JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli security forces shot and killed the son of a West Bank Hamas leader suspected of involvement in the shooting attack outside of the West Bank settlement of Ofra that left 7 injured and a newborn baby dead. Four other Palestinian men alleged to have been involved in the attack also were…
(JTA) — The family of a victim of a white supremacist attack on two suburban Kansas City Jewish institutions settled a lawsuit with the national chain Walmart, which sold one of the shotguns used by the killer. News of the settlement were announced on Tuesday. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed. Terri LaManno…
David Katz, the electronic gaming enthusiast who fatally shot two rivals and wounded nine others in Florida, had a history of “significant medical problems,” according to multiple reports and court documents. David, 24, opened fire at a “Madden NFL” video game tournament in Jacksonville, Florida on August 26, killing fellow gamers Elijah Clayton, 22, and…
A prominent Chicago-area lawyer was killed in his home in a domestic dispute, the Chicago Tribune reported Tuesday. A suspect was escorted by police out of his Winnetka, Illinois, apartment and is being questioned. Stephen Shapiro was known as a “superhero” among his fellow attorneys. “We are shocked and saddened to learn of the death…
Andrew Pollack, whose daughter Meadow was killed in the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, resigned last month from a state commission investigating the shooting, the Miami Herald reported Thursday. Pollack submitted a resignation letter following the commission’s first meeting in April. Pollack wrote in the letter — dated May…
A video game that simulates a school shooting is being condemned by parents of children who died during the mass shooting in February at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. “Active Shooter” is marketed as a SWAT team simulator, where players take the role of an armed officer responding to a school shooting,…
A Jewish felon has a new criminal charge for a comment he allegedly made in jail about “shooting up” a synagogue, police said. Justin M. Cabral, 30, of South Glens Falls, New York, was charged with making a terroristic threat after inmates and corrections officers at the Warren County Jail heard him make a comment…
Panic struck a Manhattan movie theatre on Sunday night when a man burst into the room yelling about guns, New York Post reported. Anthony Powell, 34, allegedly screamed, “people with guns were killing people in the theater,” when he entered the Regal Union Square Movie Stadium around 11:30 pm. One frightened man reportedly jumped from…
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