Tag: Shooting

• Wednesday, July 6th 2022 - 09:27 UTC

  Illinois shooting death toll reaches 7

  

  US authorities Tuesday announced that the death toll from the July 4 shooting during an Independence Day celebration parade in Highland Park, Illinois, had gone up to seven casualties, while a suspect has been apprehended in connection with the crimes.

• Monday, July 4th 2022 - 21:09 UTC

  Six killed, many wounded in Independence Day shooting in the US

  

  At least six people were reported dead and 24 others were hospitalized after yet another shooting spree in the United States. This time around it was during a 4th of July parade in Illinois.

• Friday, June 10th 2022 - 09:23 UTC

  At least 3 killed in one more shooting spree in the US

  

  At least three people were killed in yet another shooting spree in the United States Thursday. This time around the events unfolded at a Columbia Machine factory in Smithsburg, Maryland, and were perpetrated by a 23-year-old Hispanic male from West Virginia using a semi-automatic handgun.

• Monday, June 6th 2022 - 09:17 UTC

  Six dead in two more US shooting massacres

  

  Two major mass shootings were reported during the weekend in the United States as the country was still recovering emotionally from other killing sprees in the past few days. Preliminary reports mentioned three fatalities in each case, but other people were hospitalized in a critical condition.

• Monday, June 6th 2022 - 09:00 UTC

  Shooting massacre leaves at least 50 Catholic parishioners dead in Nigeria

  

  Over 50 Catholic worshippers -including several children- were killed Sunday in a shooting massacre inside and outside a church in southwestern Nigeria. The only ones to survive the attack were the Bishop and the priests, it was reported. The identity and motive of the attackers were not immediately clear.

• Friday, June 3rd 2022 - 09:59 UTC

  Tulsa shooter was seeking revenge from surgeon over constant back pain

  

  Wednesday's shooting spree in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was aimed at Doctor Preston Philips, the physician the attacker blamed for his “ongoing back pain,” it was reported Thursday.

• Monday, May 16th 2022 - 20:34 UTC

  Separate shootings rock US during the weekend

  

  The United States was shaken this past weekend by various shooting sprees nationwide. On Saturday, ten people were killed in a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, and three others were injured and on Sunday similar events in California and Texas, have left at least three more people dead.

• Tuesday, April 12th 2022 - 23:24 UTC

  New York Subway shooting leaves many injured; assailant at large

  

  At least 17 people were injured after an unidentified gunman opened fire in the New York subway Tuesday morning, in what appears to have been the doings of a “lone wolf,” according to local media reports. The perpetrator was not arrested in the next few hours following the incident.

• Wednesday, December 1st 2021 - 09:10 UTC

  Three die in new case of school shooting in the US

  

  Three pupils at a high school in Oxford in the state of Michigan were killed Tuesday, while six others ended up injured when a 15-year-old student pulled out a gun and started shooting randomly, according to police acting spokesman Michael McCabe.

• Tuesday, June 18th 2019 - 08:41 UTC

  Despite some shootings, two million took to the streets cheering NBA champions Toronto Raptors

  

  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and some two million other fans cheered the NBA champion Toronto Raptors on Monday in a victory celebration that united the nation, but the party was marred by a shooting that seriously wounded two people.