Veteran helped disarm shooter at Colorado gay club: ‘It’s the reflex’
Rich Fierro told reporters how he grabbed the shooter's body armor and began punching him. Police say Fierro and another man, Thomas James, stopped the shooter after he began spraying bullets inside Club Q on Saturday night.
Colorado gay bar shooting suspect facing murder, hate crime charges
The man suspected of opening fire at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs was being held on murder and hate crime charges Monday, while hundreds of people gathered to honor the five people killed and 17 wounded in the attack on a venue that for decades was a sanctuary for the local LGBTQ community.
Colorado Springs shooting brought 'incredible act of heroism' among patrons, mayor says
Colorado Springs' police and city officials credit at least two strangers with stopping the gunman and limiting the bloodshed. Here's what they did.
UVA Shooting: Community mourns deaths of 3 football players during vigils
"It's surreal to think that you're here in one hour and gone the next," said a student at the memorial on campus.
University of Virginia shooting: Football player from South Florida among victims killed
After a deadly on-campus shooting at the University of Virginia, where investigators say a student and former football player opened fire on classmates in a bus, school officials identified the three victims killed — including one from Florida.
Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz formally sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole
Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz formally received a sentence of life without parole Wednesday after families of his 17 slain victims spent two days berating him as evil, a coward, a monster and a subhuman.
Parkland judge and defense shout during sentencing as victims' families unleash grief, anger on Nikolas Cruz
Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz's sentencing hearing was filled with emotional, angry statements from the families of his victims, but then his defense attorneys objected to what they called "attacks" on the defense and their children. That's when the hearing erupted into a shouting match between the attorneys and the judge.
Parkland shooter trial: $2.5M spent on housing Nikolas Cruz since 2018, sheriff's office says
Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz has been behind bars since February 14, 2018, the day he murdered 17 people. In the 4 and a half years since, the Broward Sheriff's Office says it has cost the agency over $2.5 million to house and supervise the confessed killer. Meanwhile, the state of Florida spent more than $2 million prosecuting Cruz.
St. Louis school gunman had AR-15-style weapon, 600 rounds of ammo
The shooter, a 19-year-old who graduated from the school last year, was killed in an exchange of gunfire and had left behind a note, police said.
Three Parkland shooting trial jurors voted against death penalty, foreperson says
The jury foreman said three of the jurors ultimately voted for life in prison, with one of them being a "hard no" on the death penalty and another two ultimately choosing to vote against it as well.
Jury in Parkland shooting penalty trial recommends life in prison for Nikolas Cruz
Nikolas Cruz will be sentenced to life without parole for the 2018 massacre that killed 17 people at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, after the jury said Thursday that it could not unanimously agree that he should be executed.
‘You deserve the death penalty’: Florida leaders decry life in prison sentence for Nikolas Cruz
Leaders across Florida and loved ones of Parkland shooting victims publicly denounced and expressed anger following the jury's recommendation for a life in prison sentence for Nikolas Cruz, who shot and killed 17 people on Valentine's Day in 2018.
'Stunned, devastated': Parents of Parkland victims react to shooter's life sentence
"What do we have the death penalty for?" one Parkland parent questioned after the jury could not unanimously agree on a death sentence for shooter Nikolas Cruz, who killed 17 people.
Alex Jones ordered to pay $965 million for Sandy Hook hoax claims
A Connecticut jury has ordered conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay $965 million to Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims’ relatives and an FBI agent.
Parkland school shooter trial: With jury deliberating, what comes next?
The jurors in the Parkland school shooting will be voting 17 times — once for each victim. They will decide whether Nikolas Cruz is sentenced to death or life without parole, but for them to recommend a death sentence, they must unanimously agree.
Parkland shooter trial: Prosecutor makes final case for Nikolas Cruz to get the death penalty
The lead prosecutor of Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz made his final push Tuesday to persuade jurors to sentence him to death, telling them during his closing argument that the Valentine's Day 2018 attack that killed 17 people was cold, calculated, meticulously planned and deserving of execution.
More 'swatting' calls prompt lockdowns at Pinellas, Sarasota schools
Multiple hoax calls reported active shooters at schools across South Florida Tuesday morning. By the early afternoon, the "swatting" calls reached a number of schools in the Tampa Bay area as well.
Parkland school shooter may have been his own worst witness in death penalty trial
It's possible Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz talked himself into a death sentence.
Parkland shooter trial: Nikolas Cruz contemplated school massacre for years
Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz told a prosecution psychiatrist he began contemplating a mass murder during middle school, doing extensive research on earlier killers to learn their methods and mistakes to shape his own plans, video played at his penalty trial showed Monday.
Parkland shooter trial: Judge refuses to step down after defense calls for her to be removed from case
The judge overseeing the penalty trial of Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz refused to step down Monday, rejecting a motion by his attorneys who accused her of being biased against their client and prejudicing the jurors who will decide if he should die for murdering 17 people four years ago.