Argument leads to fatal shooting in checkout line of grocery
CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — An argument in the checkout line of a South Florida grocery store escalated into a fatal shooting, as other shootings around the state took place in a sports bar and a banquet hall.
The argument between two men started in the checkout line of a Publix on Saturday evening in the upscale neighborhood of Coral Gables, known for its Mediterranean-style mansions and being the home of the University of Miami. One of the men pulled a gun and shot the other man. The victim died in the store, and the shooter was in police custody, according to the Miami Herald.
No further details were immediately provided.
Meanwhile, four people were shot Saturday night at the Player’s Sports Bar and Grill in North Lauderdale, according to the Broward County Sheriff’s Office. After a fight took place in the sports bar and a patron was told to leave, the patron shot at the bar, striking several people. One victim has injuries that are believed to be life-threatening, the sheriff’s office said in a news release.
The suspect fled the scene.
In Orlando, police were searching for a suspect in a fatal shooting at a banquet hall early Sunday. Police were called to the event space where they found a victim in critical condition, according to Orlando television station, WFTV.
The victim was pronounced dead at a hospital. No further details were immediately provided.
A 3-year-old boy was shot early Sunday in Philadelphia after two tow truck drivers got into a dispute, police said.
The boy was shot in his left leg and taken to a nearby hospital, where he was stable, Philadelphia police said. The injury happened after the two drivers got into a dispute at a parking lot in the Port Richmond neighborhood, NBC Philadelphia reported.
It's unclear what the two drivers were arguing about. One of the drivers went back to his car for a handgun before he opened fire at the other driver's vehicle, police said.
3 are dead, including the suspect, after a shooting outside of Milwaukee
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Three people are dead, including the suspect, and one person is in critical condition after a shooting at an apartment complex north of Milwaukee.
Police said they believe the shooting, which took place on Saturday at Park Plaza Apartments in the village of Brown Deer, started as a domestic dispute.
Police Chief Peter Nimmer said that the 26-year-old suspect was taken into custody and transferred to a nearby hospital, where he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
"We believe the suspect shot himself," Nimmer said at a press conference.
The other two people killed were a 31-year-old man and a 23-year-old woman, authorities said. Another man, 36, was shot in the leg but is expected to recover. A child at the scene was not harmed. Autopsies are scheduled for Monday.
Texas Murder-Suicide Leaves 5 Family Members Dead, 3 Injured
A murder-suicide left five people dead and three injured on Saturday in Corsicana, Texas, when a gunman allegedly opened fire on his family. As reported by 21 CBS, police responding to 911 calls discovered a man and woman fatally shot in their home. Two additional victims were flown to a trauma center in Dallas. Police also responded to a call in nearby Frost, Texas, where they found a woman with a gunshot wound and a man and a child dead. Using a GPS tracking system, investigators located the suspect’s car as it traveled along a road north of Corsicana and shut off the vehicle’s engine using a remote monitoring system. Before officers could apprehend the driver, he allegedly shot himself in the head. He was taken to a hospital where he died.
(CNN)The suspect who shot and killed a woman and injured two others in a church Friday night in Aurora, Colorado, knew at least one of the victims, police said.
The "exact relationship is not going to be released at this point," Aurora Police spokesperson Matthew Longshore said during a news conference. "It wasn't just a random shooting inside this church," he said.
The shooting unfolded at the Iglesia Faro De Luz Church around 8 p.m. local time, according to tweets from the Aurora Police Department. The church was hosting an event attended by about 15 to 20 people when the shooting happened, police said in a news release.
A 36-year-old woman, a 42-year-old man and a 40-year-old man were suffering from apparent gunshot injuries when officers arrived at the church, police said.
The woman died at the scene, and the two men were taken to a hospital, according to authorities. Another adult, who was not shot, was also to taken to a hospital for other medical reasons, police said.
Two officers shot and killed at Bridgewater College in Virginia
By Caroll Alvarado and Jenn Selva, CNN
Updated 10:27 PM ET, Tue February 1, 2022
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(CNN)Two campus officers were shot and killed Tuesday during an active shooter situation at Bridgewater College in Virginia, according to college spokesperson Logan Bogert.
"I can confirm that a campus police officer and a campus safety officer died from gunshot wounds today," Bogert told CNN's Josh Campbell.
College President David Bushman, in a message on the school's Facebook page, called the shootings an "unspeakable tragedy."
One student was dead and another in critical condition after a shooting Tuesday outside a school near Minneapolis, officials said.
Officers were called to the South Education Center at 12:07 p.m., and upon arrival, discovered "two students had been shot on the sidewalk outside of the school, Richfield Police Chief Jay Henthorne said.
Henthorne said the suspects fled "immediately," and area schools were locked down. After a search of South Education Center, police determined that "no further threat existed" and other lockdowns were lifted.
Police said Tuesday night that two people had been arrested and a handgun had been recovered.
Uken Cummings was doing what many people do every day. The 78-year-old Orlando man was picking up his prescriptions at a local CVS and heading back to his car in the parking lot.
The great-grandfather never make it out of the lot.
According to Orange County deputies, Cummings was gunned down in the parking lot on Sunday afternoon, Jan. 30, as he was returning to his car.
“He was confronted by two suspects who shot him and took the keys to his vehicle.
While he lay on the ground, these brazen killers backed the car over him and then ran him over again while fleeing the scene in his Mercedes,”
Orange County Sheriff’s deputies said in a statement.
On Thursday, the department announced that two arrests have been made in the murder of Cummings, and released video of the pair being taken into custody.
1 dead, others wounded in Northern California bus attack
OROVILLE, Calif. (AP) — A shooting on a Greyhound bus in Northern California killed one person and injured several others before the attacker was arrested inside a nearby Walmart, police said Wednesday night.
Police received 911 calls shortly after 7:30 p.m. that someone was shooting inside a bus outside a convenience store in the small city of Oroville, north of Sacramento, according to a statement from the Butte County Sheriff's Office.
Sheriff's deputies and Oroville police officers found several people with gunshot wounds and one died at the scene despite lifesaving measures, the sheriff's office said.
The attacker had run off before officers arrived but acting on 911 calls, they located the suspect inside a Walmart and took him into custody, authorities said.
The number of people shot and their conditions weren't immediately made public, although Oroville Mayor Chuck Reynolds said earlier on Facebook that said five people had been shot at the convenience store site.
Other details of the shooting, including a motive, weren't immediately released.
Oroville is about 65 miles (104 kilometers) north of Sacramento.
