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The arraignment of 14-year-old Brandon McInerney, accused of shooting an Oxnard schoolmate in the head, was postponed again Thursday and rescheduled for June. Ventura County Superior Court Judge Kevin McGee granted the delay requested by McInerney's lawyer William "Willy" Quest. Earlier, Quest said in an interview that he is working on a legal motion attacking the constitutionality of trying his client as an adult. The attorney said it will be a "very in-depth" legal issue pertaining to serious constitutional matters. Quest wants time to prepare and submit his legal motion before his client is arraigned McInerney made a brief court...

The family of the terrorist who killed eight students in a terror attack on Mercaz Harav Yeshiva Thursday night say he used to work as a driver at the institution, but police have denied their claim. Defense officials said the attacker came from east Jerusalem, home to Palestinians who hold Israeli ID cards that allow them freedom of movement. His family set up a mourning tent Friday and hung green Hamas flags outside their home. They claimed that Abu Dhein was arrested by defense forces four months ago and then released two months later. The residents would not give their...

I shot terrorist in head’ Yeshiva student who shot attacker recounts moments of horror; ‘I was studying when shots rang out’ Aviram Zino Published: 03.06.08, 22:42 / Israel News A yeshiva student who shot the Jerusalem terrorist says he was busy studying when suddenly shots rang out, prompting him to grab his gun and eventually kill the Palestinian attacker Police on Alert High terror alert across nation / Aviram Zino Police boost deployment across Israel in wake of Thursday’s bloody terror attack in Jerusalem Full Story “We realized something happened so I cocked my handgun,” Yitzhak Dadon told Ynet Thursday...

A male student shot himself in the head at the Davidson High School gymnasium this morning in front of about 150 other students, according to Mobile police. The unnamed boy walked into the gym shortly before 10 a.m. and fired one shot with a revolver into the ceiling before shooting himself, said Deputy Chief James Barber. The student died at the scene. The school temporarily went into lockdown. Davidson will remain open today and extra counselors are being brought in, according to Nancy Pierce, a school system spokeswoman. Parents can pick their children up if they want, she said, and...

An Alabama high school student walked into the school gym Thursday morning and shot himself in front of 150 other students, WKRG.com reported. Jajuan Homes, 18, reportedly fired one shot into the ceiling of the gym at Davidson High School in Mobile before turning the revolver on himself as other students watched.

JERUSALEM - Two gunmen infiltrated a rabbinical seminary and opened fire after nightfall Thursday. At least seven people were killed, police and local media said, including at least one of the terrorists. Israeli media said about 35 people were wounded. Ambulances raced to the scene from around the city. The terrorists entered a dining hall where about 80 people were gathered, witnesses said, and opened fire. "There are at least seven killed," said Eli Dein, director of Israel's rescue service.

Eight people were confirmed dead in a terror attack at Merkaz Harav Yeshiva, near the entrance to Jerusalem on Thursday evening. The attack was reportedly perpetrated by a resident of Jabel Mukaber in east Jerusalem. Rescue workers evacuate wounded from the scene of Thursday's terror attack in Merkaz Harav Yeshiva in Jerusalem. Photo: Channel 10 Magen David Adom have confirmed 10 wounded civilians, including three seriously. One terrorist was said to have been killed by a student. Witnesses said that only one terrorist had entered the building and that he managed to fire 500-600 bullets over the course of 4-10...

Two Palestinian terrorists entered the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Kiryat Moshe on Thursday night and opened fire at students inside. Eyewitnesses said that they saw four people dead, Channel 1 reported. Magen David Adom has confirmed casualties but the number of wounded was unknown. MDA has confirmed that one of the terrorists was killed. MDA described the incident as a "multi-casualty incident." Police were closing off the area.

Four killed in gunfire at Jerusalem school, authorities say.

Chapel Hill Police identified the victim of a shooting Tuesday on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus as 22-year-old senior Eve Carson, the student body president, the Winston-Salem Journal reports. Police responded to a report of gunshots in the area early Tuesday morning and found Carson's body lying in the intersection of Hillcrest Dr. and Hillcrest Circle. This is the second murder of a female college student on a southern campus in as many days. Lauren Burk was shot near Auburn University campus on Tuesday night. Both Carson and Burk are Georgia natives, from towns about one...

Police and fire officials were on the campus of Northern Illinois University in DeKalb Thursday afternoon after a report of a shooting near a dormitory. "There has been a report of a possible gunman on campus," an alert on the university's Web site said. "Get to a safe area and take precautions until given the all clear. Avoid the King Commons and all buildings in that vicinity." The possible shooting took place near Cole Hall, a DeKalb police officer said. There were reports of at least one injury.

DE KALB, Ill (CBS) ― A gunman opened fire on a geology class at Northern Illinois University Thursday afternoon, killing four people before killing himself on-stage in front of panicked students. Officials said the gunman opened fire in a lecture hall shortly after 3 p.m. and the campus was immediately placed on lockdown. The shooting happened at a geology lecture class in Cole Hall. Officials said the gunman emerged from behind a screen at the front of the lecture hall and opened fire with a shotgun. Police said the gunman, armed with a shotgun and two handguns, shot the professor...

Oxnard police say an eighth-grader at E. O. Green School was shot by another student about 8:30 a.m. today inside a classroom at the C Street campus. The 15-year-old victim, reported to be in serious condition, was taken to St. John’s Regional Medical Center in Oxnard. The student’s name has not been released. Several dozen officers from the Oxnard Police Department responded to the junior high school after receiving a report that a student had been shot inside a classroom. The suspect, also believed to be a student at the school, ran off campus after the shooting but was apprehended...

A female student shot some people, and then shot herself at the Louisiana Technical College and then shot herself.

~excerpt~FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas (AP) -- A federal jury convicted a 23-year-old man on an obscure weapons charge Tuesday, apparently unaware that 10 years ago he and another boy killed four classmates and a teacher in a schoolyard ambush. Mitchell Johnson, who killed classmates and a teacher 10 years ago, was convicted of a gun charge Tuesday. Mitchell Johnson faces 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine when he is sentenced in the next 45 days on a count of possessing a firearm while being a drug user. Through his attorney, Johnson declined to comment Tuesday. Johnson was arrested on New...

Critics say the Arkansas governor cashed in on the school shooting with the 1998 publication of 'Kids Who Kill.' JONESBORO, ARK. -- After two middle-school boys in camouflage gear shot and killed four classmates and a teacher here, leaving 10 others wounded and a community shattered, it seemed inevitable that someone would see opportunity in the tragedy for a book deal. Indeed, within days a publisher agreed to pay $25,000 to an Arkansas writer to produce a book on youth violence. Victims' families were outraged. They called the payment blood money and said the author was cashing in on their...

At issue: A woman using a handgun to stop a killer in a “soft target,” a church. Our view: The case shows why Michigan school staff need an option for training and concealed carry, not “gun-free zones.” Another month has brought more shooting sprees in what commonly are “gun-free zones.” Four died in two separate shootings Sunday in Colorado. Eight were murdered last Wednesday in an Omaha, Neb., shopping mall. Seven students were slain recently in Finland. That followed a Cleveland school shooting in October. Only in the latest attack did an adult have a right to a gun to...

Last April, an unbelievable tragedy unfolded in Blacksburg. A student, armed and angry, plotted and carried out a brutal assault on the students and faculty at Virginia Tech. After an early morning attack which left two people dead, he locked the doors to an academic building, and then moved methodically from room to room, shooting the occupants while they sat, stood, hid or attempted to flee. ... This Sunday, another unbelievable tragedy unfolded in Colorado. A young man, armed and angry, plotted and carried out a brutal assault on members of a Christian mission organization and a church. After an...

Euro International says it is one of Gurgaon's leading schools A schoolboy has been shot dead by two fellow students at a school campus near the Indian capital Delhi, police say.The 14-year-old was killed instantly after being fired on at the private Euro International school in the suburb of Gurgaon, police said. Gurgaon police commissioner Mahendra Lal told the BBC that two boys had been taken into custody. Incidents of gun crime at schools and colleges in India are very rare. It is not clear what prompted the shooting. Gun questionsIndian TV channels named the dead boy as Abhishek...

DENVER - A gunman walked into a training center for young Christian missionaries in a Denver suburb early Sunday and opened fire, wounding at least four people. ADVERTISEMENT The shooting happened at about 12:30 a.m. on Sunday at the Youth With a Mission center, Arvada Police spokeswoman Susan Medina said. The extent of the injuries was not clear, and the gunman was still at large Sunday morning. According to its Web site, Youth With a Mission has about 1,000 locations worldwide and trains people to become missionaries. About 50 people were inside the Arvada site when the gunman opened fire.

ARVADA, Colo. - Two youths shot in a dormitory at a training center for Christian missionaries Sunday have died, police said. A gunman walked into the dormitory in this Denver suburb early Sunday and opened fire, striking at least four people, police said. The condition of the others was not immediately clear. The gunman was still at large Sunday morning.

MADISON, Wisconsin (AP) -- Bloggers and free speech advocates are calling on prosecutors not to file charges against a teacher arrested for allegedly posting an anonymous comment online praising the Columbine shooters. In 1999, two Columbine High School students killed 12 fellow students, a teacher, and themselves. Some were disturbed by the post that police say James Buss left on a conservative blog, but other observers said it was a sarcastic attempt to discredit critics of education spending. The suburban Milwaukee high school chemistry teacher was arrested last week for the November 16 comment left on www.bootsandsabers.com, a blog on...

Police in Finland have found a suicide note written by an 18-year-old student shortly before he went on a gun rampage at his school and killed eight people. Pekka-Eric Auvinen said goodbye to his family and explained his hatred towards society, the police said.

A Columbine-type massacre tragically went down at a school in Finland the other day, leaving eight dead plus the shooter. According to AHRP, there's evidence that the young shooter was on SSRIs and that they made him "aggressive," a well-documented but often overlooked problem with these drugs. AHRP reports that, although Finnish press accounts include the SSRI information, the possible SSRI connection was stripped from British and American press accounts of the shooting. Now, if the shooter had been drunk or stoned or diagnosed with schizophrenia, they would have included that information, so why would they trim out mentions of...

TUUSULA, Finland (Reuters) - At least seven people died when a gunman opened fire at a school in southern Finland on Wednesday, hours after a video was posted on YouTube predicting a school massacre. A teacher at Jokela High School told Reuters the gunman was one of its pupils. "At this moment its seven (deaths) or more, higher," Dr Eero Hirvensalo, the head of the medical response team, told Reuters. The YouTube video, set to hard-driving music, shows a still photo of a school that appears to be Jokela High School. The photo then fragments to reveal a red-tinted picture...

HELSINKI (Reuters) - A pupil who killed eight people on Wednesday in a school shooting in southern Finland and turned the gun on himself has died at the hospital, the head of the medical response team said. "I can confirm he died of brain injury. The number of fatalities in now at nine," Dr. Eero Hirvensalo told Reuters, adding the toll would not rise further as the other injuries were minor.

TUUSULA, Finland (AP) - An 18-year-old student opened fire in a Finnish high school Wednesday, killing seven students and the principal before turning the gun on himself, police said. The teenager, who was not identified, shot himself in the head but survived and was taken to a hospital in ``extremely critical condition,'' police spokesman Tero Haapala said. The attack at Jokela High School in Tuusula, some 30 miles north of the capital, Helsinki, shocked the Nordic nation, where gun ownership is fairly common by European standards but deadly shootings are rare. ... Police said at a news conference after the...

October 24, 2007 (SAGINAW, Mich.) - Four students attending a middle school football game were shot Wednesday afternoon, but none of the injuries were believed to be life-threatening, police say. The shootings took place at South Middle School, said a Saginaw police officer who declined to give his name. The victims, believed to be middle school students, were taken to a hospital for treatment, the officer said. He said one had a grazing neck wound and the others had leg wounds. Police arrested a suspect, believed to be a high school student -snip-

DOVER, Del. (AP) - A Delaware State University student wounded in a campus shooting last month died of her injuries on Tuesday, her family said. Shalita K. Middleton, a 17-year-old freshman biology major from Washington, D.C., died about 3:30 p.m. at Christiana Hospital in Newark, according to a family statement released by the university. "She struggled valiantly over the last several weeks and she was an inspiration," the family said. "Ultimately, however, the internal injuries that she suffered were in the end too critical to overcome." Middleton was shot in the abdomen when gunfire broke out on campus Sept. 21....

Student gunman in Ohio warned of attack, By JOE MILICIA, Associated Press Writer Thu Oct 11, 7:42 AM ET CLEVELAND - A 14-year-old student who opened fire at his high school, wounding four people before killing himself, had a history of mental problems and was known for cussing at teachers and bickering with students. Asa H. Coon, who had been suspended for fighting, warned classmates of an attack — but none took him seriously. "When he got suspended, he was like `I got something for you all,'" said student Frances Henderson, who said she often got into arguments with Coon....

<p>Cleveland, OH (CBS) -- WOIO in Cleveland, Ohio is reporting that there has been a school shooting on the city's east side.</p> <p>No word on the victim's ages or condition at this time.</p>

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Tobin Kerns appeared stunned and put his hand to his face yesterday as a juvenile court judge found the former Marshfield High School student guilty of plotting a Columbine-style massacre at the school four years ago. Alerts Authorities say Kerns, 19, and another former student, Joseph Nee, 21, were looking for vengeance against people they felt had slighted them when they plotted to bring explosives to the school, padlock the doors, and kill students and staff on their hit list. Nee is facing a separate trial as an adult in Plymouth Superior Court; a date has not been set. Dan...

evolving situation - swat teams at the school...

<p>DOVER, Del. - Two students were shot at Delaware State University early Friday and the campus was locked down as police searched for a gunman, officials said. Classes were canceled for the day. A male student was hospitalized in stable condition, and a female student was hospitalized with injuries that are considered serious, according to a news release on the university's Web site. "They could be potentially life-threatening," university spokesman Carlos Holmes said. Police hoped to find out more information once the victims were able to talk. "We haven't had a chance to talk to them yet, and that's probably a big reason why the suspect is still at large," Holmes told KYW-TV of Philadelphia. The students were shot near Memorial Hall around 1 a.m., the news release said. Students were instructed to stay in their residence halls until further notice, and nonessential university employees were told not to report to work. At the university's main entrance, swing-arm gates were down to prevent people from driving onto campus. A historically black college founded in 1890 as the State College for Colored Students, Delaware State had about 3,600 students from 38 states and 31 countries in 2006. The 400-acre campus was surrounded Friday by groups of recreational vehicles belonging to NASCAR fans in town for this weekend's races at the Dover Downs Speedway.</p>

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas: Somewhere in the United States, Andrew Golden will likely step outside of prison Friday for the first time as a free man since being arrested as an 11-year-old after he and another boy killed four classmates and an English teacher at a school. Golden, the younger of two boys who used deer rifles to kill five people at the Jonesboro Westside Middle School in 1998, turns 21 Friday.

TORONTO, Canada (AP) -- A 14-year-old student was shot and killed at a Toronto high school Wednesday, forcing frightened teens to stay in their locked-down classrooms for hours as police searched the building into the evening. Police said it was not a situation in which a gunman was roaming the halls, but it was not known if the gunman was still in the school as the search began. The students finally were released just before 6 p.m., more than three hours after the lockdown. Police said there were no arrests and no weapon had been found in the shooting at...

CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. - The phone is ringing off the hook at Custom Guns Inc., a dusty, wood-paneled gun shop with mounted wildlife on the walls, about five miles from the Virgina Tech campus. Thirty-two bullet-riddled bodies and the remains of the suspected killer have yet to be buried after the largest mass shooting in the nation's history, but the local gun trade hasn't blinked. In fact, in a state where the hunting and weapons culture runs deep, gun dealers say activity is up. Potential customers are calling to ask about regulations and prices, handguns and rifles and store hours. As...

Those who advocate the complete disarming of American society so that crazy foreign students can’t shoot up campuses and will, somehow, be forced to instead utilize baseball bats are sadly misled. Utopian ideals, and unworkable solutions, will not solve or prevent such incidents at schools, churches and malls. Frankly, it is incredible that in a post 9-11 world that the citizenry of this nation are forced to be helpless and vulnerable by both the law and institutional ‘policies’ by people who cannot provide even the most elementary security to those it has disarmed. Virginia Tech has some 30,000 plus students...

Schoolyard killer of ’98 is arrested over pistol BY MICHELLE BRADFORD AND KENNETH HEARD ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE One of the two convicted killers in the 1998 school shootings near Jonesboro was arrested in Fayetteville earlier this month with marijuana and a loaded gun, Washington County sheriff’s deputies said. Mitchell Scott Johnson, 22, was arrested on New Year’s Day while riding in a van with his roommate, Justin Trammell, 22, who was convicted in Benton County for killing his father in 1999 with a crossbow. Sheriff’s Cpl. Jak Kimball said a deputy spotted Trammell weaving down Gregg Avenue in Fayetteville in a...

Emsdetten, Germany (dpa) - Pathologists in Germany said Tuesday a teenaged youth who shot and wounded five people at his old school the previous day killed himself with a gunshot in the mouth. Sebastian Bosse, 18, an enthusiast for both live-action and virtual shooting games, was armed with reproductions of old-fashioned muzzle-loaders which can be freely bought on the internet, police said. The attack revived debate in Germany on banning first-person shooter video games. Edmund Stoiber, premier of the state of Bavaria, said he would introduce legislation against them in federal parliament, adding, "Killer games should be prohibited in Germany."...

LANCASTER COUNTY, PA - As worldwide donations for victims of the West Nickel Mines School shootings approach $4 million, three of the girls wounded in the Oct. 2 attack have returned to classes. Two other girls who survived the shootings suffered severe head wounds and are likely to have long-term disabilities. One is home while the other remains hospitalized, a spokesman for the Nickel Mines Accountability Committee said Monday. The families “are dealing with pain and loss, but I’ve heard a number of comments about the remarkable recoveries of the girls,” said Herman Bontrager, spokesman for the nine-member community group...

A gunman has been found dead after storming a school in Germany, injuring a teacher and several pupils. According to reports, explosive material was found on the body of the man at the Geschwister Scholl school in Emsdetten. The man, reported to have been a former pupil of the school, apparently killed himself as police circled the building. While resolved, the incident stirs unhappy memories of 2002, when a former pupil killed 18 people in his school. Those killings prompted a wave of German soul-searching about violence and school security, coming just months after another gunman had walked into a...

It is now all but certain that the terrorists' attack on the school could have been prevented. According to internal police documents obtained by the newspaper Novaya Gazeta, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow knew four hours in advance that an attack on a school in Beslan was planned for September 1, 2004. The information came from a man named Arsamikov who had been arrested in the city of Shali in Chechnya. The information, however, was not acted upon. Equally puzzling, the terrorists trained for weeks without interference in the woods in the republic of Ingushetia, which neighbors...

A 17-year-old student at Seven Lakes High School shot himself in a courtyard at the school during the lunch hour today, Katy ISD spokesman Steve Stanford said. He said no other students were involved, and no students are in danger. Stanford said the injured student, a junior, was taken by Life Flight to Memorial Hermann Hospital. No information on his condition was available. The school was placed on lockdown following the 12:05 p.m. incident Seven Lakes began releasing students at 1:45 p.m., about 50 minutes before regular dismissal. Katy Independent School District Superintendent Leonard Merrell currently is addressing a group...

Marie Roberts, the widow of the killer of five Amish girls in a schoolroom massacre in rural Pennsylvania, has written to the families of his victims thanking them for their forgiveness.The hamlets of Nickel Mines, where the children lived, and Georgetown, the home of Charles Roberts, a milkman who killed himself after shooting dead the girls and injuring a further five, are slowly recovering. At the weekend, Mrs Roberts remained too distressed to give an interview but she issued a letter to her neighbours. Mrs Roberts, now a lone parent to three children, said her family was overwhelmed by the...

Youngsters in a suburban Fort Worth school district are being taught not to sit there like good boys and girls with their hands folded if a gunman invades the classroom, but to rush him and hit him with everything they got - books, pencils, legs and arms. "Getting under desks and praying for rescue from professionals is not a recipe for success," said Robin Browne, a major in the British Army reserve and an instructor for Response Options, the company providing the training to the Burleson schools. That kind of fight-back advice is all but unheard of among schools, and...

Blunt backs away from ill-advised school safety suggestion A day after a school shooting in Joplin, Gov. Matt Blunt’s office clarified his position on teachers carrying guns. He does not endorse the preposterous idea. Blunt spokesman Spence Jackson said the governor “wasn’t in any way suggesting that we should arm all teachers.” That’s a relief. Blunt was in Joplin at the time a student threatened administrators and fired a shot into the ceiling of Joplin Memorial Middle School just before classes began on Monday. The governor said then that allowing teachers to carry guns is “an interesting idea worth discussing.”...

In a remarkable moment of candor, Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell today acknowledged that stronger gun laws could not have prevented the horrible shooting at the Amish school in Lancaster County. Rendell, a staunch gun control advocate, admitted, “I believe with all my heart that we need more gun control” during a live press conference. But he also acknowledged that tougher gun laws would not have prevented gunman Charles Carl Roberts IV from carrying out his deadly attack, noting, “You can make all the changes you want, but you can never stop a random act of violence by someone intent on...

Police raise doubts on Roberts’ motive Shooter’s molestation story false, family says By Brett Hambright Intelligencer Journal Published: Oct 05, 2006 1:54 AM EST LANCASTER COUNTY, PA - Charles Carl Roberts IV was calm but determined when he entered a Bart Township school Monday, 45 minutes before he shot 10 Amish girls execution-style in front of a blackboard. In his final conversation with his wife, Marie, seconds before opening fire on the victims and killing himself, Roberts said an event had tortured him for two decades: He claimed he molested two children 20 years ago. His reasoning for the massacre...