Mass shootings

Minneapolis Police urged people to avoid the area after a shooting on Hennepin Avenue South in Uptown Minneapolis.

The shooting stole not only 49 lives; it stole a sense of safety and freedom for many LGBTQ people nationwide. We saw our resilience, but we also see how much this nation still has to do.

Armando Hernandez Jr. had allegedly been contemplating a shooting at Westgate for "at least three to four years," according to prosecutors.

On Thursday, the Glendale Police Department in Arizona identified 20-year-old Armando Hernandez Jr. as the suspect in the shooting at the Westgate Entertainment District on Wednesday night.

One year after the Christchurch massacre, gun control has stalled in New Zealand

Josef Schuster, the president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, noted that the shootings were the latest in a series of attacks by far-right extremists in the country.

At least nine people were killed in the shootings in the city of Hanau, Germany, on Wednesday night, police said.

Two years after Parkland, perhaps no one is better positioned than doctors, nurses, medical students and other health care professionals to lead this fight.

In 1999, students, parents and educators were consumed with divergent explanations for the depravity of the shooting at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado.

Fred Guttenberg, who lost his daughter in the Parkland school shooting, said he was overcome with emotion when shouting out at President Donald Trump's address.

The shooting began at roughly 5 p.m. local time near the Macy's and McDonald's by Third Avenue and Pine Street.

Subject to specific credentialing, Marine Corps law enforcement personnel will now be allowed to partake in concealed carry while off duty.

Suicides, mass shootings, murders and celebratory gunfire were among the reasons dozens of people lost their lives on the first day of the new decade, data shows.

This was Newtown's first state championship since the 1992 season. This year's state title in unbelievable fashion comes seven years after the horrific massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary.

"The evidence points towards acts of hate," New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal said.

Authorities have not yet said how the suspects, killed during a shootout with police, obtained their firearms or whether they did so legally.

Ethan Kollie, 24, could face up to 15 years in prison when a federal judge sentences him in February 2020.

"If it had been a Muslim that had shot two American kids, Washington would be shut down today. Remember San Bernardino? Remember? Washington got shut down," Scarborough said on his "Morning Joe" show.

American Twitter users expressed their frustrations with the country's lack of gun control as another school shooting claimed lives Thursday afternoon in Santa Clarita, California.

Hanson Richard Larkin has admitted to sending threatening text messages to an anonymous person who wished no contact with him. He traveled by train to Orlando, all the while sending anti-Semitic text messages and threatening to do violence against Jewish people.

While few gain the federal government's "domestic terrorism distinction," Americans are increasingly rejecting excuses offered on behalf of "disturbed" young men who perpetuate violence at the expense of religious and racial minorities.

Sheriff Scott Israel was removed from office by the Florida Senate over allegations he bungled the mass shooting in Parkland.

The man accused of killing five staffers at the Capital Gazette has been judged fit to stand trial, according to the doctors.

The poll found that overall, 46 percent of U.S. adults are "very" or "somewhat" worried about becoming a victim of terrorism and 45 percent are similarly concerned about a mass shooting.

Screenings of 'Joker' are being held with an increased presence of police and armed security guards as the film opens across the U.S., amid fears that the movie could inspire violence similar to the 2012 mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado.

Between $735 million and $800 million will be paid to victims of America's deadliest mass shooting of the modern era, but all its victims want is for public places to be safer.

Ten years after the ban expired in 2004, the number of mass shootings more than tripled and the number of fatalities spiked more than fourfold.

The suspect is believed to be targeting broken down vehicles, offering to "help" occupants before shooting them. In four shootings since Tuesday, one person is dead, with another injured.

"Under what scenario could somebody think this was a good idea? This has me so upset," Fred Guttenberg tweeted.

Police in Pomona, California, arrested a man for falsely warning of a mass shooting at the LA County Fair.