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by Huw GRIFFITH with Brian KNOWLTON in Washington Agence France-Presse LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — The police investigation into a fatal shooting with a prop gun fired by actor Alec Baldwin on a film set was focusing Saturday on the specialist in charge of the weapon and the assistant director who handed it to Baldwin. Ukraine-born cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, 42, was struck in the chest and died shortly after the incident Thursday in New […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — One person was killed and another seven injured at a US university shooting early Sunday, police said, just days after another firearm incident at the same school left one dead. A student was among those wounded in the attack at around 1:30am (local) at Grambling State University, Louisiana State Police said, with one person in critical condition at hospital. The school tweeted the student was “treated for non-life-threatening injuries”, and […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Two US Postal Service employees were shot dead Tuesday in a gun attack at a Tennessee post office, authorities said. The suspected shooter opened fire at the East Lamar Carrier Annex in Memphis and then died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. US Postal Inspector Susan Link told reporters that both victims, as well as the shooter, were postal service employees. “There is no ongoing threat,” she said. “The FBI is […]
HOUSTON, United States (AFP) — Two people were shot and two others injured when an 18-year-old student drew a gun and opened fire during a classroom fight at a Texas high school on Wednesday, police said. Arlington assistant police chief Kevin Kolbye said a suspect, identified as Timothy George Simpkins, had been arrested after the shooting at Timberview High School in Arlington, a suburb of Dallas. Kolbye said Simpkins, who turned himself in after fleeing […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A shooter opened fire Thursday at a supermarket near Memphis, Tennessee, killing at least one person and injuring 12 others before he shot himself dead, police said. The rampage occurred at a Kroger grocery store in Collierville, a suburban town east of Memphis. One victim was killed, while the shooter died of a “self-inflicted gunshot wound,” Collierville Police Chief Dale Lane told reporters. Lane said some of the victims had […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Two 17-year-olds were injured in a shooting at a high school in the US state of Virginia on Monday, officials said, adding that the suspect had been arrested after fleeing the scene. “One person — a male juvenile — is in police custody,” Newport News Police Department said in a statement after shots were fired at the Heritage High School. Police said a 17-year-old male and a 17-year-old female were […]
A student opened fire on a university campus in central Russia on Monday killing at least eight people, investigators said, in the second mass shooting at an education facility this year. Russia’s Investigative Committee, which probes major crimes, said several people were also injured in the attack at Perm State University and that the suspect had been wounded while being detained. Investigators previously said that five people were killed and another six wounded. Russia has relatively […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Police in England said there had been “a number of fatalities” in a “serious firearms incident” Thursday in the southwestern city of Plymouth. Devon and Cornwall Police said it had declared a “critical incident” in the Keyham area of Plymouth early Thursday evening but that officers believed it was now “contained”. Local lawmaker Johnny Mercer said the shootings were not terror related. Police had responded alongside other emergency services, including […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — One person was killed and a dozen injured in a drive-by shooting spree Thursday as a gunman roamed the streets in the southwestern US state of Arizona, police said. Over the course of one-and-a-half hours, a suspect opened fire in at least eight sites around communities outside Phoenix, apparently at random, before he was taken into custody at a traffic stop. As well as the fatality, three other people […]
HOUSTON, United States (AFP) — Gunfire erupted in a busy entertainment district in the Texas city of Austin early Saturday, injuring 14 people, according to authorities who were still searching for a suspect. Police said they responded to multiple shots fired just before 1:30 am in bustling downtown Austin, where a large crowd began to disperse. “Our officers responded very quickly,” Austin’s interim police chief Joseph Chacon told a news conference. “They were able to […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Two people including a child were shot dead in a grocery store in Florida on Thursday, the latest in a series of shootings in the southern US state. The shooting — in which the gunman also killed himself — occurred in a Publix grocery store in Royal Palm Beach, 80 miles (130 kilometers) north of Miami, police said. “Upon arrival deputies located three individuals deceased from gunshot wounds, one adult […]
by Leila MACOR HIALEAH, United States (AFP) — Two people were killed and at least 20 wounded early Sunday when three shooters fired indiscriminately into a crowd outside a concert in the Miami area, police said, the latest shooting in a year that has seen a surge in both gun sales and gun violence. The shots erupted near a banquet and events hall in a strip mall in Miami Gardens, a heavily Cuban community of […]
