Mass Killings

Distress calls to law enforcement connected to the investigation into a possible serial killer on Long Island may soon be released. More

January 4, 2022

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (WPTV) — The upcoming sentencing trial for the man who confessed to killing 17 people at a Parkland high school in 2018 will be delayed until February. More

December 30, 2021

The parents of a teenager charged with killing four students at a Michigan high school didn't anticipate that he would commit violence and are "devastated" like others in the community, a lawyer said Wednesday in requesting that they be granted a lower bond. More

December 22, 2021

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The Broward County, Florida, school district will pay more than $26 million to the families of 17 people killed and some of those injured in the 2018 Valentine’s Day massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Board members approved the two legal settlements on Tuesday. A total of $25 million […] More

December 15, 2021

They are each charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter. Prosecutors say they gifted their son the gun he used to kill four classmates. More

December 14, 2021

A judge rejected an attempt Monday by Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz's attorneys to bar the parents and other relatives of his 17 victims from testifying before the jury about the trauma the murders have brought to their lives. More

December 13, 2021

A Michigan judge declined Monday to move the 15-year-old charged with killing four students at Oxford High School out of an adult jail, but she agreed that the jail needs to ensure the boy can't hear or see grown-up inmates. More

December 13, 2021

Teenager Jeremiahs Josiah-Alberto Sanchez - accused of shooting three people inside a Pennsylvania mall in October - waived a hearing and entered a plea of not guilty. More

December 13, 2021

He is charged as an adult in the murders of his four classmates, as well as the shooting of seven other people at the school on Nov. 30. More

December 13, 2021

Five Detroit-area students face hearings before juvenile court referees accused of making threats against schools in the wake of a shooting at Oxford High School that left four students dead. More

December 8, 2021

A prosecutor continues to criticize decision to keep teen in Michigan school before shooting that killed four students last week - raising questions whether district will face liability. More

December 7, 2021

Michigan’s attorney general said Tuesday her office will review events that occurred before the mass shooting that left four students dead at Oxford High School, despite the district’s rejection of her offer to be its third-party investigator. More

December 7, 2021

A third party will investigate events at Oxford High School that occurred before a school shooting that left four students dead and six other students and a teacher wounded. More

December 6, 2021

The parents of a teen accused of killing four students in a shooting at a Michigan high school were caught early Saturday. More

December 4, 2021

Experts have found a man charged with killing 10 people at a Colorado supermarket earlier this year is mentally incompetent to stand trial for now. More

December 3, 2021

The Oakland County Sheriff's Office says they are actively searching for the fugitive parents of the suspected 15-year-old shooter in the Oxford High School tragedy. More

December 3, 2021

School officials told James and Jennifer Crumbley to get their 15-year-old into counseling before the shooting. More

December 3, 2021

By COREY WILLIAMS and ED WHITE Associated Press OXFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A prosecutor on Thursday repeated her criticism of the parents of a boy who is accused of killing four students at a Michigan school, saying their actions went “far beyond negligence” and that a charging decision would come by Friday.    […] More

December 2, 2021

15-year-old Ethan Crumbley charged Wednesday with murder terrorism and other counts for a shooting that killed four fellow students and injured others at Michigan's Oxford High School. More

December 1, 2021

Four children, including an infant, and their grandmother were found shot to death in a Southern California home and the children's father was arrested on suspicion of killing them, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said. More

November 30, 2021

Darrell Brooks Jr. rocked back and forth in his seat and cried throughout his court hearing on Tuesday, where he was charged in the deadly Waukesha parade crash. More

November 23, 2021

Security camera footage, shell casings and a small but distinctive tattoo played pivotal roles in the arrest of a man suspected in at least six killings over the past two months in the St. Louis and Kansas City areas. More

November 10, 2021

Authorities on Monday released identifies of the eight people who died after fans at Astroworld music festival in Houston suddenly pushed forward when rapper Travis Scott came on stage. More

November 8, 2021

Nearly 30 years after Jeffrey Dahmer admitted to killing and dismembering 15 people, one of the jurors at his murder trial talks about what it was like to decide whether Dahmer was insane at the heinous crimes. More

November 5, 2021

A jury found Stanley Ford guilty of aggravated murder in the deaths of nine neighbors -- including five children. More

October 26, 2021

Stanley Ford, convicted of killing nine people in arson fires, was sentenced to life in prison without parole for each death. More

October 26, 2021

By PETER SMITH and MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — As the three-year mark since the massacre at the Tree of Life synagogue approaches, survivors are planning now-familiar annual rituals of remembrance, the criminal case involving the suspect plods on, and the site is in line for restoration. The landmark synagogue in Pittsburgh’s leafy […] More

October 22, 2021

Nikolas Cruz is scheduled to plead guilty to 17 counts of first-degree murder Wednesday for the 2018 shooting massacre at a Florida high school. More

October 20, 2021

Families of the 17 people killed in the 2018 Florida high school massacre most of the wounded and others traumatized have reach $25 million settlement with Broward County school district. More

October 18, 2021

The trial of a Philadelphia man charged with shooting six police officers during an hourslong standoff in August 2019 is scheduled to start Monday. More

October 18, 2021