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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new study of school shooters over the past 50 years found that 70% had perpetrated violence against women (VAW), either before or during their attacks. The research adds a layer of understanding about the attitudes and behaviors of those who perpetrate school violence and could help shape strategies to prevent…

A 14-year-old boy and a man were shot and killed outside elementary schools in Cudahy and Bell during a violent night that claimed a total of four lives in four separate shootings, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said. Javier Pedraza Jr., 14, was killed Monday outside Ellen Ochoa Learning Center in the 5000 block of Live Oak Street in Cudahy, the Sheriff’s Department said. He and another boy were shot and found by deputies, who responded after receiving reports of gunfire in the area. Paramedics were called…

The Justice Department released a 575-page report last month detailing law enforcement failures that exacerbated the massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. The document identifies groups that were first to respond to the shooting, with one glaring omission: a citizen militia called Patriots for America. Shortly after the gunman was killed on May 24, 2022, members of the Texas-based militia posted footage approximately 40 feet from the shooter’s truck — revealing a loaded semi-automatic rifle that…

James Alan Fox, the Lipman Family professor of criminology, law and public policy at Northeastern. Credit: Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University The year 2023 established tragic highs for gun violence, according to James Alan Fox, a Northeastern professor. Last year there was a U.S. record of 39 mass shootings with at least four victim fatalities,…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Terrorist attacks and mass shootings are devastating for the people and communities they affect. These events impact our society in many ways, including perhaps unexpectedly, by changing how big companies calculate and report their earnings. A recent study by Professor Seda Oz from the School of…

Los Angeles police have launched a search for a killer suspected of fatally shooting three homeless people in separate incidents around the city, police officials announced Friday.All three killings occurred in the early morning hours over a three-day span in November, Police Chief Michel Moore said at an afternoon news conference at police headquarters downtown, where he was joined by Dist. Atty. George Gascón and Mayor Karen Bass.“This is a killer preying on the unhoused,” Bass said.The first victim was shot about 3:10…

A WEEK AFTER THE MASSACRE in Lewiston, Maine, left 18 dead, 13 wounded, and a swath of New England terrorized and on lockdown, the gun industry was thinking about its bottom line. During a Nov. 1 quarterly-earnings call, Ruger CEO Christopher Killoy touted the company’s profits, and the sales boost from new products like its SFAR — a “small-frame auto-loading rifle,” chambered to fire devastating, high-caliber bullets. The firearms press is enamored with this new assault rifle, touting it as “easy to…

The Pasadena Police Department has arrested six people suspected in separate homicides in Pasadena and Rancho Palos Verdes over the last few days where the victims were found inside cars parked near scenic overlooks.The Pasadena shooting occurred early Saturday morning along Angeles Crest Highway. Police were contacted shortly after 3:20 a.m. about a car crash near mile marker 28.36.Officers reported finding Los Angeles resident Jessie Munoz, 32, who had been shot several times. He was pronounced dead at the scene. A…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The United States has more than 10 times the number of mass shooting incidents than other developed countries, yet little research has shown the distribution and types of shootings, geographically. "I'm constantly asked, 'What is public health doing about the rise in mass shootings?'" says Leslie…

The music was blaring, the bar was overflowing, and the air was thick with weed smoke. Armed security holding long guns kept watch. It was a Saturday night in February, and around 300 people were partying hard at a near-5,000 square-foot Airbnb in rural Ohio. Then the cops arrived.As the Tuscarawas County Sheriff's deputies rolled in, revelers locked the doors. Fights broke out, police records show. Someone threw a can of Red Bull at an officer. People fled. In the chaos, one partygoer refused to cooperate and allegedly…