Shooting suspect obsessed with guns

AT least five people have been killed and 22 injured as violence erupted at the start of the July 4 weekend. Nine people, including a teen, were gunned down in a mass shooting in Newark, New Jersey on Thursday. A cop was killed and up to six officers were injured as they responded to an armed-hostage situation in Kentucky, while two people died in a mass shooting in Chicago. NEW JERSEY Cops revealed that four adults and a teen took themselves to the hospital after being shot. Police said that four other victims were taken to hospital by medics. Cops have since identified a white Honda Pilot car as a vehicle of interest as part of their investigation, Fox19 reported. read more on shootings GUNNED DOWN Fox News star's brother dead in Chicago weekend violence that also killed baby GUNNED DOWN At least 2 dead after 10 people gunned down in mass shooting outside McDonald’s Police believe that the car was … [Read more...] about July 4 weekend gets off to violent start with 5 killed and 22 injured including 9 gunned down in one mass shooting

As investigators dig deeper into the law enforcement response to the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas , a host of disturbing questions remain about what officers on the scene knew as the deadly attack was unfolding. Did they know children were trapped in a classroom with the gunman? Was that potentially critical information relayed to the incident commander on the scene? And did officers challenge the commander's decision not to promptly storm the classroom? Authorities have not released audio of the 911 calls or radio communications but have confirmed dispatchers received panicked 911 calls from students trapped inside the locked classroom with the gunman while officers waited in a hallway outside. In an apparent breakdown in communications, Texas state Sen. Roland Gutierrez said Thursday that the commander overseeing police at the crime scene, school district Police Chief Pete Arredondo, was never informed that children were calling 911 from inside the school. … [Read more...] about What did police know as the Texas school shooting unfolded?

Four mourners and 23 police officers were injured this weekend when violence erupted at the funeral of the fourth unarmed black man to be shot dead by New York police in 13 months. The row over the death has now emerged as a major campaign issue in the senatorial race between the New York mayor, Rudolph Giuliani, and the First Lady, Hillary Clinton. Patrick Dorismond, 25, a security guard who was the son of a Haitian immigrant, was killed on March 16 in a struggle with undercover drug squad officers engaged in a "buy and bust" operation outside a bar in Manhattan. The funeral procession had started peacefully in the streets of Brooklyn on Saturday, with thousands following the coffin and lining the streets. But trouble began as the cortege arrived at a Roman Catholic church. Some of the 5,000-strong crowd surged towards the church as the pallbearers removed the coffin, draped with US and Haitian flags, from the hearse. Several snatched the US flag and burned it. … [Read more...] about Riot at funeral of police victim

The family of an unarmed man killed by New York City police officers who sprayed 41 bullets into the door of his home has accepted a $3m (£1.7m) settlement from the city. The killing in 1999 of Amadou Diallo, 22, from Guinea, by undercover white police officers, became a byword for police brutality and racism. The bullet-riddled doorway of his Bronx apartment building became the scene of vigils, and the street where he lived was renamed in his memory. New York's mayor, Michael Bloomberg, and the victim's parents described the award as a means of concluding the episode. But yesterday some civil rights activists said Diallo's parents had yielded too quickly in accepting the award, which represents a fraction of the $61m they originally sought. But Diallo's parents said they were satisfied and had wanted to avoid a trial, which had been scheduled for March 1. "An apology was given today on the record," said Kadiatou Diallo, the victim's mother. "The apology is accepted." Two … [Read more...] about NYPD pays $3m after killing man

This past April in Quetta, the bleached-gray, drought-stricken capital of the Pakistani border province of Baluchistan, I awoke to explosions and gunfire. In search of the violence, my translator, Jamil, and I jumped into a four-wheel-drive Toyota and raced through the section of town inhabited by Pashtoon tribesmen. Suddenly we were surrounded by Pakistani soldiers, who forced us out of the car and pointed assault rifles in our faces. While they searched us, I saw two other soldiers with automatic weapons run along a high wall a few feet from where we stood. Shots rang out from inside the adjacent compound. By 11:00 a.m. five people had been killed and twenty wounded, and a large cache of weapons had been confiscated in a raid on the Pashtoonkhwa Milli Awami (Pashtoon National People's Party), a group supporting an independent "Pashtoonistan" created out of Pakistani territory. The party stood accused of murders and kidnapping. Security forces claimed victory, but reports later … [Read more...] about The Lawless Frontier

MY favorite photograph of Kurt Weill captures the enigmatic quality of his life and music. At a rehearsal for the 1943 show Mary Martin sits atop an upright piano, her shapely legs dangling in front of the composer's face. Weill seems to be somewhere else. Baby-faced and bald, his eyes half closed, he seems to be playing for himself alone. His blank expression could mask humiliation or contempt or delight -- you can't tell. What is this professor doing on Broadway? This year is Kurt Weill's centenary, so the calendar is full of Weill events -- and for once there seems to be a real urgency to the commemorative festivities. Weill remains a cult composer, known mainly for a handful of songs; most of his complete works are rarely performed, and critical opinion is still unsettled. Hearing his works again -- particularly the revelatory early Second Symphony and the overpraised "Broadway opera" -- could restore balance to a reputation long skewed. The standard view of Weill divides … [Read more...] about Threepenny Composer

The FBI was thrown into controversy on Tuesday afternoon following an explosive report that was published by BuzzFeed News that suggested that the alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer may have never even happened if not for the actions that FBI informants and undercover agents had in spurring suspects into action in what many critics called “ entrapment .” The FBI reportedly relied on an Iraq War vet to provide information to the bureau about the actions of a group called Wolverine Watchmen. The informant, named “Dan,” allegedly became alarmed by messages that he saw being shared between members in the group and, after talking to a police buddy of his, was put in touch with the FBI. “Dan” allegedly wore a wire for half a year, collecting hundreds of hours of evidence against members of the group. “Dan” reportedly was paid $54,793.95, which included reimbursements, for his work over the span of over six months, which was “considerably more than most families … [Read more...] about FBI Thrown Into Controversy Over Damning New Report About Their Involvement In Whitmer Kidnapping Plot | The Daily Wire

BECAUSE I love my wife and daughter, and because I want them to believe I am a good man, I have never talked to them about my year as a grunt with the 25th Infantry in Vietnam. I cannot tell my thirteen-year-old that once, drunk on Ba Muoi Ba beer, I took a girl her age into a thatched-roof hooch in Tay Ninh City and did her on a bamboo mat. I cannot tell my wife, who paints watercolors of songbirds, that on a search-and-destroy mission I emptied my M-60 machine gun into two beautiful white egrets that were wading in the muddy water of a paddy. I cannot tell them how I sang "Happy Trails" as I shoved two wounded Viet Cong out the door of a medevac chopper hovering twenty feet above the tarmac of a battalion aid station. I cannot tell them how I lay in a ditch and used my M-60 to gun down a skinny, black-haired farmer I thought was a VC, nearly blowing his head off. I cannot tell them how I completed the decapitation with a machete, and then stuck his head on a pole on top of a mountain … [Read more...] about I Am the Grass

Two police officers in Kentucky were killed and five others wounded in a shootout Thursday evening while serving a domestic violence order. The shooting happened in Floyd County and police have charged 49-year-old Lance Storz with two counts of murder, four counts of attempted murder, and for assault of a service animal, according to the Lexington Herald Leader. “As we learn more about the tragic shooting in Allen last night, we are heartbroken to learn of the deaths of two law enforcement officers and injuries to others,” Attorney General Daniel Cameron (R-KY) tweeted . “Please keep the families of these brave officers in your prayers. Our law enforcement exhibited unimaginable heroism and sacrifice last night in the face of evil.” The shooting, which happened in the eastern Kentucky town of Allen, is still under investigation by Kentucky State Police though the suspect has been detained on a $10 million bond in a Pike County jail. Storz … [Read more...] about Two Police Officers Killed In Shootout In Kentucky | The Daily Wire

CHILLING new details have surfaced in the case of a teen TikToker who claimed she killed her disabled sister and then allegedly boasted about it in a text to friends. Claire Miller , 14, is charged with murdering her 19-year-old sister, Helen Miller in 2021 by stabbing her in the neck. Miller, who is now 16 years old, reportedly told a police officer she had “Michael Myers’d” her disabled sister in their Pennsylvania home, according to multiple reports Prosecutors in the case against the teen dropped the bombshell revelation earlier this week during a Lancaster County court hearing, according to Crimeonline . In a case to determine whether Miller should be tried as an adult or as a juvenile, prosecutors and attorneys for the defendant delivered closing arguments Wednesday afternoon, following two and a half days of testimony, per WGAL . The outlet reported Assistant District Attorney, Amy Muller, told the judge Miller was "a kid who had it all, but was obsessed … [Read more...] about Chilling new details in case of TikToker, 14, who allegedly killed disabled sister, then boasted in text to friends