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HALF MOON BAY, Calif. —  The man charged with killing seven co-workers in a pair of mass shootings at farms in Half Moon Bay admitted to his role in the deadly shootings in a jailhouse interview Thursday.Chunli Zhao, 66, spoke to NBC Bay Area’s Janelle Wang, telling the reporter he had experienced “years of bullying” and working long hours at the farm before he took a semiautomatic handgun and opened fire on his co-workers Monday. “He admitted that he did do it,” Wang said in the report.San Mateo County Dist. Atty.…

Credit: The Conversation The two men who shot dead 18 people in separate incidents just days apart in California are the latest perpetrators in America's long history of mass gun violence. But something about these public shootings, and the men held responsible, stands out. The median age of mass shooters in the United States is…

A newly minted law enforcement officer from Virginia drove to a Riverside cul-de-sac, where he parked a few houses down from the home of a teenage girl he met online by pretending to be someone else, police say.Neighbors say the man waited for the 15-year-old’s family to get home Friday morning, going back and forth between his car and the house.Police got a call about a young woman who appeared to be distressed while getting into a red Kia Soul with a male driver. Neighbors reported hearing arguing, then a fire erupted…

A report on this year’s white supremacist mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, asks legislators to criminalize a perpetrator or their accomplice filming a murder — and let states fine people, including the operators of large web platforms, who redistribute the videos. The recommendation is intended to stop terrorists from using livestreams as a propaganda tool, and it comes with additional requests for broadcast television-like restrictions on streaming platforms.The report was compiled by the office of New York Attorney…

A suspect has been arrested in Stockton in connection with a series of fatal shootings, authorities announced Saturday.Wesley Brownlee, 43, was arrested at 2 a.m. Saturday on suspicion of homicide in connection with six fatal shootings in Oakland and Stockton, which began last year and continued through last month, Stockton Police Chief Stanley McFadden said at a news conference. Five of the killings occurred in Stockton, all this year.Brownlee was “out hunting” for more victims at the time of his arrest, police said.“The…

Dutch police are describing their use of “deepfake” technology in the cold case of Sedar Soares’ 2003 murder, a “world first.” To maintain the law and order in a country, government and officials try their best to come up with impactful strategies and give justice to the victims. In this modern world where technology is blooming in every sector, cops are trying something that appears to never have been done before: deepfaking a murder victim in a last-ditch attempt to bring his killer…

Facebook owner Meta briefly restricted hashtags related to civilian deaths in northern Ukraine, where bodies of people shot at close range were found in a town seized back from Russian forces, a company spokesman confirmed on Monday.The killings in Bucha, outside Kyiv, have drawn pledges of further sanctions against Moscow from the West.Meta spokesman Andy Stone said automated systems that scan for violent imagery on Facebook and Instagram, which the company also owns, were responsible for blocking hashtags including…