Category: gunman

Hostages Talk About What Happened While Held Captive Inside Texas Synagogue for 11 Hours

By Kelli Smith and Maggie Prosser From The Dallas Morning News DALLAS—A Colleyville rabbi was held captive this weekend for more than 11 hours inside Congregation Beth Israel said Monday that he and two others escaped after he threw a chair at the hostage-taker. Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker said on “CBS Mornings” he let the hostage-taker…


Loyal Adopted Dog Takes Bullet in the Face to Protect Owners When Armed Robbers Break Into House

A dog in South Africa adopted from the SPCA into a loving forever home has repaid her owners a thousandfold after two armed robbers broke into their house and opened fire. The mixed breed, Kei, was shot in the face while ferociously protecting the family’s young lady. Those armed intruders on Oct. 3 broke into the…


Florida School Gunman Cruz to Plead Guilty to Murder, Lawyer Says

Nikolas Cruz will plead guilty to murder in the 2018 mass shooting that killed 17 students and staff at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, his lawyer told a judge on Friday. Cruz’s attorney told a judge his client will plead guilty next week to all charges in what was the deadliest U.S….


Maryland Senior Housing Shooting Kills 2; Suspect Held

CAPITOL HEIGHTS, Md.—Two staff members were fatally shot Friday at a Maryland apartment complex for seniors just outside of Washington and a suspect was taken into custody, police said. The shooting happened shortly after 9 a.m. at Gateway Village in Capitol Heights, Prince George’s County and Capitol Heights police said. Both victims were women—one found…


Gunman Who Killed Agent on Amtrak Train in Arizona ID’d

TUCSON, Ariz.—Officials on Thursday identified the armed passenger who died in a gunfight after fatally shooting a federal agent inside an Amtrak train in Arizona as Darrion Taylor. The Pima County Medical Examiner’s Office in Tucson said in a news release that Taylor, 26, was shot in the torso and limbs. The wounds were not…


Gov. Abbott: Alleged Texas School Shooter Possessed Gun ‘Illegally’

Gov. Greg Abbott responded to a mass shooting at a school in Arlington, Texas, on Wednesday, saying the alleged gunman possessed the gun illegally. Timothy George Simpkins, an 18-year-old student at Timberview High School in Arlington, was charged with three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. He turned himself in to police hours…


Maryland Newspaper Gunman Gets More Than 5 Life Prison Terms

ANNAPOLIS, Md.—A man who killed five people at a newspaper in Maryland was sentenced on Tuesday to more than five life sentences without the possibility of parole—with 345 additional years added on to ensure he is never released from prison. Anne Arundel County Judge Michael Wachs ordered the sentence for Jarrod Ramos, whom a jury…


Gunman in 2018 Maryland Newspaper Massacre to Be Sentenced on Tuesday

The gunman who killed five people at the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis in 2018 will be sentenced to prison on Tuesday after a Maryland jury found him criminally responsible for the massacre in July. Jarrod Ramos, 41, faces the prospect of life in prison for one of the deadliest attacks on a U.S. media…


Florida Gunman Killed 4, Including Mother Still Holding Baby

Four people are dead including a mother still cradling her now-deceased baby in what a Florida sheriff called a massive gunfight early Sunday with a suspect “ready for battle” and so aggressive he tried to wrestle a gun from police from his hospital gurney after being captured. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said the unidentified…


Gunman Fatally Shoots Tourist Protecting His Baby in Florida Restaurant

MIAMI BEACH, Fla.—A gunman fatally shot a tourist eating dinner with his family at a Miami Beach restaurant as the man protected his 1-year-old son, police and a family member said. Tamarius Blair David Jr., 22, of Norcross, Georgia, told investigators he shot Dustin Wakefield, 21, on Tuesday night because he “was high on mushrooms,…