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Man killed 'best friend' in attack on busy city centre street during Edinburgh Festival

Matthew Adam, 38, seriously assaulted Wayne Elliot, 53 on Princes Street in August last year.

Daily Record

Deadly shootings in California: The scourge of gun violence in the US

This week, the US state of California was rocked by two mass shootings just two days apart. The massacres are just the latest in a long line of shootings that have made the US the world's number one country in gun ownership and gun deaths. The carnage pushed President Joe…

France 24

Teacher who was shot by boy, 6, sent chilling warning text an hour before attack

Abigail Zwerner, 25, text a loved one complaining administrator's at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News weren't helping after she was concerned with a 6-year-old boy's behaviour

Daily Mirror

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Editorial: Unchecked gun violence reveals who we are as a nation

History is full of horrific events in which we shake our heads and ask, "How did that happen? What were they thinking?"

Tribune News Service

Terrified mum saw man shot in street as kids played nearby, murder trial hears

Amy Clowes watched as Luke Graham was fatally shot in the shoulder on June 13, 2018, and has been giving evidence during Callum Haplin's trial.

Daily Record

Mark Z. Barabak: I covered the California McDonald's massacre in 1984. Why does gun violence just get worse?

On a sunny July afternoon, James Oliver Huberty drove his black Mercury Marquis to a McDonald's restaurant in San Ysidro, near the border with Mexico, bearing a small arsenal and hundreds of rounds of ammunition.

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: A firearm-related injury is a chronic and expensive condition, but many victims are forgotten

Mass shootings turn heads and capture media headlines, but in truth they represent less than 1% of all shootings in America. Despite increasing recognition that firearm violence is an epidemic, we fail to acknowledge the disproportionate contribution of single-victim firearm injuries to the overall burden of gun violence.

Chicago Tribune

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Legal assaults on Illinois’ sensible new gun law are a travesty

No one can go to school, to church, to a concert, to a celebration, to a park or to a movie without fearing they suddenly will be targeted by a slaughterer wielding deadly weapons.

Chicago Sun-Times

Steve Lopez: 'The isolation and loneliness really get to me' and 'l I think about dying'

The smell of perfumed smoke turned my head Tuesday morning outside the Monterey Park dance club where 11 people were gunned down Saturday night. A man named Scott, seated in a wheelchair, was lighting incense sticks to honor the dead.

Los Angeles Times

Sheriff: Gunman who killed 11 didn’t know dance hall victims

Authorities say the 72-year-old gunman who sprayed bullets into a Southern California ballroom dance hall, killing 11 people, had no known connection with the victims and investigators are still trying to determine a motive for the massacre

The Independent UK

School shooting chief booted out of office after authorities ‘ignored gun warnings’

Abigail Zwerner was “shot purposely” in front of other students at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News

Evening Standard

Teenage gunman 'sparked open gang warfare on streets of Liverpool'

Boy would have used gun again 'to settle another score with potentially fatal consequences'

Liverpool Echo

Doting aunt, dance-loving mother, ‘Mr Nice’: community mourns Monterey Park shooting victims

Family accounts tell an interwoven story about the hope of starting afresh in a new country and shared joy

The Guardian - US

Leah Croucher murder: Prime suspect changed appearance while on run from police

Neil Maxwell lost weight and grew a beard to evade arrest for a sexual assault committed a year before the teenager vanished.

The Independent UK

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Alex Murdaugh trial – live: Legal scion told police killer’s motive for wife and son’s murder at crime scene

Second day of testimony to begin Friday morning in Alex Murdaugh’s trial for the murders of wife Maggie and son Paul

The Independent UK

Idaho murders – news: Victim’s mom slams ‘betrayal’ after attorney dropped her to represent Bryan Kohberger

Kohberger is accused of the fatal stabbings of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin in Moscow, Idaho, on 13 November

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NT Police say man, 21, and boy, 17, receiving treatment for gunshot wounds following unrest in remote Peppimenarti

Police say a 17-year-old boy has been shot in the shoulder following reported fighting involving weapons in the remote Top End community, with a 21-year-old man also injured.

Tribune News Service

Cities forge on to protect Lunar New Year celebrations after shootings

City leaders and Asian-American communities are mobilizing to protect Lunar New Year celebrations across the country after two separate mass shootings in California.

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Dallas officer, capital murder suspect shot, police say

DALLAS — A capital murder suspect was shot and killed and a Dallas officer was shot Wednesday in the Oak Cliff neighborhood, Dallas police said.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

Eric Burlison led effort to expand gun rights in Missouri. Now, as congressman, he wants to repeal key federal gun law

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Eric Burlison, who led the effort to expand gun rights in Missouri when he was a member of the state Senate, is now going after a cornerstone federal gun law used by the Department of Justice to reduce gun violence.

Los Angeles Times

Half Moon Bay shooting suspect charged with 7 counts of murder, is eligible for death penalty

HALF MOON BAY, Calif. — The man accused of killing seven people in a shooting rampage at a farm and nursery in Half Moon Bay — unleashing waves of terror, shock and grief throughout this rural coastal community — faces felony charges that could make him eligible for the death…

Chicago Sun-Times

Man found fatally shot in Chatham

Officers responding Wednesday to a call of a person shot in the 900 block of East 81st Street found a 42-year-old man with a gunshot wound in his back.

Tribune News Service

School board in Virginia fires superintendent in wake of classroom shooting

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — The Newport News School Board has voted to part ways with Superintendent George Parker III.

The Independent UK

Massachusetts nurse charged with strangling her two young children may have suffered postpartum anxiety

Plymouth County district attorney Tim Cruz identified Lindsay Clancy as a suspect in the case

The Independent UK

Chief defends delay telling public of mass shooter at-large

The police chief in the California city where 20 people were shot at a ballroom dance hall, 11 fatally, has defended his decision not to warn the public for hours that a killer was on the loose

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