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Nashville’s NBC affiliate reports: In one of his first sentences, Solomon Henderson wrote he “was ashamed to be Black.” He was anti-Semitic in his writings and posted a flyer from the Goyim Defense League, which is a neo-Nazi white supremacy group that visited Nashville this summer. Henderson said he was inspired by Candace Owens, a conservative Black pundit who previously …

Via press release from the Brady Campaign: Brady, the nation’s oldest gun violence prevention organization, responded today to President Trump’s apparent shuttering of the landmark White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention. The office – which opened in September 2023 under the leadership of President Biden – was responsible for managing a first-ever coordinated federal response to mass shootings and …

The Daily Beast reports: Gun lover Rep. Lauren Boebert is finally trying to make good on her dream of abolishing the government agency that regulates firearms. The Colorado Republican introduced a bill that would abolish the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosive (ATF). Boebert has been talking about getting rid of the ATF since at least 2023, when she …

The Associated Press reports: A court in Serbia on Monday convicted the parents of a teenage boy who last year shot dead nine pupils and a school guard and wounded six more people in a school in central Belgrade. The Higher Court in Belgrade sentenced Vladimir Kecmanovic, father of the boy, to 14 years and six months in prison for …

CBS News reports:  A 20-year-old Carlsbad man is accused of plotting a mass shooting at a government building in conjunction with Madison, Wisconsin, school shooter Samantha Rupnow’s attack at the Abundant Life Christian School. According to a gun violence restraining order obtained by CBS 8, FBI agents served Alexander Paffendorf after discovering Paffendorf was in contact with Rupnow and coordinating …

CNN reports: Madison police are investigating whether the 15-year-old shooter’s parents owned or possessed the gun used in Monday’s school shooting at Abundant Life Christian School, Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes said Tuesday. “We also want to look at if the parents may have been negligent. And that’s a question that we’ll have to answer with our district attorney’s office,” …

The New York Times reports: The shooter who killed at least two people on Monday at a Christian school in Madison, Wis., was identified as Natalie Rupnow, a 15-year-old student who later died from what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the police said. The shooter, who went by “Samantha,” opened fire in a study hall classroom with students …

The Washington Post reports: Police in Madison, Wisconsin, are searching for a motive after a student at a private, K-12 Christian school in Madison, Wisconsin, killed two people and injured six on campus on Monday. The shooter is also dead. Police Chief Shon F. Barnes had said in an earlier news briefing that the shooter had killed four, but the …

CNN reports: At least four people are dead, and another five are injured, after a shooting at a Madison, Wisconsin, school on Monday, according to police. The update came in during a news conference with police. Officers located a juvenile suspect who is deceased, Madison, Wisconsin, Police Chief Shon Barnes said at a briefing Monday. “This is a ever-evolving situation,” …

The New York Post reports: Multiple people were injured in a shooting Monday morning at a private Christian school in Madison, Wisconsin, according to reports. The shooting broke out just before 11 a.m. at Abundant Life Christian School, a K-12 Christian school in the state’s capital, and multiple injuries were reported, according to Channel 3000. Roads around the school are …

The Associated Press reports: A federal judge on Friday overturned Illinois’ ban on semiautomatic weapons, leaning on recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings that strictly interpret the Second Amendment right to keep and bear firearms. U.S. District Judge Stephen P. McGlynn issued the lengthy finding in a decree that he said applied universally, not just to the plaintiffs who brought the …

CBS News reports: Staff at a Kenosha, Wisconsin elementary school prevented a possible shooting by stopping a teen with a rifle on Thursday. Officials said a 13-year-old middle school student showed up at Roosevelt Elementary School with a backpack and a black duffel bag. Staff approached the teen as he tried to get in a side entrance. He ran away, …

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 …

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 Colt Gray has been arrested in connection with the shooting at Apalachee High School, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Colin Gray, age 54, has been charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second degree murder and eight counts of cruelty to children. Colt Gray, the 14-year-old student accused of killing …

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 …

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 …

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 …