Sentences with phrase «killed by a gunman»

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.

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.

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

There are plenty to note in recent decades: Poland's Jerzy Popiełusko, beaten and drowned by thugs in his country's police force; his compatriot St John Paul, surviving an assassin's bullet in St Peter's Square and an attempted stabbing by a schismatic priest; Archbishop Oscar Romero, slaughtered while celebrating Mass, Pakistan's Shabaz Bhatti, Minister for Minorities in his country's government, killed by a gunman in Islamabad in 2011.

A woman in Washington was killed by a gunman who mistook her car for another.

The Texas church where more than two dozen people were killed by a gunman during Sunday services will be demolished, the pastor said.

The incident came barely three days after four herdsmen were said to have been killed by gunmen in the same place.

Two private security personnel attached the Rivers State High Court have been killed by gunmen suspected to be militants.

A Labour leader in Kogi State, Mr Abdulmumini Yakubu, has been killed by gunmen in Okene area of the state.

Family members of Police Officer Miosotis Familia, who was killed by a gunman in the Bronx last month, at the start of the parade.

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.

Celebrities included Paul McCartney, whose Beatles bandmate John Lennon was killed by a gunman in 1980 not far from where the march took place.

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

A New York Police Department baseball cap surrounded by flowers, teddy bears and candles marks the spot where two police officers were killed by a gunman who was targeting law...

He was one of the 17 people killed by gunman Nikolas Cruz in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre on February 14.

Berta Cáceres, a Goldman prize recipient in 2015, was killed by gunmen in her home in March 2016 after leading a grassroots campaign against a hydroelectric dam proposed in her native Honduras.

Berta Cáceres, an indigenous Lenca woman who won the 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize for her fearless work to defend the Gualcarque River, its surrounding environment and people from the Agua Zarca Dam, was killed by gunmen last night in her home in La Esperanza, Honduras.

Two students were arrested Tuesday for bringing knives to the Parkland school where 17 were killed by a gunman on Feb. 14 and a third is being mentally evaluated for making online threats.

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

Samaha's 18 - year - old daughter, Reema, was one of 32 people killed by a gunman on April 16, 2007 on the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Va..

After 49 people were killed by a gunman inside the Pulse nightclub in Orlando in June 2016, the office's Bureau of Victim Compensation received 304 claims and deemed 279 eligible — a 92 percent approval rate.

(CNN)- Alex Schachter was one of the 17 victims that were killed by a gunman last week at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

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

Students and staff at a South Florida high school walked out of class Tuesday to protest gun violence and marched to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., where 17 students and staff members were killed by a gunman using a semiautomatic rifle.

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.

His remarks amplified a strategy he pushed during a «listening session» at the White House Wednesday that included family of some of the 17 people killed by a gunman last week at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

His remarks amplified a strategy Trump pushed during a first «listening session» Wednesday at the White House, which included relatives of some of the 17 people killed by a gunman last week at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in South Florida.

Not exact matches

Western countries and human rights groups have denounced Duterte for an anti-drug campaign that has included more than 2,000 extrajudicial killings by masked gunmen on motorcycles and others.

Andrew Pollack, the father of 18 - year - old Meadow Pollack who was killed after being shot nine times by the 19 - year - old gunman Nikolas Cruz, said he was «pissed» that little is being done to protect students.

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.

ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters)- Panicked callers to 911 during June's mass shooting in Orlando told police of buildings hit by stray bullets and wounded friends stuck inside the gay nightclub where a gunman pledging allegiance to Islamic State killed 49 people.

In 2015, a Danish - born Muslim gunman killed two people in an attack on a debating event and a Copenhagen synagogue before being shot dead by police.

Gunmen paid by the leaders of the Cali ring sometimes flew into New York or Miami to carry out a killing, law enforcement officials said.

But bump stocks, like those used by a gunman to kill 58 people and injure hundreds in Las Vegas in October, can modify a semiautomatic weapon into one able to fire shots more frequently.

The company manufactured the AR -15-style weapon used by the gunman in the 2012 attack in Newtown, Conn., in which 26 people, including 20 first graders, were killed.

Photos of the hotel suite used by the gunman who killed 58 people in Las Vegas on Sunday provide a glimpse of the arsenal of guns and ammunition that were in his possession.

After 58 people were killed at a country music festival in Las Vegas last year by a gunman who used bump stocks, GOP senators said they would be open to Feinstein's legislation.

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).

I've heard more stories like this than stories where an armed citizen saved the day by killing the gunman before he could get a shot out.

And Geller's contest terminated abruptly on May 3, 2015, when two Muslim gunmen opened fire on the building in Dallas where it was being held (the men were shot and killed by a SWAT team).

The narrow street that bisects Sveavagen at that juncture has been renamed for Palme, 59, who was killed by a lone gunman as he walked home from a movie with his wife, Lisbeth.

Image after image of the dead, men and boys, showed that those killed in the most violent day in the capital city Sana'a for 30 years had been systematically shot through the head and neck by gunmen positioned on city rooftops.

Thousands of students, emboldened by a growing protest movement over gun violence, stood up in their classrooms and walked out of their schools in a nationwide demonstration, one month after a gunman killed 17 people at a high school in Florida.

The attack on early Sunday morning at a gay nightclub in Orlando killed 49 people, while the gunman who says he was inspired by the Islamic State to carry out the attack, also died.

The decision to not hear the case comes just over a week after an attack at a gay nightclub in Orlando killed 49 people, with the gunman saying he was inspired by the Islamic State terrorist organization.

Jugul also said several persons have been ambushed and killed by suspected gunmen in the last one week and no arrest has been made.

Two persons have been reportedly ambushed and killed yesterday by unknown gunmen in Wereng - Kum village of Riyom Local Government Area of Plateau State.

Following the recent invasion and incessant killings in Lagos and Ogun communities by unknown gunmen, the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, CP, Fatai Owoseni says residents have lost trust in the country's police formation.

No fewer than three persons were reportedly killed by unknown gunmen and 13 houses razed down in a fresh attack in the Azara and Kadarko areas...

Kano (Nigeria)(AFP)-- At least 14 people were killed and several others injured by Boko Haram gunmen in a Christmas Day...