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Staff Intercepts Possible Teen Shooter at Elementary School

Cops says 13-year-old Wisconsin boy had a rifle on him when he tried to enter Kenosha school

(Newser) - A 13-year-old boy has been arrested in Kenosha, Wisconsin, after police say he went to his old elementary school armed with a rifle. Authorities say the teen, who attends a nearby middle school, showed up at Roosevelt Elementary School on Thursday morning carrying a "suspicious" bag before he was...

Report: School Shooter's Family Begged Cops to Take His Gun

Missouri, where 19-year-old Orlando Harris killed 2 in 2022, doesn't have red-flag laws

(Newser) - Orlando Harris' family pleaded with Missouri police to confiscate the 19-year-old's bulletproof vest, ammunition, and AR-15-style rifle. They knew his mental health was fragile after more than one suicide attempt. Nine days later, Harris entered his former St. Louis high school and declared, "All of you are going...

Father Ignored Son's Shrine to School Shootings: Investigators

Colin Gray, 54, faces up to 180 years in prison on charges including second-degree murder

(Newser) - For the second time, a US parent is to stand trial in connection with a mass shooting by a minor. A judge ruled Wednesday there is enough probable cause for Colin Gray, father of the 14-year-old boy who killed four people and injured nine others at Georgia's Apalachee High...

Irked Sheriff Posts 11-Year-Old's Mugshot

Florida's Mike Chitwood is sick of false school-shooting threats

(Newser) - A Florida sheriff fed up with a spate of false school-shooting threats is trying a new tactic to get through to students and their parents: He's posting the mugshot of any offender on social media. Law enforcement officials across the country have seen a wave of school shooting hoaxes...

School Shooting Suspect's Mom Releases Open Letter

Marcee Gray apologizes to victims' families, says her son is 'not a monster'

(Newser) - The mother of Colt Gray, the 14-year-old boy accused of killing four people in a Georgia school shooting last week, says her "heart breaks" for the victims—but her son is "not a monster." In an open letter provided to CNN , Marcee Gray apologized to the victims'...

Suspect's Mother Called School With 'Extreme' Warning

Marcee Gray called Georgia high school minutes before the assault took place

(Newser) - The mother of the 14-year-old suspect in this week's Georgia school shooting called his high school with an urgent warning minutes before the assault took place, reports the Washington Post . Administrators apparently took the threat seriously but were unable to stop the attack.
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Cops: 16-Year-Old Fatally Shot Fellow Teen at School

Warren Curtis Grant, 15, was killed in Joppatowne, Maryland; a suspect is in custody

(Newser) - A student at a Maryland high school died after being shot by another student during an altercation on Friday in a school bathroom, Harford County Sheriff Jeff Gahler said. Warren Curtis Grant, 15, died after the shooting at Joppatowne High School, the sheriff said at a media briefing. A 16-year-old...

Suspected Teen Shooter Won't Face Death Penalty

Judges clarifies at teen's brief court appearance in Winder, Geogia

(Newser) - The suspected teen shooter at a Georgia high school this week made a brief court appearance on Friday, as did his father, who also faces murder charges .
  • Teen: Colt Gray, 14, appeared in court in Winder for less than 10 minutes, reports the New York Times . He answered procedural questions,
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Father of School Shooting Suspect Arrested, Charged

Authorities say charges have to do with Georgia man allowing his son to have a gun

(Newser) - The father of the 14-year-old accused of fatally shooting two students and two teachers at his Georgia high school Wednesday has now been arrested alongside his son. Colin Gray, 54, was arrested Thursday and is charged with two counts of second-degree murder, four counts of involuntary manslaughter, and eight counts...

New School Security System May Have Saved Lives

Staff member apparently alerted police, faculty to shooting with ID badge

(Newser) - As of about a week ago, teachers at Apalachee High School wear an ID badge on a lanyard with a panic button that alerts police. When the shooting began at the Georgia school on Wednesday, one staff member appeared to activate the alarm, leading to a quick police response. Law...

Amish Woman Dies 18 Years After Being Shot in School

Rosanna King was just 6 when she was wounded in Pennsylvania

(Newser) - A woman who was severely injured when a gunman killed five girls and wounded her and four other girls during an attack on their one-room Amish schoolhouse in Pennsylvania has died 18 years later, per the AP . Rosanna S. King, 23, died at her home on Tuesday, and a funeral...

Alleged Shooter Tried to Get Into Classroom, Was Stopped by a Student

And more details from the horrific Georgia school shooting

(Newser) - The harrowing—and devastating—details of Wednesday's shooting at Georgia's Apalachee High School are starting to come into focus, including the very first moments of the shooting that ended with two students and two teachers dead. A classmate of the alleged shooter tells CNN the suspect left their...

Suspect in Georgia School Shooting Is Student, 14

2 students and 2 teachers were killed at Apalachee High School

(Newser) - The suspect in Wednesday morning's school shooting in Georgia is just 14 years old, officials say. Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Chris Hosey told reporters at an afternoon news conference that the teen student will be tried for murder as an adult, NBC News reports. He said the four...

4 Dead, at Least 9 Injured in Georgia School Shooting

The shooting occurred at Apalachee High School in Barrow County

(Newser) - At least four people were killed and nine injured in a school shooting in Georgia on Wednesday morning, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation says. In a post on X , the agency said a suspect is "in custody and alive," adding that "reports that the suspect has been...

Teen Left Note Apologizing to Officers Who Shot Him

3 officers exonerated in shooting of 14-year-old who refused commands to drop air rifle

(Newser) - Three Wisconsin police officers who killed a student as he tried to break into his middle school with an air rifle this past spring won't face criminal charges, prosecutors announced Monday. In a statement exonerating Mount Horeb police officers Tyler Stephens, Carson Stoddard, and Steve Rosemeyer, Dane County District...

Alex Jones: 'Infowars Is a Sinking Ship'

Sandy Hook families are also now going after the conspiracy theorist's social media accounts

(Newser) - Alex Jones has ceased fighting the liquidation of his assets to pay Sandy Hook families after he spread conspiracy theories about the 2012 school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, that killed 26. Included in that liquidation is Jones' stake in his Infowars web program, but the families are now going after...

After 6 Years, Site of School Massacre Is Being Demolished

Parents invited to witness demolition of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School building

(Newser) - The three-story building where 17 people died in the 2018 mass shooting at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School looms over campus behind a screened fence, a horrific and constant reminder to students, teachers, the victims' families, and passersby. But now, after serving as evidence at the murderer's...

Sandy Hook's Surviving First-Graders Are Graduating

It's a 'bitterwsweet moment,' says one of the high school seniors

(Newser) - Wednesday's graduating class of students at Newtown High School in Connecticut will have 330 students. It should have been 350, however, and some of the focus will be on those missing 20—the young victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre of 2012. The slain first-graders and the six...

UVa Shooting Victims' Families Get $9M Settlement

But the families aren't done yet, also want a report on the shooting released now

(Newser) - The University of Virginia has settled for $9 million with the families of three football players who were killed and two students who were injured in a 2022 mass shooting, reports CNN , but lawyers for the families say the settlement isn't the end of the road for them. A...

Police Kill Armed Student Outside Middle School

Sources say Wisconsin suspect was 14-year-old boy

(Newser) - Police shot and killed a student outside a Wisconsin middle school Wednesday after receiving a report of someone with a weapon, the state's attorney general said in the first law enforcement briefing on gunshots that sent children fleeing and prompted an hourslong lockdown of local schools. Authorities had previously...

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