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Lonely Pa.
Gym Shooter Blogged About Attack Plans

Sodoni motivated by lack of girlfriend, sex

Aug 5, 09 10:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - George Sodini was apparently driven to murder by utter loneliness. The man suspected of killing three women in a suburban Pittsburgh gym appears to have left behind an online diary detailing his plans, CNN reports. “Why do this?? To young girls? Just read below,” it promises. In the... More »

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 Boxing Champ 
 Vernon Forrest 
 Shot Dead 

'The Viper' shot after gunpoint robbery: police

Jul 27, 09 6:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - Former pro boxer Vernon “the Viper” Forrest was shot and killed Saturday night in a skirmish after he was robbed, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Forrest had stopped at a gas station to fill his tires with air when a man robbed him at gunpoint. The armed ex-fighter chased the... More »

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boxing • murder • attack • armed robbery • welterweight • shooting • mugging • Vernon Forrest

Accused Killer of Abortion Doc Wrestles With Pro-Life Group

Operation Rescue
denies donations

Jul 26, 09 5:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Kansas City man accused of gunning down an abortion provider is upset over his rocky relationship with a major pro-life group, the Kansas City Star reports. In a jailhouse interview, Scott Roeder said he has donated thousands of dollars to Operation Rescue—which denies the donations, denounces Roeder, and... More »

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abortion • murder • shooting • pro-life • anti-abortion activists • George Tiller • Scott Roeder • Operation Rescue

Spectator Death, Squabbles Rock Tour de France

No one has tested positive for drugs, but spirits are still low

Jul 19, 09 1:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Cycling can't seem to catch a break. Despite a clean record on drug tests, this year's Tour de France will be wrapping up under dark clouds. Between the death of a 61-year-old spectator, a pellet-gun attack on riders, and accusations of sabotage between teams and individuals, the race itself has... More »

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cycling • death • Tour de France • sabotage • Lance Armstrong • shooting

(AP) - Five police officers were shot—two of them critically wounded—in a running gunfight in Jersey City today. Both suspects were killed in the shootout, which began on the street about 5am and ended when SWAT officers fought their way into an apartment where the man and woman had... More »

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New Jersey • police • Jersey City • armed robbery • shooting

(Newser) - North Carolina police have shot and killed a man who may have been the shooter responsible for five deaths in a nearby South Carolina town, the Gaffney Ledger reports. Members of the 100-member task force combing through Cherokee County, SC, visited the crime scene in neighboring Gaston County, NC.... More »

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police • South Carolina • robbery • North Carolina • serial killers • shooting • Gaffney • firefight

updated

McNair Likely
a Victim of Murder-Suicide

Evidence suggests
his girlfriend killed
him, then herself

Jul 4, 09 10:59 PM CDT
(Newser) - Details in the shooting death of NFL great Steve McNair are beginning to emerge. It now appears that McNair's 20-year-old girlfriend shot him several times before killing herself, the Tennessean reports. Both were found in McNair's rented Nashville condo, the girlfriend with a single gunshot wound to her head and... More »

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Tennessee Titans • murder-suicide • Steve McNair • quarterback • Nashville • shooting • Sahel Kazemi

(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

UPDATED

 Coach Shot Dead 
 at Iowa School; 
 Ex-Player Arrested 

Adult gunman in custody

Jun 24, 09 12:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - A top Iowa high school football coach is dead after he was shot by a former player in the school’s weight room—with students nearby today, the Gazette of Cedar Rapids reports. Ed Thomas was shot point-blank in the head; no one else was hurt. The suspect, 24-year-old Mark... More »

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Iowa • crime • murder • football • school shooting • coach • shooting • high school football • Ed Thomas

(AP) - Bombings and shootings killed more than 30 people across Iraq today, including high school students on their way to final exams, in a new round of violence ahead of next week's deadline for US troops to withdraw from urban areas. The attacks came two days after the year's deadliest strike,... More »

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Iraq • Baghdad • violence • bombing • troop withdrawal • shooting

(Newser) - Police discovered child pornography on a computer during a search of the home of suspected Holocaust Museum gunman James von Brunn, the Washington Post reports. FBI agents would not detail the amount or type of material discovered in the 88-year-old's Annapolis apartment. They also found a rifle, a handwritten... More »

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FBI • Holocaust • white supremacism • child pornography • computer • shooting • evidence • National Holocaust Museum • James Von Brunn

Von Brunn in 'No Condition' for Court: Judge

Hospitalized museum gunman, shot in face, still in critical condition

Jun 15, 09 7:27 PM CDT
(AP) - A white supremacist accused of fatally shooting a security guard at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum is in no condition to appear in court, a federal judge ruled today. James von Brunn, 88, was shot in the face by guards who returned his fire last week and is still hospitalized.... More »

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shooting • hearings • court appearance • National Holocaust Museum • James Von Brunn

OPINION

All Jewish
Spaces Need
Armed Guards

'Queasiness' aside, only guns can stop would-be killers

Jun 11, 09 3:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Yesterday’s Holocaust Museum shooting should stifle the queasiness American Jews feel around weapons, Jeffrey Goldberg writes for the Atlantic. “One of the lessons of the Holocaust to me is that it is more difficult to kill an armed Jew than an unarmed Jew,” he says. Had the... More »

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Holocaust • Jews • shooting • guns • National Holocaust Museum • James Von Brunn • Jeffrey Goldberg

Museum Shooter Charged With Murder

Slain guard opened door as courtesy to
von Brunn, 88

Jun 11, 09 1:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - The suspect in yesterday’s Holocaust Museum shooting has been charged with murder, the AP reports, and could face the death penalty; hate-crime charges are also possible. Slain security guard Stephen Johns was opening the door for James von Brunn when the 88-year-old fatally shot him, CNN adds; guards fired... More »

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murder • Holocaust Museum • Anne Frank • shooting • Emmett Till • gun possession • murder charges • James Von Brunn • Stephen Johns

Beck: Al-Qaeda Working With Neo-Nazis

Museum shooting proves conservatives, not just Jews, in danger

Jun 11, 09 9:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - Glenn Beck offered his own bizarre take on the Holocaust Museum shooting last night, telling his flock that it was a warning of things to come. “The pot is boiling,” Glenn gravely intoned, and nut-jobs are going to come out of the woodwork. “Groups like al-Qaeda are... More »

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Glenn Beck • white supremacism • shooting • National Holocaust Museum • James Von Brunn

Museum Shooter Was Growing Despondent

Struggling Von Brunn warned people that they wouldn't see him again

Jun 11, 09 4:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Acquaintances of James von Brunn say the 88-year-old man who witnesses saw open fire in the Holocaust Memorial Museum had grown increasingly unhappy in recent weeks, reports the Washington Post. One fellow white separatist said von Brunn "was barely making it" after his Social Security payments were cut, which... More »

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Washington • racism • Holocaust Museum • white supremacism • shooting • anti-Semitism • James Von Brunn

Shooter Tried
to 'Arrest'
Fed Members
in 1981

Von Brunn served
6 years in prison

Jun 10, 09 7:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - Details about the twisted past of the elderly man who killed a guard at the US Holocaust Museum continues to surface. In a bizarre incident in 1981, James von Brunn, then 62, stormed into the Federal Reserve's headquarters in DC armed with two guns, a knife, and a fake bomb,... More »

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crime • Holocaust Museum • Neo-Nazi • shooting • anti-Semitism • right-wing extremism • James Von Brunn

 Holocaust Museum 
 Shooter Is White 
 Supremacist; 
 Guard Killed 



His rambling site has racist, anti-Semitic rants

Jun 10, 09 2:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - White supremacist James Von Brunn is the injured suspect in today’s shooting of a National Holocaust Museum security guard, police tell the Washington Post. The guard has since died of his injuries at a local hospital, sources tell WJLA-TV. On his anti-Semitic website, von Brunn, 88, claims he served... More »

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crime • Washington DC • museum • shooting • anti-Semitism • National Holocaust Museum • James Von Brunn

 2 Shot at DC Holocaust Museum 

Suspect also shot, taken to hospital

Jun 10, 09 1:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - A man armed with a rifle shot a security guard today at Washington’s National Holocaust Museum, WTOP-AM reports. Police say two other guards fired back at the alleged shooter, striking him. A third person was injured by flying glass at the tourist attraction, which typically has high security. Guard... More »

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crime • Washington DC • security guards • shooting • National Holocaust Museum

(Newser) - Gunmen killed 11 people and injured 12 in a southern Thailand mosque today, AFP reports. Officials said between two and five armed men entered the mosque and fired “indiscriminately.” It’s the latest incident in a 5-year guerrilla war that has killed 3,700 in Narathiwat province. The... More »

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Thailand • mosque • shooting • insurgency • gunmen • Narathiwat province

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