Since Aurora theater shooting: 387 dead in mass killings

In the three years since James Holmes shot dozens of moviegoers in Aurora, Colo., 78 additional mass killings have occurred, claiming the lives of nearly 400 additional victims. That includes major public tragedies such as the slayings of 26 people, mostly children, at a school in Newtown, Conn., the recent shootings of nine people in a Charleston, S.C. church, and…

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Explore The Data: U.S. Mass Killings Since 2006

USA Today put together a great interactive map to help visualize all of the mass killings that have occurred in the US since 2006. Check it out here.

Shooter kills employee, wounds another at North Dakota Walmart

(CNN) — A 21-year-old airman shot two Walmart employees, killing one, before apparently ending his own life in the store on Tuesday, police in Grand Forks, North Dakota, said. Marcell Willis also fired once at a third employee but missed before he shot himself with a handgun, authorities said. Willis died at a hospital. He was stationed at Grand Forks…

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Court Affidavit: Suspect in DC quadruple murder did not act alone

More than one person likely was involved in the slayings of four people who were held captive inside a Washington, D.C., mansion until $40,000 was delivered last week, authorities revealed Friday. Daron Dylon Wint, a welder with a criminal record of assaults who once worked for the mansion’s owner, has been charged with murder. But authorities said they believe he…

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Police: No explosives found in car used in Texas attack

(MSN.com) — U.S. agents searched an apartment in Phoenix as part of an investigation into a shooting outside a suburban Dallas venue hosting a provocative contest for Prophet Muhammad cartoons, the FBI confirmed Monday. A police officer shot and killed two gunmen who opened fire outside the event Sunday night. A security officer was wounded in the shooting. Garland police…

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Washington state school shooting suspect held on $500,000 bail

(Reuters) — A Washington state teenager who fired a gun inside his high school in an apparent attempt to provoke an on-campus guard into killing him made his first court appearance on Tuesday and was ordered held on $500,000 bail, officials said. The 16-year-old student shot off two rounds from a revolver that struck the floor and ceiling inside a…

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Sandy Hook Families Sue Newtown, Schools, Citing Lax Security

(MSN.com) — At least two families of victims in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting have filed a lawsuit against the town of Newtown and the school board, alleging lax security on the day 20 first-graders and six adults were shot and killed. The 66-page lawsuit was given to a state marshal on Dec. 14, the last day under state…

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Gunman, 1 other dead in shooting at veterans’ clinic

(Policeone.com) — A gunman opened fire at a veterans’ medical clinic in West Texas on Tuesday, killing one other person. A gunman opened fire at a veterans’ medical clinic in West Texas on Tuesday, killing one other person, officials said. The gunman was also killed. Investigators did not say whether the gunman killed himself or was killed by someone else….

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Police arrest man in connection with Portland, Oregon high school shooting

(NBC) — Police in Portland have arrested a suspect in the shooting that injured three people outside an alternative high school. Authorities said they stopped a vehicle around 1:30 a.m. Saturday at North Interstate Avenue and Going Street and arrested a 22-year-old man. A handgun was found in the vehicle. Police were searching an apartment about half an hour later…

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W.Va. shooter held personal, professional grudges

(Newstribune.com) — MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — An ex-convict who owned a towing company made good on his grudges, police said Tuesday, killing his partner, his business rival, his ex-girlfriend and the woman’s new boyfriend before firing a gun through his head in the cab of his pickup truck. Posting a message to Facebook as police hunted him down after the…

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