crowd outside a venue in Queens, New York. Shots erupted as about 15 people waited outside the Amazura Concert Hall just after...

Target Uses Woman as Human Shield in NYC Shooting

6 were shot in convenience store incident

(Newser) - Six people were shot at a New York City convenience store Monday, including a 12-year-old girl and her mother, as one of the intended targets used the woman as a shield, police said. The mother ended up shot in the stomach while the person who grabbed her went unscathed, police...

Cops: 4 Hurt in Family's Christmas Dispute at Airport

3 people were injured by gunfire, another by a stabbing at Phoenix's Sky Harbor Airport, per police

(Newser) - Police are investigating a Christmas shooting at Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix that left three people injured by gunfire and another person stabbed. Phoenix police said the evening shooting happened around 9:45pm local time at an airport restaurant outside the security checkpoints in Terminal Four. An adult female and...

Cops Believe Utah Father Shot Entire Family, Then Himself

Sole survivor, 17, has a brain injury

(Newser) - Police believe a father shot his entire family in their Utah home before taking his own life sometime over the weekend. The sole survivor, a 17-year-old boy who suffered a brain injury, was found in the garage by a concerned relative who went to the home Tuesday after not being...

Megan Thee Stallion: Lanez Is Harassing Me From Prison

Rapper requests restraining order against fellow rapper

(Newser) - The conflict between rappers Megan Thee Stallion (legal name Megan Pete) and Tory Lanez (legal name Daystar Peterson) apparently did not die down with Peterson's prison sentence for shooting Pete. Pete on Tuesday asked a court to issue a restraining order against Peterson, alleging he is conspiring with surrogates...

Attorney Says He Killed Son by Mistake, Burned Body

Texas man waited 17 hours to call police

(Newser) - A Texas attorney has been charged with murder and tampering with evidence after telling police that he killed his son in a "horrible accident" and cremated his body. Investigators say Houston attorney Michael Howard, 68, told police on Monday that he shot his 20-year-old son Mark at the family'...

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