Mass Shooting #8

Authorities say a woman

was killed in an overnight shooting

 in Middleborough

and an armed man

spotted in the driveway of the home

was shot and injured by police.

Police responded

                        to the home just after midnight Friday

and found the woman’s husband

and another person performing CPR.

She appeared to be suffering

from a gunshot wound

to the chest.

Officers were told

                                                there was a man with a gun

outside.

Police

spotted the man with a long-barreled firearm

in the driveway.

 He was ordered

                        several times to drop the weapon

and pointed it at police,

prompting officers to open fire.

He was taken to a hospital

and is expected to survive.

No names were released,

but authorities say the man

was staying at the home where

the woman was shot.

Taking Back What He Took

Source Material:  http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/03/youth-labor-party-camp-reopens-in-norway-two-years-after-mass-shooting/

The youth wing of Norway’s Labour Party 
on Wednesday opened its first summer camp

since 2011,

the year of a massacre

 by Anders Behring Breivik

that left 69

people dead.

People began gathering Wednesday

 for the camp which did not take place in 2012

 but has this year attracted hundreds

m

o

r

e

attendees than in 2011.

In a show of defiance

 by the

youth movement,

around 800 young Norwegians had

signed up, 

compared with a total of 560

participants two years ago.

“The summer camp will be run as normal

to the greatest degree possible,”

AUF chairman Eskil Pedersen said.

“We’re proud to hold a summer camp once again,

and it’s an important step for us to take.”

The camp is not being held on the island of Utoeya this year

but at the nearby hamlet Gulsrud

on the banks of the same lake, as the facilities

where the attack took place are being

renovated.

“People are putting up their tents and…

enjoying themselves and looking forward

to getting started,”

Pedersen said.

To beef up security

, the organisers have been

“in close contact with the police”

 before the event

and officers will be present at the site.

The renovation of Utoeya

was postponed

after some of the survivors

                                                                                                            opposed plans

to tear down

some of the buildings.

Work will begin

at the end of next year

at the former site,

 according to Pedersen.

Breivik’s attack began in Oslo

 on July 22, 2011, where

a massive bomb

outside the main government building

killed eight,

before he travelled

to the island to carry out

a
shooting

spree.

Most of the victims were teenagers.

He claimed

the killings

were a protest

against multiculturalism.

In August 2012,
Breivik was sentenced to

Norway’s maximum sentence

of 21 years in prison,

which can be extended indefinitely

if he is deemed

to continue to pose

 a threat to society.

Mass Shooting #7

Source Material:  http://news.yahoo.com/8-shot-brooklyn-party-expected-recover-115014971.html

Police say

 four women and four men

 have been shot at a party in Brooklyn,

 but all are expected to recover from their injuries.

NYPD Sgt. Thomas Antonetti say

s the condition of a woman previously liste

d as critical has improved,

and she's now stable.

Police say someone

 began shooting at a house party

around 1 a.m. Sunday following a dispute.

 Antonetti says none of the victims

was struck more than once.

They were transported to three different hospitals.

Antonetti says the shooti

ng started after someone was either

asked to leave the party

 or never allowed to enter.

 He says it was unclear how many people fired shots.

Police say no arrests have been made and no suspects identified.

Opening statements are not evidence, more like a lawyers roadmap of case

Mass Shooting #6

Source Material: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/4-shot-nc-law-firm-wal-mart-suspect-caught

GREENVILLE, N.C. (AP) - A man armed with a shotgun shot

one person outside a North Carolina law firm Friday

before darting across a busy street

 and wounding three others outside a Wal-Mart

 before officers subdued him, police said.

Officers confronted the man

 outside the store and caught up with him

 behind a nearby Toys "R" Us.

He fired at them

and they shot multiple rounds back,

wounding the gunman,

said Greenville Police Chief Hassan Aden.

The suspect was expected to survive

 as well as the four others he's accused of shooting,

Aden said.

The gunman's first target

was seated in his car outside the Kellum Law Firm

on the city's south side, Aden said at a news conference.

The firm's main office in New Bern declined comment.

Kellum has nine personal injury offices in the eastern part of the state.

A photographer from CBS affiliate WNCT found

 the first victim down when he arrived

on the scene at the Kellum Law Firm.

The suspect crossed

five lanes of traffic

 after the Kellum shooting

 and injured the three others

before he was caught, Aden said.

 Police are still trying to determine the shooter's

identity and motive.

He is in police custody at a local hospital, Aden said

.

The victims are all

in operating rooms

at local hospitals, Aden said.

He didn't give specifics

 on their conditions

 or their names and ages.

The shooter was using

 a "pistol-grip shotgun"

with an unknown number of rounds, Aden said.

He had a bag filled with ammunition, Aden said.

"He had enough to really do some

significant damage,"

the chief said.

Aden said officers responded

within mere minutes

 of the shooting calls, WNCT reported.

He added that their training

in mass shootings,

"likely prevented a larger crime scene

with multiple, multiple victims."

Aden said police are still sifting

through video footage of the scene.

Greenville is about 85 miles east of Raleigh.

Mass Shooting #5

Source Material: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/17/catholic-mass-shooting-utah_n_3452993.html?ir=Crime

OGDEN, Utah —

A 35-year-old man has been arrested

on suspicion of walking into a Catholic church and shooting

his father-in-law in the back of the head during Mass.

Charles Richard Jennings Jr., 35, was captured 
Sunday afternoon in nearby Box Elder County

after fleeing in a stolen pickup truck,

investigators said.

Witnesses say they heard one gunshot

during the 11:30 a.m. Mass on Sunday at

Saint James the Just Catholic Church in Ogden,

and that parishioners immediately hit the floor.

The victim was taken to a hospital,

where he was listed in critical but stable condition.

His name wasn't immediately released.

Police said the victim was deliberately

targeted by the gunman

and it wasn't a random act of violence.

"We don't know the motive,"

 Ogden police Lt. Danielle Croyle

 told The Salt Lake Tribune.

"It is a domestic violence-related incident."

Parishioner Rebecca Ory Hernandez said

 the congregation was told by a priest

that the suspect and his wife had been involved

in domestic disputes.

Hernandez was sitting close to the victim

when the shooting occurred,

she said.

"The guy walked up to his father-in-law and shot him point blank in the head,"

 Hernandez told Ogden's Standard-Examiner.

"Then I ran over to the victim and pulled

 my scarf off

and put it around his head.

"He was pretty calm.

 There was so much blood...

 People were in shock

and some people were passing out.

 We have some military guys

 in our parish

and they ran out after the guy," she added.

Parishioner Leon Bedford said the victim

was sitting in a back pew with his wife

when their daughter and son-in-law

walked in holding hands

as the congregation started saying a prayer.

"Oh, it's obvious it was well planned out,"

Bedford told the Standard-Examiner.

"They came into the church hand in hand,

and he walked right up to (the victim) and pulled that trigger.

 We just hope and pray that he makes it."

Jennings is accused of stealing the truck

at gunpoint from a nearby resident

after fleeing the church.

 He was booked on charges

of attempted aggravated criminal homicide

and aggravated robbery.

Further details about the shooting

 will not be released until a news conference

Monday morning at McKay-Dee Hospital, officials said.

A family spokesperson and a police representative

will be on hand to discuss the case and status of the victim,

hospital spokesman Chris Dallin said.

Mass Shooting #4

Source Material: http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/13/18939654-four-dead-in-murder-suicide-at-st-louis-health-care-company-police-say?lite

Four employees of a home health care business

were killed in a murder-suicide Thursday in St. Louis,

police said.

The gunman,

a second man and two women

 were found shortly after 1:30 p.m.

 in the office of A K Home Health Care

on the first floor of the Cherokee Place Business Incubator,

which renovates buildings on the street

and leases them as work spaces,

police said. 

Police identified the gunman

 late Thursday as Ahmed Dirir, 59.

State and federal licensing records list

a man with that name as the company's director.

His three victims were identified

as Khadra Muse, 44; Seaeed Abdulla, 29; and Bernice Solomon-Redd, 54.

Police Capt. Michael Sack told reporters

that video from a surveillance camera showed the gunman

 having an argument with the three others before opening fire. 

"It appeared to be brief," he said.

"We don't know if this was a thing

 that carried over into today

 or was initiated today."

The weapon, a semi-automatic handgun,

 was recovered at the scene, he said.

Abdisalam Elmi, a Somali immigrant who drives a cab, told NBC station KSDK of St. Louis

 that he knew all four victims. 

"They are very hard workers," he said in an on-camera interview.

"They're friendly. They always smile for me."

"This is the worst day in my life," he said, adding:

"I pray for peace,

for love,

no hate."