Mass Shootings

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There happened another shooting in America today, where it is reported that ten pupil died and also the shooter is reported to be dead. I agree with the title that it is an interesting timing to distract from Putin and Syria. What I found also really off, that the pupils are seen as potential perpretator because they have been searched for weapons and there are pictures with hands up:

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Another Mass shooting just in time to distract US from Putin's truth-telling
 
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There happened another shooting in America today, where it is reported that ten pupil died and also the shooter is reported to be dead. I agree with the title that it is an interesting timing to distract from Putin and Syria. What I found also really off, that the pupils are seen as potential perpretator because they have been searched for weapons and there are pictures with hands up:

Yes, I noticed that the headlines about the situation in Syria now occupy only the 3rd or 4th column on the MSM - since they just lost control of the narrative, now they try to bury it (kind of).
 
luc said:
Yes, I noticed that the headlines about the situation in Syria now occupy only the 3rd or 4th column on the MSM - since they just lost control of the narrative, now they try to bury it (kind of).

It seems there's always some sort of mass shooting they can focus on if they need to distract the people:

http://www.sott.net/article/303126-UCC-shooting-Latest-in-long-line-of-mass-college-campus-killings said:
The shooting at Umpqua Community College is the 142nd at a school since Sandy Hook, according to anti-firearm organization Everytown for Gun Safety. It is also at least the 294th mass shooting ‒ with mass meaning at least four people being shot ‒ in the US in 2015, based on data collected by Mass Shooting Tracker.
 
Well if you are right, there have been plenty of days to distract us this year, according to this article there have been 294 mass shootings in 274 days of 2015
The longest run of days in the US without a mass shooting has been 8 days (a "mass shooting" is defined by 3 or more people killed by a gun)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/10/01/2015-274-days-294-mass-shootings-hundreds-dead/

Syria was still the main headlinethroughout hte day in both France an UK where I have been today, it's quite amazing how when the west fight ISIS (or whatever they are calling them this week) it is part of the war on terror, but when Russia carry out air strikes it is reported as "aggrevating the situation."
Odd really, the situation seems pretty aggrivated already. Apologies for straying from the subject of the post -
 
And another one brewing...

Armed suspect reported at Virginia Commonwealth University, police at scene
http://www.rt.com/usa/317395-armed-suspect-virginia-commonwealth/

The timing of yesterday's mass shooting strikes me as far too convenient. Even our local newspaper in France cleared all news on Syria from its front page to make way for the Oregon shooting.

The secret government types are so pathetic.
 
An odd report this morning, of a house party, ambushed by a gunman who barged in the front door. Those inside ran to the back door and many were killed on the back porch by another gunman standing at the side of the house. Few details are given, as to what kind of gathering/party or any type of motive?

In local news:

5 Dead after Mass Shooting near Pittsburgh
http://wnep.com/2016/03/10/5-dead-after-mass-shooting-near-pittsburgh/#

cnn wire - WILKINSBURG — A backyard cookout turned into a bloodbath overnight in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania — ending with five people dead, three others hospitalized and a manhunt for two suspected shooters.

Authorities are still trying to determine the identity of all the victims as well as those of the shooters in the borough just east of Pittsburgh.

“Right now, we are asking for anybody who heard or saw anything in the area … to call (police),” Allegheny County police Lt. Andrew Schurman told reporters early Thursday. “We don’t have a lot of details.”

The first shots rang out from an alley behind a house in Wilkinsburg shortly before 11 p.m. Wednesday. Partygoers responded by trying to escape through the back of the house — only to have someone open fire from a yard adjacent to the residence, according to police.

Jackie Johnson recalled hearing a constant rat-a-tat of about 30 gunshots.

“When I came out, people were screaming and running,” the neighbor told CNN affiliate KDKA-TV. “And bodies were laying on the … porch.”

Police arrived to find four people — three females and one male — lying dead on the home’s back porch. A fifth person, a woman, succumbed to her wounds at a nearby hospital.

Two wounded men were in critical condition and a woman was in stable condition Thursday morning at a hospital.

Ballistic tests indicate the pair thought to have shot them escaped on foot, with no details offered on where they went, how they knew the victims (if at all) or whether they eventually used a getaway car.

Investigators cordoned off the area around the home in Wilkinsburg, a borough of about 15,000 people.

In video of the shooting scene from CNN affiliate WPXI-TV, a woman approached the house and cried out, “I’ve lost my baby.”

Another woman grappled to make sense not only of the carnage but also that it happened in her neighborhood.

“This street is always quiet,” she told the TV station. “There’s nothing but kids on this street.”

Johnson similarly had trouble digesting what happened next door.

“People’s lives taken like that, just on the drop of a hat,” she told KDKA. “It’s jus (report must have been edited?)



Police: 5 dead, 3 injured in Pennsylvania shooting
http://www.mail.com/news/us/4197478-police-5-dead-3-injured-pennsylvania-shooting.html#.7518-stage-hero1-2

WILKINSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Five people have been killed in an ambush-style shooting during a backyard party in suburban Pittsburgh and at least two gunmen are at large, police said. Four women and a man were killed late Wednesday during the party in the Borough of Wilkinsburg. Allegheny County police said people scrambled toward the house as bullets began flying. Four of the victims were found dead on the back porch. The other one died at a hospital.

March 10, 2016

Three people were injured and taken to area hospitals. Two men were in critical condition and a woman was stable, police said. At least two suspects fled on foot. A motive wasn't immediately known. Lt. Andrew Schurman of the Allegheny County homicide unit says the gunmen barged into the party and opened fire in an ambush-style attack. He said gunshots came from two distinct locations but police don't believe anyone at the party fired back.

"It looks like right now they were all fleeing toward the backdoor of the residence when the second gunman fired from the side of the yard," he said. "They all seemed to get caught on the back porch."

Resident Kayla Alexander told WPXI-TV that she heard a barrage of gunshots — more than 20 — in the neighborhood, which usually is quiet. After the shooting, groups of residents gathered on the street, some of them sobbing and saying they lost family members.

Vehicles from the medical examiner's office arrived in the neighborhood early Thursday to remove the victims' bodies.
 
It's up on sott here: http://www.sott.net/article/314052-5-killed-several-wounded-by-gunmen-who-opened-fire-on-a-backyard-party-outside-Pittsburgh-PA

Creepy though.
 
From additional details reported, the gunman that was located outside and fired shots from a rifle, claimed 3 victims with head wounds. He must have been a marksman, to handle a rifle like that, given it was late at night? One of the victims was 7 months pregnant.

Gunmen worked as team to kill 5 at Pennsylvania cookout
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-pennsylvania-shooting-20160309-story.html

Two gunmen working as a team fatally shot five people and critically wounded two others at a backyard cookout, with one attacker using a high-velocity rifle to shoot all the victims in the head as they were driven in his direction, a prosecutor said Thursday.

"The murders were planned. They were calculated, brutal," District Attorney Stephen Zappala said of the Wednesday night shootings.

The gunmen appeared to have targeted one or two of the victims, said Zappala, who added that they hadn't ruled out drugs as a motive.

Four women, one of them pregnant, and a man were killed as they rushed toward the back porch and an alleyway to seek cover as a gunman fired a .40-caliber pistol at as many as 15 adults who were playing cards and having a late-night cookout in the yard.

That steered the victims toward the rear porch and door of the house, where an accomplice armed with a 7.62 mm rifle similar to an AK-47 shot them from behind a chain-link fence less than 10 feet from the porch, Zappala said.

Neither weapon has been found.

The man with the rifle aimed high throughout the barrage of bullets. Four of the dead were found on the tiny back porch.

"They were all head shots," Zappala said.

The dead included three siblings, Brittany Powell, 27, who lived at the home; Jerry Shelton, 35; and Chanetta Powell, 25. The other two were Shada Mahone, 26, and Tina Shelton, 37.

Zappala said Brittany Powell was pregnant and due to give birth in May.

"It looks like right now they were all fleeing toward the back door of the residence when the second gunman fired from the side of the yard," said Lt. Andrew Schurman of the Allegheny County homicide unit. "They all seemed to get caught on the back porch."

Carl Morris and his son, Robert, were getting ready to leave their house across the street when they heard a volley of three shots, a pause, then gunfire lasting more than a minute.

Robert Morris said he saw children run onto the small back porch and heard someone scream, "Mommy, Mommy!"

"It was terrible," the younger Morris said.

The Morrises said Brittany Powell lived at the home with a daughter who was about 6 or 7. They said the house was considered a "safe haven" in the neighborhood.

The backyard is about 30 feet by 50 feet. Police said they found one pile of shell casings just outside the yard in an alley, where they believe the .40-caliber pistol was fired, Zappala said. They found more shells along a fence that separates the house from a neighbor's yard, which is where Zappala said the rifle was fired.

Bullet holes were visible Thursday around the porch addition. Tables and chairs, some tipped over, remained in the backyard, signs of a party quickly abandoned.

The suspects fled on foot.

Wilkinsburg is a poorer, largely blighted suburb just east of Pittsburgh that is known for drug trafficking and gun violence. But neighbors described the street on which the shooting occurred as generally quiet.

After the shooting, groups of residents gathered on the street, some of them sobbing and saying they lost family members.

Although Wilkinsburg has a reputation for violence, Jones said it has been rare in his neighborhood, which is about a block off a major street about a half-mile from Interstate 376, the major commuter artery through Pittsburgh's eastern suburbs.

"This is unheard of," Jones said, shaking his head as homicide detectives milled about in the yard and alley. "It doesn't happen around here."
 
There happened a shooting in a nightclub in Orlando where it is reported that are at least 20 people are dead. And as mentioned below also a singer was killed at the same day.

Approximately 20 dead, 40 injured at Orlando nightclub mass shooting - Eyewitnesses report two gunmen

Within several hours the muslim card is already drawn also when some members of the club said it is way too early to blame anyone.

Here is the specific sott comment:

Eyewitness Javer Antonetti, 53, was at the club with his brother. He said he was near the back of the club when he heard shots ring out:

"There were so many, at least 40 [shots]. I saw two guys and it was constant, like 'pow, pow, pow'."

Another eyewitness said:

"There had to have been more than one shooter - the shooting was so constant, it sounded like a gun range."

Elsewhere in Orlando on the same day...

22-year-old 'Voice' singer Christina Grimmie shot dead in Orlando - Suspect possibly deranged fan
 
Re: Shootings in Orlando: At least 20 dead

Just received a newsflash from NYT, that now they say:

"A gunman killed 50 people and wounded 53 in a crowded gay nightclub in Orlando early Sunday morning, an official said, in the worst mass shooting slaughter in American history."
 
Re: Shootings in Orlando: At least 20 dead

This, and that recent killing of the American Idol singer. What's going on down in Orlando???!!! :O
 
Re: Shootings in Orlando: At least 20 dead

kalibex said:
This, and that recent killing of the American Idol singer. What's going on down in Orlando???!!! :O

Gladio and disarming the GP through "Stage's". Like the Sessions say.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTs1V8LNziI
 
Looks like another "lone shooter" who had ties with the FBI:

https://www.sott.net/article/320084-Another-FBI-patsy-Alleged-Orlando-shooter-Omar-Mateen-was-known-to-FBI-for-3-years
The senior law enforcement source reports that Mateen became a person of interest in 2013 and again in 2014. The Federal Bureau of Investigation at one point opened an investigation into Mateen but subsequently closed the case when it produced nothing that appeared to warrant further investigation.

"He's a known quantity," the source said. "He's been on the radar before."

I don't know if FBI spokespeople often speak this way, but saying "He's a known quantity" also sounds like very strange phrasing to me.
 
Perhaps someone is trying to divert attention away from Hillary's crimes and other negative news about her, that have recently been surfacing more and more in the media?
 
It is the deadliest mass shooting in US history, and one guy with a machine gun and a pistol did it? 50 people dead and 53 more hospitalized? No freaking way.

Check the comments on the earliest SOTT piece on the event:

https://www.sott.net/article/320055-Approximately-20-dead-40-injured-at-Orlando-nightclub-mass-shooting-Eyewitnesses-report-two-gunmen
 
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