Well some folks just can’t get enough spree murder in one summer! So, it seems one Facebook user thought to extend the fun through to the fall with an invitation to a killing spree. Of the 187 invitees, 37 planned to attend.
Two were killed in an Old Bridge, New Jersey Pathmark supermarket when an employee opened fire with an AK-47 killing two coworkers before turning the gun on himself. Investigators do not yet know the shooter’s motive.
A workplace-related dispute in New York erupted into mass shooting and homicide today when Jeffrey Johnson, 58, shot and killed Steven Ercolino, 41, the man who allegedly had him fired from his job at Hazan Import Corp. in 2011.
Like the many serial killers and mass murderers who have been fetishized before him, James Holmes, the 24-year-old suspect in last month’s horrific shooting in an Aurora, Co., movie theater, now has his own slew of adoring fans. They call themselves Holmies, and gather on Tumblr to obsess over all things Holmes.
A Sparks, Nev., man, 56, was enjoying s screening of The Bourne Legacy in a downtown area theater, on August 14, 2012, when the handgun he was carrying discharged and shot him in the butt. No one else was hurt.
The FBI announced today that video shows that Sikh temple shooter Wade Michael Page was only wounded by police, and that he took his own life by shooting himself in the head.
Thomas Michael Casper, 56, was arrested after a simple noise complaint became weird and disturbing. Police believe he would follow through on threats to police and neighbors.
Moviegoers fled a Miami Beach theater during an early Tuesday showing of ‘The Dark Knight Rises,’ trying to escape what some believed was another shooting in the style of the recent Aurora tragedy. According to witnesses, a man wearing black gloves yelled the words “this is it!” from the back of the packed theater toward the end of the film.
In the wake of the Aurora movie theater shootings, other shoppers are not amused.
Yesterday, authorities released a booking photo of James Eagan Holmes, 24, the suspect in the July 20 shooting that left 12 dead and 58 injured. The photo came hours after Holmes made his first court appearance. He is due to return to court July 30, when he will be formally charged.
