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News of mass shootings in places like a Tulsa hospital and Texas elementary school is a reminder of the need to know what to do if you hear gunshots.

And you should tell others in the vicinity to avoid where the shooting is as you flee, DHS says. You can also hide behind large items in the space, DHS adds. If you’re safely away from the situation and don’t see law enforcement, you should call 911.

Correction: The name of alleged gunman Johnathan Lee Whitlatch was misspelled in an earlier version of this story. An alleged gunman from Boone killed two ...

Investigators confirmed this with surveillance camera footage, but when interviewed, Whitlatch said he didn't remember his actions and "only remembers bits and pieces of the night, as there was drinking involved," according to the complaint. The following day, she wrote, he threatened that he was going to come to her home and murder her. One of those women, with whom he had a child in 2016, also sought and received a domestic abuse protective order in 2017. Court records show he was scheduled to stand trial on July 19. Fitzgerald said authorities searched Whitlatch's vehicle, which he drove to the church, and residence following the shooting. He added that no officers fired shots — the shooter had shot himself before they arrived.

Story County's sheriff says the shooter was arrested on Tuesday for allegations of harassment and impersonating an officer.

They also searched Whitlatch's home and found an AR-15 rifle, which wasn't connected to the shooting. His pretrial hearing was set for July 7. - Whitlatch and Montang had recently broken up and Montang had a restraining order in place against him, the sheriff said.

AMES, IOWA — Story County authorities say the fatal shooting of two women outside an Ames church on Thursday was a targeted incident and the gunman took his ...

Sheriff Paul Fitzgerald identified the two women killed in the shooting as 22-year-old Eden Moriah Montang and 21-year-old Vivian Renee Flores. Fitzgerald ...

Jonathan Whitlatch killed his ex-girlfriend Eden Montang and her friend Vivian Flores as they were arriving at the Cornerstone Church in Iowa on Thursday.

The two victims, Montang and Flores, were friends and students at Iowa State University, the sheriff said. Whitlatch had been released on bond the same day he was arrested and was scheduled to face court on June 10, authorities said. The double murder-suicide came just days after Whitlatch was arrested on May 31 for harassing Montang and for impersonating a police officer.

(CNN) -- Two college students were shot to death Thursday evening in a church parking lot in Ames, Iowa, police said, before the shooter fatally turned his gun ...

"Tonight's act of senseless violence took the lives of two innocent victims at their place of worship," she said. It was a "targeted act of violence," he said. At the shooter's home, authorities found an AR-15 rifle with ammunition that "played no part in this event whatsoever," Fitzgerald said. About 80 high school and college students were in the church auditorium. "He was there for a specific purpose, which he accomplished." He posted bond, Fitzgerald said, and was scheduled to be back in court June 10.

Someone began shooting during Da'Shontay King's funeral Thursday afternoon in Racine. King died last month after he was shot by a Racine police officer. Police ...

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Jonathan Lee Whitlatch shot and killed Eden Montang and Vivian Flores before shooting himself, Story County Sheriff Paul Fitzgerald said Friday. Author: Local 5 ...

Someone began shooting during Da'Shontay King's funeral Thursday afternoon in Racine. King died last month after he was shot by a Racine police officer. Police ...

They said he was carrying a handgun. Police said they were carrying out a search warrant on a vehicle when he ran from the car. Police said in a news release that officers arrived at the cemetery Thursday to find “mass chaos.” A 19-year-old woman and a 35-year-old woman were both hit.

Someone began shooting during Da'Shontay King's funeral Thursday afternoon in Racine. King died last month after he was shot by a Racine police officer. Get the ...

They said he was carrying a handgun. Police said they were carrying out a search warrant on a vehicle when he ran from the car. Multiple firearms were used in the shooting, police said.

AMES, IOWA (WHO) — Story County authorities say the fatal shooting of two women outside an Ames church on Thursday was a targeted incident and the gunman ...

Johnathan Lee Whitlatch, of Boone, was charged in 2021 with assault with intent to commit sexual abuse in Black Hawk County. Advertisement. According to court ...

Officers investigate after shots were fired in or near Graceland Cemetery in Racine, Wis., on Thursday, June 2, 2022. Officials say there were multiple ...

They said he was carrying a handgun. Police said they were carrying out a search warrant on a vehicle when he ran from the car. A 19-year-old woman and a 35-year-old woman were both hit.

As Americans reel from mass shootings, law enforcement officials and experts on extremism are taking increasing notice of the sprawling online space devoted ...

It’s to create the need for the item. “If we want to reduce the size of the movement, de-platforming is really effective,” Cooter said. Some platforms also prohibit the sale of firearms. Since the year 2000, the year after Columbine school shooting in Colorado, the number of firearms manufactured in the U.S. has tripled. Elected leaders in some states are considering how to address the internet’s role in radicalizing extremists. The videos cover topics like shooting from cars, assaulting a building, using gas masks while shooting, and night vision goggles.

The course included scenario training and informed officers taking part that in active shooter cases they “will usually be required to place themselves in ...

“First responders must understand and accept the role of ‘Protector’ and be prepared to meet violence with controlled aggression. It remains unclear what specific officers from UPD, UCISD PD and other law enforcement agencies were among the 19 gathered in the hallway for much of the active shooter incident. At least four officers with the Uvalde Police Department took part in the March 21 training and were given credit, Texas Commission on Law Enforcement records show.

A search of the Uvalde school shooter's Ford truck found one black Smith & Wesson rifle and at least 15 fully loaded or nearly fully loaded PMAG 30 rifle ...

It took more than an hour for police officers to enter and stop the gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers at Uvalde's Robb elementary school last ...

The confusion arises around hostage situations – where a gunman may take victims hostage and threaten to inflict more harm if approached. Eventually officers broke into the bathroom, but they were also criticized for not acting quickly enough. If officers are at the scene alone, they must go in alone, it says. But it has now been clarified that the teacher closed the door behind her while calling police and it did not lock automatically as it should have. Parents who had grown panicked and desperate during the shooting were reprimanded for trying to break students and teachers out through windows. In that time, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos fired more than 100 shots while as many as 19 police officers stood outside waiting and desperate parents tried to break victims out of the school windows.

The Uvalde, Tex., shooter is part of a long list of young male perpetrators. Some experts think gun laws need to change to address that.

Peter Langman, a psychologist who researches school shootings, noted in The Journal of Campus Behavioral Intervention that “the sense of damaged masculinity is common to many shooters and often involves failures and inadequacies.” In the case of shooters, he added, often “we are talking about boys who have been emasculated over a period of time. In the aftermath of these shootings, a shocked and grieving public, along with law enforcement officials, invariably debate ways to predict and stop attackers. Lanza, who killed 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown in 2012, was a loner who spent much of his last few months locked in his bedroom, communicating with his mother via email even as they lived in the same house. Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote that a “lack of maturity and an underdeveloped sense of responsibility are found in youth,” quoting one of his own previous decisions. The United States is one of the only countries in the world where mass public shootings are a regular occurrence. Under the U.S. legal system, age is a critical part of how laws are written and justice is meted out. But while most people endure such disappointment, these perpetrators appear to have gone through a series of psychological changes that led to their explosions of violence. A Washington Post analysis of 196 mass public shootings in which four or more people were killed since 1966 shows that nearly 98 percent, or all but five, of the perpetrators were men. In that context, Metzl said, a shooting “certainly feels like another kind of performance of young masculinity.” “The issue we face is one of conscience and common sense,” the president said. “I feel very strongly we should not have people 18 to 21 with guns.”

Someone began shooting during Da'Shontay King's funeral Thursday afternoon in Racine. King died last month after he was shot by a Racine police officer. Police ...

Police said they were carrying out a search warrant on a vehicle when he ran from the car. Multiple firearms were used in the shooting, police said. Police said in a news release that officers arrived at the cemetery Thursday to find “mass chaos.” A 19-year-old woman and a 35-year-old woman were both hit.

The suspected shooter appeared to have died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The ages of his two female victims were not immediately known.

On May 14 in Buffalo, New York, a white man carried out what officials say was a racially-motivated attack on a supermarket in a predominantly Black neighborhood, killing 10 people. It’s also home to major research facilities of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, as well as numerous ag-related industries, including Renewable Energy Group, a biodiesel company Chevron recently acquired for $3.15 billion. The church is also framed by CrossRoad Baptist Church and the Iowa Department of Transportation Maintenance Garage. Beyond that are sprawling fields. The Ames shooting follows mass shootings across the nation in recent weeks that have roiled the country. "Tonight’s act of senseless violence took the lives of two innocent victims at their place of worship. It's the home of Iowa State University, the nation’s first land-grant institution of higher learning.

It has been 12 years since Latasha Cheatum, 18, was shot in a drive-by freeway shooting in Detroit. She was pregnant.

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