March 15, 2019 New Zealand shooting's a social media wake-up call -- YouTube, others, must stop amplifying violent crimes The rise of social media and the ability to livestream an attack gives sick killers an added incentive to do their deeds with a huge, international audience of transfixed viewers. And there is no intermediation to soften the blow.
March 15, 2019 New Zealand mosque slaughter latest in growing trend of mass violence in houses of worship The slaughter of at least 49 people attending services at two mosques in New Zealand on Friday marked the latest in mass killings at houses of worship in recent years.
March 15, 2019 New Zealand gunman appears to have livestreamed massacre Compounding the horror of Friday’s massacre in New Zealand: Video emerged online that appeared to be bodycam footage of the suspect firing his weapon.
March 8, 2019 Amazon tribe testifies Brazilian military slaughtered hundreds to make room for highway Members of the Waimiri-Atroari tribe in Brazil's Amazon recounted before a non-indigenous judge last week how hundreds in their community were slaughtered by the military decades ago so that a highway could be constructed through their land.
March 5, 2019 Florida school board votes not to fire embattled Stoneman Douglas superintendent A year after 17 high school students were killed by a gunman at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the school district’s superintendent remained in the position, despite an attempt to fire him.
March 3, 2019 Texas church shooting victims' families sue gun retailer A Texas-based sporting goods chain that sold weapons used in the 2017 Sutherland Springs church massacre that resulted in the death of 26 people has been sued by family members of some victims.
February 21, 2019 Nikolas Cruz, Parkland school shooter, might go on trial in early 2020, judge says A Broward Circuit judge wants the trial for the suspect accused of committing a mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida to begin in 2020.
February 17, 2019 Aurora shooter opened fire at termination meeting; one victim was HR intern on first day The disgruntled employee behind Friday’s deadly shooting a suburban Chicago warehouse opened fire at a meeting where he was being terminated, police said Saturday.
February 17, 2019 Murdered Memphis mother may be subject in serial killer's sketches, family claims A convicted murderer who has confessed to over 90 killings may be linked by a jailhouse portrait to an unsolved killing of a woman in in Memphis who last seen alive on Christmas Eve over two decades ago.
February 16, 2019 Aurora workplace shooter was set to be fired by company, police chief says The gunman in a deadly shooting spree at a manufacturing warehouse in Aurora, Ill., where five employees were killed and five officers were wounded Friday, was set to be fired by the company, Police Chief Kristen Ziman told reporters at a news conference Friday night.
