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Andre Gordon, 26, was found in a house in New Jersey, where he was believed to have barricaded himself after two shootingsThe suspect involved in the fatal shootings of three people outside a Philadelphia-area suburb on Saturday morning has been arrested.According to authorities, 26-year-old Andre Gordon was found near a house in Trenton, New Jersey, where he was believed to have barricaded himself after...

Before Robert Card killed 18 last year, police had opportunity to seize his guns and place him in custody after several incidentsLaw enforcement should have seized a man’s guns and put him in protective custody weeks before he committed Maine’s deadliest mass shooting, a report found Friday.An independent commission has been reviewing the events that led up to army reservist Robert Card killing 18...

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

Shooting on Sunday evening at outdoor gathering in King City left four dead and seven others injured, police sayPolice are offering a $20,000 reward for information on a shooting that took place on Sunday evening when a group of masked men pulled up to an outdoor birthday party in central California and opened fire, killing at least four.Officers responded to a reported shooting at...

Samuel Moreno-Carranza, age seven, was injured after his mother fired a rifle inside church and police responded, killing herA boy who was shot in the head at celebrity pastor Joel Osteen’s Houston megachurch on 11 February has lost “a portion of his frontal lobe” while recovering at the hospital, according to his grandmother.In a Facebook post three days after the shooting, Walli Carranza said...

Two off-duty officers at Joel Osteen’s megachurch shot a woman who fired a rifle and claimed to have a bomb, police saidA woman with a rifle was killed by two off-duty police officers – while a child was critically wounded – on Sunday at a megachurch in Houston, Texas, run by prominent evangelical Christian pastor Joel Osteen, the city’s police chief said.Troy Finner said...