Gun Violence
Christmas is just about everyone’s favorite time of year however you would be lying if you are an adult that you wouldn’t mind trading in your Christmas snow for the beaches on Cancun. However recently some tourist was living our dream in Cancun having fun in the sun until the dream of ours turned into […]
At least 25 people and their family did not have a happy and safe 4th of July holiday weekend, not due to fireworks accidents but due to gun violence in the city of Cleveland. Today Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson held a press conference to address the situation in Cleveland that left 22 people shot and […]
Our Black Lives do matter however we have to start with ourselves. It is with heavy hearts we are reporting the tragic deaths of babies during the holiday weekend, a 7 year old, 8 year old and 14 year old died due to gun violence in Atlanta and Chicago. In Chicago, Illinois 7 year old Natalie […]
Medic said two were pronounced dead at the scene. Two have been treated for life-threatening injuries and two treated for non-life-threatening injuries. Officials confirmed the shooter is a student. CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Two people have died and four people are hurt after a shooting on UNC Charlotte’s campus, Medic confirmed. Medic said the two […]
On Saturday, an Australian teenager made international headlines for egging a controversial politican who made islamophobic comments following the New Zealand shooting. Senator Fraser Anning was speaking with reporters when Will Connolly, who has since been dubbed “Egg Boy,” snuck up on him and smashed an egg on the side of his head. Anning responded by punching the 17-year-old on […]
Shots rang out at the Riverchase Galleria Mall in Hoover, Alabama, just outside of Birmingham on Thursday night as shoppers flocked for early Black Friday deals after Thanksgiving dinner. According to reports, just before 10 p.m. a 21-year-old man and an 18-year-old man became involved in a physical altercation near the Footaction store, and the 21-year-old […]
Actress Vanessa Marquez, who is best known for the role of Nurse Wendy Goldman on the first three seasons of ER from 1994 to 1997, was shot and killed by police on Thursday afternoon. The 49-year-old had been subject to a welfare check by the landlord at her South Pasadena apartment, who claimed that she had been […]
Early Monday afternoon, the Metro Nashville Police Department announced on Twitter that Waffle House shooting suspect Travis Reinking was “in custody” after being “arrested moments ago.” The 29-year-old suspect had been on the run since early Sunday morning, when he allegedly stormed into a Waffle House restaurant in the Antioch neighborhood and opened fire with an AR-15 rifle. […]
The Sacramento Police Department just released new video and audio files from the shooting death of Stephon Clark, an unarmed black man whose cell phone was mistaken for a firearm by the cops who confronted him in his family’s own backyard. The March incident led to a string of protests in California and elsewhere, as well as harrowing […]
Tuesday afternoon, tweets from YouTube employees, as well as people in the immediate vicinity of the company’s headquarters in San Bruno, California seemed to indicate that an active shooter situation was happening at their facilities. Local news outlet KRON 4 and The Hollywood Reporter subsequently confirmed with a city manager and the San Bruno Police Department respectively that an active shooter […]
Wife of Omar Mateen, the Pulse nightclub shooter, was found not guilty on all counts on Friday. Noor Salman was arrested by the FBI in San Francisco in January 2017. She was charged with obstruction and providing material support to a terrorist organization. Salman’s husband killed 49 people and injured 58 more at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub, a gay bar, in June 2016. If Salman was found […]
Florida school shooting survivors are continuing to rally against lawmakers who accept NRA money, and John Oliver is leading a chorus of those who hope this tragedy’s aftermath will bring gun control results. Still, questions linger about how gunman Nikolas Cruz was able to legally purchase his AR-15 despite a lengthy behavioral record and being on the FBI’s radar, and as he […]