Mass Shootings

FBI arrests teen accused of making threats to Uvalde community 2,000 miles away

SAN ANTONIO — "I have a whole clown crew waiting."

"...planned this massacre...."

"There's worse coming."

Charging documents say those were among the social media messages sent by a 19-year-old Puerto Rico girl, and former Uvalde resident, who the FBI says threatened the South Texas community over several years, starting in 2018. Documents say Victoria Gabriela Rodriguez-Morales also claimed, in those messages, that she helped to plan the 2022 massacre at Robb Elementary School, when a gunman – who Rodriguez-Morales claimed is her ex-boyfriend – killed 19 students and two teachers over the course of 77 minutes.

 
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LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — The Las Vegas Police Department is investigating reports of an active shooting incident at UNLV, that killed 3 people according to NBC News.

An additional victim is in stable condition. Four other victims were being treated for panic attacks, and two officers also had minor injuries.

Reports began coming in at around noon, police said, and the shooter has been found and is dead. A law enforcement source told CNN the suspect is a 67-year-old career college professor whose connection to UNLV is unknown at this time.

According to reports from The Associated Press, the shooter was a professor who previously worked at East Carolina University in North Carolina and unsuccessfully sought a job at UNLV.
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A reunification center has been established for those looking for a loved one who was on campus during the shooting.

The Family Reunification Center is located at the Convention Center, North Hall 1 & 2.

Family members and loved ones can also call 702-455-AIDE (2433) or facofsouthernnevada.org for more information.

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University police said they responded to shots fired in the BEH building. Additional shots were later reported in the Student Union.

Las Vegas police later confirmed that they were responding to the school, where there appeared to be multiple victims. Clark County Sheriff Kevin McMahill said in a statement they were aware of three victims as of about 2 p.m. Their conditions are unknown, and that number could change.

A representative with Sunrise Hospital later confirmed that their trauma center had received three patients from the incident but did not release their conditions.

"This puts a gloom on the campus," a student told KSNV at the scene. "Now, we have to try to fight back from this and it's just sad."

He went on to say he and others sheltered in place and barricaded themselves in a room.

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"We were told the shooter was in the Student Union section -- that's literally one building over from us, so we were nervous."

He said he looked out a window and saw students running outside with their hands up. He said everyone was scared.

Other students shared similar emotions.

"We were in the student union on the second floor and we heard there was an active shooter," one student told CNN, adding that she and others evacuated the building.

"We could hear the gunshots," another student told the media outlet.

Las Vegas police are currently evaluating all campus buildings.

The Nevada System of Higher Education says its institutions in Clark County are closed for the rest of Wednesday. This includes: UNLV, CSN, Nevada State University and Desert Research Institute.

School at UNLV is canceled for the rest of the week. No resume date has been available.

Additionally, the Clark County School District says that all district-sponsored athletic events scheduled for Wednesday have been canceled.

 
Prague University Czech Republic

Update(1245ET): The tragedy is already being called one of the Czech Republic's worst mass shootings in its history, as the police have revised to death toll to at least 15 killed, including the shooter - who committed suicide - and his own father.

"Where tourists, students and others would normally be enjoying the view of the iconic monument instead reflected chaos and terror on Thursday afternoon," the Associated Press described of the chaotic scene. According to the latest from Axios:
  • The shooter, who was a student at the university, has been "eliminated," per police. His father was found dead earlier on Thursday, the BBC reported.
  • "I would like to express my deep regret and sincere condolences to the families and relatives of the victims that the shooting claimed," Petr Pavel, the president of the Czech Republic, said on X.
According to new statements from Interior Minister Vit Rakusan, "There is no indication that this crime has any link to international terrorism" - in reference to the 24-old shooter. Rakusan added:

"I want to assure the public that there is no immediate danger now," he said after the gunfire at the university’s Philosophical Faculty ended.

Update(1105ET): Emerging news wire statements citing Prague emergency response services cite a much larger than expected death toll. Initially, vague police reports said several were dead and wounded, but there may have been at least 11 killed, including the gunman, and nine more seriously wounded. This means twenty or more people were struck by bullets, from a shooter who appeared to have taken up position sniper-style on a high rooftop:

  • SHOOTING IN PRAGUE LEFT 11 PEOPLE DEAD,CTK CITES RESCUE SERVICE
  • SHOOTING IN PRAGUE LEFT NINE PEOPLE SERIOUSLY WOUNDED, CTK SAYS
Police say the shooter has been killed, but likely there are still bystanders holed up in buildings:

An email sent to staff and students at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University, seen by Reuters, had said a shooter was in one of its buildings and had told staff to "stay put".
"Don't go anywhere, if you're in the offices, lock them and place furniture in front of the door, turn off the lights," the email said. One X user posted a photo of a group of students, hiding crouched on a ledge of the building.


The below unconfirmed image appears to show the shooter with a high-powered rifle with optics taking out people in the university square below...

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Currently, reports are circulating that the alleged shooter has been identified David Kozak - which also say he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Multiple fatalities are being reported in an active situation amid a mass shooting in Prague, Czech Republic. Bystanders have been observed fleeing the grounds of Charles University's Faculty of Arts in Prague as a huge police response ensues.

One unverified report describes the developing scene as follows: "Prague According to media reports, the attacker used a long-barreled weapon with optics. There are reports of casualties and injuries. At the moment, the entire Jan Palach Square and the surrounding area are completely closed off."



A police statement has confirmed that several are dead and wounded at the scene, and police soon after have announced that the Prague shooter has been "eliminated".

The below bridge which people are fleeing across, the Charles Bridge (aka Karluv Most), is among the most popular central tourist attractions in Prague.


The shooter with a rifle may have been on a roof of one of the university buildings, a newly emerged (but unverified) photo suggests.

According to the Associated Press:

Czech Interior Minister Vit Rakusan told Czech public television the person who opened fire was dead.
Rakusan said there’s no other shooter at the scene and there’s no imminent further danger, but he urged people to cooperate with police.

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A scene inside a barricaded classroom at the university as police begin clearing and securing buildings:

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And students and bystanders hiding out on the ledge of a roof, in a precarious situation...



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There are two other crimes possibly related.

1/ Dec 15, Klánovice forest, East of Prague, a man with his little daughter were killed. No suspects, but police was set on alert.
2/ Dec 21, a man shot dead in Hostoun, West of Prague, another one disappeared with weapons.

Thanks to that the Prague police was able to act so quickly, though they evacuated another Uni building and arrived at the actual crime scene several blocks (~1 km) away only when the mass shooting was already ongoing.

Details below. All links go to Czech news site novinky.cz
DeepL translated.

Minute by minute: How police intervened against the shooter in Prague
18:16 today
At a press conference on the shooting in downtown Prague, Police President Martin Vondrášek described minute by minute how the police acted in the case of the shooter.

12:20 - Police have received information that a man has disappeared in the village of Hostouň [~10 km West of Prague] in the Kladno region and has confessed that he wants to take his own life. He has left for Prague.

12:45 - Police receive information that a man has been found dead in the same village. It has been established that he is the father of the young man mentioned above. "We quickly found out that he is a student of the Faculty of Philosophy and he was supposed to give a lecture at 2 pm in a building in Celetná Street in Prague. We moved to this building," Vondrášek described.

14:22 - Police have completed the evacuation of the building, the man has not been found and the search for him is ongoing.

14:59 - Police received the first information about the shooting in the building of the Faculty of Philosophy on Palach Square. Police units were on the scene within minutes, and the intervention unit within 12 minutes.

15:20 - Information was received from the intervention unit that the lifeless body of the shooter was on the gallery of the building on Palach Square. The man had been shot. Police are investigating whether he shot himself or was hit by one of the shooting officers. The intervention in the building of the Faculty of Philosophy is still ongoing.

Twenty-four-year-old David Kozak shot at least 15 people and wounded at least 24 others, according to Vondrasek.

Details:

Police officers with machine guns intervene in a house in Kladno, the action is related to the massacre at the University of Prague
16:36
Several units of police officers, some of them equipped with submachine guns, intervened in Kladno on Thursday. According to Novosti, all indications are that the action is related to the massacre at the Faculty of Philosophy in Prague, where a gunman attacked in the afternoon.

According to a Novinek reporter, police officers are seen at one of the family houses in the village of Hostouň in the Kladno region.

Among the police officers intervening are bomb squad and other specialists.


The mass murderer is a 24-year-old university student
17:05
Police on Thursday afternoon launched a manhunt for 24-year-old David Kozak [later replaces by D.K.], who was linked to a case of violent death in a village in the Kladno region. It subsequently emerged that the wanted man was the gunman who killed 14 people and wounded at least 24 others at Prague's Faculty of Philosophy later in the afternoon. The student is dead. According to information published by the police in connection with the search, the missing person was to be armed. ...

The student graduated with a bachelor's degree in history-European studies and then went on to complete a master's degree in history. He focused on the history of Poland.

The university mass murderer shot himself at the last minute
18:48
The student who opened fire at a university in central Prague on Thursday finally killed himself on the building's gallery when police officers approached him. However, according to initial information, they also hit him during the intervention. Only an autopsy will determine the exact cause of death.

The information about the probable suicide was confirmed by Police President Martin Vondrášek at a press conference.

According to him, the very end of the intervention was accompanied by a shootout between the suspect and the intervening police officers.

"The officers also used weapons, but from the injuries we have been able to see so far, it appears that he took his own life. Whether this was also linked to the shooting by the police officers cannot be proven at this time, only the autopsy ordered will determine that," the police chief said. ... police have not yet officially confirmed the young man's identity because he suffered devastating injuries. This could have been the result of a situation where he turned a gun on himself at close range. The circumstances of his death are under further investigation.

He also added that none of the police officers or other emergency services were injured in the crackdown on the gunman.

The college shooter may have also killed a man and an infant in Klánovice, police said
20:33

Thursday's massacre at Prague's Faculty of Philosophy may be linked to the murder in the Klánovice forest [~10 km East of Prague]. Police President Martin Vondrášek said that the police are investigating this version.

"We are working very seriously with the version, which at this moment is very real, that the attacker from the Faculty of Philosophy is also responsible for the two victims at the end of last week in Klánovický les," Vondrášek said at a press conference on Thursday evening.

A thirty-two-year-old man and his only two-month-old daughter were shot dead in the Klánovický les (Klánovice Forest) on Friday, 15 December. Police have so far unsuccessfully searched for the perpetrator.

He said officers were led to it by observations and evidence seized at the crime scene in the village of Hostouň in the Kladno region, where the body of the father of the shooter was found on Thursday. "Until this attack, we did not know the identity of the assailant, and from the information I have, we could not have known," Vondrášek stressed.

"Personally, I am convinced that Prague police officers have carried out a huge number of actions over the course of this week and that it has not been in anyone's power to identify the suspect until today," Vondrášek said, adding that no one is known to have the potential attacker from Klánovice in custody.

"At this moment I am convinced that these were completely randomly selected victims by a person without any criminal history," he added. [including his father?]

The attacker had multiple weapons registered. Police will now investigate whether any of them were used in the shooting in the Klánovice forest.

There was a huge arsenal of weapons and ammunition in the Prague faculty building

21:05

There was a huge arsenal of weapons and ammunition in the building of the Faculty of Arts at Charles University, Police President Martin Vondrášek told a press conference on Thursday. Had it not been for the quick intervention of the police, the number of victims would have been many times higher, he said. ...

According to the latest tally, the killer shot 14 people at the college and wounded 25 others, 10 of them seriously, the police chief said. He also apparently killed his father in Hostoun, near Kladno.

Vondracek said police are investigating whether the young man was also behind the shooting in Prague's Klánovice. Police are led to believe that evidence seized at the house in Hostouni u Prahy was found.

Of course, it could not do without a Russian thread - someone running a TG channel (.https://t.me/Kozak_David) set on the same name was allegedly quite excited by a high school shooting that took place in Russia some 2 weeks ago when a 14 y.o. took her father's hunting weapon and started firing at her classmates in Brjansk, Russia...
 
A 17-year-old gunman killed a sixth-grader and wounded five people at an Iowa school. The shooter is also dead.
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The five people wounded include four students and one school administrator, officials said. The school’s principal, Dan Marburger, was among the injured, according to officials in another school district where Marburger was an alumnus.

The attack was one of at least four mass shootings that have unfolded in the United States in 2024, according to the Gun Violence Archive. And it marks the second US shooting on school property in 2024, according to a CNN analysis.

The shooter, who was a student at the high school, was Dylan Butler, according to Mitch Mortvedt, assistant director of the Iowa Department of Public Safety Division of Criminal Investigation. A law enforcement official told CNN the shooter is dead.

Officers responded to the shooting within minutes and found several people at the high school suffering gunshot wounds, and then found the gunman with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Mortvedt said during a Thursday news conference.

An improvised explosive device was also found during a search of the school and it was rendered safe by authorities.

The gunman was armed with a pump-action shotgun and a small caliber handgun, and had also made a number of social media posts around the time of the shooting, said Mortvedt, who did not offer more details on the contents of those posts.

LIVE UPDATES: Shooting at high school in Perry, Iowa

Evidence suggests the shooter acted alone and authorities do not believe there are any additional threats.

“It all happened in the Perry High School, and it was before school started so there were not many students, and it’s our understanding that there was a breakfast program going on so there may have been students of different grades … in the school at that time,” Mortvedt said.

The attack erupted on the first scheduled day of classes of the new semester, according to the district. It followed a year in which more than 80 school shootings – more than in any year since CNN began keeping track in 2008 – were recorded, and came as Republican presidential candidates crisscross the state, vying for voters’ support ahead of the Iowa caucuses this month.

Though authorities have yet to identify the sixth-grader who was killed, Perry resident Jessica Conrad told CNN the child was “the sweetest boy, the one you want your kids to be friends with.”

The principal, Marburger, was identified as one of the wounded in a statement from the Easton Valley Community School district in eastern Iowa, where Marburger graduated. The district said it learned of his injury through “family connections we have in our area.”

Marburger has worked at schools in Perry for at least 25 years, according to the Perry Community School District’s directory.

Authorities responded within 7 minutes to a 7:37 a.m. call of an active shooter at the campus, Dallas County Sheriff Adam Infante had said earlier Thursday. “There was very few students and faculty in the building,” he said, noting classes had not yet begun.

The FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives confirmed their agents had responded to the high school, as did the Iowa State Patrol, Sgt. Alex Dinkla told CNN, and police vehicles from multiple cities. The FBI said it was assisting the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, which is the lead investigative agency in the case.

“The law enforcement response was swift and immediate,” Mortvedt said during Thursday’s news conference. “Roughly 150 officers from local, state and federal agencies responded within the hour.”

Perry is about 40 miles northwest of Des Moines and has a population of about 8,000, according to the US Census Bureau. The Perry Community School District — comprised of the high school, a middle school and an elementary school — serves about 1,800 students, its website says.

Meanwhile, in Miami Dade 🤔👽🛸
All the cops - 100+ cars, police scanners down, power cut to 73,000 homes, businesses and the mall, black helicopters. Explain Miami Airport shut down. Zero flights in or out. Zero flights.

But the most important evidence that something very unusual occurred is the fact there are no cell phone pics or videos. It was a mall. There would have been hundreds or thousands of cameras there. So far not one single pic.

No main stream media and no definitive official explanation.

Fights between gangs, even with guns, doesn’t ever get that response.

What the hell happened? Anyone?

It must have been something very creepy.


 
Haven't seen this posted anywhere on Sott, but a 'woman' ( perhaps transgender) entered a huge megachurch in Houston on Sunday and open fired. She had a child with her who was killed. She was also killed by officers at the church.
Police in Houston, TX have identified the shooter who opened fire at Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church on Sunday as Genesse Ivonne Moreno, Fox News has confirmed.

Moreno, originally from El Salvador, who had a lengthy criminal record, also previously used the name Jeffrey Escalante Moreno, investigators said. The shooter was killed after off-duty police officers at the church responded to the incident. Police said two people were injured – a 57-year-old man and the child who accompanied the shooter. The child is not expected to survive, a Montgomery County District Attorney's Office spokesperson told the Houston Chronicle.

Preliminary reporting indicated the shooter was transgender, but in a Monday news conference, investigators identified her as a woman and the biological mother of the 7-year-old child.

A search warrant showed that Moreno pointed an AR-15 at the officers who then fired upon her and killed her in self-defense.

The preliminary reporting also indicated that the message "Free Palestine" was written on the rifle; investigators said later it was just "Palestine."

Moreno, 36, had a criminal history including convictions for assaulting a police officer in 2009 and forgery in 2010.

Members of the FBI, the Texas Rangers, the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office and the Conroe and Houston Police Departments were investigating a property Monday in Conroe, north of Houston, that was believed to be Moreno's residence, KPRC reported.

The shooting unfolded Sunday afternoon before the Houston megachurch's 2 p.m. Spanish service was set to begin. Moreno entered the church with a long rifle, wearing a backpack and a trench coat and accompanied by the child, Houston Police Chief Troy Finner said. After the shooter opened fire, off-duty officers at the scene "engaged" the shooter and returned fire. Moreno was pronounced dead at the scene.

Looks like they are already trying to back down on the transgender idea - but as she's used a male name previously does lend credence to that. Other news stories have indicated that neighbors have filed multiple complaints with Conroe police over the years about this person - all were ignored - or at least police said they could not do anything.

Joel Osteen has always struck me as smarmy and i find it interesting that this happened in his 'church'. His wife got into an altercation with a flight attendant years ago and they were taken off the plane.
 

Six killed, several injured after knife attack in Sydney shopping centre​

Suspect is shot dead as police say he acted alone and there was ‘no continuing threat’.

At least six people have been killed and several others injured after a man used a knife to attack people at a busy shopping centre in Australia’s Sydney before being shot dead by police.
 

Six killed, several injured after knife attack in Sydney shopping centre​

Suspect is shot dead as police say he acted alone and there was ‘no continuing threat’.

At least six people have been killed and several others injured after a man used a knife to attack people at a busy shopping centre in Australia’s Sydney before being shot dead by police.
We live not too far from this. Strangely my 14 YO daughter woke from a vivid dream that very morning about a man chasing us with a knife. He ended up stabbing me in her dream. Later that day her friends and her went to Bondi Junction (where it happened) at the same time when the stabbing occurred. It even crossed my mind to drive her there beforehand. If I did, it’s likely I would have gone to the shopping centre. Mostly I didn’t as I had some work commitments that afternoon.
 
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