Sentences with phrase «from gunmen»

It was gathered that Essien had received a letter a few days ago from the gunmen, demanding that he either paid N1m or be killed.

The Defence Headquarters has debunked local and international media reports that claimed that 150 people from Kukuwa - Gari village in Yobe state were shot by Boko Haram terrorists while many others drowned in Yobe River while fleeing from gunmen suspected...

Anthony Borges returned to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Thursday, seven weeks after he took five bullets trying to protect fellow students from a gunman stalking the halls.

As the shooting was taking place, tweets and video circulating on social media from inside the school showed students under lockdown, barricaded in classrooms, and hiding from the gunman.

We hear a gunshot on a moving train and see a puddle of blood on the floor as people scramble to get away from a gunman.

Some of her classmates met in Miami with James Shaw Jr., the man who grabbed the hot muzzle of an AR - 15 and wrestled it away from a gunman who killed four people and injured four others at a Waffle House in Tennessee.

Heroic actions come in a variety of different forms, many of which are not associated with trying to protect children from a gunman.

Anthony Borges returned to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Thursday, seven weeks after he took five bullets trying to protect fellow students from a gunman stalking the halls.

Chris Hixon's wife, Debbie Hixon, previously told Local 10 News that her husband loved his job at the high school and it's no surprise to her that he died trying to protect his students from the gunman.

Infowars, run by Donald Trump acolyte Alex Jones, claimed that young David Hogg's terrifying interviews of fellow students as they hid from the gunman had taken place «almost four hours before the shooting took place.»

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School junior Jeremiah Baez's life changed on Feb. 14, 2018, when he hid from a gunman's bullets.

A geography teacher, Beigel was shot and killed after unlocking his door and letting students in to hide from the gunman, Nikolas Cruz.

He wanted to be sure someone found his message and experienced what it was like to be hiding from a gunman in a darkened classroom.

In response, Hogg, a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who filmed students hiding from the gunman in their classrooms, was quick to respond, tweeting a list of a dozen advertisers and encouraging followers to immediately call them and ask them to drop Ingraham.

Not exact matches

The suspected gunman later died from a self - inflicted gunshot wound.

Under federal law, long guns like the semiautomatic AR -15-style assault rifle used by the Florida gunman can be bought from licensed dealers by people as young as 18, while the minimum age for handgun purchases is 21.

Unfortunately, the «Uber» didn't get very far before a gunman popped up from the back seat and demanded the victim hand over his phone and apartment keys, according to the initial report of the event.

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A state investigation of the shooting found that gunman Adam Lanza had not been receiving mental health care in the years before the shooting, despite prior advice from mental health professionals throughout his childhood and adolescence.

Hours after a gunman killed more than 20 people in a Texas church, Sen. Chris Murphy issued a scathing statement blasting his colleagues in Congress for accepting money from gun lobbyists and what Murphy said was not doing enough to prevent the attack.

Gunmen from the North African branch of Al Qaeda killed 16 people, including four Europeans, at a beach resort town in Ivory Coast on Sunday.

Although the Orlando gunman, Omar Mateen, is believed to have had no help from extremist Islamist groups in targeting a gay nightclub, he had been investigated by U.S. authorities for possible links to terrorism and subsequently cleared.

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From the remote mountain redoubt where he is believed to be hiding, surrounded at all times by a battery of gunmen, Chapo oversees a logistical network that is as sophisticated, in some ways, as that of Amazon or U.P.S. — doubly sophisticated, when you think about it, because traffickers must move both their product and their profits in secret, and constantly maneuver to avoid death or arrest.

Broward Sheriff's deputy Scot Peterson resigned after public criticism from Sheriff Scott Israel for not confronting the Florida school gunman on Feb. 14.

In October, when a gunman killed 58 people in Las Vegas and injured hundreds, background checks slumped, falling 13 percent from the same month a year earlier.

Corpus Christi police officers swarmed a neighborhood after a suspected gunman ran away from police.

The only reason more people weren't shot: Shaw reportedly rushed the gunman while he reloaded, «grabbed the gun's barrel, pulled it away and threw it over the Waffle House counter,» suffering a gunshot wound and second - degree burns on his right hand from the weapon's barrel while disarming the shooter, later identified by police as 29 - year - old Travis Reinking.

A New York Times analysis of a video from a Florida classroom estimates that during his crime the gunman fired his AR - 15 as quickly as one - and - a-half rounds per second.

(CNN) Nearly a week after a gunman stormed the hallways of their school in a deadly rampage, students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School are heading to Florida's state Capitol to demand lawmakers take action on gun control.

Survivors, students, and parents of victims of past school shootings — including the most recent massacre in Parkland, Florida, where a gunman murdered 17 — gathered at the White House to share their stories and ideas for protecting students from gun violence.

WASHINGTON — President Trump — under pressure from angry, grieving students from a Florida high school where a gunman killed 17 people last week — ordered the Justice Department on Tuesday to issue regulations banning so - called bump stocks, which convert semiautomatic guns into automatic weapons like those used last year in the massacre of concertgoers in Las Vegas.

Body camera footage from officers who entered Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock's hotel suite during October's mass shooting will be released Wednesday, as part of a rolling release of material, police say.

The 2011 shooting in Tucson, Ariz., which killed six people and gravely wounded Representative Gabrielle Giffords, ended when the gunman stopped to reload and onlookers grabbed the new magazine from his hands and tackled him.)

The bill would change the minimum age for all gun purchases to 21 from 18 — a provision that would have prohibited the Parkland gunman, Nikolas Cruz, 19, from legally buying the rifle he used in his massacre.

President Trump ran through a litany of topics in a series of tweets early Sunday, bouncing from an attack by a gunman in France to his plans for a border wall to his personal legal team.

From his perch on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, the gunman, who was identified by the police as Stephen Paddock, used rapid - fire weapons to shoot at concertgoers at a music festival.

The image is flipped from its original perspective to match the orientation of the gunman's suite.

1) the snakes are not simply from a pit, but from the breast of the corpse of a cowboy / gunman found in the pit.

The Tennessee church that was attacked by a gunman in September is only 2 miles away from this Waffle House.

While the gunman had paused momentarily and was looking down at his rifle, Shaw rushed at Reinking from his hiding spot near the bathrooms and knocked the rifle out of his hands and over the counter.

From the pulpit, Hall delivered the liturgy with a strong message to his faithful to call for action by their legislators to institute stricter laws banning access to semi-automatic rifles, such as the one police said the gunman used in Friday's massacre.

The group was travelling from Beni Suef province to the remote monastery of St Samuel the Confessor in Maghagha when gunman opened fire on their vehicle approximately 140 miles south of Cairo.

@nepawoods: the gunman is not a Christian, true, but the list of books he cites does not preclude him from being a Christian.

A gunman who killed more than two dozen at a small - town Texas church briefly escaped from a mental health facility in New Mexico in 2012, police reports indicat...

The gunman also killed himself.Numerous calls for prayer have been issued, including from the governor of Louisiana, Bobby Jindal....

The footage was from 2013 when gunmen in Nairobi opened fire in a shopping mall and took the lives of 67 people.

«The gunmen were attempting to stop them and the victims accelerated in efforts of getting away from them,» the police statement said.

A gunman who killed more than two dozen at a small - town Texas church briefly escaped from a mental health facility in New Mexico in 2012, police reports indicate.

It didn't stop him from getting killed, but maybe he delayed the gunman enough that others lived.