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16-year-old boy has been charged with two counts of attempted criminal homicide and dozens of related charges after he shot two people in Park City Center on Sunday, Lancaster County District Attorney Heather Adams announced Friday during a news conference at the Lancaster County Courthouse. Jeremiahs Josiah-Alberto Sanchez, of Locust Street, got into an altercation with Elijah Deliz, 18, in the J.C. Penney wing near center court, pulled a stolen handgun and fired two shots, Adams said. One hit Deliz in the thigh and the other struck an uninvolved 30-year-old female standing next to a child, Adams said. Then, an...

A struggle over a gun preceded multiple people sustaining gunshot wounds inside Park City Center mall in Lancaster County, Lancaster police said on Monday. Police believe six shots were fired — including some fired by an armed bystander who emerged from a nearby store and intervened. A female walking by with her family and unconnected with the dispute was among those shot, police said. The gunfire took place on Sunday afternoon inside the section of the mall occupied by JC Penney Lancaster police on Monday morning said a male 16-year-old city resident has been arrested and is awaiting charges. Police...

Meanwhile, in Norway, unarmed police were unable to stop a mass murderer. Although the daily news always provides plenty of examples of people doing genuinely bad things (assault, robbery, rape, murder, etc.), the fact is that most people in America are law-abiding. And while some will sit passively while a violent rape occurs directly in front of them, many of these good citizens will act when called upon to do so. Nevertheless, America's retail stores and entertainment venues insist on disarming the good guys under the delusional belief that it will stop the bad guys. The latest example of this...