U.S. Shootings
A 15-year old boy has been shot and killed on the South Side of Chicago Monday night: The shooting took place in a backyard in the 5000 block of South Evans Avenue, about four block away from President Barack Obama's Kenwood home.
A second suspect has been arrested in connection with the Texas College shooting that left three people wounded and caused the lock-down of five school campuses in Houston on Tuesday.
A 22-year-old man has been charged in a shooting on a community college campus in Texas that left three people wounded, one critically, authorities said.
At least two people have been shot at Lone Star College in Houston, Texas on Tuesday. At least one person has been detained, and a second suspect may be on the loose.
A 16-year-old boy armed with a shotgun opened fire in a California high school classroom on Thursday, critically wounding a fellow student before two staff members talked him into surrendering the weapon, authorities said.
Police officers on the scene after the Aurora, Colo. theater shooting last summer described the carnage in graphic detail in the first court hearings in the case.
Sales of bulletproof backpacks for schoolchildren—formerly a niche item prior to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting last week—are up dramatically.
On Wednesday, 28-year-old Floyd Lee Corkins, a LGBT community center volunteer, walked into the building of The Family Research Council, a conservative lobbyist organization, with a legally owned 9mm Sig Sauer handgun and started shooting.
