At least 14 people have been killed in a shooting at Batman film The Dark Knight Rises premiere in Denver, Colorado, police say. About 50 people have been injured in the incident, police say. Witnesses say a gunman wearing a gas mask opened fire at the cinema complex in Aurora, at a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises. There are reports the gunman released a smoke bomb during the incident….
James Holmes, the suspect gunman at Aurora cinema, has been formally charged with 142 criminal counts in one of America’s worst mass shootings. James Holmes, 24, faces 24 counts of murder, two for each of the 12 people killed, and 116 counts of attempted murder, two each for the 58 injured. For each person killed he faces a count of murder with deliberation and one of murder with extreme in…
US begin to mourn the 12 people killed by a gunman at a showing of the new Batman film, The Dark Knight Rises, and a candlelit vigil has been held in Aurora, Colorado. US President Barack Obama ordered flags flown at half mast. A man in a gas mask and body armour threw tear gas canisters at a midnight screening, then fired on the crowd, killing 12 and injuring 58. Suspect James Holmes, 24, was ar…
Brooklyn Labor Day Parade 2011: 7 deaths among 49 gunshot victims at West Indian Carnival. During the Labor Day weekend in New York the number of shot people has risen to 43, after violence started at the annual West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn. In the 24 hours, from Saturday 6 a.m. to Sunday 6 a.m., 24 people were shot, the victims were shot during 15 separate incidents, and so far no arrest…
James Holmes, the man accused of killing 12 people in a shooting at a Batman film screening in Aurora, Colorado, has appeared in court for the first time. James Holmes, 24, sat in court in a red jail suit with dyed orange hair, and appeared sleepy during the proceedings. Nine of 58 people wounded by the gunman remain in critical condition. On Sunday, President Barack Obama met survivors and famil…
Batman was pulled over earlier this week after Montgomery police saw he had no tags on his black Lamborghini. Lenny B. Robinson, the man dressed as Batman, was heading to a local children’s hospital, according to Montgomery County Captain Paul Starks. According to Capt. Paul Starks, a man dressed as Batman was pulled over on Interstate 29 in Montgomery, Maryland, outside of Washington, DC. “An of…
vent attacks and manage the response if a gunman does attack. Monday’s shooting was the worst incidence of gun violence at a US high school in 11 months and the worst shooting in Ohio since late 2007, the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence told Reuters news agency. In the most notorious shooting, two students at Columbine High School in Colorado killed 12 students and a teacher in April 19…
that has happened today. Chardon is a city of about 5,100 residents. The full letter TJ Lane posted to Facebook The following was reportedly posted by T.J. Lane on his Facebook page on December 20, 2011: “In a time long since, a time of repent, The Renaissance. In a quaint lonely town, sits a man with a frown. No job. No family. No crown. His luck had run out. Lost and alone. The stre…
an movie screening in Colorado, has been cleared of explosives A man in a gas mask and body armor threw tear gas canisters at a midnight screening, then fired on the crowd in the cinema. James Holmes, 24, was arrested outside the cinema, police said. President Barack Obama is to visit Aurora on Sunday to honor the victims, the White House said. He will visit bereaved families and meet local offici…
The Paris premiere of the new Batman film, The Dark Knight Rises, has been cancelled following a shooting at a midnight screening in Colorado, US. At least 12 people have been killed and dozens injured in the attack in Denver, Colorado on Thursday night. Witnesses said a man wearing a gas mask opened fire as movie-goers watched the film. The Paris premiere of the new Batman film, The Dark Knight…
…vent attacks and manage the response if a gunman does attack. Monday’s shooting was the worst incidence of gun violence at a US high school in 11 months and the worst shooting in Ohio since late 2007, the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence told Reuters news agency. In the most notorious shooting, two students at Columbine High School in Colorado killed 12 students and a teacher in April 19…
At least 27 people have been killed, including many children, in a shooting attack at a primary school in the US state of Connecticut, US media say. At least 18 children are among the dead at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, the Associated Press reported. Earlier, the gunman was reported to have been killed and at least three people were taken to hospital. A news conference is imminent an…
…kdown. Police were tracking several white males on campus who fit the description but it was unclear if any of them were the suspect. It was the first shooting on campus since 33 people were killed in 2007 in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. FBI agents were called to the Performance Arts Building where they believed the gunman was hiding, but it turned out to be a false alarm as…
All 20 children, 12 boys and 8 girls, who died in a shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, were aged between six and seven, according to an official list of the dead. The state’s chief medical examiner said the gunman used a rifle as his main weapon, and all the victims appeared to have been shot several times. The gunman, named in media reports as Adam Lanza, killed his m…
People across the US have observed a moment of silence one week after gunman Adam Lanza killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. Bells in Newtown tolled 26 times – for each victim of the attack at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Adam Lanza, 20, carried out the attack at 09:30 EST after killing his mother. He later shot himself dead. The moment of silen…
…erence near the scene, Commissioner Ray Kelly and Mayor Michael Bloomberg said some of the nine people who were injured may have been hit or grazed by police gunfire. The two officers fired a total of 14 rounds, AP reported. Jeffrey Johnson’s semi-automatic weapon was equipped to fire at least eight rounds; at least one round was left in the clip, police said. It is “not likely” any of the v…
Aurora cinema massacre may have been inspired by a Batman comic book strip, it emerged on Friday. The bloodbath is a chilling copycat of a 1986 Batman comic strip which features a deranged gunman opening fire in a cinema. In the second issue of The Dark Knight Returns, written by Frank Miller – the creative mind behind Sin City and 300 – gunman Arnold Crimp opens fire in a pornographi…
A judge has ruled that cameras will be banned from next week’s hearing when James Holmes, the suspect in the Colorado cinema shooting, is to be formally charged. James Holmes, 24, is accused of opening fire at a midnight showing of the new Batman movie, The Dark Knight Rises, last Friday, killing 12 and wounding 58. Judge William Sylvester has denied a request by Denver-area media for expan…
…t along the southeast side and that he entered through the front do ors and traveled all the way through the restaurant to the back area,” sheriff Furlong said. “Obviously when five out of 11 of the victims are uniformed National Guard members, that’s taking a priority interest in our agency.” “Investigators are still trying to determine what motive there might have been fo…
…an 120 people marched from Broadwater Farm to Tottenham police station to demand “justice” over the deadly shooting of a young black man by police. Mark Duggan – the shot man- was a 29-year-old father of four. Mark Duggan died on Thursday in a shootout with Tottenham police officers. The march, which seemed to begin peacefully, turned violent immediately after dark when two empt…
…nd one person dead and three more wounded. One of the victims was shot and wounded in the car park of Guilford Technical Community College near Greensboro Four of the victims were aged between 9 and 19, and the fifth victim was 40-years-old. Police said they believe the shooting was a domestic situation that went wrong and that all the victims knew each other. Victims identities have not been re…
from the scene.” The shooting happened at what is known as a second-line parade – an impromptu community procession in which people dance down the street behind the official parade. About 200 people were in the area at the time. “It appears that these two or three people, just for a reason unknown to us, started shooting at, towards, or in the crowd,” Police Supt Ronal Ser…
stood outside screaming “Let me in! Let me in!”. Maryrose Kristopik has been hailed a “hero” by parents after herding the children to safety in a closet and barricading the door to prevent Adam Lanza, 20, from entering. An unnamed mother, in her 40s, whose 9-year-old son was among the children said: “I want to thank her. She saved their lives. “The shooter kept banging on the door screaming: <…
Prosecutors have said they will seek the death penalty for James Holmes, who is accused of killing 12 people last July at Aurora cinema in Colorado. On Friday, prosecutors rejected an offer from James Holmes to plead guilty in order to avoid execution. James Holmes, 25, is charged with multiple counts of murder and attempted murder in the attack in Aurora, one of the worst mass shootings in US hi…
Amanda Price, wife of a Mississippi high school football coach was gunned down Monday night after she found a man lurking in the family house backyard. Amanda Price’s husband, Ron, was also shot as he sprinted outside their New Albany home to help her, but he is expected to recover. New Albany Police Chief David Grisham says the shooting happened just before 10:00 p.m. on Monday. David Grisham sa…
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Madeleine McCann case: British cleaners and Portuguese manual workers among new suspectsBritish cleaners and Portuguese manual workers are among new suspects in the Madeleine McCann investigation, according to recent reports in UK’s media. Scotland Yard…
EU bans refillable bottles and dipping bowls of olive oil at restaurant tablesStarting with 2014, the European Commission will ban the use of refillable bottles and dipping bowls of olive oil at restaurant tables. From 1 January 2014, restaurants may…
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