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Austria to Tighten Gun Laws Within Days of Shooting

'[We] promised that we would not go back to business as usual,' says Christian Stocker

(Newser) - Eight days after a rare school shooting in Austria, the government has introduced a slew of proposed laws aimed at gun control. The measures would raise the minimum age to own certain firearms from 21 to 25, increase the waiting period between purchase and delivery from three days to four...

After Mass Shooting, Austria's 'Incredibly Difficult' Aftermath

High school in Graz may not have been prepared for rare attack like this, which left 10 dead

(Newser) - A 21-year-old gunman killed nine people at a high school in Austria on Tuesday before taking his own life, authorities say. Six females and three males died and another 12 people were injured as bullets ripped through the building just before 10am local time, per the BBC . Police say the...

At Austrian School, a 'Terrible Tragedy'

Authorities say at least 8 victims are dead after mass shooting in the city of Graz

(Newser) - At least eight people were killed in a shooting at a school in the Austrian city of Graz on Tuesday, and the suspected perpetrator also died, the city's mayor said. Police said they were deployed to the school after shots were heard there. Mayor Elke Kahr described the events...

Police: Boy's Mother Gave Him Ammunition for School Attack

Both face terrorism charges after grandmother finds weapons stash

(Newser) - A San Antonio woman faces terrorism charges after police said an investigation found she supplied her son with ammunition and tactical gear for an attack he was planning on his middle school. Ashley Pardo, 33, was arrested Monday, ABC News reports. Her son made an appearance Tuesday in juvenile court,...

Father of Female School Shooter Is Charged

Police say father gave his teen daughter gun used in attack

(Newser) - The father of a Wisconsin teen who carried out a deadly school shooting is now facing felony charges, the latest in a series of prosecutions targeting parents in the aftermath of gun violence, the AP reports. Natalie Rupnow, 15, killed a 14-year-old student as well as a teacher at...

Florida State Shooting Suspect Did Not Know His Victims

The 2 men killed were food service workers

(Newser) - Police say the Florida State student accused of killing two people and injuring six others during a shooting spree on campus didn't know his victims. The BBC reports Tallahassee Police Chief Lawrence Revell said in a video statement: "At this point, there does not appear to be any...

Trump on Latest Mass Shooting: 'The Gun Doesn't Do the Shooting'

President promises to protect 2nd amendment rights

(Newser) - In the wake of the the latest US mass shooting, which left two dead and at least six injured on the campus of Florida State University Thursday , President Trump made a vow to protect the Second Amendment. Asked by a reporter in the Oval Office if he wanted to make...

Warrant: Dallas School Shooter Got in Through Unsecured Door

2 of 4 hospitalized students have been released

(Newser) - An armed 17-year-old student slipped into a Dallas high school through an unsecured door on Tuesday, setting off a chain of events that ended with four classmates injured, according to an arrest warrant released Wednesday. Per the warrant, surveillance footage captured an unidentified student open the door at Wilmer-Hutchins...

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Dallas School Shooting Suspect Arrested

Shooting comes almost a year to the day after previous shooting at Wilmer-Hutchins High School

(Newser) - The alleged shooter accused of injuring four teens at a Dallas high school Tuesday was arrested hours after the shooting. Tracy Haynes, 17, faces a charge of aggravated assault mass shooting, the Dallas News reports. Haynes' aunt says her nephew turned himself in.

Final Report: Nashville Shooter Planned Attack for Years

No manifesto was found, but shooter documented plans in notebooks

(Newser) - Metro Nashville Police on Wednesday announced they have closed their investigation into the March 2023 shooting at Covenant School in Nashville and released a 48-page report that outlined their findings. Per the report, police found shooter Audrey Hale meticulously planned the attack for years and hoped the violence would gain...

7 Years Later, the 'Room 1214' Text Thread Binds Them

Former Parkland teacher Ivy Schamis still supports her class after school shooting

(Newser) - It's been seven years since two of her students were fatally shot in Room 1214 of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. "I was the only adult in there," former teacher Ivy Schamis tells Emily Baumgaertner Nunn of the New York Times . "That's...

Cops: Girls Planned 'Mass Casualty Attack' on Texas High School

FBI informed local law enforcement of credible threat from girls, ages 15 and 16

(Newser) - Two girls, ages 15 and 16, are accused of plotting a "mass casualty attack" on a high school in Texas, authorities say. The girls allegedly planned to use guns and pipe bombs in an attack on Memorial High School in the Houston suburb of Hedwig Village, KPRC 2 reports....

After Shooting, Nearly 500 Arrests Over School Threats

More police departments adopt zero-tolerance policy, reports Washington Post

(Newser) - In September, police say a 14-year-old boy killed four fellow students at Apalachee High School in Georgia. Over the next two weeks, authorities around the US arrested 477 people—the vast majority of them students—for making threats against schools, according to a Washington Post investigation. The gist of the...

Two School Shooters Followed Each Other Online
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Two School Shooters Followed Each Other Online

ProPublica looks at the dark online network that may foment future attacks

(Newser) - In December, a teenage shooter killed two people and herself inside her school in Madison, Wisconsin. In January, a teenage shooter killed one student and himself inside his school in Nashville, Tennessee. Now, a story in ProPublica investigates a troubling link between the shootings—the two teens never met in...

Inside the Hunt for a Notorious Swatter
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Inside the Hunt for a Notorious Swatter

Wired reports how a lone private investigator helped authorities catch their man

(Newser) - He went by the name "Torswats" online, a reference to the particular brand of terror he reveled in unleashing: swatting, or placing a hoax call about a shooting that results in an aggressive police response. In fact, in what a deeply reported story at Wired describes as a "...

After School Shooting, Focus Is on Troubling Online Posts

If someone 'said something, maybe more could have been done,' says Nashville police chief

(Newser) - After a school shooting in Nashville on Wednesday, the police chief wishes somebody had raised a red flag about the gunman, identified as 17-year-old Solomon Henderson, reports the Tennessean . Police say Henderson, a student at Antioch High School, fatally shot himself after killing 16-year-old Josselin Corea Escalante and wounding another...

Girl, 16, Killed in Shooting at Nashville High School

The 17-year-old gunman is also dead, police say

(Newser) - Nashville police say a female student was killed in a shooting Wednesday at Antioch High School; a second student suffered what Metro Nashville Police Department rep Don Aaron described as a grazing wound, reports the Tennessean . Police identified the slain student as 16-year-old Josselin Corea Escalante, CBS News reports. Her...

Serbian Court Gives Parents of School Shooter Prison Terms

'We are not satisfied,' says the mother of one of the 10 people killed

(Newser) - A court in Serbia on Monday convicted the parents of a teenage boy who last year shot to death 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, the father, to 14 years, six...

Victims in Wisconsin School Shooting Identified

Girl, 14, and teacher killed at Christian school

(Newser) - The student and teacher killed in a school shooting in Madison, Wisconsin, on Monday have been identified. Rubi Vergara, 14, and Erin West, 42, were fatally shot at Abundant Life Christian School, CBS News reports. Vergara was a freshman in high school who had attended the private school since kindergarten,...

Wisconsin School Shooter Had 'Unsettled' Childhood

According to a Washington Post review of court records

(Newser) - Police are still working to piece together the motive of the 15-year-old girl who killed two and injured six more at a Christian school in Wisconsin Monday and haven't said much about their suspicions, but details are starting to trickle out about her background. Court records paint a picture...

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