The guilty pleas would set up a penalty phase where Nikolas Cruz, 23, would be fighting against the death penalty and hoping for life without parole.
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Man who killed 6 at Colorado birthday party was upset he wasn’t invited
Police say Teodoro Macias had been in a relationship with one of the victims and he’d had some kind of conflict with her family at a previous gathering.
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Gunman knew victims in California mass shooting, police say
A 9-year-old boy was among the four people killed in the ‘horrific massacre’ Wednesday at an office building.
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Colorado shooting suspect passed check in legal gun purchase
Investigators are seeking a motive for the attack that killed 10, but they don’t know yet why the suspect chose the grocery store in Boulder or what led him to carry out the rampage, the police chief says.
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Grocery store worker tells of narrowly escaping Boulder gunman’s notice
Meanwhile, hundreds of people paid their respects Wednesday at a growing makeshift memorial and a vigil in Boulder, Colo., where 10 people were fatally shot Monday.
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Three years later, Parkland school shooting trial still in limbo
One reason is the coronavirus, which has shut court operations down, and another is the sheer magnitude of the case, which involves the killing of 17 people.
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Canada mass shooting started with assault on girlfriend
The weekend rampage ended with 22 people dead in communities across central and northern Nova Scotia.
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Maine lawmakers push for new school safety center to reduce risk of shooting
It was a key recommendation of a consultant hired in the wake of the Sandy Hook shootings in 2012, but the state has been slow to act.
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U.S. mass killings hit new high in 2019
Thirty-three of the 41 attacks were shootings.
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Saudi aviation student legally bought gun used in Florida naval station attack
The FBI says it has found no signs of any link between a cyberattack on computer systems of Pensacola and the recent attack at the naval air station there.