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A Look at Some Recent Deadly Mass Shootings in US
A mass shooting at the Molson Coors Brewing Company headquarters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is the latest on a list of deadly shootings that have rocked the country. Here are some deadly mass shootings over the past few years.
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Parkland School Shooting Trial Delayed Until at Least Summer
The trial of Parkland school shooting defendant Nikolas Cruz was delayed Thursday until at least next summer, when he will face a death penalty case stemming from the February 2018 massacre that left 17 people dead.
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Man Convicted of Harassing Parkland Victims' Families
Court records show that 22-year-old Brandon Fleury was found guilty in Fort Lauderdale federal court Tuesday of cyberstalking and transmitting a kidnap threat. The Santa Ana, California, man faces up to 20 years in prison at his Dec. 2 sentencing.
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Mom Mad Over Rezoning Threatens to Shoot Up School: Palm Beach Sheriff
Investigators say a Florida mother was so upset that her children were rezoned to a new school that she threatened to shoot up the new school just as the new academic year is beginning.
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Families of MSD Shooting Victims File New Round of Lawsuits Against School District, BSO
NBC 6 obtained a draft copy of one of lawsuits, claiming the Broward School District, the sheriff’s office and others were negligent and should be held responsible for the deaths of 17 people inside.
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Parkland Victims Remembered One Year After MSD Shooting
Hundreds of thousands of students and adults across Florida and beyond bowed their heads in a moment of silence Thursday to mark the first anniversary of the shooting rampage at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland that left 17 people dead.
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Where Are Parkland Stoneman Douglas Students, Parents, Officials Now?
The massacre that left 17 dead pushed students, parents, officials and others into the national limelight, something most never sought. A look at where some of the most prominent are today:
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Parents of 2 Parkland Shooting Victims Want Pulitzer for Local Paper
Two parents who lost daughters in last year’s Parkland, Florida, school shooting are calling for their local newspaper to win the Pulitzer Prize, saying the South Florida Sun Sentinel has stayed on the story to demand accountability long after the national media left. The parents, Ryan Petty and Andrew Pollack, wrote an open letter to judges who decide the Pulitzer...
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Washington State Bans Anyone Under 21 From Buying Assault Rifles
Washington on Tuesday joined a handful of other states that ban anyone under 21 from buying a semi-automatic assault rifle after voters passed a sweeping firearms measure in November that has drawn a court challenge from gun-rights advocates. The ballot initiative seeks to curb gun violence by toughening background checks for people buying assault rifles, increasing the age limit to...
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‘A Coward': Commissioners Criticize Deputy's Actions During MSD Shooting
Commissioners investigating the causes of the Parkland school massacre heavily criticized the actions of a sheriff’s deputy assigned to the school campus, calling him a coward for not confronting the gunman.
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Rants on Social Media Pose Dilemma for Law Enforcement
Their anger is all over social media for the whole world to see, with rants about minorities, relationships gone bad or paranoid delusions about perceived slights. The perpetrators of mass shootings often provide a treasure trove of insight into their violent tendencies, but the information is not always seen by law enforcement until after the violence is carried out. In...
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Teacher Says Cruz Posed as Student Months Before Shooting
Records released by prosecutors reveal that Florida school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz trespassed on school grounds about six months before the massacre that left 17 dead.
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Following Newsroom Shooting, a Look at Maryland's New ‘Red Flag' Gun Safety Law
The shooting in a Maryland newsroom this week that left five people dead came less than six months before a new law takes effect in that state that allows people to raise “red flags” restricting a person’s access to guns....
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New Exterior Surveillance Footage From Stoneman Douglas High School Shooting Released
The Broward Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday released exterior surveillance videos showing law enforcement’s response to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, after the Florida Supreme Court cleared the way for their release. The court on Wednesday declined to review a lower court’s decision to release the video from the Feb. 14 attack that left 17 people dead.
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Video of Nikolas Cruz' Statement to Police Released to Public
Prosecutors on Wednesday released video of the interrogation of confessed Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Nikolas Cruz, redacting the substance of his confession, as required by Florida law.
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State Attorney Releases Redacted Portions of Cruz's Statement
The state attorney’s office released portions of Nikolas Cruz’s statements he made to the police hours after the MSD massacre. NBC 6’s Tony Pipitone reports.
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Nikolas Cruz' Statement to Police Largely Released to Public
Two and half hours after the Stoneman Douglas High shooter was detained, video recorders began rolling at the Broward Sheriff’s Office where the suspect was taken. For the next 11 hours, until shortly after 5 the next morning, the suspect would confess his crimes, but also reveal much more.
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Report: Schools Ran Parkland Suspect's Education Properly
Broward County schools officials in general properly handled the special-needs education of troubled Parkland shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz, according to an independent report released late Friday on the orders of a judge.
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Facial Recognition, Potent New Policing Tool, Raises Alarms
“Real-time” facial recognition has tremendous potential for crime prevention but it’s also raising alarms for over the risk that it makes mistakes, NBC News reported. The FBI and law enforcement agencies around the country have been using facial recognition databases for years, but the technology is advancing to the point where police can pick suspects out of a crowd on...
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Court: Release Surveillance Video in Stoneman Douglas Shooting
An appeals court says news organizations are entitled to obtain surveillance video showing the law enforcement response to the Valentine’s Day mass shooting at a Florida high school.