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Apr 25, 2008 12:26 PM CDT

Chicago Hit With Early Crime Wave

12 murders this week prompt SWAT teams to take to the streets

(Newser) - An explosion of violence in Chicago last weekend—three dozen shootings that resulted in seven deaths—and a quintuple homicide on Wednesday have local police struggling for an explanation, as well as a response. Crime usually jumps later in the year, the Chicago Tribune notes, when both the weather and...

NIU Shooter Saw Himself as Sensitive Victim

Apr 21, 2008 12:39 PM CDT

NIU Shooter Saw Himself as Sensitive Victim

Kazmierczak's essays trace path from group home to dean's list

(Newser) - Steven Kazmierczak didn’t leave a note before his deadly February shooting spree at Northern Illinois University, nor clues to his motivations on his computer or cell phone. But in essays for graduate-school applications, the Chicago Tribune reports, the future killer writes extensively about his life and his mental problems—...

Jilted Lover Charged in Contract Hit on Teen Mom

Apr 16, 2008 10:38 AM CDT

Jilted Lover Charged in Contract Hit on Teen Mom

Man hired cousin to kill girlfriend and make it look like a mugging

(Newser) - The shooting death of an 18-year-old mom and wounding of her boyfriend as they sat with their baby son in a car was set up by the beau, cops now say. The boyfriend initially insisted the two had been shot by a robber in the Bronx, but now he and...

Florida Passes
'Take Your Gun to Work' Law

Apr 10, 2008 6:06 AM CDT

Florida Passes 'Take Your Gun to Work' Law

Biz groups fear increase in office shootings

(Newser) - Florida lawmakers have passed a law that prohibits most businesses from banning employees keeping guns in their cars on company property, Reuters reports. Backers hail the measure as a victory for Second Amendment rights. Business groups, fearing an increase in workplace shootings, are urging the governor to veto the so-called...

Freeway Shootings Rattle Los Angeles

Apr 1, 2008 8:12 AM CDT

Freeway Shootings Rattle Los Angeles

Cops say troubling spate of firings is random violence

(Newser) - A string of freeway shootings in Los Angeles County is causing more jitters than usual on its jam-packed arteries, the Los Angles Times reports. Windows of six cars were shot out by a mystery sniper wielding a BB gun yesterday, the day after a driver died from a possibly self-inflicted...

Mother and 4 Kids Killed in
Iowa Home

Mar 25, 2008 5:31 AM CDT

Mother and 4 Kids Killed in Iowa Home

Fatal car crash nearby linked to husband

(Newser) - A mother and her four children were found dead in their Iowa City home yesterday by police who received an anonymous tip, reports the Daily Iowan. Minutes later, cops responded to a nearby highway crash involving a car belonging to the father of the family, Stephen Sueppel. The dead driver...

China Admits Police Shot Tibetan Protesters

Mar 20, 2008 3:06 PM CDT

China Admits Police Shot Tibetan Protesters

State's claim of 13 dead, 4 wounded at odds with exiles' estimate of 99 killed

(Newser) - China admitted today its police opened fire on Tibetan protesters, wounding four in “self-defense,” the BBC reports. The statement from state-run Xinhua news agency is China’s first admission to hurting anyone since protests began last week. Chinese officials say rioters have killed 13; Tibetan activists reported security...

US Warning Shot
Kills Iraqi Girl

Mar 13, 2008 5:30 AM CDT

US Warning Shot Kills Iraqi Girl

Troops fired toward woman who seemed to be signaling to confederate

(Newser) - A warning shot fired by US soldiers killed a young Iraqi girl yesterday, AP reports. Troops in an area of Diyala province where several roadside bombs have recently been found fired a shot "near a suspicious woman who appeared to be signaling to someone while the soldiers were in...

Police Charge 2 in UNC Murder

Mar 12, 2008 7:33 PM CDT

Police Charge 2 in UNC Murder

Chapel Hill cops make first arrest, second is underway

(Newser) - Police in North Carolina have charged two men with the murder of a UNC student whose death drew national attention, the AP reports. One suspect, a 21-year-old, is in custody while the other, a 17-year-old, remains at large. Eve Carson, student body president at UNC-Chapel Hill, was found shot to...

LA Mourns Slain High School Football Star

Mar 12, 2008 3:10 AM CDT

LA Mourns Slain High School Football Star

19-year-old gang member charged with capital murder

(Newser) - Mourners packed the funeral of a Los Angeles high school football star yesterday as police charged a gang member with capital murder in his death, the LA Times reports. The shooting of 17-year-old Jamiel Shaw only three doors away from his home was the latest in a spate of killings...

Suspect Charged in Auburn Killing

Mar 8, 2008 2:18 PM CST

Suspect Charged in Auburn Killing

NASA-enhanced photo helps police nab man in Alabama

(Newser) - A man has been arrested and charged with killing 18-year-old Auburn University student Lauren Burk, thanks to a photo enhanced with help from NASA, the AP reports. Police arrested Courtney Lockhart, 23, in Phenix City, Ala., after a car and foot chase. He was initially sought as a suspect in...

UNC Mourns Student Leader

Mar 7, 2008 9:06 AM CST

UNC Mourns Student Leader

Student body president shot in 'random' attack in suburb

(Newser) - The campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill remains shaken "to the core" by the shooting death of its popular student body president, the News & Observer reports. Thousands attended a vigil yesterday, and the governor issued a letter of condolence. Police called the shooting of...

2 Toddlers,
4 Adults
Shot Dead in Memphis Home

Mar 4, 2008 7:39 AM CST

2 Toddlers, 4 Adults Shot Dead in Memphis Home

Worst mass killing in city in 35 years

(Newser) - Memphis police found two toddler girls and four adults shot dead in a home in the city's Binghamton neighborhood yesterday. Three other young children have been taken to a local hospital with gunshot wounds and are said to be critically injured, reports the Commercial Appeal. Police say the shootings happened...

Fireman Dead
in Fla. Wendy's Shooting

Mar 3, 2008 8:00 PM CST

Fireman Dead in Fla. Wendy's Shooting

Unemployed gunman injured 5 others before taking own life

(Newser) - A gunman killed a local firefighter and wounded five others in a West Palm Beach Wendy's today before taking his own life, the Palm Beach Post reports. Shooter Alburn Edward Blake left no suicide note but was said by one witness to be an ex-worker at the restaurant. "Looks...

Students Aren't Signing Up for Text Alert Systems

Feb 28, 2008 6:15 PM CST

Students Aren't Signing Up for Text Alert Systems

Sense of invincibility, fear of revealing personal data to blame

(Newser) - Campus shootings keep making headlines, and schools are increasingly adopting text message alert systems as a response—but students aren't jumping on the bandwagon, the AP reports. Experts chalk up low enrollment rates to students' sense of invincibility, unwillingness to reveal personal information and the cost of receiving texts. "...

Gunman Shoots 8 at LA Bus Stop

Feb 28, 2008 7:32 AM CST

Gunman Shoots 8 at LA Bus Stop

5 kids hit as thug sprays crowd with semiautomatic

(Newser) - Five children and three adults were wounded yesterday when a gunman opened fire on a crowded South Los Angeles bus stop minutes after classes ended at a nearby middle school. The school was locked down as police hunted for the shooter, who fired some 15 rounds into the crowd with...

Gang Gun Battle Shuts Down LA Neighborhood

Feb 22, 2008 7:02 AM CST

Gang Gun Battle Shuts Down LA Neighborhood

Streets, schools closed after police shootout with drive-by killers

(Newser) - Dozens of streets in Los Angeles were shut down yesterday following a police gun battle with gang members, the Los Angeles Times reports. Schools were locked down and residents ordered to stay in their homes as police searched for suspects in a drive-by shooting that left a man dead from...

NIU Shooting Victims Profiled

Feb 16, 2008 2:08 PM CST

NIU Shooting Victims Profiled

Loved ones remember young lives cut short

(Newser) - An Army Corps of Engineers vet who wanted to be a first grade teacher. A violinist who knit for fun. A rugby player and frat man who worked for the student newspaper. The Chicago Tribune profiles the five students gunned down in their oceanography class Thursday at North Illinois University,...

College Shooter Kills 5, Self

UPDATED

Feb 14, 2008 6:06 PM CST

College Shooter Kills 5, Self

Another 16 wounded after he opens fire in Northern Illinois lecture hall

(Newser) - A gunman opened fire in a packed lecture hall at Northern Illinois University today, killing five students before fatally shooting himself, the Chicago Tribune reports. Another 16 people were wounded. Witnesses say the gunman, clad in black, entered the lecture hall without speaking and opened fire. He had a shotgun...

Town Mourns City Hall Dead

Feb 9, 2008 7:00 AM CST

Town Mourns City Hall Dead

Gunman was town gadfly; feuded with city council over 150 parking tickets

(Newser) - Hundreds gathered in Kirkwood, Missouri, last night for a vigil to mourn the five victims of Thursday night's City Hall shooting, including two police officers and two city council members, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. The shooter was identified as Charles "Cookie" Thornton, a local contractor with a history...