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Patch.com
April 23, 2018
SARASOTA, FL – A Miami man has been arrested following a shooting Sunday, April 22, on Lido Beach. Ransiel F. Pages-Cajuso, 27, of Miami, has been arrested and charged with multiple felonies following an altercation and shooting that occurred near the Lido Beach public parking lot. On Sunday atÃâà...
Patch.com
April 23, 2018
DAVENPORT, FL -- The Polk County Sheriff's Office is trying to find a car that was involved in a shooting incident Monday, April 23. Around 7:30 a.m., deputies responded to a call of shots being fired on Haversham Way in Legacy Park off U.S. 27 in Davenport. When they arrived, deputies could find noÃâà...
Ocala
April 23, 2018
She also feels the A.L.I.C.E. — or Alert Lockdown, Inform, Counter and Evacuate — training put in place by Marion County Public Schools in February in the wake of the Parkland school shooting in South Florida, was critical to safeguarding students. Sky Bouche, 19, of Crystal River entered Forest High onÃâà...
NBC2 News
April 23, 2018
One woman was killed in a shooting late Saturday night in Bonita Springs. Bullets were fired shortly after 11 p.m. near the area of Matheson Avenue and Park Avenue, according to deputies. Investigators are treating the death of 25-year-old Destiney Bocanegra as a homicide. Neighbors described the nightÃâà...
Florida Today
April 23, 2018
Service and sacrifice: Colleagues remember Palm Bay police officers killed in 1987 mass shooting ... Bay police will pay tribute to two of its fallen officers Monday on the 31st anniversary of the shooting rampage by gunman William Cruse (Photo: Tim Shortt , FLORIDA TODAY, Tim Shortt , FLORIDA TODAY).
WTOL.com
April 22, 2018
A student was wounded in a shooting Friday at a high school in Ocala, FL. The shooting occurred shortly before students were to walk out as part of a national protest against gun violence. More. Top Video. Judge orders second round of psychological evaluation for Toledo serial killer 01:41; LocalÃâà...
Patch.com
April 21, 2018
MARION COUNTY, FL – The former teacher of 19-year-old Forest High School accused shooter Sky Bouche said she encountered him in the hallway outside her classroom after ... She walked out of the classroom and encountered a girl running down the hall, screaming that someone was shooting a gun.
CNN
April 20, 2018
(CNN) Two deputies were killed Thursday when a man walked up to them in a Florida restaurant while they were eating and opened fire, a Gilchrist ... Schultz told reporters Thursday he wanted to focus on telling the stories of the deputies while investigators began their work looking into the shooting.
Sun Sentinel
April 3, 2018
14 shooting that killed 17, is serving as a pilot for possible district-wide security changes. Some schools ... Rick Scott is providing up to eight Florida Highway Patrol officers to guard the school, and extra Broward Sheriff's deputies and district police officers are also stationed there. The backpacks wereÃâà...
Sun Sentinel
April 2, 2018
But investigators are trying to figure out if the assailant used more than one type of gun, or multiple people were shooting outside the mall. Witness Kamerron Row said he noticed “hundreds of people” in the mall's parking lot as he was walking into shopping center's AutoZone store, 1299 NW 40th Ave.
Sun Sentinel
April 2, 2018
Ten South Florida cities plan to announce this afternoon their intent to sue the state because they want the power to regulate firearms locally. There has been a national conversation about guns after the Feb. 14 Parkland school shooting that left 17 dead and 17 wounded. Now, some cities want to undo aÃâà...
ABC Action News
April 2, 2018
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Police are investigating a deadly shooting early Monday morning outside a St. Petersburg nightclub. Authorities say shortly after 1:30 a.m., 33-year-old Jermaine Long was shot and killed in the parking lot of The Sugar Room. Another man was injured in the shooting, but onlyÃâà...
Patch.com
April 2, 2018
... time in the leg and transported to Sarasota Memorial Hospital. He is expected to survive. Police were investigating a series of burglaries on the area. The unidentified man was on a bike and pulled a pellet gun on police when they tried to question him. The officer involved in the shooting has been placedÃâà...
WPLG Local 10
March 31, 2018
The car was later found abandoned with its front airbags deployed near a dollar store about a mile from the site of the shooting. The gunman, who was not identified, turned himself in around 1 p.m., police said. He is being questioned by detectives. "It's another unfortunate, senseless act of violence thatÃâà...
Naples Daily News
March 31, 2018
Background checks for gun purchases spiked as Florida lawmakers debated gun reform measures in the wake of the Parkland school shooting, state data ... It was the first gun control legislation to pass in Florida since 1996. ... The spike was more intense and lasted longer than after previous shootings.
Florida Today
March 30, 2018
The statement has been a crucial piece of evidence in the case and a major point of contention with questions on whether the 12-page statement Salman signed was fact or fiction. Noor Salman and her husband, Pulse nightclub gunman Omar Mateen, go to a shooting range in Florida before the OrlandoÃâà...
CBS Miami
March 29, 2018
PARKLAND (CBSMiami) — Confessed Parkland school gunman Nikolas Cruz is getting stacks of fan mail and love letters along with hundreds of dollars for his commissary account. Fans span from teenage girls to women and even older men – some sending suggestive pictures tucked inside greetingÃâà...
Sun Sentinel
March 17, 2018
A Broward County judge on Friday issued the state's first order temporarily removing guns from a person under Florida's new gun-control laws. ... Authorities said it was the latest in a series of encounters law enforcement had with the man, though he has no prior history of arrests in Florida. He had someÃâà...
Sun Sentinel
March 16, 2018
Peterson, the school resource officer, resigned after being suspended by the Broward Sheriff's Office for failing to confront the shooter during the Feb. 14 attack at the Parkland school. The videos, released in response to a lawsuit from the South Florida Sun Sentinel, Miami Herald and CNN under Florida'sÃâà...
PBS NewsHour
March 15, 2018
WASHINGTON — The FBI could have and should have done more to investigate information it received prior to last month's massacre at Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the agency's deputy director told a Senate panel on Wednesday. David Bowdich told the Senate Judiciary CommitteeÃâà...
NBCNews.com
March 12, 2018
"One of my students said, 'There's gunshots, just like at the school in Florida'" after seeing the pirate get shot, Campbell said. "I didn't even think about it at that moment. What do you do? What do you say to that?" The shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland happened nearly a monthÃâà...
TIME
March 12, 2018
(PLANT CITY, Fla.) — Authorities say a man was fatally shot at a Florida business after he shot and wounded two other men. The Tampa Bay Times reports the shooting occurred Monday afternoon at Bliss Enterprises of Plant City, Inc., a manufacturer of barns and garages. The Hillsborough County Sheriff'sÃâà...
PBS NewsHour
March 9, 2018
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Among the newly released recordings of 911 calls from deadly Florida school shooting, the parents of a 17-year-old girl can be heard telling a dispatcher that their ... He broke with the lobbying group after the shootings, and his new stance reinvigorated the gun-control movement.
Sun Sentinel
March 8, 2018
Lawyers for the Broward Sheriff's Office and the school district are due in court Thursday for a hearing on a lawsuit filed by media companies seeking access to video footage from outside last month's shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. The South Florida Sun Sentinel and other mediaÃâà...
WCTV
March 8, 2018
MADISON COUNTY, Fla. (WCTV) -- The Madison Police Department and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement are currently investigating a shooting that left one person dead. The Madison County Sheriff's Office says the shooting happened Wednesday at a residence on Mandina Avenue. AccordingÃâà...
Sun Sentinel
March 8, 2018
The afternoon of the shooting, Miramar police placed the SWAT team on stand-by in case a request came from the Broward Sheriff's Office to assist. That call for the team never came, Rues said. The Broward Sheriff's Office said Wednesday it could not confirm whether anyone spoke with Miramar that day,Ãâà...
Sun Sentinel
March 6, 2018
... the shooting, said he himself doesn't support giving guns to teachers. But he said all of the victims' families are unified in their support of Scott's plan. “We accept the fact that it is right now the minimally acceptable effort that you can get passed in Florida,” Guttenberg said. “That's just right now the way it is.
BBC News
March 3, 2018
... left Colorado, returning to Celia and Jason's roots in Florida. Family life ticked by and although Celia never felt that she had closure, she says they've been "very blessed". Twelve years on, gun laws have barely altered in the US. An estimated 57 mass shootings have happened between 2006 and 2018.
New York Times
February 26, 2018
MIAMI — The only armed sheriff's deputy on campus during the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., disputed on Monday that he violated police protocol by not entering the building to hunt down the gunman, and rebuked the sheriff for portraying him as a “coward.”.
CNN
February 24, 2018
Nearly six weeks after that call, Cruz gunned down 17 people at his former high school in Florida -- one of the deadliest mass shootings in modern US history. In the weeks leading up to the February 14 massacre, people reported warning signs about Cruz, 19, but law enforcement officials failed to act.
CNN
February 23, 2018
How Columbine changed police response to school shootings. Asked what Peterson should have done when gunfire broke out at the Parkland school on February 14, Israel said the resource officer should have gone into the building. "Addressed the killer. Killed the killer," the sheriff said. Israel suspendedÃâà...
RealClearPolitics
February 20, 2018
RCP's Tom Bevan discussed the school shooting at a Florida high school last week and the FBI's failure on Monday's Special Report. He said the FBI didn't just drop the ball in the Parkland shooting, but in other incidences as well. Bevan said the perpetrators of the three mass shootings in Florida in theÃâà...
Sun Sentinel
February 19, 2018
Lawmakers scrambling: A second gun-related bill has been postponed in the Florida Senate as legislative leaders craft a multi-pronged response to the massacre and Gov. Rick Scott plans a series of workshops about school safety and ways to keep guns away from people struggling with mental illnesses.
CNN
February 19, 2018
Rallies against gun violence in Florida, California and Washington, D.C.: The names of victims were read out loud at a rally in Delray Beach. In Los Angeles ... "Apparently when a school shooting happens, it's just another day in America and nobody cares," said Sophie Peterson, a student. "Students andÃâà...
New York Times
February 15, 2018
PARKLAND, Fla. — The suspect in one of the deadliest school shootings in modern American history confessed to the police that he “began shooting students ... The AR-15 rifle used in the attack was purchased legally, at Sunrise Tactical Supply in Florida, according to a federal law enforcement official.
Sun Sentinel
December 31, 1999
Get used to seeing more of former FBI director Louis Freeh around South Florida in the future, whether or not his company is hired to conduct an independent investigation of the Parkland school shooting. His global risk management firm, Freeh Group International Solutions, opened an office on WorthÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
December 31, 1999
In the wake of the deadly high school shooting in Florida, students stage walkouts nationwide to call for stricter gun laws ... A month after 17 students and instructors were killed at the school here in Parkland, Fla., nearly 3,000 schools across the nation planned to leave class at 10 a.m. local time WednesdayÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
December 31, 1999
Prosecutors to seek death penalty for gunman in Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting ... Prosecutors announced Tuesday they will seek the death penalty against the suspected gunman who killed 17 students and instructors at a South Florida high school last month, undermining a strategyÃâà...
PolitiFact (blog)
December 31, 1999
David Hogg, a survivor of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., speaks during the "March for Our Lives" rally in support of gun control in ... "This time, he put himself in front of the camera, making his first — but not final — plea for an end to mass shootings.".
Sun Sentinel
December 31, 1999
The South Florida Sun Sentinel obtained copies of some of the letters showing that Cruz, who had few friends in the outside world, is now being showered with attention. The attraction of women to prison bad boys echoes the fascination with killers like notorious cult leader Charles Manson. Lyle and ErikÃâà...
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