Witnesses said gunmen in a car opened fire on people on a basketball court in the Back of the Yards neighbourhood on Thursday night.
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The gunman who slaughtered 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard stalked his victims as if he was "hunting" them, FBI director James Comey said.
He said former Navy sailor Aaron Alexis...
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A man with a pistol fatally shot three people on Friday in rural western Pennsylvania, one of them in a church, before he was killed in a shootout with state troopers as he tried to flee in a...
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The peace and security of the suburban Connecticut community of Newtown lay shattered on Friday after a gunman attacked a primary school in one of the worst mass shootings in US history.
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Relatives of those killed in past mass shootings reacted with outrage to Friday’s news of another massacre at an elementary school in Connecticut. The tragedy also reignited calls from gun control...
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