What We Know About the Shooting at Marysville Pilchuck High School in Washington

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· November 29, 2014 

(NBC) — Two days after a student opened fire in the cafeteria of a Washington state high school, shooting dead one student and seriously wounding four others before killing himself, the answer to the question that many are asking has remained elusive: Why did he do it? Police have not released a motive in Friday’s shooting at Marysville Pilchuck High…

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Deadly Black Friday shooting at crowded Chicago Nordstrom

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· November 29, 2014 

(Fox News) — Terrified Black Friday shoppers fled a crowded Nordstrom in downtown Chicago after a shooting inside the store left a man dead and a woman critically wounded. MyFoxChicago.com said the gunfire erupted Friday evening around 8:30 p.m. in the cosmetics department on the store’s second floor. Police said the man shot his girlfriend, or ex-girlfriend, and then fatally…

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Police: Slain Austin gunman fired more than 100 rounds at Mexican consulate, other buildings

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· November 28, 2014 

(Washington Post) — A gunman in Austin opened fire Friday on “multiple downtown buildings” — including a federal courthouse, the Mexican consulate and Austin Police Department headquarters — before dying of a gunshot wound, according to officials in the Texas capital. Authorities initially said the man, identified as 49-year-old Larry McQuilliams, had been shot and killed by police, but said…

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Austin police kill shooter who fired more than 100 rounds at downtown buildings

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· November 28, 2014 

(Dallas Morning News) — AUSTIN — A gunman fired more than 100 rounds at downtown buildings in Austin and tried to set the Mexican Consulate ablaze early Friday before he died during a confrontation with police, authorities said. Some of the targeted buildings are near the popular Sixth Street entertainment district, where bars close at 2 a.m., about the same…

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Florida Man Sets House On Fire, Kills Responding Deputy In Ambush

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· November 23, 2014 

(Huffington Post) — A man who had made previous threats against police set his house on fire Saturday and ambushed the first sheriff’s deputy who responded, fatally shooting the deputy and wounding another before he was killed by a police officer who lives nearby, a law enforcement official said. The man’s name and address had been entered into a law…

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Gunman opens fire in Florida State University library; 3 wounded

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· November 21, 2014 

(CNN) — Gunshots rattled a peaceful, packed Florida State University library early Thursday, with three people getting hurt as hundreds of students huddled between bookshelves before police encountered and killed the gunman outside. “There has been a shooting in the library, stay where you are,” said a man speaking over the loudspeaker, as captured in a cell phone video posted…

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‘Chaos’ at Florida State University: Gunman wounds 3, killed in shootout with police

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· November 20, 2014 

(Washington Post) — In a scene of terror and tears, students at Florida State University library cowered behind stacks of books and dove under desks as an assailant — identified as a graduate of the school — opened fire with a handgun early Thursday before being killed in a shootout with police, officials said. At least three students were wounded,…

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A closer look: How many Newtown-like school shootings since Sandy Hook?

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· October 8, 2014 

(CNN) — After Tuesday’s shooting at an Oregon high school, many media outlets, including CNN, reported that there have been 74 school shootings in the past 18 months. That’s the time period since the December 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, where 20 children and six adults were shot to death. The statistic came from a…

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At least 44 school shootings since Newtown — new analysis

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· October 7, 2014 

(Washington Post) — There have been at least 44 school shootings on K-12 or college campuses in 24 states — an average of more than three a month — since the deadly 2012 attack at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., according to a new analysis. Twenty-eight people have died and 37 have been injured. Twenty children and six…

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Workplace violence: Know the numbers, risk factors and possible warning signs

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· September 28, 2014 

(CNN) — In Alabama, a recently fired man walks into a UPS facility he’d worked at, shoots dead two people, then takes his own life. In Oklahoma, another man — also just after being laid off — allegedly heads to his former food processing plant, beheads the first person he sees, then attacks another. In Illinois, police say, a man…

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