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shooting rampage stories: 20 news summaries
fORT HOOD SHOOTING



 Hasan 
 Awake, 
 Talking 

Ft. Hood suspect has been off life support since Saturday

Nov 9, 09 10:26 AM CST
(AP) - A US Army hospital spokesman says Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, suspected in the deadly shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas, is conscious and able to talk. The spokesman says Hasan remains in stable condition, and has been up and verbal since Saturday, when he came off a ventilator. More »

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FORT HOOD SHOOTING

Gunman Hasan a Lifelong Muslim, Devout Soldier

He counseled returning soldiers with PTSD

Nov 5, 09 11:20 PM CST
(Newser) - The details emerging about Nidal Hasan, who authorities say is responsible for the worst mass killing on a US Army base, paint a picture of a man torn by contradictory loyalties. Hasan was a lifelong Muslim, an imam at his mosque said, but not an extremist. He had served 8... More »

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US Army • American Muslims • shooting rampage • psychiatrist • shooting • Iraq war • Afghanistan war • post-traumatic stress disorder • American soldiers • Fort Hood • Nidal Malik Hasan

 DC Sniper's Ex: Rampage 
 Was Scheme to Kill Me 

Muhammad hoped to pass off murder on madman and regain custody of kids

Oct 6, 09 1:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - The ex-wife of convicted Beltway Sniper John Muhammad was the ultimate target of his murderous 2002 DC rampage that killed 10 people. Mildred Muhammad says her ex intended to pass off her murder as the work of a madman and regain custody of their three children. She got wise to... More »

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ATF • shooting rampage • PTSD • Gulf War • child custody • John Allen Muhammad • Lee Boyd Malvo • post-traumatic stress disorder • scheme • Mildred Muhammad • Beltway Sniper

(Newser) - A gunman opened fire tonight at a fitness center near Pittsburgh, leaving five people dead. The shooter is believed to be among the victims, reports the Post-Gazette. About a dozen more people were wounded. Police say the gunman walked to the back door of the LA Fitness Center in Collier,... More »

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Pittsburgh • shooting rampage • gunman • gym

(Newser) - "You know who we're looking for." With that, two gunmen in ski masks opened fire on a group of teenagers waiting at a bus stop in Detroit, hitting seven of them and leaving three critically injured, reports the Detroit News. Witnesses say the shooting may be the extension... More »

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Detroit • gangs • shooting rampage • shooting • bus stop shooting • bystanders

Moscow Police Chief Kills 3 in Gun Rampage

Officer opens fire in supermarket after
wife leaves him

Apr 27, 09 5:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Moscow police chief went on a gun rampage in a supermarket last night, killing three people and wounding seven others. The chief, whose wife had recently left him, had finished a late shift and hitched a ride to the supermarket. He then shot the driver dead before entering the... More »

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Russia • police • Moscow • supermarket • shooting rampage • gun violence

German Gunman 'Totally Normal Teen'

Classmates say school shooter was shy but never seemed strange

Mar 14, 09 2:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - The 17-year-old who calmly gunned down his former classmates and teachers in Germany this week before taking his own life seemed like a normal teenager, Der Spiegel reports. Tim Kretschmer was inconspicuous and shy, schoolmates say, but he wasn't a loner and wasn't considered strange. Police say they have searched... More »

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Germany • murder • school shooting • massacre • shooting rampage • Tim Kretschmer

UPDATED

 Ala. Shooter Trained to Be a Cop 


Mar 11, 09 12:36 PM CDT
(AP) - Authorities say the Alabama gunman who killed 10 people and himself in a rampage yesterday had once trained as a police officer. Michael McLendon, 28, briefly went through officer training in 2003, but didn't complete the requirements to join the force. Investigators still aren't sure what led McLendon to go... More »

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crime • murder • Alabama • shooting rampage • gunman • shooting • mass shootings • guns • Michael McLendon

 10 Dead in Alabama Shootings 

Rampaging gunman kills 9 before turning the gun on himself

Mar 10, 09 10:05 PM CDT
(AP) - A gunman went on a shooting spree in two neighboring south Alabama towns today, killing nine people before he shot himself, authorities said. Police are investigating at least four separate shootings in the towns of Samson and Geneva, all believed to have been done by the same man, whose name... More »

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 'Santa' Gunman Hid Son 
 From Ex-Wife: Cops 

Revelation of child from previous relationship stressed the Pardo's marriage

Dec 26, 08 5:32 PM CST
(Newser) - Bruce Jeffrey Pardo, who police say killed nine others in a Christmas Eve rampage in California, kept a child from a previous relationship secret from his ex-wife, the Los Angeles Times reports. Pardo did not support his physically handicapped 9-year-old son financially, but claimed him as a dependent for 7... More »

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California • murder • massacre • Christmas • shooting rampage • Santa Claus • guns • Bruce Jeffrey Pardo

'Santa' Shooter Had Bomb, Plane Ticket, Cash: Police

Death toll at 9 after another body is found in ashes of Calif. home

Dec 26, 08 2:03 PM CST
(Newser) - The discovery of another body in the charred wreckage of a California home brings the death toll in the Christmas Eve shooting rampage to nine, ABC News reports. Police say Bruce Jeffrey Pardo, 45, suspected of shooting his former in-laws while disguised as Santa, had $10,000 in cash and... More »

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crime • murder • bomb • Christmas • shooting rampage • Santa Claus • shooting • shooters • Bruce Jeffrey Pardo

Ex-Trooper Sought in
Dallas Shootings Dies

Police are working to match the gun used in Brian Smith's suicide with the murder weapon.

Dec 25, 08 6:39 PM CST
(Newser) - The former Utah state trooper implicated in a Dallas freeway shooting spree died in a Texas hospital last night after shooting himself during a police standoff, the AP reports. Authorities suspect that Brian Smith, 37, caused at least one of two roadside deaths Monday, but ballistics tests have yet to... More »

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suicide • Dallas • murder-suicide • shooting rampage • highway shootings • Brian Smith

 ATF Foils Skinhead 
 Plot to Kill Obama 

Tenn. neo-Nazis would have shot, decapitated 102 blacks before going after candidate

Oct 27, 08 5:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - Federal agents have broken up a plot by two neo-Nazi skinheads to assassinate Barack Obama and shoot or decapitate 88 black people, the AP reports. ATF agents said the pair planned to rob a gun store and target a predominantly African-American high school in a murder spree that was to... More »

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Barack Obama • high school • ATF • Tennessee • shooting rampage • assassination attempt • Neo-Nazi • Election 2008 • African-Americans

Mom: Accused Wash. Killer 'Desperately Mentally Ill'

Isaac Zamora, 28, recently finished jail time for drug possession

Sep 3, 08 2:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - Authorities in Washington are still piecing together what triggered Isaac Zamora’s murderous rampage yesterday, the AP reports, in which the 28-year-old described by his mother as "desperately mentally ill" killed 6 people, including a sheriff's deputy. Zamora recently completed 6 months in jail for drug possession; the deputy... More »

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crime • Washington state • shooting rampage • Skagit County • Isaac Zamora

 Gunman Kills 6
 in Washington
 Rampage

'Psychotic' suspect nabbed after police chase

Sep 3, 08 2:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Six people were killed yesterday in a wild shooting spree by a mentally disturbed man in northwest Washington state, according to authorities. The bloodshed ended when the shooter surrendered after a police chase, reports the Seattle Post Intelligencer. The dead, including a sheriff's deputy, and two wounded were discovered at... More »

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murder • Washington • shooting rampage • Mount Vernon • shooting • Skagit County

 Man May Have Planned
 Factory Rampage 

Man who killed 5, plus himself, in Kentucky had gun in his car

Jun 25, 08 2:59 PM CDT
(Newser) - The man who shot and killed six people at a Kentucky plastics plant today might have planned his rampage in advance, the Louisville Courier-Journal reports. A supervisor had to escort the worker from the premises following an argument with a fellow employee early this morning. The man took a gun... More »

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murder • factory • shooting rampage • shooting

 8 Shot in Harlem Rampage 

Teens in hospital after gunman seeks revenge

May 27, 08 6:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - At least seven young people are in the hospital with gunshot wounds after a shooter went on a rampage in Harlem, the New York Daily News reports. Cops believe the gunman was taking revenge after being jumped at a basketball tournament earlier in the day. The victims, all but one... More »

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New York City • revenge • Harlem • shooting rampage • gunman • shooting • gunshot wounds

SC Teen Faces WMD Charge, Life Sentence

'New Columbine' plan is federal case

Apr 22, 08 2:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - Ryan Schallenberger, the South Carolina teenager whose Columbine-style attack police say they foiled yesterday, will be charged with a federal count of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction, the AP reports. The charge, stemming from the 10 pounds of explosives discovered by Schallenberger’s parents yesterday, carries a... More »

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high school • South Carolina • school shooting • bomb • federal prison • shooting rampage • Columbine school massacre

Colorado Church Gunman Killed Himself

Shooter's 'love to hate' Christians comments surface online

Dec 12, 07 2:04 AM CST
(Newser) - Though Colorado church gunman Matthew Murray was shot by a security guard, the wound that killed him was self-inflicted, reports the Los Angeles Times. Murray shot himself after he was wounded by the volunteer guard who opened fire when Murray burst into the church with three guns and 1,000... More »

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Minneapolis • Colorado • shooting rampage • church shootings • Matthew Murray • Jeanne Assam

Town Stunned by Massacre

Rebuffed deputy kills five, dies in stand-off

Oct 9, 07 5:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - As more details emerged in the massacre at a Crandon, Wis., homecoming party Sunday morning, grieving residents are asking how a young sheriff's deputy who murdered his ex-girlfriend and five others with his SWAT-team rifle could have become a police officer without psychological testing. None is required in Wisconsin, reports... More »

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Crandon, Wisconsin • shooting rampage • Tyler Peterson • Forest County Sheriff's Office • Jordanne Murray • J.B. Van Hollen

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