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Washington (AFP) - The parents of a teenager who carried out a deadly school shooting in the US state of Michigan were sentenced to 10 to 15 years in prison on Tuesday in an unprecedented and closely watched case. Jennifer Crumbley and her husband James -- who bought their son the gun as a Christmas present -- were the first parents of a school shooter to be convicted of manslaughter in the United States for the actions of their child. Oakland County Judge Cheryl Matthews sentenced them to 10 to 15 years in prison each with credit for the 28 months they have already spent behind bars. Their so...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Newly released video shows US police shooting dead a kidnapped teenage girl they had been tasked with rescuing, in a chaotic incident on a busy California highway. Savannah Graziano, 15, was gunned down as one deputy called her away from her gun-toting father, who had killed her mother a day earlier and abducted his daughter. The episode unfolded in September 2022 when officers in San Bernardino County, east of Los Angeles, began chasing the vehicle Anthony Graziano was driving with Savannah in the passenger seat. Footage filmed by a California Highway Patrol helicopter and...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - A teenage girl shot herself dead with a deputy's gun in the lobby of a sheriff's station in California, authorities said Monday. The girl, who has not been named, began hammering on the door of the station in City of Industry, near Los Angeles, on Sunday evening. As officers went to open the door, the girl managed to grab a service weapon from one of them. "The juvenile lunged into the lobby and reached for the deputy's holstered firearm and took possession of it," the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said in a news release. "A struggle ensued between the deputies an...
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Washington (AFP) - The White House said on Friday it had no initial indication that Ukraine, which is fighting an invasion by Russia, was involved in a "terrible" attack on a concert hall in Moscow. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said the United States was still gathering information after Russian officials said gunmen opened fire in a "terrorist" attack, leaving dead and wounded. "There is no indication at this time that Ukraine, or Ukrainians, were involved in the shooting," Kirby told reporters. "I would disabuse you at this early hour of any connection to Ukraine." Kirby al...
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Washington (AFP) - Jury selection began Tuesday in the trial of a Michigan father accused of manslaughter over a school mass shooting carried out by his teenage son. James Crumbley, 47, and his wife Jennifer, 45, are the first parents of a school shooter to face felony manslaughter charges in the United States for the actions of their child. Jennifer Crumbley was convicted last month of four counts of involuntary manslaughter and is to be sentenced on April 9. She could face up to 15 years in prison. Her husband faces the same charges. Their son Ethan Crumbley is serving a life sentence for th...
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Washington (AFP) - Two police officers and a first responder were shot and killed early Sunday in the US state of Minnesota after answering a call about a domestic dispute in a house with multiple children inside, authorities said. The shooter, who has not yet been publicly identified, is dead and the seven children -- ranging in age from two to 15 -- were all safely rescued, state officers said, declining to provide information on how the shooter died. The slain policemen, both age 27, and a 40-year-old fire department paramedic were shot as they responded to what Minnesota Governor Tim Walz ...
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New York (AFP) - Football star Travis Kelce is helping survivors of the shooting that marred the Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl victory parade, after his world-famous girlfriend Taylor Swift did the same, NBC news reported Saturday. The shooting on February 14 left one woman dead and 22 people injured — including two girls in the Reyes family. Kelce's Eighty-Seven Running foundation made two $50,000 donations to a GoFundMe raising money to support the Reyes family, a Kelce representative confirmed to NBC. Travis was following in the famous footsteps of Swift, who on Friday donated $100,000 to...
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New York (AFP) - Taylor Swift donated $100,000 on Friday to a fundraiser supporting the family of the woman killed in a mass shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl victory parade. The GoFundMe page was set up one day prior, aiming to raise $75,000 for the family of Elizabeth Lopez-Galvan, who died in the shooting that also left 22 people injured, including several children. "Sending my deepest sympathies and condolences in the wake of your devastating loss. With love, Taylor Swift, read a message next to a $50,000 donation to the cause. A second donation in the same amount was deposite...
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New York (AFP) - One person was killed and five others injured in a shooting at a New York subway station just ahead of the busy rush hour Monday afternoon, officials said. Authorities were alerted just after 4:30 pm (2130 GMT) and six people were taken to hospital, the fire department said. "We don't believe this was a random shooting... We believe this shooting all stems from a dispute between two groups that started on a train," said the city's police transit chief Michael Kemper. "Unfortunately one of the victims, a 34-year-old (male), was pronounced deceased." There was a major emergency...
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Houston (AFP) - Two people including a five-year-old boy were wounded after a woman opened fire at celebrity US pastor Joel Osteen's megachurch in Houston, Texas, one of the largest religious venues in the United States, police said Sunday. The woman was armed with a long gun when she entered the non-denominational Christian church with a child just before 2:00 pm (2000 GMT), Houston police chief Troy Finner told a press conference. Arriving at the church, housed in a converted former sports arena which can seat some 16,800 people, she began to fire, Finner said -- but off-duty police officers...
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