Sentences with phrase «gunmen at»

The Senator representing Lagos West, Solomon Olamilekan was abducted by unknown gunmen at the National Assembly on Thursday.

The Kogi State Police Command has confirmed the death of three persons by gunmen at Agbenema village in Omala Local Government Area of the state.

Gunmen at the early hours of Monday kidnapped a Benue lawyer, Terfa Jirgba, and his two relatives.

Barely four weeks after two Police officers and an expatriate were killed in a kidnap attempt in Ajaokuta, Kogi state, two police officers have been killed, while an expatriate was kidnapped by unknown gunmen at Obajana.

The deceased was allegedly kidnapped last Thursday by gunmen at his home in Igbotu town in Ese Odo Local Government Area of the state.

Davou further claimed that the gunmen at about 9 pm shot at him, but missed because he ran into the bush for safety.

Following the investigation ordered by President Buhari over the killings of innocent people by invading unknown gunmen at Zaki Biam in Benue State, the Inspector General of Police, IGP Ibrahim K. Idris NPM, mni, has deployed Police Special Tactical Force with their Headquarters in Zaki Biam, Ukum LGA, Benue State.

The Senator representing Lagos West, Solomon Olamilekan was abducted by unknown gunmen at the National Assembly on Thursday.

In Cairo, nine people were killed during a shooting by two gunmen at Marmina Church in the city's Helwan district on Friday 29th December 2017 (pictured above).

Alvear, 25, was identified by police on Monday as one of the 49 people killed by a gunman at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.

In April 2007, Congress passed a law to strengthen the instant - background - check system after a gunman at Virginia Tech who killed 32 people was able to purchase his weapons because his mental - health history was not in the instant - background - check database.

But in a sign the pressure is beginning to tell in Washington, Trump announced on Tuesday that he had ordered the Justice Department to propose a rule to ban bump fire stocks, the device that allowed the gunman at the Las Vegas massacre in October to fire on concertgoers more rapidly, mimicking automatic weapons fire.

Dick's Sporting Goods DKS, -3.41 % ending sales of assault rifles after a gunman at a Parkland, Fla., high school killed 17 people is a prime example; so is Starbucks» SBUX, -1.01 % damage - control effort in the wake of a racially charged incident at one of its Philadelphia stores.

Meadow Pollack was a beautiful young woman on track to attend Lynn University in the fall until her life was taken by a gunman at Marjory Stoneman High School on Feb. 14.

On the eve of the march, Colion Noir, a host on NRATV, an online video channel produced by the gun group, lashed out at the Parkland students, saying that «no one would know your names» if someone with a weapon had stopped the gunman at their school.

Hundreds of students, faculty and staff filled the auditorium Friday morning at Springfield's High School of Commerce to remember fellow students, friends and colleagues who were killed by a gunman at the Sandy Hook School.

A gunman at a Florida high school killed 17 people on Feb. 14.

They are among the 17 people killed by a gunman at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Wednesday.

Gun rights were not a big issue in the legislative session that concluded on Friday, but the Second Amendment and gun safety are once again being debated in the aftermath of the terrorist attack carried out by a gunman at a gay nightclub in Florida a week ago.

Baker, cast as a Stetsoned, suit - wearing gunman at the Organization's beck and call, confirms his standing as one of the most dangerously dynamic young character players in the business; the monumental violence of the man, so disturbingly out of directorial control in his Walking Tall Savior - with - a-big-stick role, is here mesmerizingly contained by both director and actor, whose most lethal gesture is to smile.

The mass slaying at the hands of a student gunman at Virginia Polytechnic Institute have revived vexing questions and raised familiar fears for K - 12 educators across the country who grapple daily with ensuring the physical safety of their students and staff.

Kamal Al - Jarrah, 63, was slain by an unidentified gunman at 7:30 a.m. June 13 as he left his home in Baghdad for work.

Seventeen people were killed by a gunman at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, 2018.

Rapper Big Sean introduced him as «a lacrosse goalie, he's member of the drama club and he is a sophomore who survived the attack by a gunman at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.»

A sheriff's office captain told deputies to form a perimeter instead of confronting the gunman at a Florida high school where 17 people were killed in a mass shooting, according to documents obtained by the Miami Herald.

And family and friends gathered Wednesday to honor Stoneman Douglas senior Nicholas Dworet a week after he was killed by a gunman at school.

Jaime Guttenberg, 14, was one of the 17 people killed by a gunman at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland on Valentine's Day.

Officials announced Thursday that deputy Scot Peterson never went inside to engage the gunman at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School while the shooting was underway.

A sheriffà cents â «¬ â «cents s office captain told deputies to form a perimeter instead of confronting the gunman at the high school where several people were killed in a mass shooting, according to documents obtained by the Miami Herald.

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Just days after a gunman opened fire at her school and killed 17 of her peers, Florida high school senior Emma Gonzalez used her voice to call national attention to gun law reform.

Since August 1966, as the Washington Post outlines in a gut - stirring data visualization that truly every American should spend an hour with, there have been 150 mass shootings in which at least four people were murdered, nearly always by a lone gunman.

The Las Vegas Police Department reported that at least 50 people have died and more than 400 were injured by a gunman with a high - powered assault weapon during country singer Jason Aldean's performance at the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival near the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino on Sunday evening.

Another shooting at the military base in 2014 left three people dead, excluding the gunman.

An example Bloom offered Tremonti was the stuffed animals that flooded Newtown, Connecticut after a gunman killed 20 students and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012.

David Hogg, a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, turned on his camera while a lone gunman opened fire on his high school, ultimately killing at least 17 people.

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Soon after the shooting, which began at 10:08 p.m. PDT, a SWAT team stormed the building, forced their way into his hotel room, and found the gunman already dead.

He can speak with moral authority on the issue: In his state, a gunman killed 20 young children, as well as six adults, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012.

The Algerian army carried out a dramatic final assault to end a siege by Islamic militants at a desert gas plant on Saturday, killing 11 al Qaeda - linked gunmen after they took the lives of seven more foreign hostages.

«Please, I need your number it's urgent call me I left my number inbox,» a frantic Myriam Torres wrote on Sunday morning at 5:32 a.m., when police were midst a stand - off with the gunman inside the club.

A lone gunman, Omar Mateen, killed 49 people and injured 53 at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida, prompting fresh calls for tighter restrictions on weapons.

A few days after a gunman murdered 17 of her fellow students in Parkland, Florida, she stood at a podium and, with unbelievable poise and power, said the fearless words that adults couldn't.

The company also faced intense, unwanted attention in the aftermath of the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Conn. where 26 people, including children, were killed by a gunman armed with, among other weapons, a Remington Bushmaster assault rifle.

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.

Authorities have identified the Parkland gunman as Nikolas Cruz, 19, a former student at the school with a history of abnormal behavior, and ties to an alt - right white supremacist group.

In November, a gunman went on a shooting spree at the Rancho Tehama reserve in Northern California, killing four people and injuring three children.

A month before that, a gunman in a room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas shot at concertgoers below, killing 59 people and injuring more than 500.

A gunman killed 27 people — including 20 children — Friday at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., before killing himself.

Lane's death became an instant cable news sensation, cutting into coverage of another tragedy in the area — the worst mass shooting in U.S. history at Pulse nightclub, where a gunman killed 49 and injured 53.

Following the murder of 17 people at a high school in Parkland, Florida by a lone gunman carrying a high - powered assault rifle, the Trump administration has offered little comfort and few solutions for the country going forward.