Three people were killed by a gunman inside a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Fla., in what the mayor said was a “hate-filled crime.” The gunman died after shooting himself, Sheriff T.K. Waters of Jacksonville said at a news conference on Saturday evening. “This shooting was racially motivated, and he hated Black people,” Sheriff Waters…
At least four people were dead, including a gunman, and six others were injured after a man believed to have been a retired law enforcement officer opened fire at a popular biker bar in Southern California on Wednesday evening as a crowd gathered for a rock music show and spaghetti night, the authorities said. The…
Manuel and Patricia Oliver had already been on the road for more than a week when they pulled their school bus bearing an American flag into a city park in Uvalde, Texas. They were unsure of just how many people would greet them on that sweltering day. Then the families started arriving. Parents, grandparents, siblings…
An attacker using a military-style rifle killed five people and injured two children during a shooting spree in a Philadelphia neighborhood on Monday, firing shots on the open street and bringing terror to passers-by before being caught by the police. Officials said they are treating the shooting as a random attack. The shooting was one…
Maybe this Fourth of July would be different. The gun violence that has plagued Philadelphia has been inching down, steadily. Perhaps Independence Day would pass without the bloodshed that has marred it in recent years. But sometime after 8 p.m. on the eve of the Fourth, in a neighborhood in southwest Philadelphia, someone dressed in…
Luca and Lennyn Fantasia, ages 7 and 5, were bouncing around the Park Ridge, Ill., Memorial Day parade in May in giddy holiday mode. They wore red, white and blue outfits, admired the marching band and darted in the street to scoop up hard candy. Their parents, Megan and John, were quietly discussing whether it…
Frustrated Baltimore officials pleaded on Sunday with residents to come forward with information about a shooting at a crowded neighborhood block party that left two people dead and 28 others wounded, many of them teenagers. A motive for the shooting, which was reported at 12:30 a.m. in Baltimore’s southern neighborhood of Brooklyn, was unclear, but…
Ashtin Gamblin never realized how expensive it would be to survive a mass shooting. But after being shot nine times in the attack at an L.G.B.T.Q. nightclub in Colorado Springs last November, the bills started piling up for Ms. Gamblin. Dozens of other survivors and families of the five people killed have found themselves in…
At least nine people were wounded when gunfire erupted on Monday between two groups near a beach in Hollywood, Fla., in a shooting that sent dozens of panicked beachgoers fleeing or ducking for cover on Monday evening, officials said. Deanna Bettineschi, a spokeswoman for the Hollywood Police Department, said at a news conference on Monday…
An 18-year-old gunman opened fire on a residential street in Farmington, N.M., on Monday morning, killing three people before the police arrived and killed the suspect, the authorities said. Nine other people, including two officers, were injured. The authorities received several reports of shots fired near North Dustin Avenue and East Navajo Street just before…