Multiple fatalities in Canada shooting, one suspect arrested

August 10, 2018 By administrator

shooting leaves at least 4 people dead

Canadian police have arrested one suspect after a “multiple fatality” shooting in Fredericton, New Brunswick. At least four people are reported dead, two of them police officers.

Police responded to the incident around 7.30 am, and arrested the suspect just over two hours later.

Of the four people killed in this morning's shootings on Brookside Drive, two were Fredericton Police officers. No names are being released at this time. Please appreciate this is a difficult time for their families and our colleagues. We will provide more info when we can.

— Fredericton Police (@CityFredPolice) August 10, 2018

Toronto shooting: Gunman, 2 civilians killed as 15 people ‘struck by gunfire’

July 23, 2018 By administrator

“I know that it could have been worse,” the Canadian city’s police chief said.

Two people were killed after a gunman opened fire while walking down a busy street in Toronto on Sunday night.

Fourteen people plus the shooter were struck in what police described as an “exchange of gunfire.” The culprit was later also confirmed dead.

Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders said 15 people in total, including the gunman, were “struck by gunfire.”

Saunders said he wouldn’t “get into the minutiae of the investigation,” leaving unclear how many people were shot by the gunman and how many may have been struck by crossfire or ricocheting bullets.

The agency that investigates police-involved shootings said Monday morning the suspect was a 29-year-old man who had fired shots at groups of people several times while walking along Danforth Avenue.

An “exchange of fire” took place after officers located him, officials said. He was subsequently found dead nearby.

“I know that it could have been worse,” Saunders said.

Police said the the shooter was armed with a handgun.

Saunders said the act was not random, but added that investigators were not ruling anything out, including terrorism.

The ages and sexes of most of the victims were not immediately released.

Greektown is centered on Danforth Avenue, one of Toronto’s busiest thoroughfares. It features many restaurants, as well as housing on its side streets.

Stavy Karnouskou told the Toronto Star she was standing with a few friends outside a bar and “heard ‘pop, pop,'” adding: “I turned because I thought it was fireworks … and then the mother of a friend of mine goes, ‘They’re shooting at us — run inside!’”

Another witness, John Tulloch, told the Star he and his brother had just got out of their car when he heard somewhere between 20 and 30 gunshots.

Malmo Sweden: Shooting in Malmo leaves two dead, several wounded

June 18, 2018 By administrator

At least five people were injured in a shooting in the city of Malmo, according to police. The authorities have ruled out terrorism as a motive for the incident.

Two people were killed and four injured in a shooting in the southern Swedish city of Malmo on Monday evening.

The 18-year-old and 29-year-old died of their injuries shortly after they arrived at a local hospital, according to local media.

A police spokesman told the Svenska Dagbladet newspaper that the shooter could have fired from within a car on the group, which was standing outside an internet cafe in Malmo’s downtown Drottninggatan area.

One witness told the Aftonbladet newspaper that he heard 15-20 shots near the internet cafe.

Police have urged the public to remain calm and established a perimeter in Drottninggatan. They said they had no information on who the shooter or shooters might be and had no reason to think the incident was terrorism-related.

“It is probably a shooting between criminals,” police spokesman Fredrik Bratt said.

The Sydsvenskan newspaper reported that victims were known to police.

Feuds between rival gangs fighting over territory have taken place in major Swedish cities in recent years.

amp, es/aw (AP, AFP, dpa, Reuters)

Shooting outside US National Security Agency

February 14, 2018 By administrator

Shooting outside US National Security Agency

Several people have been shot at the National Security Agency’s headquarters in Maryland. The incident reportedly occurred outside the entrance gate.

United States police launched an investigation into a shooting in Fort Meade on Wednesday. According to local media, shots were fired outside the headquarters of the National Security Agency (NSA).

NBC News footage showed aerial images of what appeared to be police surrounding a man on the ground in handcuffs.

What we know so far

Local media reported that three people were shot and wounded and one person was in custody.
The White House said US President Donald Trump had been briefed on the shooting.
The FBI tweeted that the incident at Fort Meade has been contained, while the NSA tweeted that the situation was under control and there was no ongoing security or safety threat.
Earlier the FBI tweeted that officers had been dispatched to the scene.

What the National Security Agency does: The NSA is one of the US government’s main intelligence agencies. The secretive agency utilizes technological tools, including the monitoring of internet traffic for foreign intelligence and counterintelligence purposes.

Previous shootings near the NSA: In March 2015, two people tried to drive their sports utility vehicle through the NSA’s heavily guarded gate. Officers shot at the vehicle when they refused to stop, killing one of the passengers. According to news reports, the vehicle occupants might have taken a wrong turn after partying and taking drugs.

More to come…

law/kms (AFP, dpa, Reuters)

Las Vegas Shooting Near Mandalay Bay Casino Kills More Than 50 at least 200 wounded

October 2, 2017 By administrator

A gunman firing from a Las Vegas hotel rained a rapid-fire barrage on a huge outdoor concert festival on Sunday night, sending thousands of people fleeing until SWAT units found and killed him. More than 50 victims died, and at least 200 others were wounded, officials said, making it one of the deadliest mass shootings in United States history.

Online video of the attack outside the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino showed the country singer Jason Aldean performing outside at the Route 91 Harvest Festival, a three-day country music event, interrupted by the sound of automatic gunfire. The music stopped, and concertgoers ducked for cover. “Get down,” one shouted. “Stay down,” screamed another.

Germany: Constance disco shooting: Two people dead, say police

July 30, 2017 By administrator

A discotheque shooting in Constance in southwestern Germany has left two people dead, including a patron, say police. The attacker died after a subsequent shootout. Police have ruled out terrorism.

Police in Germany’s southwestern state of Baden-Württemberg said the 34-year-old alleged perpetrator of Sunday’s pre-dawn shooting had died of wounds after leaving the nightclub and ending up in a shootout with officers.

A terrorist motive was ruled out by a police spokesman, who said the incident appeared to have been a crime of passion by a sole perpetrator.

Three other persons inside the venue had been injured as well as a police officer hurt during the later shootout. The officer’s wounds were not life-threatening, police said.

They declined to confirm multiple reports that the dead suspect was an Iraqi who had long lived in Constance and was not an asylum seeker.

The multi-story nightclub, Club Grey, is located in an industrial zone about one kilometer from Constance’s small airport.

Phone calls, panic

Multiple emergency phone calls had been received around 4:30 a.m., local time, police said.

“Guests were able to save themselves by fleeing outside or hiding,” the spokesman added

The region’s German public broadcaster SWR initially quoted eyewitnesses as saying that a doorman was hit by shots from a semi-automatic pistol as he tried to resist the alleged perpetrator.

Disco ‘packed’

Eyewitnesses quoted by the German news agency DPA said, once inside, the perpetrator shot indiscriminately at guests over “several minutes”.

“The discotheque was packed. I reckon there were hundreds of people there,” the witness said, adding that he and friends fled immediately.

DPA said special police units rushed to the scene in the German city of 83,000 inhabitants, which lies directly on Germany’s southern border with Switzerland, not knowing whether the incident involved a single or multiple attackers.

Hamburg rampage

Germany remains on edge, after a fatal rampage in Hamburg on Friday.

A rejected asylum seeker killed one person and injured six others while armed with a knife seized at a Hamburg supermarket.

Hamburg authorities later said he was an Islamist due for deportation and known to police as psychologically unstable.

ipj/rc (dpa, SWR, AFP, Reuters, AP)

Google Earth markings indicate Azerbaijan shootings at Armenia settlements Video

July 6, 2017 By administrator

YEREVAN. – Results of the fact-finding which were conducted by the Human Rights Defender (Ombudsman) of Armenia, Arman Tatoyan, and his staff—and at Baghanis, Voskevan, Voskepar and Koti border villages in Tavush Province—have been posted on a common access map.

The respective Google Earth markings indicate the Armenian civilian settlements which the Azerbaijani armed forces targeted—the houses, buildings, and constructions that were fired at—from April to June, the Ombudsman’s office informed Armenian News-NEWS.am.

The fact-finding results were presented in Armenian and English.

Breaking News: Three dead in central Fresno shooting spree; suspect caught, linked to Motel 6 slaying

April 18, 2017 By administrator

By Jim Guy

Three people were shot and killed after a man went on a shooting spree Tuesday in central Fresno, randomly shooting at four white men, killing three, before he was taken into custody, police Chief Jerry Dyer said.

The 39-year-old suspect, identified as Kori Ali Muhammad, is also suspected in the fatal shooting of a security guard outside a Motel 6 in central Fresno Thursday. He is facing four counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder, Dyer said. He said Muhammad had expressed dislike of whites in Facebook posts; all of the victims were white. Dyer called it a “random act of violence.”

Two of the people shot outside Catholic Charities may have been clients of the social service agency, not employees, Dyer said. The third victim was a passenger in a Pacific Gas & Electric truck. A fourth man was shot at but not injured.

Read more here: http://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/crime/article145234709.html#storylink=cpy

Paris Orly airport: Man killed after seizing soldier’s gun

March 18, 2017 By administrator

A man has been shot dead after grabbing a gun from a soldier at Orly airport. Officials say the same individual was also behind a police shooting that took place just hours earlier in another part of Paris.

French Interior Ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet said the man ran into a shop inside the airport before he was shot dead by security forces on Saturday morning.

“The man succeeded in seizing the weapon of a soldier. He was quickly neutralized by the security forces,” Brandet said.

A security source quoted by Reuters said the same attacker had shot and injured a police officer at a traffic stop north of Paris earlier Saturday.

“A police road check took place in Stains this morning at 0700. It turned bad and the individual shot at the officers before fleeing,” the source said.

“This same man – a radicalized Muslim known to intelligence services and the justice system – then took a Famas (assault weapon) from a soldier at Orly’s southern terminal … before being shot dead by a soldier.”

French prosecutors said they had opened an anti-terrorist probe. The shootings come weeks before presidential elections in France, which remains under a state of emergency following a string of recent terror attacks.

Airport evacuated, flights diverted

Emergency vehicles surrounded Orly airport in Paris’ southern outskirts as the elite RAID special police force secured the area.

A bomb sweep was carried out to make sure the man was not wearing an explosive belt, but nothing was found, officials said. The assailant’s motive wasn’t immediately clear.

Thousands of passengers were evacuated from the building. The airport authority said air traffic to Orly had been “completely suspended” and that all flights were being redirected to Charles de Gaulle airport.

“We had queued up to check in for the Tel Aviv flight when we heard three or four shots nearby,” witness Franck Lecam told AFP. “We are all outside the airport, about 200 meters from the entrance. There are policemen, emergency workers and soldiers everywhere in all directions.”

Country on edge

A national police official said the soldier accosted by the slain man was part of the Sentinel special force installed around France to protect sensitive sites after a series of deadly attacks.

The shooting follows a similar incident in Paris last month in which an Egyptian man wielding a machete was shot after attacking soldiers guarding the Louvre Museum. In November 2015, multiple terrorists killed 130 people in Paris. In July 2016, an attacker drove a truck through crowds in Nice celebrating Bastille Day, killing 86 people.

Orly airport is south of Paris and is the French capital’s second-largest airport after Charles de Gaulle.

nm/rc (AFP, dpa, Reuters)

Source: http://www.dw.com/en/paris-orly-airport-man-killed-after-seizing-soldiers-gun/a-38006216

Canada: 6 dead in shooting at Quebec City mosque, 2 men arrested

January 30, 2017 By administrator

Two men were arrested following last night’s shooting at a Quebec City mosque that left six people dead and 18 wounded, in what Quebec’s premier described as a “murderous act directed at a specific community.”

Thirty-nine people escaped the Centre Culturel Islamique de Québec (Islamic cultural centre of Quebec) in the Sainte-Foy neighbourhood without injuries, according to Quebec provincial police Sgt. Christine Coulombe.

Initially, it was reported that eight people were wounded, but authorities updated that number to 19 Monday morning.

Five were still in critical condition in hospital Monday morning, including three people who are in intensive care. Another 13 people have been released, according to a hospital spokesperson.

Coulombe said the people who died in the shooting, which occurred during Sunday evening prayers, ranged in age from 35 to 70.

One of the two men arrested was not far from the scene of the shooting, while the other was arrested near l’île d’Orléans, five kilometres from downtown Quebec City, following a police chase of the SUV he was driving.

Police called special technicians to where the chase ended, because they believed explosives may have been inside the SUV. Radio-Canada, CBC’s French-language service, reported a gun was found inside the vehicle.

Police are investigating whether the two men attended Laval University, a source close to the investigation told Radio-Canada. A search is underway at a home in Sainte-Foy.

Police have erected perimeters and road blocks in other areas of Quebec City as part of their investigation.

Premier Philippe Couillard said the shooting should be treated as an act of terrorism.

“It’s a murderous act directed at a specific community,” he said at a news conference just after 1:30 a.m. ET.

“I think the majority of citizens, not just in Quebec but elsewhere, would describe it that way.”

Earlier, Couillard said, “Quebec categorically rejects this barbaric violence.” He also offered solidarity with the families of the victims.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described the shooting as a “terrorist attack on Muslims in a centre of worship and refuge.”

“Muslim-Canadians are an important part of our national fabric, and these senseless acts have no place in our communities, cities and country,” said Trudeau in a statement.

Attack on the ground floor

Quebec City police Const. Étienne Doyon said men were mostly inside the mosque when the shooting began just before 8 p.m.

The men were praying on the ground floor of the building, while women and children were upstairs.

By 10:40 p.m., police said the situation was under control.

“The building is secure and the occupants evacuated. The investigation continues,” tweeted Quebec City police, who are working with the RCMP and provincial police.

A Québécois accent’

A witness who asked to remain anonymous told Radio-Canada that two masked individuals entered the mosque.

“It seemed to me that they had a Québécois accent. They started to fire, and as they shot, they yelled, ‘Allahu akbar!’ The bullets hit people that were praying. People who were praying lost their lives. A bullet passed right over my head.

“There were even kids. There was even a three-year-old who was with his father,” the witness said.