Authorities in Columbus, Georgia, said an altercation at a nearby party Friday night spilled over to the gas station.
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Commentary: I was shot in the Southern California desert. Why? That’s the wrong question.
Knowing a shooter’s motive is no protection from other shooters’ future acts of violence. For that, we need gun reforms – but our courts and our politicians aren’t stepping up.
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White supremacist gets life in prison for Buffalo supermarket massacre
His victims at the Tops market included a church deacon, the grocery store’s guard, a neighborhood activist, a man shopping for a birthday cake, a grandmother of 9 and the mother of a former Buffalo fire commissioner.
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Police seek motive of gunman who killed 3 at Michigan State
The gunman, who fatally shot himself during a confrontation with police, was neither a student nor an employee.
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Illinois gun-ban incites lawsuits at a rate of 1 every 4 days
The ban on dozens of semiautomatic rifles and handguns took effect immediately, but enforcement is under scrutiny after a state court endorsed a temporary restraining order in a case led by a gun dealer.
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Federal appeals court strikes down domestic violence gun law
The ruling is the latest domino to fall after the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority set new standards for reviewing the nation’s gun laws.
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Nebraska man who shot inside Target got rifle 4 days earlier
The man entered the Omaha Target Wednesday armed with an AR-15-style rifle. He fired several rounds before being fatally shot by police.
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Report delves into mass attacks, cites themes of domestic violence, misogyny
The report released Wednesday by the U.S. Secret Service’s National Threat Assessment Center analyzed 173 mass attacks carried out over a 5-year period from January 2016 to December 2020.
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Virginia teacher shot by 6-year-old student will sue school district
A lawyer for the teacher said that on the day of the shooting, concerned teachers and employees warned administrators three times that the boy had a gun on him and was threatening other students.
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Monterey Park shooting victims named; police seek motive
Investigators are looking into whether the gunman had relationships with the people who were shot at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio.