Tamura’s first target was a police officer -- 36-year-old Didarul Islam -- who had been working an off-duty security shift at the building.
A shooting in Uppsala, Sweden, left several people injured and three confirmed dead, prompting a murder investigation by local police. Authorities received multiple calls from the public reporting loud bangs in the city center. Upon arriving, officers discovered individuals with injuries consistent with gunfire. A large area around the scene was cordoned off as investigators began their work. Swedish police confirmed that several investigative measures were underway. Reports from SVT public television indicated that the suspect fled the scene on a scooter. Uppsala, located in eastern Sweden, has seen a rise in gang-related violence in recent years, which may be linked to this incident. The police are working to determine the circumstances surrounding the shooting and are continuing their efforts to identify and apprehend the suspect. This tragic event highlights growing concerns over gang violence in the region.
A mass shooting at Florida State University, allegedly carried out by the son of a deputy, left two dead and five injured. The suspect, Phoenix Ikner, was later shot by police.
Ten people were injured in a shooting outside the Amazura nightclub in Queens, New York, on Wednesday night. Around 11:15 p.m., as a group of 16 to 20-year-olds waited to enter a private event, four men approached on foot, with three or four opening fire. Approximately 30 shots were fired before the suspects fled on foot and escaped in a light-coloured sedan with out-of-state plates. Six women and four men sustained non-life-threatening injuries and were hospitalised, with all expected to survive. Authorities confirmed the incident was not terrorism and are investigating the motive. Police pledged zero tolerance for such violence.
An 11-year-old middle school student in Port Orange, Florida, has been charged with a felony after threatening to commit a mass shooting at a middle school, CNN reported.
State police said no one was in custody and they were assisting Detroit police with the investigation, according to a post on the social media platform X
Apart from the four critically injured victims, three others sustained non-life-threatening injuries.
Police were tipped off earlier in the day the suspect was likely heading to Prague from his town in the Kladno region outside the capital with intentions of taking his own life.
A mass shooting left multiple people dead in the city of Lewiston, Maine on Wednesday evening, about 35 miles north of the state’s largest city, Portland. Eyewitness video from one location showed people running away, and ambulances arriving. Authorities said a “person of interest” was at large, armed and dangerous, warning people there to shelter in place
The US has seen at least 191 mass shootings in the first 127 days of the year, with the latest in a busy Texas shopping mall leaving nine people dead – including the suspected gunman. A look at America’s 10 most deadly mass shootings of 2023.
A heavily armed 28-year-old fatally shot three children and three adult staffers on March 27 at a private Christian school the suspect once attended in Tennessee's capital city before police killed the assailant, authorities said.
Shots were fired inside a building used by Jehovah's Witnesses in the northern German city of Hamburg on March 9 evening, with several people killed and wounded, police said.
Nine people killed in mass shooting in city east of Los Angeles that was celebrating Lunar New Year, police say.
Robert Crimo, 22, was identified as a "person of interest" in the mass shooting at Highland Park parade that left at least 6 dead.
A gunman opened fire in Philadelphia's busy South Street area, which has multiple bars and restaurants, around midnight on Saturday. Two men and a woman were killed, officials said.
“This student’s behavior is sickening, especially after the recent tragedy in Uvalde, Texas,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno said in a statement.
The Texas massacre has raised the stakes of the fast-tracked hearing, and will cast into even starker relief the differences between Steven M Dettelbach, a mainstream Democrat who supports his party’s call for renewal of an assault-weapons ban, and Republicans who have portrayed him as a threat to Second Amendment rights
"The subjects' SUV approached the front of the business, three subjects exited the vehicle and began shooting indiscriminately into the crowd," Miami-Dade Police Department said.
He announced the ban of over 1,500 models and variants of assault-style firearms, including two weapons used by the gunman as well as the AR-15 and other weapons that have been used in a number of mass shootings in the United States "Canadians need more than thoughts and prayers," Trudeau said.
In a statement on Facebook, Odessa police named the gunman as Seth Aaron Ator, 36, of Odessa.
The coming weeks may well be a banner one for gun sales in America - and the massacre at a Connecticut elementary school will likely be a reason.