Mass Killings

The final phase of jury selection in the penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz has begun. A final 83 candidates remain from about 1,800. More

June 22, 2022

Police had enough officers and firepower on the scene of the Uvalde school massacre to have stopped the gunman three minutes after he entered the building, and they would have found the door to the classroom where he was holed up unlocked if they had bothered to check it. More

June 21, 2022

Multiple police officers armed with rifles and at least one ballistic shield stood and waited in a school hallway for nearly an hour while a gunman carried out a massacre of 19 elementary students and two teachers. More

June 20, 2022

A legislative committee investigating the deadly shooting at a Texas elementary school last month is set to hear more testimony from law enforcement officers. More

June 20, 2022

In Michigan, a new federal lawsuit will be filed today by 20 Oxford High School students seeking a judge to order change before the start of the new school year. More

June 17, 2022

Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald blasted James and Jennifer Crumbley, the parents of the accused Oxford High School shooting suspect, in court filings this week. More

June 17, 2022

A 71-year-old man fatally shot two elderly people and wounded a third with a handgun during a potluck dinner at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in the Birmingham, AL suburb of Vestavia Hills. More

June 17, 2022

More details have been released about a workplace shooting in Maryland that left three employees dead and three others, including a State trooper and the gunman, injured. More

June 10, 2022

(Video by Newsy) WASHINGTON (AP) — Academy Award–winning actor Matthew McConaughey made an appearance at the White House Tuesday to call on Congress to “reach a higher ground” and pass gun control legislation in honor of the children and teachers killed in last month’s shooting rampage at an elementary school in his hometown of Uvalde, Texas. […] More

June 10, 2022

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas school police chief criticized for his actions during one of the deadliest classroom shootings in U.S. history says in his first extensive published comments that he didn't consider himself the incident commander as the massacre unfolded. More

June 10, 2022

The public defenders representing Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz tried to withdraw from his death penalty trial Monday after the judge ordered them to move forward with jury selection even though one member of their five-member team is sick with COVID-19. More

June 6, 2022

The state agency investigating the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde has determined that the commander facing criticism for the slow police response was not carrying a radio as the massacre unfolded. More

June 3, 2022

Parents of victims and survivors of the mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde will appear before a House committee next week in an effort to bring home the devastation of America's gun violence epidemic. More

June 3, 2022

Palm Beach County detectives identified teen girl Susan Poole, whose skeletal remains were discovered tied to a tree in 1974. More

June 2, 2022

What happened in those 90 minutes, in a working-class neighborhood near the edge of the town of Uvalde, has fueled mounting public anger and scrutiny over law enforcement's response to Tuesday's rampage. More

May 27, 2022

Nearly six months after the deadly shooting at Oxford High School, the parents of one of the students who was killed has broken their silence and filed a new federal lawsuit. More

May 23, 2022

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Jury selection in the penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz hit a new stumbling block when a potential juror wore a T-shirt potentially prejudicial to his case. More

May 23, 2022

The parents of accused Oxford school shooter Ethan Crumbley want their son's 22-page journal excluded as evidence because they believe it would improperly sway a jury against the parents. More

May 20, 2022

The white gunman accused of massacring 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket wrote as far back as November about staging a livestreamed attack on African Americans, practiced shooting from his car and traveled hours from his home in March to scout out the store, according to detailed diary entries he appears to have posted online. More

May 16, 2022

Jury selection in the penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz entered its second phase Monday with the attorneys asking questions of potential jurors. More

May 16, 2022

Jury selection in the sentencing phase for Parkland gunman Nikolas Cruz was back in court Monday, but once again it was only a brief meeting. The case had been paused since May 2. More

May 10, 2022

Three alleged gang members were charged with murder Tuesday in the slayings of three women fatally shot in a gunbattle that rocked California’s capital city a month ago. More

May 4, 2022

Jury selection in the death penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz was delayed Monday by at least a week because his lead attorney is apparently ill. More

May 2, 2022

Judge Elizabeth Scherer reversed a decision she made regarding a dispute over how to handle 11 potential jurors who were prematurely dismissed in the sentencing of the Parkland school gunman, effectively preserving the first two weeks of jury selection in the Nikolas Cruz case. More

April 27, 2022

The judge overseeing jury selection for a man who murdered 17 people at a Florida high school declared that the process will start over Monday. More

April 25, 2022

A judge on Thursday set a Sept. 6 trial date for a teenager charged with murder and other crimes in a Michigan school shooting that killed four students. More

April 21, 2022

James and Jennifer Crumbley have been locked up since Dec. 4, unable to come up with $500,000 each to leave custody and await trial on involuntary manslaughter charges. More

April 19, 2022

A physical therapist from Connecticut was convicted of killing his wife, three children and the family dog in Florida. A jury found Anthony Todt guilty of four counts of first-degree murder and one count of animal cruelty. More

April 14, 2022

Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is again trying to avoid execution. More

April 8, 2022

The jury that will decide whether Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz gets a death sentence will tour the blood-stained, bullet-pocked building where he murdered 17 people four years ago, a judge has ruled. More

April 5, 2022