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PALMETTO - Authorities in Manatee County are on the lookout for at least two gunmen who shot up a Palmetto nightclub early Saturday morning. Two people – 25-year-old Trayon Goff of Palmetto and 38-year-old Gwenette Matthews of Bradenton - were killed and 22 others injured. According to a Palmetto Police Department report, the gunmen opened fire on a crow of people standing outside of Club Elite at 704 10th St. West at approximately 12:30 am. Goff died outside of the club and Matthew was inside investigators say.

At least two gunmen armed with possible semi-automatic weapons opened fire outside a Florida nightclub early Saturday morning, killing two people and injuring 22, according to police.Hunt said the torrent of bullets seemed to be aimed at Goff who was outside, sitting up against the front wall of the building.

Three people are dead after a robbery and shooting at a West Philadelphia store. It happened at Lorena’s Grocery Store on North 50th Street shortly before 8 p.m. Police say it began as a robbery and soon escalated into a shooting. No word yet on any suspects, motives or the identity of the victims.

Authorities have identified the gunman in Tuesday morning massacre at the Carson City IHOP as local man, Eduardo Sencion. Three people have died, five have been identified as National Guards personnel. Sencion, 32, died soon after the massacre from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. According to officials 11 people total have been treated for gunshot wounds. The gunman worked in Carson City and lived in Lake Tahoe.

Three people were killed and two police officers were wounded in a shooting a few blocks from the annual West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn, capping a violent holiday weekend in which nearly 70 people were injured by gunfire. Updated statistics obtained by NBC New York on Tuesday show that at least 67 people were shot between 12 a.m. Friday and 11:59 p.m. Monday. That includes nine on Friday, 10 on Saturday, 33 on Sunday and 15 on Monday. Preliminary numbers indicate as many as 10 were killed. In the police-involved shooting Monday near the parade in Brooklyn, bullet fragments...

The full headline: Man kills five people and unborn baby in murder spree before shooting himself after being 'rejected from military service' Five people have been killed after a gunman went on a murder spree before fatally shooting himself while being chased by officers. Shayne Riggleman, 22, of Morgantown, West Virginia, also ran over a woman before shooting and wounding a seventh victim. He shot himself dead after the multiple slaying, in which he also killed an unborn baby, as he sat in a car in Kentucky following a police chase. ‘It was very horrific to see it,’ State Police...

CARSON CITY, NV - Carson City sheriff's deputies are investigating a shooting in the area of the IHop on South Carson Street. Details are very sketchy, but initial reports indicate that more than one person has been shot on the 3800 block of Carson Street and a suspect is still in the area. We have a crew on the way and we'll update this story as information becomes available.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Both men charged in connection with the shooting of an Indianapolis police officer last week are gang members, the Marion County Prosecutor's Office said Wednesday. Formal charges were filed against Eugenio Gonzalez-Rarmirez, 18, and Johnny Taboada-Perez, 22, in the Friday shooting of Officer Dustin Carmack, 6News' Derrik Thomas reported. Gonzalez-Ramirez, who police believe was the triggerman in the shooting, was charged with attempted murder, aggravated battery, carjacking, carrying a handgun without a license and a criminal gang enhancement...

Four teenagers were wounded Tuesday night in a drive-by shooting in the city's WestWoodlawn neighborhood on the South Side, officials said. The scene of the shooting is just blocks fromWoodlawn Center South, where Mayor Rahm Emanuel is scheduled to meet later today with U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan, Sen. Dick Durbin and Rep. Bobby Rush to discuss a program to revitalize the blighted neighborhood.

A Queens party advertised on Facebook and Twitter as "Drama Free" turned into a shooting gallery early Saturday. Eleven young people were shot, including a teenage girl left paralyzed, when a gunman opened fire into the crowd. About 100 people were packed into the backyard of the single-family home on Inwood St. in South Jamaica shortly before 1 a.m., when the shooter sneaked up a back alleyway and opened fire into the yard through a chain link fence. Police said six males ages 15 to 23, and five women, ages 15 to 21, were shot, with bullets hitting them in...

Down at the local firing range. Governor Rick Perry has a posse of bloggers bearing arms and using them. Roger Simon talks to Andrew Breitbart, Patrick Ruffini, and more.

Video of Gov. Rick Perry Teaching a Texas Blogger How to Shoot http://blog.chron.com/texassparkle/2011/08/gov-perry-teaches-me-to-shoot/

A 14-year-old boy was shot and killed execution-style Sunday afternoon several blocks from the Austin neighborhood group home where he'd been staying the past month, officials said. Killed was Joseph Price, of the 600 block of North Laramie Avenue, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. The boy's guardian insisted the teen wasn't a gang member, but police said he was. Police said the boy was walking on the street in the 500 block of North Long Avenue when his assailant approached on foot and shot him several times in his torso and head. The gunman then fled in...

"Kansas City police said three teenagers were wounded in a shooting on the Country Club Plaza, intensifying talk about whether there should be a curfew in places like that in Kansas City. KMBC 9's Justin Robinson reports."

DETROIT (WXYZ) - It was a deadly night in the city of Detroit. From 6:00 am Friday, August 12th to 6:00 am Saturday, August 13th, a total of fifteen people were shot in the city. Six of those victims died at a total of 9 separate shooting scenes. Mayor Dave Bing's office released the following statement: "Reducing violent crime is our number one priority. Chief Godbee and the men and women of the Detroit Police Department are working around the clock to bring these criminals to justice. Our community must continue to work with us to stop this kind of...

COPLEY, Ohio (AP) — A former police officer credited with helping stop a gunman who police say killed seven people described feeling terrified but said he reacted the way he was trained.

·11250 Waples Mill Road ·   Fairfax, Virginia 22030    ·800-392-8683   Colorado: Hunting and Shooting on Forest Service Lands is Topic of Boulder County Commission Meeting   Tuesday, August 09, 2011   The Boulder County Commission will be briefed this Thursday, August 11 by the U.S. Forest Service regarding public recreation, including hunting and shooting, on Forest Service lands in unincorporated Boulder County. This is an informational meeting only, but the public is invited to attend. Although public testimony will not be taken, the NRA urges all hunters and recreational shooters who can to attend this meeting to demonstrate to the Commission...

COPLEY, Ohio — A gunman who killed seven people during a weekend rampage in his Ohio neighborhood cornered one of his victims, his girlfriend's 11-year-old nephew, in the basement of a house, ordered out the family sheltering the boy and then shot him, police said Monday. Michael Hance's cold-blooded killing of such a young victim after stalking seven other people on a tidy suburban Akron street named Goodenough Avenue was, neighbors said, the culmination of a dispute over a home that once belonged to his girlfriend's parents.

(CNN) -- Seven people, including an 11-year-old child, were shot and killed in a small town in northeastern Ohio on Sunday in a rampage that ended when police killed the suspected gunman, authorities said. The shootings occurred about 11 a.m. in Copley Township, about seven miles west of Akron ...

Hundreds of people turned the deprived London area of Tottenham into a war zone Saturday, rioting and setting fires after police shot and killed a man. At least two police cars, a bus and a store were torched but no one was seriously injured. The riots ostensibly followed the police shooting of Mark Duggan. An investigation is underway to determine the circumstances of the shooting after police stopped Duggan’s vehicle. video Mounted police in riot gear moved into the area to quell the riots. Tottenham is described by British media as one of the most economically deprived areas in Britain,...