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The 20-year-old who allegedly opened fire on the Florida State University (FSU) campus had been prescribed medication for “emotional dysregulation”; it is unclear whether he had stopped taking medication at the time of the shooting. CNN reported that he “suffered from emotional dysregulation,” but noted that family members indicated “he had stopped taking some of the prescribed medication.” The Cleveland Clinic says: Emotional dysregulation isa brain-related symptom that means you have trouble managing your feelings and emotions. It’s often a sign of conditions that affect your brain or differences in how your brain developed or works today. It’s usually not...

FSU shooter’s biological mom kidnapped him and fled to Norway amid bitter custody battle decade before deadly rampage The biological mother of accused Florida State University shooter, Phoenix Ikner, kidnapped him and fled to Norway amid a bitter custody battle a decade before the deadly shooting, court documents reveal. Eriksen and Phoenix Ikner — who at the time went by his birth name Christian Gunnar Eriksen — both have American and Norwegian citizenship. “Instead of staying in South Florida, the defendant allegedly fled the country with him in violation of their custody agreement,” the affidavit stated. Christopher Ikner only discovered...

In the wake of the deadly shooting at Florida State University on Thursday, a portrait of the alleged gunman -- the son of a local sheriff's deputy -- has emerged. At least two people were killed and six others were injured when shots rang out near the Tallahassee institution's Student Union, officials said during a press conference.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Action News Jax has continuing coverage of an active shooter situation on the campus of Florida State University in Tallahassee. We have learned that the FBI Jacksonville and the Tallahassee Resident Agency are on scene, as well as the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

Audrey Hale, 28, left behind 16 notebooks filled with deranged writings detailing self-loathing and racial hate, repeating how she wanted “kill my own race” and “destroy all the white people who are teachers.” “Being white sucks, but being black is so cool. Black people should rule. White people should fall, every white person who lived and died. I hate you all,” wrote Hale, who was white.

Shortened title. Full title: Congressional shooter James Hodgkinson was abusive alcoholic, foster daughter told judge before her overdose death Teenager Cathy Rainbolt told a judge her foster father hit her in the face when she failed to mow the lawn correctly. She got hit in the face when she argued. She got hit and dragged by the hair when she tried to get away. Her foster father was James "Tom" Hodgkinson, who is now infamous after shooting U.S. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, two police officers and a staffer on a Virginia ballfield Wednesday. Rainbolt told the judge that Hodgkinson...

A Salisbury man infamously known for a shooting at a Washington, D.C. pizza restaurant was identified as the man who was shot and killed by officers during a traffic stop earlier this month in Kannapolis. A Kannapolis Police officer patrolled North Cannon Boulevard around 10 p.m. on Jan. 4 when he recognized a GMC Yukon normally driven by someone he knew had an outstanding warrant for their arrest. The officer pulled over the Yukon and while talking to the driver, recognized the passenger in the front seat as Edgar Maddison Welch, 36, who had an outstanding warrant for felony probation...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Multiple people are dead after the New Orleans Police Department reports a car may have plowed into a group of people on Bourbon Street. It happened around 3:15 a.m. at the intersection of Bourbon Street and Iberville.

The gun used by the 15-year-old girl who allegedly opened fire in Madison’s Abundant Life Christian School was purchased legally. Breitbart News reported that the 15-year-old had two handguns with her and WISN noted that Madison Chief of Police Shon Barnes indicated both were legally acquired. Barnes seemed to indicate that police, with the help of the ATF, have learned who purchased them but will not identify said person at this time for the sake of preserving the integrity of the investigation. He made clear investigators are seeking “anyone who may have been involved, who may have had some effort...

The shooter who killed a student and teacher at a religious school in Wisconsin brought two guns to the school and was in contact with a man in California who authorities say was planning to attack a government building, according to authorities and court documents that became public Wednesday. Police were still investigating why the 15-year-old student at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison shot and killed a fellow student and teacher on Monday before shooting herself, Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes said. Two other students who were shot remained in critical condition on Wednesday. “We may never know what...

The New York Post reports that the mentally ill gunman who shot and wounded two kindergarteners at a small California school Wednesday wrote that he was deploying a “countermeasure involving child executions” in response to “America’s involvement with genocide and oppression of Palestinians,” in a note he left behind. Following the shooting at Feather River School of Seventh-Day Adventists on Thursday, the gunman turned the gun on himself. He has been identified as Glenn Litton, a 56-year-old homeless man. He had been in jail until just two days prior to the attack. “Countermeasure involving child executions has now been imposed...

The congressional task force investigating the July and September assassination attempts against former President Donald Trump says the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) has "failed to produce" certain materials the task force requested as part of its ongoing probe into both incidents. On Oct. 3, the task force sent a letter to the ATF about 17 "requests for production as well as three categories of requests for select transcribed interviews with relevant ATF agents who provided support or response functions in connection with the" assassination attempts against Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, and in West Palm Beach, Florida. The...

Chicago Police on Thursday announced that felony terrorism and hate crime charges have been added to the charges against the suspect who shot an Orthodox Jewish man as he was walking to synagogue this past Shabbat, and then fired at responding officers during a shootout. Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi, 22, has been charged with one felony count of terrorism and one felony count of a hate crime, Chicago Police Department Chief Larry Snelling said at a news conference Thursday, according to CNN. Abdallahi is accused of firing several shots at a 39-year-old man on the city’s North Side before firing “at...

At least 10 people have been killed, including a police officer, in a shooting at a supermarket in the US city of Boulder, Colorado less than a week after eight people were shot dead in the US city of Atlanta. Police arrested Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, 21, of Arvada and charged him with 10 counts of first-degree murder, Boulder Police Chief Maris Harold said at a press conference. Alissa, who was shot in the leg, was in stable condition at an area hospital and was expected to be released later Tuesday, officials said. Boulder County District Attorney Michael Dougherty said...

The mom of the 14-year-old alleged Apalachee High School shooter is now facing charges of abusing her own mother. The New York Post reported that Marcee Gray was indicted for allegedly abusing Deborah Polhamus. WSB-TV noted that Gray’s specific charges are “exploitation and intimidation of a disabled adult or elderly person, false imprisonment, criminal damage to property in the second degree, and theft.”

Police shut down Interstate 75 near London, Kentucky, Saturday evening following reports of an active shooter. "Numerous persons have been shot near I-75," the Laurel County Sheriff's office said in a statement at 6:36 p.m.

Law enforcement sources speaking to CNN reveal that the Discord account belonging to the Winder, Ga. mass school shooting suspect allegedly had posts about plans for a mass shooting over grievances about the lack of trans acceptance. https://t.co/2IxZ3wVJ0vSuspect Colt Gray was… pic.twitter.com/Snn7OH3jx1— Andy Ngo 🏳️‍🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) September 6, 2024

FBI Atlanta responded earlier today to Apalachee High School following reports of an active shooter. Throughout the day FBI personnel have been coordinating with and supporting local and state law enforcement. The FBI will dedicate all available resources, as requested, to seek justice and bring closure for the victims and their families. In May 2023, the FBI's National Threat Operations Center received several anonymous tips about online threats to commit a school shooting at an unidentified location and time. The online threats contained photographs of guns. Within 24 hours, the FBI determined the online post originated in Georgia and the...

The shooter who allegedly killed four people and wounded nine others at a Georgia high school on Wednesday has been identified as 14-year-old Colt Gray, authorities said. Gray opened fire at Apalachee High School in Winder shortly before 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Chris Hosey told reporters Wednesday afternoon. The gunman surrendered to police as soon as he was confronted by a school resource officer, Hosey said. Hosey said the teen, who is a student at the school, would be charged with murder as an adult. The campus was crowded with law enforcement vehicles from multiple agencies...

Heart-pounding footage shows the moment a shooter unloaded his weapon on a man who was trying to defend his girlfriend from two creeps inside a Queens convenience store this week. The clip, obtained by The Post Thursday, shows the 34-year-old victim entering the One World Convenience store in Richmond Hill and apparently exchanging words with two men standing near the door. Then the gunman kept firing, pelting the victim with bullets until he fell face down onto the ground. “Right away he pulled out the gun and started shooting more than eight times,” a store manager, who declined to give...