Mass Shootings

The Texas Tribune reports: A newly created state appeals court denied Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton request to temporarily block the State Fair of Texas’ policy banning all firearms from its fairgrounds as the event is set to start Friday. The ruling comes after a Dallas County District Court struck down a similar request from Paxton on the new policy. …

The Birmingham News reports: Gunfire erupted in Birmingham’s Five Points South entertainment area Saturday night, leaving four people dead and at least 21 others injured. Officer Truman Fitzgerald said the shooting happened just after 11 p.m. in the 2000 block of Magnolia Avenue South. Initial reports indicate club patrons were waiting in line outside Hush, a hookah and cigar lounge …

NBC News reports: A Florida sheriff released the mugshot and video of an 11-year-old child charged with a felony of making the written threat of a mass shooting. The release came just days after the sheriff said he would start releasing the mugshots of students who are arrested for making school shooting threats after two teenagers and the 11-year-old child …

The Lexington Courier-Journal reports: Authorities in Laurel County, Kentucky, believe they have contained the suspect in a shooting that occurred about eight miles north of London on Interstate 75 Saturday evening within their search area, said Gilbert Acciardo, a spokesperson for the Laurel County Sheriff’s Department. Joseph Couch, the man wanted in connection with the shooting, purchased a gun and …

“I spent Friday night with the wonderful people of Winder, Georgia. And I thought about it as I was sitting there and thought about my own days as a high school student a long time ago. But it was Friday night. We should’ve been at a high school football game with high school students cheering on their classmates. “Instead, they …

Salon reports: Republican Vice Presidential nominee JD Vance said that school shootings were simply a “fact of life” after a shooting at a Georgia high school left four dead — the 45th school shooting in the United States so far this year. “If these psychos are going to go after our kids we’ve got to be prepared for it,” Vance …

CNN reports: Colin Gray, the father of 14-year-old Georgia school shooting suspect Colt Gray, appeared in court Friday and learned he could spend the rest of his life behind bars if convicted. Gray, 54, is charged with two counts of second-degree murder, four counts of involuntary manslaughter and eight counts of cruelty to children after Wednesday’s mass shooting, which killed …

The Associated Press reports: The 14-year-old suspect in a shooting at a Georgia high school that killed four people will stay in detention as his lawyer declined to seek bail at a Friday morning court hearing. After the hearing, Colt Gray was escorted out in shackles at the wrists and ankles in khaki pants and a green shirt. The hearing …

CNN reports: The father of the mass shooting suspect accused of killing four people at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, told investigators this week he had purchased the gun used in the killings as a holiday present for his son in December 2023, according to two law enforcement sources with direct knowledge of the investigation. Colt Gray, a 14-year-old …

The New York Times reports: Documentation obtained by The New York Times shows that, in 2022, the boy’s father had owned the type of military-style rifle that officials say was used in the deadly attack. Police also found recent evidence that the suspect was interested in mass shootings, particularly the 2018 massacre at a high school in Parkland, Fla., according …

“It just goes to show that the politics from this administration has nothing to do with people. They’re going to continue to push an agenda. It’s not the right agenda. “In my opinion, it’s not the right time to talk about what we see out there. We’ve got to get back to God in this country, we have really gotten …

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: Marcee Gray, the mother of the suspect in Wednesday’s Apalachee High School shooting, has a criminal record spanning more than 17 years and four counties, court records show. The 43-year-old has faced prosecution in Barrow, Fulton and Forsyth counties, accused of domestic violence, drug possession, property damage and traffic violations. She has also faced civil fraud …

ABC News reports: Richard Aspinwall, 39, and Christina Irimie, 53, were the two teachers killed in the incident, officials said at a Wednesday night news briefing. Students Mason Schermerhorn, 14, and Christian Angulo, also 14, were also killed, officials confirmed. Another nine victims — eight students and one teacher — were taken to hospitals with injuries following the shooting, the …

The New York Times reports: Federal investigators said on Wednesday that the suspect in the shooting at a Georgia high school had been interviewed more than a year ago by local law enforcement officials in connection to threats made online of a school shooting. The authorities were led to the suspect, Colt Gray, who was 13 at the time, after …

Via press release from the White House: Jill and I are mourning the deaths of those whose lives were cut short due to more senseless gun violence and thinking of all of the survivors whose lives are forever changed. What should have been a joyous back-to-school season in Winder, Georgia, has now turned into another horrific reminder of how gun …

CNN reports: The suspected gunman is believed to be a 14-year-old boy, a law enforcement source told CNN. The source said it is not yet known whether the teen attended that school. The suspect is alive and in custody, the GBI said in a post on X. The high school had received an earlier phone threat, multiple law enforcement officials …

CNN reports: At least four people are believed to have been killed and approximately 30 more were injured in the shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, although it’s unclear how many of the injuries are from gunshot wounds, according to law enforcement sources. A suspect, who is of student age, is In custody, but it’s unclear if the …

The Associated Press reports: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking to block a ban on firearms at the State Fair of Texas, one of the state’s biggest annual celebrations. Fair organizers earlier this month announced a ban on guns after a shooting last year on the 277-acre (112-hectare) fairgrounds in the heart of Dallas. The move …

NPR reports: Gun safety activist Gabby Giffords addressed the DNC crowd to recount her own experiences with gun violence. “For five years I served in Congress from a swing district. Everybody called me a rising star,” said Giffords, who was joined onstage by her husband, Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly. “Then… a man tried to assassinate me. I almost died. But …

The Associated Press reports: A New York judge on Monday banned Wayne LaPierre, the former head of the National Rifle Association, from holding a paid position with the organization for a decade, but declined to appoint an independent monitor to oversee the gun rights group. The split decision from Judge Joel Cohen came on the final day of arguments in …