“Mass Shooting”

Inside the Nightmare at 345 Park Avenue, a Manhattan Office Tower Under Attack

Jon Ferrer was working late Monday evening, reviewing tax returns and trying to get a head start on the week. The KPMG senior tax associate said he heard a faint alarm when he was in the bathroom, but thought nothing of it.

Then an associate walked over to his desk and gave him the horrifying news: There was an active shooter in their office building. “My heart sank to my stomach,” Ferrer said.

He was ushered into a partner’s office with about 15 co-workers, as colleagues pushed a desk across the door and put blankets up on windows in the room. They sat together in a circle.

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NYC gunman Shane Tamura found with note pointing to possible motive for Park Ave skyscraper shooting: sources

… In the note, which was several pages long, Tamura blamed football for his apparent struggle with the neurodegenerative disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), law enforcement sources said.

Tamura, who fatally shot himself in the chest, also asked that his brain be studied in the note, according to the sources.

MORE – CNN anchor Erin Burnett flamed for saying NYC shooter Shane Tamura was ‘possibly white’

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Shooter named as Shane Tamura: Gunman who killed 5 including police officer in NYC died by self inflicted wound, NFL offices may have been target

UPDATE: Rifle-toting NYC shooter Shane Tamura kills 5 —including NYPD officer — injures six before turning gun on himself at Blackstone, NFL HQ

Good live feed

An gunman with an assault rifle killed one police officer and injured at least six others after he opened fire in broad daylight in the heart of New York City before he apparently took his own life.

Security camera photos posted online showed the gunman wearing a sport coat and button-down shirt while carrying the large rifle near a midtown Manhattan office building that houses Blackstone asset management and the NFL on Monday.

SHANE TEMURA – ON X

H/T Patti Jo and XC

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Vance Boelter’s Life Before the Minnesota Shootings

The sudden change in the teenager was dramatic and unsettling, as if some internal switch had been thrown. Those who knew him could only wonder: What’s come over Vance Boelter?

One moment he was an affable college freshman, pursuing a family passion by trying out for the baseball team. The next, he was giving up the game and shedding his belongings — even his cherished baseball bat — as if to put away childish things.

Suddenly, he was telling dorm mates they were going to hell, denouncing a guest speaker on campus as “Satan’s worker” and announcing he was now “all in for Jesus.” It was a lifelong commitment he would just as suddenly violate 40 years later, prosecutors say, with an act of political assassination that would stun the nation and send his home state of Minnesota into communal mourning.

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4 dead, 14 injured in drive-by mass shooting outside Chicago nightclub: report

Four people were killed and 14 others wounded when gunfire erupted outside a Chicago nightclub Wednesday night, CBS Chicago reported, citing authorities.

Police said a drive-by shooting occurred around 11 p.m. outside the Artis Restaurant and Lounge nightclub on the 300 block of West Chicago Avenue in the Near North Side neighborhood of the Windy City.

Revelers were leaving the “high-end dining and nightlife destination” after an album release party for Chicago-based rapper Mello Buckzz.

Odd how this has received so little publicity compared to the Idaho incident. Higher body count, higher number of wounded but much less media.

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2 firefighters shot dead, 1 injured after ‘sniper’ ambushes crew responding to Idaho blaze: ‘Did not have a chance’

Two firefighters were killed and a third was injured when first responders were ambushed by an hours-long barrage of gunfire after arriving at the scene of a blaze in Idaho Sunday afternoon, authorities said.

The horrific attack, which began around 2 p.m. local time on Canfield Mountain near Coeur d’Alene, ended about five hours later when SWAT teams discovered the lifeless body of a man next to a firearm on the popular tourist trail, according to the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office.

… “We have currently one dead shooter based on the preliminary investigation that was being conducted. Keep in mind we had a fire that was rapidly approaching the body so we had to scoop up that body and we had to transport that body to a different location. We believe that it is the only shooter that was on that mountain at that time.”

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2 dead, several shot after firefighters ambushed responding to Idaho blaze — cops trying to ‘neutralize’ ongoing threat

Update: Shooter Dead

Two people were killed Sunday afternoon when firefighters responding to a brush fire in western Idaho were suddenly ambushed by gunfire, authorities said.

The burst of gunshots – which are still ongoing – erupted around 2 p.m. local time as first responders arrived at the scene of a fire at Canfield Mountain near Coeur d’Alene, according to the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office.

Twitter – Coeur d’Alene

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School Shootings No Longer Viewed As ‘Uniquely American’

I’ve always thought the concept of mass shootings, such as those in schools, were “uniquely American” was a rather American-centric form of ignorance. These things happen all over the world, after all, and have for ages. Most Americans who like to think of themselves as worldly, though, tend not to be as well-versed on what happens elsewhere as they like to believe.

But I had to acknowledge that it looked like we had a much bigger issue than most places.

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Austrian school shooter murdered his neighbour’s daughter during mass killing and left note asking his mother to look after his beloved cat

The Austrian school shooter who massacred 10 people at his former school on Tuesday killed his neighbour in the horrific attack, it has emerged.

Artur A., a 21-year-old from a suburb of Graz, was revealed to have shot and killed a young girl who lived nearby as further details emerged of his abandoned plans to carry out a bombing and messages left behind for family.

The former student of the school killed a teacher and nine pupils between the ages of 14 and 17 in Tuesday’s rampage in the city of Graz.

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Report: 10 dead including gunman after school shooting in Graz Austria

Update: Citing police sources, local media reported that the gunman was a 22-year-old former student of the school and was armed with two weapons, a pistol and a shotgun, both legally owned, one of which he turned on himself.

Ex-student shooter was bullied reports say.

h/t PA Cat

Ten dead in Austria school shooting, including suspect, police say

Twitter – Graz Austria Shooting

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