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SANTA CRUZ -- Two well-known Westside Santa Cruz residents were killed in a murder-suicide in a residential neighborhood off Soquel Drive late Thursday, authorities reported. Gayle Mozee-Baum, 54, shot and killed her estranged husband, James "Jimmy" Baum, 61, around 11:15 p.m., then turned the gun on herself, the Sheriff's Office reported. Sheriff's Sgt. Ian Patrick called the deaths "a tragic event." Friends were taken aback at the news. "Jimmy was just kind-hearted. He was a gentleman," said Steve Robertson, a drummer from Aptos who knew Baum for 25 years. "Gayle was a very nice person. Everybody is just shocked by...

A seven-month-old baby girl survived three days alone with a bullet in her chest beside the bodies of her parents and toddler brother. Argentines Francisco Lotero, 56, and Miriam Coletti, 23, shot their children before killing themselves after making an apparent suicide pact over fears about global warming.

A man and a woman suffered gunshot wounds to the head Monday afternoon at a technology park near the University of Central Florida, according to the Orange County Sheriff's Office. The shooter is dead at the scene of an apparent suicide at the Central Florida Research Park The shooting happened at 1:11 p.m. today in the parking lot of an AT&T Wireless Call Center on Research Parkway, according to the sheriff's office. The shooting victim, a woman, was shot multiple times, according to Cpl. Susan Soto of the Sheriff's Office. The woman is still still alive but is in very...

Meleanie Hain, the pistol-carrying Lebanon mom who received national attention for taking a loaded gun to her daughter’s soccer game, was shot to death Wednesday night with her husband in an apparent murder-suicide, police said. Hain, 31, and her husband, Scott, 33, were pronounced dead by Lebanon County Coroner Dr. Jeffrey Yocum shortly after 8:30 p.m. at their home at Second Avenue and East Grant Street, police said. more at http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2009/10/gun-toting_soccer_mom_is_shot.html

HOLDEN, La. (AP) - A man shot his estranged wife, son and 2-year-old grandson to death and critically wounded his pregnant daughter-in-law at their rural Louisiana home, then killed himself as police tried to pull over his car 20 minutes later, authorities said. The shootings appeared to stem from an ongoing dispute between 50-year-old Dennis Carter Sr. and his wife, Donna Carter, who had a restraining order against him, said Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office Chief of Operations Perry Rushing. Police were called to the home in Holden, about 30 miles east of Baton Rouge, around 10:30 p.m. Saturday. Donna Carter,...

5-year-old girl stabbed in apparent murder-suicide July 18, 2009 A 5-year-old girl in Highland Park was apparently stabbed multiple times today by her 30-year-old mother, who then slit her own wrists, authorities said. The mother and daughter were pronounced dead at the scene, said Los Angeles Police Department Officer Rosario Herrera. Herrera said the apparent stabbing and suicide occurred about 9:37 a.m. in the 300 block of Vista Place.

Police have identified the two men who lost their lives Friday in the apparent murder-suicide at a restaurant in Columbia County. Cleaning crews were still at Applebee's restaurant along Route 11 in Bloomsburg hours after two men were killed inside. Investigators said 35-year-old Thomas Yurko of the Orangeville area walked in the restaurant just after 4 p.m. Friday and shot and killed Mark Wagner, 38, of Bloomsburg. Yurko then took his own life. Officials said there were many employees and customers inside the restaurant at the time. "When you go in and sit down to dinner, that would probably be...

Two shooting massacres in Germany and the US this week have reignited the debate on gun control, but while Europe has in the past been been ready to tighten already tough restrictions the US remains more resistant to change. Germany was in shock yesterday after a teenage gunman shot 15 people near Stuttgart in one of the worst incidents of its kind in the country. In the US on Tuesday a man went on a shooting spree in Alabama after setting his mother on fire in her house. The 28-year-old, Michael McLendon, killed 10 people including five family members. Angela...

<p>5 killed, 2 injured in Santa Clara shooting Matthew B. Stannard, Chronicle Staff Writer Monday, March 30, 2009 Fark (03-29) 22:51 PDT Santa Clara -- Santa Clara police were investigating a shooting Sunday night that left five people dead and two more, including an infant, fighting for their lives.</p>

Mounties have shot a woman in a wheelchair dead after she gunned down two people inside a Gibsons nursing home. One of the woman's victims is dead and the other has been taken to St. Paul's Hospital by helicopter. The incident occurred at about 4:30 p.m. at Good Samaritan Christensen Village nursing home after two employees approached the wheelchair-bound resident. The woman allegedly shot them with a rifle. She may have also had a handgun on her, according to witnesses. Residents identified the woman to The Province as Linda, 40. They said she had been acting erratically after being served...

Santa Clara police identified the victims and alleged gunman in a grisly murder-suicide Sunday night and provided a glimpse into the "difficult family dynamics" that spiraled into violence and claimed six lives. The murder-suicide that left six members of the Kalathat family dead in Santa Clara has a ripple effect in the Bay Area Indo-American community and across... Officers released new details Tuesday about the murder suicide involving an Indian family at the Rivermark shopping development. Tuesday night, dozens from the Rivermark neighborhood came to the doorsteps of the home carrying flowers, candles and thoughts for the victims. Many brought...

A portrait of an angry, isolated man is beginning to emerge of Jiverly Wong, the shooter who is believed to have killed 13 victims before turning the gun on himself at a civic center for new immigrants in Binghamton, New York on Friday. Voong was the "kind of guy who would come in mad one day and shoot people," said Kevin Greene, who described himself as a former co-worker of the alleged shooter at a Shop Vac assembly plant that had since closed, the New York Daily News reported. A string of attacks in the U.S. in the last month...

Why is it that when terrorism happens at home we diagnose it faster and more precisely? --- Police and Wong’s acquaintances portrayed him as an angry, troubled 41-year-old man who struggled with drugs and job loss and perhaps blamed his adopted country for his troubles. His rampage “was not a surprise” to those who knew him, Zikuski said. --- International terrorists blame America but thanks to liberal sensibilities it is claimed that we don’t understand them or that they just need to be handled carefully. No, America is their scapegoat and they blame us for their own personal shortcomings, as...

GRAHAM, Wash. – Washington state investigators say five children between 7 and 16 years old have been found dead in a Graham area home and they may have been killed by their father. Pierce County Sheriff's investigators told The News Tribune the children apparently were victims of homicidal violence.

CASSELBERRY, Fla. -- A mother shot and killed her son, and then herself, inside a Casselberry Gun Range Sunday afternoon, according to police. When Casselberry police arrived at the Shoot Straight Gun Range on South U.S. Highway 17-92 (see map) just after 4:00pm, they found two people had been shot in an apparent murder-suicide. Police identified the man as 20-year-old Mitchel Moore. The shooter, his mother, was identified as 44-year-old Marie Moore. Eyewitnesses said the pair was acting strangely and then the woman ran out of the room to get more ammunition. When she returned, eyewitnesses said, she shot her...

In the last few months, there have been several cases of mass murders on U.S. soil. On April 3, 2009, Jiverly Wong went into an American Civic Association and murdered 13 people. Wong wounded over 20 others and allegedly held hostages for hours before killing himself. The forty one year old had been going to the Civic Association to attend language lessons, and was angered over losing his job. He was teased due to to his lack of English language skill as well. These massacres follow a predictable pattern, and it is certain that there will be more attacks as...

Police confirm Saturday's suspicious deaths as murder - suicide Glory Przekop, Radana Suk and Craig Lester | Monday, April 6th, 2009 6:48 pm Bookmark Police confirm a weekend tragedy was a murder-suicide. Early Saturday morning officers found a man lying in an apartment parking lot in Eau Claire. He'd jumped from a sixth floor apartment after stabbing his common law wife to death. Homicide Acting Staff Sergeant Patty McCallum tells 660News investigators are looking for any information to shed light on the tragedy. "We are looking for more people to come forward to give information on this couple that will...

Four Oakland, Calif., police officers shot down. An Alabama man strolling a small town with a rifle, looking for victims. Seven elderly people shot dead at a North Carolina nursing home. And on Sunday, six people, including four kids, died in an apparent murder-suicide in an upscale neighborhood in Santa Clara, Calif. The details in all these cases are still emerging. In most, the exact motive has yet to be determined – or may never be fully understood. On a broader level, however, such incidents may be happening more often because an increasing number of Americans feel desperate pressure from...

Five children reported dead after dad's suicide Deputies went to check on family after father killed himself BREAKING NEWS ORTING, Wash. - Five children were found dead at a home outside the city of Orting after their father reportedly killed himself in a neighboring county, a television station reported Saturday. Pierce County sheriff's deputies went to a home in a trailer park at the request of the King County Sheriff's Department after the father committed suicide, NBC affiliate KING reported. The children are between seven and 16 years old, KING reported. The 7-year-old is a boy, and the rest are...

Atlanta – Four Oakland, Calif., police officers shot down. An Alabama man strolling a small town with a rifle, looking for victims. Seven elderly people shot dead at a North Carolina nursing home. And on Sunday, six people, including four kids, died in an apparent murder-suicide in an upscale neighborhood in Santa Clara, Calif. The details in all these cases are still emerging. In most, the exact motive has yet to be determined – or may never be fully understood. On a broader level, however, such incidents may be happening more often because an increasing number of Americans feel desperate...