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A gunman who fatally shot a Canadian tourist and wounded more than a dozen others atop a historic pyramid in Mexico on Monday has been identified, according to officials.Authorities identified the gunman as 27-year-old Julio Cesar Jasso, a Mexican national, according to a state official who spoke anonymously because they were not authorized to discuss the case publicly.

Authorities in Louisiana are searching for answers after a man shot and killed eight children, including seven of his own, and critically wounded two women, including his wife, in Shreveport, La., early Sunday, in the nation’s deadliest mass shooting in more than two years. “I just don’t know what to say, my heart is just taken aback,” Shreveport Police Chief Wayne Smith said at a news conference. “I cannot begin to imagine how such an event could occur.” The gunman, identified as 31-year-old Shamar Elkins, was killed during a police pursuit after hijacking a car, according to police.

A man shot a ‌Canadian woman dead and injured several others ​before killing himself ​on Monday at Mexico's Teotihuacan ⁠pyramids, a popular tourist ​and archaeological site ​outside of Mexico City, according to authorities. Mexico's security cabinet ​said the injured ​people were receiving medical care. ‌Canada's ⁠foreign ministry did not immediately reply to a request for comment. SNIP

On his Facebook page, Elkins shared a picture of him with his eldest daughter as she ate a burger Saturday, hours before his rampage. “Lol!!!! Took my oldest on a lil 1 on 1 date had to catch her down bad ugh ugh,” the killer wrote, along with a string of laughing emojis. Two weeks ago, Elkins shared a picture of himself posing with seven children as he described taking them to church for an Easter service. “Happy Easter had a wonderful time at church for the first time with all my kids what a blessed day,” he wrote in...

A 77-year-old gunman opened fire at an Idaho sheriff’s office — injuring three people before he was killed in a standoff with police, according to authorities. The incident unfolded around 2:30 p.m. on Friday when shooter John Drake opened fire outside of the Shoshone County Sheriff’s Office in Wallace, Shoshone County Sheriff William Eddy announced at a press conference. Drake shot through the windshield of a pickup truck on the street near the sheriff’s office, striking two women in the leg. An officer was also wounded in the gunfire, Eddy said. The officer was nicked in the ear by flying...

One police officer was killed and two others injured by a gunman who allegedly took ICU staff hostage Saturday at York, Pennsylvania’s UPMC Memorial Hospital. Breitbart News noted the incident occurred Saturday morning and that multiple reports indicated the gunman was “neutralized” by law enforcement. However, reports on injuries and the extent of said injuries were unclear. CNN is now reporting that one person, a police officer, was killed during the incident and two other officers were injured. Both injured officers are in stable condition.

Text messages, obtained exclusively by The Times, indicate that some law enforcement officers were aware of Thomas Crooks earlier than previously known. And he was aware of them. Nearly 100 minutes before former President Donald J. Trump took the stage in Butler, Pa., a local countersniper who was part of the broader security detail let his colleagues know his shift was ending. “Guys I am out. Be safe,” he texted to a group of colleagues at 4:19 p.m. on July 13. He exited the second floor of a warehouse that overlooked the campaign rally site, leaving two other countersnipers behind....

Fox News host Jesse Watters recently conducted a sit-down interview with former President Trump to discuss last week's failed assassination attempt. The interview, which will premiere on "Jesse Watters Primetime" on Monday night at 8 p.m. ET, featured both Trump and his vice presidential candidate JD Vance. ... Trump revealed during the interview that he was not warned..."Nobody mentioned it,"...

Churchgoers thwarted a teenager armed with a rifle from entering a Louisiana church full of children Saturday in a service that was being livestreamed, authorities said. Police were called to St. Mary Magdalen Church in Abbeville, 20 miles south of Lafayette, at 10:35 a.m. when the 16-year-old suspect tried to get in via the back door.

One of the men charged in the deadly Kansas City parade shooting admitted that he “randomly picked” a target to fire at during a heated argument, while the other gunman was caught on video shooting his gun while falling over, according to court documents that paint a picture of how chaotic and quickly the scene unfurled. Lyndell Mays, 23, and Dominic Miller, 18, were part of two separate groups bickering at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory parade when Mays claimed he feared for his life and fired his weapon first, according to Mays’ interview with police. Despite hesitating...

Capitol Police arrested a gunman outside office buildings near the US Senate on Tuesday. Officers arrested the armed man “in the park across from Union Station,” according to a Capitol Police statement. “At this time we have no reason to believe there is an ongoing threat,” the statement read. “We are working to gather more information and will put out more details when they are confirmed.” In a separate alert, officers alerted members, staff and press to the presence of a suspicious package “in the Upper Senate Park.” They advised all to avoid the area until further notice

Wisconsin police shot dead a gunman who fired at officers from the roof of a middle school, where up to 70 students were stuck inside. Germantown police said they responded to a call about a person “acting erratically” in the parking lot of Kennedy Middle School shortly after 6:30 p.m. Monday. When two officers tried to pursue him, the gunman managed to climb onto the roof — using the high vantage point to shoot at the police below, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Cops returned fire, striking the gunman. No other injuries were reported. First responders rendered aid, but...

BLM gunman who shot a driver in the head has charges dropped, sentence reduced, eligible for parole in 2026The public is forgetting a lot of things. The absurd theater surrounding the COVID pandemic and hysteria over vaccines seems like a distant memory. The huge outpouring of organized violence surrounding the death of George Floyd, probably the worst the nation has experienced in decades, is also slipping away. One incident that is often forgotten is the shooting that took place in the small town Alamosa, CO. In Alamosa we saw the familiar pattern of the riots: Black Lives Matter protestors would...

The shooter who killed three black people at a Dollar General in Jacksonville, Florida, Saturday once worked at a discount retailer — and stopped at a Family Dollar, where a security guard’s presence caused him to leave just before he carried out what police say was a racially motivated attack. Ryan Palmeter, 21, who is white, had worked at a Dollar Tree from October 2021 to July 2022, Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters said Monday. “Based off what we saw: him stopping off at the Family Dollar and working at a Dollar Tree previously and then him going to Dollar General,...

UNC-Chapel Hill UNC-Chapel Hill students were urged to shelter in place Monday afternoon after reports that an "armed and dangerous" gunman was on campus. According to local reports, a faculty member was killed by the alleged shooter, who is now in custody.Those reports also identify Tailei Qi, seen here in an undated UNC-CH Applied Physical Sciences student profile photo, as the man arrested and taken into custody. Information from that profile shows that he also studied at Wuhan University:Person of interest Tailei Qi studied at Wuhan University, according to a website run by UNC-Chapel Hill, which collaborated with the Wuhan...

A gunman fatally shot three Black people with an assault rifle covered with swastikas inside a Jacksonville, Florida store in what police are calling a “racially motivated” attack on Saturday. The victims were described as two African-American men and a woman, who were slain by a white male, who shot himself to death before he could be apprehended. The unidentified shooter was earlier seen lurking around the campus of a nearby historically black college before the attack— and he detailed his hatred of black people in one of “several manifestos,” law enforcement said.

Police have identified the gunman suspected of killing a 15-year-old boy, an innocent bystander, in a broad daylight shooting on a Brooklyn street last week. The alleged killer is just a teen himself, according to cops who said they are looking for Leopoldo Nash, 17, in connection to the slaying. Nash, of Gravesend, is accused of shooting Faridun Mavlonov – a student at James Madison High School student — in the back when he meant to strike another person on 62nd Street near 20th Avenue in Bensonhurst around 1 p.m. last Monday, police said. Mavlonov was rushed to Maimonides Medical...

A man used a motorized scooter to get from victim to victim in a New York City shooting spree on Saturday that ended with one dead, three injured and a suspect in custody, police said. The seemingly random attacks in Brooklyn and Queens started at 11:10 a.m., police said, and officially ended exactly two hours later with a suspect arrested in the latter borough, police said. The man, identified only as a 25-year-old with a previous arrest, had a 9 mm semiautomatic handgun with an extended magazine and an "illegal" scooter without plates, New York Police First Deputy Commissioner Edward...

A scooter-riding gunman shot three people in Queens early Saturday, killing an elderly man and leaving two others hurt before he was taken into custody, police said. The victims included an 86-year-old man who died, a 44-year-old man who was shot in the torso, and a 63-year-old man who took a slug in the shoulder, police said. “It seems random,” a police spokesperson said.

Four people were killed and another four were wounded when a gunman wearing a ballistic vest started shooting in Philadelphia Monday night, according to a report. The deadly gunfire rang out in the Kingsessing part of the city around 8: 30 p.m. A suspect was under arrest, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported, citing authorities. At least two juveniles were among the victims shot, police said. Their conditions were not immediately known.