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Police: FBI background check blocked licensed gun dealer's sale to accused St. Louis school shooter

ST. LOUIS — The man accused of killing a teacher and teen earlier this week in a south St. Louis school shooting bought the AR-15-style gun from a private seller after an FBI background check blocked his attempted purchase from a licensed dealer in St. Charles.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Police: Gun taken away earlier was used in school shooting

St. Louis police have confirmed that the gunman who forced his way into a high school, killing a student and a teacher and leaving seven others wounded, used an assault rifle that had been taken away from him earlier this month

The Independent UK

Orlando Harris’ gun was taken away over mental health fears. How did he go on to commit the St Louis shooting?

It has been revealed that the gunman had a history of mental illness and that the firearm used in the deadly attack had been taken away from him just over one week earlier

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Editorial: Deny terrorists like Orlando Harris their weapon of choice? Hell no!

A national epidemic of mass shootings, with a particular focus on schools as targets, shows no signs of abating anytime soon as the volatile mix of guns and mental health continues to go unaddressed legislatively. It’s time to redefine what’s happening here: Monday’s school shooting in St. Louis wasn’t just…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

St Louis school shooting suspect Orlando Harris’ had ‘intended targets’ and history of mental health issues

Harris killed 10th grade student Alexzandria Bell and health teacher Jean Kuczka, 61, before he was gunned down by police eight minutes into the rampage

The Independent UK

Gun was earlier confiscated from St. Louis school shooter

Relatives of the gunman who killed a student and a teacher during a St. Louis school shooting had long been concerned about his mental health and worked with police to take a gun away from him — possibly the same gun used in the attack

The Independent UK

Record number of school shootings in '22

With more than two months left, 2022 is already the worst year on record

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Is Netflix’s Luckiest Girl Alive based on a true story?

The number one film on the streamer follows Mila Kunis as a writer who experienced a school shooting as a teenager

The Independent UK

Teacher who fled St Louis mass shooter discovers own son among victims

‘I saw a massive hole in his pant leg and all I could think of was, ‘My God, what did he get shot with?’’

The Independent UK

St Louis gunman Orlando Harris left ‘manifesto’ with list of school shooters and their death tolls

‘I’ve been an isolated loner my whole life. This was a perfect storm for a mass shooting,’ suspect wrote in left behind note

The Independent UK

Girl killed at St. Louis high school was 'wonderful, joyful'

The father of a teenager killed in a school shooting in St. Louis says she was a “joyful, wonderful” girl who loved to dance

The Independent UK

Orlando Harris: What we know about former student, 19, who killed two in St Louis school shooting

‘There are suspicions that there may have been some mental illness that he was experiencing,’ police chief says

The Independent UK

School shootings are already at a record in 2022 – with months still to go

As a Michigan teen pleaded guilty on Oct. 24, 2022, to killing four students in a December 2021 attack, America was learning of yet another school shooting. This time, it was a performance arts high school in St. Louis, where a former student opened fire, killing two and injuring at…

The Conversation

Devoted PE teacher and 15-year-old student dancer identified among the dead in St Louis school shooting

Jean Kirk Kuzcka taught physical education at Central VPA and was described as “a great teacher, very fair, very honest”

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Evening Standard

School shooting in St Louis, Missouri, leaves three dead including gunman

A woman and a teenage girl were killed in the attack, before the gunman was shot dead by police

The Independent UK

St Louis school shooting - live: Gunman who killed two, injured 6 claimed he was ‘tired of everybody’ at the school

Latest news on school shooting in St Louis, Misssouri

The Independent UK

Michigan teen pleads guilty to killing 4 in school shooting

A teenager has pleaded guilty to terrorism and first-degree murder in a Michigan school shooting

The Independent UK

Ethan Crumbley reveals gun was ‘not locked up’ as he admits 24 charges in deadly Oxford High School shooting

Families of the victims were in court on Monday when Crumbley entered his plea before Oakland County Circuit Judge Kwame Rowe

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Daily Mirror

Teenager admits murdering four in school shooting with Christmas gift gun from dad

Ethan Crumbley, now 16, used a gun bought for him as a Christmas present to gun down classmates as they walked between lessons. His parents have been charged with involuntary manslaughter

The Guardian - US

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones seeks new trial after nearly $1bn Sandy Hook verdict

Jury ordered Jones to pay $965m in damages to families subjected to harassment from Jones’s lies about Newtown school shooting

The Independent UK

Alex Jones seeks new trial after $1B Sandy Hook verdict

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has asked a Connecticut judge to throw out a nearly $1 billion verdict against him and order a new trial in a lawsuit by Sandy Hook families over Jones' lies that the 2012 Newtown school shooting was a hoax

WEKU

A guilty plea is expected in the Michigan high school shooting that killed four

A teenager accused of killing four fellow students and injuring more at Oxford High School last November is expected to plead guilty to murder next week, authorities said Friday.

The Independent UK

Ethan Crumbley, 16, to change plea to guilty in Oxford High shooting that killed four, prosecutors say

The teenager is expected to enter his guilty plea on Monday

Reason

You Do Not Need To Store Your Kids' DNA in Case of Emergencies

Fearmongering about mass school shootings leads to some dumb, privacy-threatening ideas.

The Independent UK

Is Netflix’s Luckiest Girl Alive based on a true story?

The number one film on the streamer follows Mila Kunis as a writer who experienced a school shooting as a teenager

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