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After the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, multiple gun laws were proposed in the United States at the federal and state levels. The shooting renewed debate about gun control. The debates focused on requiring background checks on all firearm sales (called universal background checks), and on passing new and expanded assault weapon and ...
On December 14, 2012, a mass shooting occurred at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, United States. The perpetrator, 20-year-old Adam Lanza, shot and killed 26 people. 20 of the victims were children between six and seven years old, and the other six were adult staff members. Earlier that day, before driving to the school ...
New York City, New York: 0 2 2: 17-year-old Vincent Rodriguez wounded two students at Martin Luther King, Jr. High School in Manhattan with a semi-automatic pistol. He retaliated against the individuals who had harassed his girlfriend. In February 2003, Rodriguez was sentenced to ten years in prison on charges of assault and attempted assault. [17]
10th remembrance of Sandy Hook school massacre. By Nathan Layne. NEWTOWN, Conn. (Reuters) - Ten years after one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history, residents of the Connecticut town ...
Updated September 3, 2024 at 12:50 PM. A gunman opened fire into a crowd along the route of New York City's annual West Indian American Day Parade, killing one man and injuring four, police said ...
On the morning of April 12, 2022, a mass shooting was committed on a northbound N train on the New York City Subway in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, New York, United States. At approximately 8:24 a.m. EDT, a 62-year-old Black nationalist [4][5] Frank Robert James [2] put on a gas mask, threw two smoke grenades, and fired a handgun 33 times.
The Bronx, New York City: October 29, 1984: 1: Botched eviction. NYPD officer acquitted 1984 New York City Subway shooting: Manhattan, New York City: December 22, 1984: 0 "Subway vigilante" attack Death of Edmund Perry: Manhattan, New York City: June 12, 1985: 1: NYPD officer acquitted Paul Castellano: Manhattan, New York City: December 16, 1985: 1
On July 23, 2007, two home intruders entered the home of the Petit family in Cheshire, Connecticut, United States.The perpetrators Linda Hayes (known as Steven Hayes at the time) [b] and Joshua Andrew Komisarjevsky initially planned only to burgle the house, but went on to murder Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters, 17-year-old Hayley Petit and 11-year-old Michaela Petit.