Ala. gunmen kills 9, himself in shooting spree CommentsComment on this article Mar 10, 2009 9:38 PM (2 hrs 43 mins ago) AP
SAMSON, Ala. (Map, News) - A gunman went on a shooting spree in two neighboring south Alabama towns Tuesday, killing nine people before he shot himself at a metals plant, authorities said. Police are investigating at least four separate shootings, all believed to be done by one gunman, whose name was not released, the Alabama Department of Safety said in a statement.
The shootings began late in the afternoon in Samson. The shooter killed five people in one home and one each in two other homes.
The gunman also shot at a state trooper's car, striking the vehicle seven times and wounding the trooper with broken glass.
He then killed someone at a Samson supply store and another person at a service station, the safety department said.
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) — An 88-year-old client angrily seeking a down payment back on a deal shot a real estate broker in his office and then sat down in a nearby parking lot until police arrested him, authorities said Wednesday.
A disgruntled Richard Blow burst into the office just after 2:20 p.m. and shot Jerry O'Neil, a 68-year-old broker with Coldwell Banker United Realtors, once in the abdomen, police said.
Lt. Michael Belk, a spokesman for the Rock Hill Police Department 70 miles north of Columbia, said O'Neil was hospitalized with serious injuries.
Belt said the suspect has been charged with assault and battery with intent to kill.
Belk said Blow had put a deposit down towards the purchase of real estate but decided he wanted his money back.
Mar 12 - The German teenager who killed 15 people in a shooting spree warned a chatroom partner of his plans the night before the killings, say officials.
Tim Kretschmer took a 9-millimetre Beretta pistol, legally owned by his gun-collecting father, from the family home.
The gun wasn't kept with others in a locked cupboard, and German authorities are looked into whether to press changes against Kretschmer's father.
Police: Six dead in Carthage nursing-home shooting Nursing home shooting
Carthage, N.C. — A gunman walked into a Moore County nursing home Sunday morning, fatally shooting six people and injuring three others, including a police officer, police said.
The shooting happened around 10 a.m. at Pinelake Health and Rehab Center, 801 Pinehurst Ave., a 90-bed rehabilitation, nursing and Alzheimer's care facility in Carthage.
Nursing home shooting WATCH VIDEO Six killed after nursing home shooting
The injured, as well as the alleged shooter, who was also injured, were taken to Moore Regional Hospital, Carthage Police Chief Chris McKenzie said.
He did not offer a motive for the crime or say what the suspect's relationship to the facility might be.
US man decapitated his five-year-old sister at her birthday party and fatally stabbed his 17-year-old sister amid what has been called "a killing field" in the Boston suburb of Milton.
The man was shot dead by police as he headed for his nine-year-old sister, Sarafina Revelus, who called police and watched them shoot her 23-year-old brother, Kerby, dead.
Police arrived as Revelus was attacking Sarafina, who was rushed to Boston Medical Center with serious stab wounds, but authorities say she is expected to survive.
"In policing, we see the raw human emotion every day, but to think that a human being could afflict such an atrocious, violent act on his own family is unbelievable,'' Milton police chief Richard G Wells Jr told The Associated Press.
"When I walked up to the first officer (on the scene), I could see the whole story right in his face. This just told me that this was something very bad,'' he said.
Police have no idea was sparked the killings on Saturday, but said Revelus has been in a fistfight with a next-door neighbour the previous day.
Revelus targeted his 17-year-old sister Samantha first, before attacking five-year-old Bianca as her birthday cake sat on a table nearby.
The childrens’ parent were away at the time.
Revelus had recently been released from jail after serving time on a gun charge.
The details of his criminal history will be released when courts open later today.
The officers involved in the case were receiving counselling from the Boston Police Department stress unit.
(CNN) -- A sixth person has died after a shooting in a townhouse in Santa Clara, California, police said Monday.
Police found five people, including two children, shot to death Sunday night in the townhouse.
A female toddler died overnight from gunshot wounds, said Lt. Phil Cooke of the Santa Clara Police Department.
An adult female remains in the hospital Monday in critical condition with gunshot wounds, Cooke said.
Police were called to the scene after a neighbor noticed an injured person outside the home around 8:30 p.m. (11:30 p.m. ET) Sunday, Cooke said. When police arrived, other victims were found inside.
The shootings are thought to be part of a murder-suicide, with the shooter believed to be one of the dead, according to Cooke.
The names of the victims are being withheld as the investigation continues.
A dozen people or more may be shot at a public assistance office in Binghamton, NY, northwest of New York City and southwest of Albany. Mutiple deaths have been reported, and hostages were taken.
The shooting happened at the American Civic Association building. It assists refugees and immigrants with re-locating to the United States, helping them find housing and jobs.
The shooter is believed to be an Asian male is his 20's who locked at least one door to the facility, hampering those inside who were trying to escape the gunfire.
Pittsburgh Police: 3 Officers Killed in Shooting and Standoff Saturday, April 04, 2009
PITTSBURGH — A man opened fire on officers responding to a domestic disturbance call Saturday morning, killing three of them, before barricading himself in the home, a police official said.
Three officers were killed, said a police official at the scene who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
At least five officers were wounded, police spokeswoman Diane Richard said. It's not clear if that included the slain officers.
The man who fired at the officers was arrested after a several-hour standoff. One witness reported hearing hundreds of shots.
Edward Perkovic, a 22-year-old who said he was the gunman's best friend, said he got a call at work from him in which he said, "Eddie, I am going to die today. ... Tell your family I love them and I love you."
"I heard gunshots and he hung up," Perkovic said.
The officers were called to the home in the Stanton Heights neighborhood at about 7 a.m., Richard said.
Tom Moffitt, 51, a city firefighter who lives two blocks away, said he heard about the shooting on his scanner and came to the scene, where he heard "hundreds, just hundreds of shots. And not just once — several times."
Rob Gift, 45, who lives a block away, said he heard rapid gunfire as he was letting his dog out.
He said the neighborhood of well-kept single-family houses and manicured lawns is home to many police officers, firefighters, paramedics and other city workers.
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These nuts are going to get everybody's guns taking away now that the kennedys have the white house again.