Police discovered three fatalities before cornering suspect who took hostages in a home in New Jersey

Residents of a Philadelphia-area suburb were ordered to shelter in their homes temporarily after a series of connected shootings on Saturday morning prompted a manhunt and hostage situation.

At about 8.50am local time, Falls township police were called to a home at Viewpoint Lane in Levittown, where two people had been shot dead. Minutes later, a second shooting was reported at Edgewood Lane, where a third person was killed.

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Attorneys say prosecutors diverted attention from evidence during grand jury proceedings into the death of Halyna Hutchins

Defense attorneys for Alec Baldwin urged a New Mexico judge on Thursday to dismiss a grand jury indictment against the actor in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of the western movie Rust.

The indictment in January charged Baldwin with involuntary manslaughter in the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on 21 October 2021 at a movie ranch on the outskirts of Santa Fe.

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Groundbreaking verdict holds James Crumbley, father of teen who killed four students, criminally responsible for actions of his child

The father of a school shooter in Michigan has been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in a case that created headlines across the United States for seeking to find a parent criminally responsible for the actions of their child.

James Crumbley, 47, is the father of Ethan Crumbley, a 15-year-old boy who took a gun from home and killed four students at Oxford high school on 30 November 2021.

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Experts say most guns smuggled from states with lax firearms laws such as Florida, Arizona and Georgia

As Haiti has again plunged into violent chaos, images of gang members bearing high-powered rifles, pump action shotguns or automatic weapons in the streets of Port-au-Prince have become ubiquitous.

But this weaponry is not made in Haiti, a country with no firearms or ammunition manufacturing capabilities.

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Local inquest on Thursday criticized Texas law enforcement response to gunman who killed 19 students and two teachers in 2022

Uvalde police made “many failures” when responding to a gunman who killed 19 students and two teachers at a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school in 2022, the investigator who led the city’s inquest of its local officers said Thursday.

The report for the Uvalde city council on Thursday comes from one of several inquests into the massacre and was conducted by Jesse Prado, an Austin-based investigator and former police detective. Texas lawmakers found in 2022 that nearly 400 local, state and federal officers rushed to the scene but waited more than an hour before confronting the gunman. A Department of Justice report in January criticized the “cascading failures” of responding law enforcement.

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Prosecution alleges Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, who was in charge of firearms safety, was ‘sloppy’ and left weapons unsecured

Witnesses in the trial of Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the armorer in the troubled western Rust, this week described a chaotic set where safety was “secondary” before the shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

Gutierrez-Reed, who was responsible for ensuring that all firearms on the set were safe, is on trial for charges of involuntary manslaughter and tampering in connection with the 23 October 2021 shooting. She is the first to go on trial, and proceedings are expected to have major implications for Alec Baldwin, who will face trial in July.

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A report in the journal Criminology shows that homicide cases are less likely to be solved when the victim is Black

For nearly a decade, Nicole Gardner would tense up any time someone asked: “How many kids do you have?”

Her daughter Ronique Gardner Williams was shot and killed in 2015 while riding in a car in Richmond, California. Seven years later, her eldest son, Damon Gardner Isles, died following a seizure, but he had also been shot years before in Boston. Though her children died under different circumstances, they shared one tragic commonality: neither had received justice as the victims of gun violence.

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Two off-duty officers at Joel Osteen’s megachurch shot a woman who fired a rifle and claimed to have a bomb, police said

A woman with a rifle was killed by two off-duty police officers – and a child was wounded – Sunday at a Houston , Texas, megachurch run by prominent evangelical Christian pastor Joel Osteen, the city’s police chief said.

Houston’s channel3now.com cited the city’s police chief, Troy Finner, to report that the woman in question went into Osteen ’s Lakewood church claiming to have a bomb. She began firing a rifle, and a 5-year-old child as well as a man were struck.

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Statement from Las Vegas police indicates the shooter was ‘contained’ with multiple reports saying attacker was dead

Police have warned that there are possibly “multiple victims” in a shooting reported at the campus of the University of Nevada Las Vegas campus.

Officials said that the multiple victims were reported about midday Wednesday at Frank and Estella Beam Hall, also known as BEH.

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