LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — At least one person was killed and seven others, including a child, were wounded on Wednesday after gunfire broke out in downtown Seattle near a popular tourist area, police and hospital officials said. Police said at least one suspect was being sought in connection with the mass shooting that took place near a McDonald’s fast-food restaurant, just blocks away from the Pike Place Market. It was the third shooting […]
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Updated: Six dead in gun rampage at Czech hospital
PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AFP) — A gunman opened fire Tuesday in a hospital in the eastern Czech city of Ostrava, killing six people, the prime minister said. “There were four dead and two injured people who unfortunately died too,” Prime Minister Andrej Babis told the public Czech Television. The gunman is still at large, police said. Police have published a picture of the alleged suspect on Twitter, showing a man with receding ginger hair […]
Two killed in Hawaii’s Pearl Harbor base shooting: official
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — A US sailor fatally shot two people and wounded a third at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard in Hawaii on Wednesday before committing suicide, an official said. The two people killed were Department of Defense civilian employees, while a third civilian was wounded but “in stable condition at (an) area hospital,” the official told AFP. © Agence France-Presse
UPDATED: Multiple injured in shooting at Hawaii’s Pearl Harbor base
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — At least three people were injured, two of them critically, when a gunman opened fire at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard in Hawaii before taking his own life, local news reports said Wednesday. A spokesman for the US base would only say that security forces had responded to reports of a shooting at around 2:30 pm local time and that the base was on lockdown for several hours. One […]
10 wounded in shooting in busy New Orleans tourist area
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Ten people were wounded in a shooting early Sunday in New Orleans’ French Quarter, a popular tourist hub, US police said, adding that two of the victims were in critical condition. The shooting took place at 3:21 am (09H21 GMT) on a crowded commercial street near many hotels in a historic district that attracts visitors from around the world. Police reported earlier that 11 people had been wounded but subsequently […]
10 wounded in shooting in busy New Orleans tourist area
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Ten people were wounded in a shooting early Sunday in New Orleans’ French Quarter, a popular tourist hub, US police said, adding that two of the victims were in critical condition. The shooting took place at 3:21 am (09H21 GMT) on a crowded commercial street near many hotels in a historic district that attracts visitors from around the world. Police reported earlier that 11 people had been wounded but subsequently […]
Gunman in US school shooting dies as police puzzled over motive
by Andrew MARSZAL Agence France Presse LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — The teenager who gunned down classmates at a California high school before shooting himself died Friday, leaving detectives baffled over the motive of a Boy Scout with no obvious alarm bells in his background. Nathaniel Berhow died in a hospital one day after shooting himself in the head at the end of a 16th birthday rampage that left two fellow students dead. […]
UPDATED: Two killed in California school shooting, teen in custody
by Frederic J. BROWN with Andrew MARSZAL in Los Angeles SANTA CLARITA, United States (AFP) — A teenage boy gunned down fellow students at a California high school on his 16th birthday Thursday, killing two and wounding another three before turning the pistol on himself. The gunman was taken into custody in “grave” condition, police said, as officers stormed Saugus High School in Santa Clarita — the latest in a relentless cycle of classroom shootings […]
Four killed, several injured in Orinda shooting
LOS ANGELES, California (AFP) — At least four people were killed and several were wounded in a shooting at a party near San Francisco, local authorities and media reported. The shooting took place at a rented Airbnb home around Thursday night in Orinda, around 17 miles (30 km) northeast of San Francisco, according to NBC Bay Area news. “Orinda homicide update – four fatalities, several injuries,” the Contra Costa County sheriff’s office tweeted early Friday. […]
At least four dead in NYC shooting: police
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — At least four people died and three were wounded in a shooting at a social club in New York early Saturday, police said. No one has been arrested over the shooting, which took place in Brooklyn, and the motive and exact circumstances are not known, a New York police official told AFP. The local affiliate of ABC News described the place where the shooting took place as an […]
Texas shooter sacked from job before killing seven: police
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A man who killed seven people in the US state of Texas was fired from his job prior to carrying out the shooting, law enforcement officials said on Monday. “Our suspect went to work at Journey Oilfield Services. He was there for a short time and was terminated by his employer,” Michael Gerke, the Odessa police chief, told a news conference. Following the dismissal, both the suspect and his former […]
Texas shooting toll rises to seven
by Brian KNOWLTON WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The death toll in a chaotic mass shooting in Texas has risen to seven, the local police chief confirmed Sunday, adding that it might have been far worse had the shooter not been stopped before entering a crowded movie theater. On Sunday, police identified the shooter as a local man named Seth Aaron Ator, age 36. Police had said Saturday that five people died in the frantic […]





