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Shootings

# shootings - Sunday 16 June, 2013

Sitdown Sunday: 7 deadly reads

The very best of the week’s writing from around the web.

# shootings - Tuesday 4 June, 2013

Colorado shooting suspect pleads not guilty by reason of insanity

James Holmes will now undergo months of psychiatric testing to determine whether he was sane at the time.

# shootings - Monday 13 May, 2013

Colorado cinema shooting suspect may plead not guilty by insanity

James Holmes entered a ‘not guilty’ plea by default – but lawyers may now plead insanity to spare the death penalty.

# shootings - Sunday 12 May, 2013

12 people, including a child, shot at New Orleans’ Mothers Day parade

Up to 400 people were participating in the parade at the time; three people were seen running from the scene.

# shootings - Monday 22 April, 2013

At least five dead in shooting at apartment complex outside Seattle

A suspect is among the dead, having been shot by police officers arriving at the scene.

# shootings - Tuesday 5 March, 2013

Dublin shooting was an armed robbery for online item

The gang called to the victim’s house under the pretence of buying something the man was selling online.

# shootings - Monday 4 March, 2013

Shootings reported in Dublin and Carlow

The unconnected shootings took place this evening – no one was injured in either.

# shootings - Sunday 30 December, 2012

Record year for crime in New York City with fewer murders, shootings

The most murders New York City recorded in a single year? 2,245 in 1990. In 2012? That number is down to 414.

# shootings - Friday 28 December, 2012

Woman allegedly ‘set up fake fundraising scheme’ for Newtown victims

The 37-year-old from the Bronx allegedly claimed to be the aunt of one of the victims.

# shootings - Saturday 22 December, 2012

One of Pennsylvania slain had been decorating hall for children’s party

Police still trying to discover motive behind shooting of three people in a rural area of Pennsylvania.

# shootings - Friday 21 December, 2012

NRA: ‘The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun’ Gun Violence This post contains videos

NRA: ‘The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun’

The US’ powerful gun lobby group, the National Rifle Association, has called for armed police or guards to be deployed in every school in the country.

Bells sounded in Newtown to mark a week since shootings

26 bells were sounded – one for each of the victims of last week’s shooting – after a moment of silence.

# shootings - Wednesday 19 December, 2012

Four days after massacre, children return to school in Newtown

Sandy Hook elementary remains closed, though, and children have been invited to attend alternative schools next month.

# shootings - Saturday 3 November, 2012

Column: The Troubles may have quietened, but the trauma lives on

Although the peace agreement came into effect in 1998, the pain didn’t stop for many, writes Richard Barklie.

# shootings - Wednesday 26 September, 2012

The 9 at 9: Wednesday

Good morning! Here are nine things you should know as you start your day…

# shootings - Tuesday 25 September, 2012

The 9 at 9: Tuesday

Good morning! Here are nine things you should know as you start your day…

# shootings - Thursday 13 September, 2012

No apology but Taoiseach to ‘reflect’ on meeting with Kingsmills families

Enda Kenny met with families of the ten victims as well as one survivor of the 1976 massacre by the IRA in South Armagh today.

# shootings - Thursday 30 August, 2012

SA miners charged with colleagues’ murders after police shootings

Prosecutors have charged 270 mine workers over violent confrontation with police sparked by mining strike.

# shootings - Thursday 23 August, 2012

Memorial service for South African miners takes place

A widow of one of the men collapsed during the service, which remembered the 34 miners who died during last week’s strike.

# shootings - Friday 17 August, 2012

Norway’s police chief quits after Breivik report

A major report this week found that Norwegian authorities could have stopped Anders Behring Breivik.

# shootings - Monday 13 August, 2012

Gunman arrested after Texas shootings dies

The gunman was reported to have shot a number of people near the A&M University campus this afternoon.

# shootings - Saturday 28 July, 2012

Colorado shooting victims being laid to rest in Ohio, Texas RIP

Colorado shooting victims being laid to rest in Ohio, Texas

Matt McQuinn, who dived in front of his girlfriend during the shooting, and Jessica Ghawi, who survived another random shooting just months earlier, will both be laid to rest today.

# shootings - Tuesday 24 July, 2012

Families of Colorado shooting victims plan their goodbyes

Meanwhile, a Maine man has admitted to police that he brought a gun with him to a screening of the new Batman movie.

# shootings - Sunday 22 July, 2012

Man arrested after Clonsilla shooting

A male in his 20s received minor injuries in the incident.

# shootings - Tuesday 5 June, 2012

Verdict of Norway’s Breivik trial expected later this summer

Court says verdict won’t be out for at least a month after the hearings end in late June.

# shootings - Sunday 8 April, 2012

Tulsa residents fearful after shootings which leave three dead

Investigators in the US city believe the shootings, which also injured two others, could be linked having taken place within a three mile radius of each other.

# shootings - Tuesday 3 April, 2012

US offers $10 million bounty for Pakistani ‘mastermind of Mumbai attacks’

Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, 61, is believed to have plotted the 2008 attacks in which at least 166 people were killed.

The 9 at 9: Tuesday 9 At 9 This post contains videos

The 9 at 9: Tuesday

Nine things to know this morning, including: more garda station closures, seven killed in US college shootings, and a new ‘flying car’ (video).

Former student gives himself up after college killing spree Shootings This post contains videos

Former student gives himself up after college killing spree

The death toll from the shootings in California has now risen to seven.

# shootings - Tuesday 27 March, 2012

Father of Toulouse gunman ‘will sue France’ over son’s death

Meanwhile, it’s emerged that footage filmed by Mohamed Merah was sent to a TV station before he was killed by police.

# shootings - Monday 26 March, 2012

The 9 at 9: Monday 9 At 9 This post contains videos

The 9 at 9: Monday

Nine things to know this morning…

# shootings - Saturday 24 March, 2012

Girlfriend of murdered French soldier to wed posthumously

Sarkozy’s office has indicated approval for the pregnant woman’s appeal to marry her late partner.

# shootings - Friday 16 March, 2012

French investigators consider serial killer in soldier shootings

Three paratroopers have been shot dead in separate but similar attacks in France this week.

# shootings - Saturday 11 February, 2012

The Daily Fix: Saturday Daily Fix This post contains videos

The Daily Fix: Saturday

Your evening round-up of the day’s biggest stories – plus the bits and pieces you may have missed.

Man and woman killed in fatal Roscommon shootings

A 44-year-old man and 30-year-old woman were found dead in two cars in Cloonfad, Co Roscommon, last night.

The 9 at 9: Saturday

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# shootings - Tuesday 8 November, 2011

Massereene trial shown CCTV footage of attack

The trial of two men accused of murder and attempted murder at the Massereene army base in Antrim in March 2009 began yesterday.

# shootings - Monday 7 November, 2011

Trial of Massereene accused to begin in Antrim today

Two British soldiers were killed and a pizza deliveryman injured in the shooting at an army barracks in March 2009.

# shootings - Tuesday 4 October, 2011

Gunmen shoot 13 Shiite Muslims in Pakistan

The men were ordered off a bus and then executed by suspected Sunni Muslim extremists yesterday.

# shootings - Friday 19 August, 2011

Four more weeks of solitary for Norway twin attacks suspect

Judge says Anders Behring Breivik, 32, considers his solitary detention “a sadistic torture method.”

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