Sentences with phrase «wounded by the gunman»

Doctors and medical professionals are rushing to save the lives of those wounded by the gunman and in the mad rush to escape, and local blood banks do not currently have enough blood on hand to meet the need.

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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.

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.

She died after a gunman opened fire at a constituents event held by U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was critically wounded in the shooting.

Seventy - five others were wounded in the attack by armed gunmen Sunday, the officials said, adding that most of the casualties were women and children.

Turkish giants Fenerbahce have called for the Super Lig to suspend their upcoming fixtures after their team bus was attacked by gunmen which has left the bus driver hospitalised with suspected bullet wounds, the BBC report.

, called for the government to crack down on the spread of guns to suspicious people and urged an end to the kind of hateful political rhetoric that targeted the congresswoman before she was critically wounded by a lone gunman.

Two NYPD officers were shot at and wounded at a Bronx housing project last night by a gunman who then fled and took his own life, police said.

«Take the mall shooting,» VanBlarcum said, referring to the February 2005 shooting at Hudson Valley Mall where two people were wounded by a 24 - year - old gunman from Saugerties with a semi-automatic rifle.

Note: Kenneth's usual Thursday post will appear tomorrow ======================================== U.S. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise was seriously wounded by a loony leftist gunman, who obviously had been driven over the edge by all the recent hate signals coming from a violence - inciting media.

In October 2015, a Bedouin gunman attacked a bus station in Beersheba and was shot dead by security forces; they also fatally wounded an innocent Eritrean immigrant whom they mistook for an accomplice, and the dying man was kicked and beaten by people inside the station.

Sophomore Spencer Silcott was concerned that Rollins may have been inspired by Parkland gunman Nikolas Cruz who killed 17 people and wounded more than a dozen others on Feb. 14.