Gunman

This undated image provided by the Colorado Department of Corrections shows its director Tom Clements. Sheriff's Lt. Jeff Kramer says Clements was shot to death around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday night March 19, 2013 when he answered his front door in Monument, north of Colorado Springs. Police are searching for the shooter. (AP Photo/Colorado Department of Corrections)

Colo. prisons chief killed by gunman

 

DENVER -- The head of the Colorado Department of Corrections was shot and killed when he answered the front door of his home, and police were searching for the gunman Wednesday.

Gunman robs Kaysville gas station

 

KAYSVILLE — Police searched Tuesday night for a gunman who held up RB’s One Stop gas station in Kaysville.

A minivan with a shot out back window sits in the parking lot of a Rainbow Food in Oakdale, Minn. on Monday, Feb. 11, 2013. Oakdale police say a 34-year-old Oakdale man opened fire randomly at passing vehicles near a Rainbow Foods store about 6:10 p.m. Monday. The boy and his 39-year-old mother were struck in one vehicle. A 68-year-old woman in another vehicle was shot in the hand. All were taken to Regions Hospital. Stark says the boy died of his injuries. The women are expected to recover. The suspect was arrested several blocks away Monday evening, Feb. 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Pioneer Press, Ginger Pinson)

Gunman randomly shooting at cars kills 10-year-old

OAKDALE, Minn. — A gunman apparently firing randomly at vehicles killed a 10-year-old and wounded the child’s mother and another woman Monday night, Oakdale’s police chief said. The suspect was in custody.

Law enforcement personnel station themselves on the property of Jimmy Lee Sykes, Monday, Feb. 4, 2013 in Midland City, Ala. Officials say they stormed a bunker in Alabama to rescue a 5-year-old child being held hostage there after Sykes, his abductor, was seen with a gun. (AP Photo/AL.com, Joe Songer)

Police rescue 5-year-old hostage, gunman dead

MIDLAND CITY, Ala. — Officers stormed an underground bunker in Alabama where a 5-year-old boy had been held hostage for nearly a week, rescuing the child and leaving the boy’s abductor dead, officials said Monday.

Law enforcement personnel in tactical gear ride a pickup to the scene of an ongoing hostage crisis on Friday, Feb. 1, 2013 below the site where Tuesday's school bus shooting suspect is barricaded in a bunker holding a five-year-old boy captive. More than three days after authorities said a gunman shot a school bus driver dead, grabbed a kindergartner and slipped into an underground bunker, the man showed no signs Friday of turning himself over to police. (AP Photo/The Dothan Eagle, Jay Hare)

Standoff drags on with gunman holding 5-year-old hostage in bunker

MIDLAND CITY, Ala. — The standoff between police and a gunman accused of holding a kindergartner hostage in an underground bunker dragged into a fourth day on Friday, as authorities sought to continue delicate conversations with the man through a pipe and worked to safely end the tense situation.

Teen gunman kills 5 at NM home

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A teenage boy fatally shot two adults and three children at a home near Albuquerque, authorities said Sunday.

Man shot in Woods Cross, gunman at-large

WOODS CROSS — Police are investigating the shooting of a 25-year-old man in Woods Cross.

Gunman kills 3 before troopers kill him in gunfight

HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pa. -- A man fatally shot a woman decorating for a children's Christmas party at a tiny church hall and killed two men elsewhere in a rural central Pennsylvania township Friday before he was fatally shot in a gunfight with state troopers.

A woman waits to hear about her sister, a teacher, following a shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., about 60 miles (96 kilometers) northeast of New York City, Friday, Dec. 14, 2012. An official with knowledge of Friday's shooting said 27 people were dead, including 18 children. It was the worst school shooting in the country's history. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

27 reported dead in Conn. school shooting

 

NEWTOWN, Conn. -- The massacre of 26 children and adults at a Connecticut elementary school elicited horror and soul-searching around the world even as it raised more basic questions about why the gunman, a 20-year-old described as brilliant but remote, was driven to such a crime and how he chose his victims.

Police say gunman was killed by resident protecting maintenance worker

KAYSVILLE— An apartment complex resident is believed to have acted in self-defense when he shot and apparently killed a gunman who opened fire on a maintenance worker Friday, authorities say.

Jonny and Ali, who both declined to give their last names, comfort each other at the scene of where a gunman killed four people and severely wounded another in a cafe a day earlier, Thursday, May 31, 2012, in Seattle. The pair were close friends of two of the men killed there. Police say the assailant later killed a woman during a carjacking before shooting himself. As officers closed in during a widespread manhunt on Wednesday, the suspect put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger and later died at a hospital. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Man who threw stool at crazed gunman lost brother in 9/11

SEATTLE - After his brother died in the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center, Lawrence Adams vowed he "would never hide under a table," in the event he were ever to face a deadly threat.

Police surround a house in the University district in Seattle near a cafe where a gunman killed two people and critically wounded three others Wednesday, May 30, 2012. The shooting took place about 11 a.m. at Cafe Racer, a restaurant and music venue north of the University of Washington. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

2 killed, 3 wounded in shooting at Seattle cafe

 

SEATTLE - Two men were killed and three other people wounded in a shooting Wednesday morning in Seattle’s University District.

Gunman kills Afghan peace council member

KABUL, Afghanistan -- An assassin on Sunday shot dead a former high-ranking Taliban official working on reconciling Afghanistan's insurgency with the government, a fresh blow to peace efforts on the day Kabul announced it was gradually taking the lead from the U.S.-led coalition for providing security in much of the country.

Marilyn Daniels, center, an employee at Oikos University, is comforted near the school in Oakland, Calif., following a shooting on Monday, April 2, 2012. A gunman opened fire at the school Monday, killing at least five people, law enforcement sources close to the investigation said. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

Students fled for their lives, hid as gunman opened fire

OAKLAND, Calif. -- One wounded woman cowered in the bushes after the gunman opened fire on the campus of a small Christian university. One student hid in a locked classroom as the shooter banged on the door. Another heard the shots and ran to safety.

All within an hour Monday, police said, a 43-year-old former student named One L. Goh walked into Oikos University, and began a rampage that left seven people dead and three people wounded, trapped some in the building and forced others to flee for their lives.

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