Shootings

JACKSON, Miss. -- Police have arrested a suspect in two fatal highway shootings in Mississippi that prompted warnings a fake officer might be pulling over victims.

ROY — I learned how to use a gun to save the day, and helped save it, but I never fired a shot. Someone else on my team shot the bad guy in the back.

Teamwork, folks. That’s what it’s all about. That and training.

The Roy Police Department held “Rapid Response Training”at Roy Junior High School for news media and school and city officials Thursday.

TOULOUSE, France — In a dramatic end to a 32-hour standoff, a masked French SWAT team slipped into an Islamic extremist’s apartment Thursday, sparking a firefight that ended with the man being shot in the head as he jumped out the window, weapon in hand.

The suspect, 23-year-old Mohamed Merah, was wanted in the deaths of three French paratroopers, three Jewish schoolchildren and a rabbi — all killed since March 11 in what Merah reportedly told police was an attempt to "bring France to its knees."

This month alone, at least four shootings of students have occurred in schools across the country, including Monday’s deadly attack outside Cleveland, Ohio.

COPLEY, Ohio -- Investigators worked Monday to unravel the motive behind a shooting rampage that killed seven people and wounded another in a small Ohio town before the gunman died in a gunfight with police.

Police combed through three homes and searched outside a fourth in a wooded, residential area outside Akron on Sunday, collecting evidence as they tried to piece together what happened during the shootings that shook a quiet neighborhood.

WHEATLAND, Wyo. -- Police say a man shot and killed his three sons and his adult brother and wounded his wife in a mobile home park in southeast Wyoming.

All the victims were shot Thursday, Wheatland Police Chief Randy Chesser said.

Everett Conant, who is in his mid-30s, was arrested after a brief standoff that followed the shootings, Chesser said. The shootings were reported to police just before 6 p.m. Thursday.

LEESBURG, Va. -- A Marine Corps reservist arrested in a security scare near the Pentagon last week was charged Thursday in a series of pre-dawn shootings at military buildings in the Washington area last year.