Shootings
# shootings - Monday 13 May, 2013
Colorado cinema shooting suspect may plead not guilty by insanity
James Holmes entered a ‘not guilty’ plea by default – but lawyers may now plead insanity to spare the death penalty.
# shootings - Sunday 12 May, 2013
12 people, including a child, shot at New Orleans’ Mothers Day parade
Up to 400 people were participating in the parade at the time; three people were seen running from the scene.
# shootings - Monday 22 April, 2013
At least five dead in shooting at apartment complex outside Seattle
A suspect is among the dead, having been shot by police officers arriving at the scene.
# shootings - Tuesday 5 March, 2013
Dublin shooting was an armed robbery for online item
The gang called to the victim’s house under the pretence of buying something the man was selling online.
# shootings - Monday 4 March, 2013
Shootings reported in Dublin and Carlow
The unconnected shootings took place this evening – no one was injured in either.
# shootings - Sunday 30 December, 2012
Record year for crime in New York City with fewer murders, shootings
The most murders New York City recorded in a single year? 2,245 in 1990. In 2012? That number is down to 414.
# shootings - Friday 28 December, 2012
Woman allegedly ‘set up fake fundraising scheme’ for Newtown victims
The 37-year-old from the Bronx allegedly claimed to be the aunt of one of the victims.
# shootings - Saturday 22 December, 2012
One of Pennsylvania slain had been decorating hall for children’s party
Police still trying to discover motive behind shooting of three people in a rural area of Pennsylvania.
# shootings - Friday 21 December, 2012
NRA: ‘The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun’
The US’ powerful gun lobby group, the National Rifle Association, has called for armed police or guards to be deployed in every school in the country.
Bells sounded in Newtown to mark a week since shootings
26 bells were sounded – one for each of the victims of last week’s shooting – after a moment of silence.
# shootings - Wednesday 19 December, 2012
Four days after massacre, children return to school in Newtown
Sandy Hook elementary remains closed, though, and children have been invited to attend alternative schools next month.
# shootings - Saturday 3 November, 2012
Column: The Troubles may have quietened, but the trauma lives on
Although the peace agreement came into effect in 1998, the pain didn’t stop for many, writes Richard Barklie.
# shootings - Wednesday 26 September, 2012
The 9 at 9: Wednesday
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# shootings - Tuesday 25 September, 2012
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# shootings - Thursday 13 September, 2012
No apology but Taoiseach to ‘reflect’ on meeting with Kingsmills families
Enda Kenny met with families of the ten victims as well as one survivor of the 1976 massacre by the IRA in South Armagh today.
# shootings - Thursday 30 August, 2012
SA miners charged with colleagues’ murders after police shootings
Prosecutors have charged 270 mine workers over violent confrontation with police sparked by mining strike.
# shootings - Thursday 23 August, 2012
Memorial service for South African miners takes place
A widow of one of the men collapsed during the service, which remembered the 34 miners who died during last week’s strike.
# shootings - Friday 17 August, 2012
Norway’s police chief quits after Breivik report
A major report this week found that Norwegian authorities could have stopped Anders Behring Breivik.
# shootings - Monday 13 August, 2012
Gunman arrested after Texas shootings dies
The gunman was reported to have shot a number of people near the A&M University campus this afternoon.
# shootings - Saturday 28 July, 2012
Colorado shooting victims being laid to rest in Ohio, Texas
Matt McQuinn, who dived in front of his girlfriend during the shooting, and Jessica Ghawi, who survived another random shooting just months earlier, will both be laid to rest today.
# shootings - Tuesday 24 July, 2012
Families of Colorado shooting victims plan their goodbyes
Meanwhile, a Maine man has admitted to police that he brought a gun with him to a screening of the new Batman movie.
# shootings - Sunday 22 July, 2012
Man arrested after Clonsilla shooting
A male in his 20s received minor injuries in the incident.
# shootings - Tuesday 5 June, 2012
Verdict of Norway’s Breivik trial expected later this summer
Court says verdict won’t be out for at least a month after the hearings end in late June.
# shootings - Sunday 8 April, 2012
Tulsa residents fearful after shootings which leave three dead
Investigators in the US city believe the shootings, which also injured two others, could be linked having taken place within a three mile radius of each other.
# shootings - Tuesday 3 April, 2012
US offers $10 million bounty for Pakistani ‘mastermind of Mumbai attacks’
Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, 61, is believed to have plotted the 2008 attacks in which at least 166 people were killed.
The 9 at 9: Tuesday
Nine things to know this morning, including: more garda station closures, seven killed in US college shootings, and a new ‘flying car’ (video).
Former student gives himself up after college killing spree
The death toll from the shootings in California has now risen to seven.
# shootings - Tuesday 27 March, 2012
Father of Toulouse gunman ‘will sue France’ over son’s death
Meanwhile, it’s emerged that footage filmed by Mohamed Merah was sent to a TV station before he was killed by police.
# shootings - Monday 26 March, 2012
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# shootings - Saturday 24 March, 2012
Girlfriend of murdered French soldier to wed posthumously
Sarkozy’s office has indicated approval for the pregnant woman’s appeal to marry her late partner.
# shootings - Friday 16 March, 2012
French investigators consider serial killer in soldier shootings
Three paratroopers have been shot dead in separate but similar attacks in France this week.
# shootings - Saturday 11 February, 2012
The Daily Fix: Saturday
Your evening round-up of the day’s biggest stories – plus the bits and pieces you may have missed.
Man and woman killed in fatal Roscommon shootings
A 44-year-old man and 30-year-old woman were found dead in two cars in Cloonfad, Co Roscommon, last night.
The 9 at 9: Saturday
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# shootings - Tuesday 8 November, 2011
Massereene trial shown CCTV footage of attack
The trial of two men accused of murder and attempted murder at the Massereene army base in Antrim in March 2009 began yesterday.
# shootings - Monday 7 November, 2011
Trial of Massereene accused to begin in Antrim today
Two British soldiers were killed and a pizza deliveryman injured in the shooting at an army barracks in March 2009.
# shootings - Tuesday 4 October, 2011
Gunmen shoot 13 Shiite Muslims in Pakistan
The men were ordered off a bus and then executed by suspected Sunni Muslim extremists yesterday.
# shootings - Friday 19 August, 2011
Four more weeks of solitary for Norway twin attacks suspect
Judge says Anders Behring Breivik, 32, considers his solitary detention “a sadistic torture method.”
# shootings - Saturday 23 July, 2011
The 9 at 9: Saturday
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# shootings - Tuesday 5 July, 2011
Syrian army moves into Hama after massive demonstrations
Day 112 of the Syrian Revolution and Assad’s crackdown on the anti-government movement continues as tanks move on the city of Hama.



























































