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Five people have died and at least 12 were hit following a string of separate shootings in Philadelphia from Saturday night into Sunday, per NBC 10, ABC 6, and others. The shootings in question started Saturday at about 10:45 p.m. when a man in his 30s was killed in the West Oak Lane neighborhood. Hours later, around 1:40 a.m. […]
A domestic terrorism bill was passed by the House on Wednesday night in a 222-203 vote. The passing, which marked an overwhelmingly party-line vote (i.e. 203 Republicans voted against it), comes in the wake of the racist attack in Buffalo which left 10 people dead. During comments delivered on the House floor, per a report from […]
Mustafa’s delicate, haunting 2021 debut When Smoke Rises is a meditation on the grief he experienced after losing several friends to gun violence. It’s an emotion that’s unfortunately much too common in underserved communities around Toronto—communities like the singer-songwriter’s own Regent Park, which in many ways—socially, politically, economically—feels isolated from the rest of the city and the country. […]
A retired Buffalo police officer who died while exchanging gunfire with the supermarket shooter on Saturday is being hailed as a “hero” by city officials. The Buffalo News reports one of the 10 victims killed in Saturday’s mass shooting has been identified as 55-year-old security guard Aaron Salter Jr., a former lieutenant with the Buffalo Police Department who confronted the gunman […]
A mass shooting at a Buffalo supermarket has left nearly a dozen people dead and several others wounded. According to the Associated Press, the incident took place at around 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Tops Friendly Market, where an armed suspected dressed in military fatigues arrived at the store with a rifle. Authorities say the gunman opened fire in the parking […]
During the first year of the pandemic, the number of gun deaths in the U.S. experienced what experts are calling an unprecedented increase, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. From 2019 to 2020, a 35 percent increase marked the “highest number of firearm homicides in 20 years,” per Deb Houry of the CDC’s National Center […]
A Kentucky man is in police custody after authorities say he shot his mom on Mother’s Day with a 22-caliber rifle. As disclosed in a news release provided by Sheriff Tim Catron of the Wayne County Sheriff’s Office, Monticello’s Jacob R. Small was arrested and charged with attempted murder, domestic violence and second-degree criminal mischief. Officials […]
A shooting at the Mississippi Mudbug Festival on Saturday left one person dead and five others injured. NBC affiliate WLBT reports the shooting occurred before 10 p.m. at the Mississippi Mudbug Festival at the Mississippi State Fairgrounds in Jackson. Hinds County Sheriff Tyree Jones confirmed that three of the wounded people were stabilized at a local […]
Pooh Shiesty will spend the next several years behind bars, according to Variety. On Wednesday, the 22-year-old rapper—born Lontrell Williams Jr.—received a 63-month prison sentenced in his federal firearms case. The decision was announced in a Miami courtroom on Wednesday, more than three months after Pooh Shiesty pleaded guilty to a firearms conspiracy charge stemming from […]
Frank James, the suspected gunman who opened fire in a Brooklyn subway train, reportedly cried “like a little baby” shortly before his arrest. Gentrid Hasangjekaj, 21, told the New York Post he was in the middle of his shift at Stromboli Pizza when a teary-eyed man walked in asking for help. Hasangjekaj said the man, whom […]
