Another fucking spree shooting. Great.

OK so there's been more detail reported now about what happened to my teammate Laura and her 2 friends. Her friend who was behind the wheel apparently displayed a quickness of mind under crisis of which I am quite sure I would have been incapable:

The Texas shootings began about 4:30 a.m. Sunday, when the gunman shot a passenger in a car carrying three people in their 20’s in the Eden area of Concho County, about 210 miles southwest of Dallas, Doane said

Doane said Smith pulled up behind the trio’s car and started firing at them.

“They thought he was throwing rocks at them and he was actually shooting at them,” Doane said.

The driver slammed on his brakes, turned around and headed toward Eden where he hid the vehicle in a car dealership lot. That move probably saved their lives, Doane said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/texas-authorities-man-suspected-of-killing-1-wounding-5-was-from-north-carolina-marine-base/2013/05/27/1c485c8c-c72a-11e2-9cd9-3b9a22a4000a_story.html

http://www.jdnews.com/news/crime/texas-officials-marine-had-no-known-ties-to-state-1.150413

whole thing just makes me heartsick for so many reasons

The mom, right? "I don't know, maybe they argued and he went crazy."

yeah. and just, being a person going about whatever they're doing that gets shot in this crazy scenario. the fact that he drove ALL that way. his wife dead in the motel. and this guy, who is clearly having a horrific break and ptsd shit, it's just...there's no part of this that isn't just as sad as it gets.

and yeah, that is some A+ quick thinking from the driver in your coworker's car, Jon.

The hiding their car in the auto dealership lot is like suspense-novel thinking, i feel sure I would have just put the pedal to the metal and tried to outrun the fucker (and been caught).

Neither my boss or I have spoken to her yet, just emails from her mom where she is resting. She is one of those v quiet people who has a core of solid iron as far as I can tell, so I am v hopeful she'll be able to tackle this.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Latest-News-Wires/2013/0613/St.-Louis-shooting-Gunman-kills-four-including-himself-video

worst boss ever : /

7 dead

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2013/07/27/us/ap-us-apartment-shootings-florida.html

fuck

Somehow averted, but Jesus Christ way too close.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/20/us/georgia-school-gunshots/

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/08/21/214085753/school-clerk-in-georgia-persuaded-gunman-to-lay-down-weapons

wow what a hero

I know there's a danger in overextrapolating from a case like this, but Gary Younge's column on this is great:

The heroism of Antoinette Tuff reveals what's missing from politics

shots fired at LAX...?

Yup, something's going down.

Live coverage

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/live

Tory Bellici of Mythbusters is there, it turns out:

https://twitter.com/ToryBelleci

Suspect neutralized.

My office is two blocks from the airport and there is WAY too much police/fire/security traffic for it to have been just one person. I suspect there are/were more people involved.

that's possible but also since it was an airport incident they may be going OTT.

that would be my suspicion

reporting it was a lone gunman with a high-powered rifle at the moment

Apparently a second person arrested in a parking garage.

Also I could totally see this being the case:

Law enforcement sources told CBS News that the shooter was an off-duty TSA agent.

one person killed according to reports

Shooter at the Garden State Mall in Nj. Local place for me... no confirmed victims? Only reports were of a decked out shooter aiming at security cameras during the closing of the mall. No arrests yet and they're looking for the guy.

NJ*

20 year old white male. Committed suicide. Made the commendable decision not to shoot anybody else! I feel weird about that last sentence.

I feel weird about the first sentence too!

gah.

It's amazing that the first reports are always 100% wrong, huh

good job staying free, everyone

http://abcnews.go.com/US/jersey-mall-shooter-found-dead-inflicted-gunshot-wound/story?id=20785282

xp: well, he shot the place up. Just didn't point the gun at people, I guess.

School shooting foiled, I guess: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-usa-crime-denver-20131105,0,6144331.story.

Band member kills his bandmates, jeez:

http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20131111/east-williamsburg/enraged-musician-kills-bandmates-williamsburg-police-reports-say

Blimey

says here who it was it was, slightly uncomfortable that i posted about this tbh, just about this in case they're friends/acquaintances of any folks here?

bad fucking story though

they'd been mentioned a couple of times on ILX before, in passing. Dreadful story.

Jesus that's really close to me. I've probably seen those guys while walking my dog. I heard helicopters last night for about an hour and figured something heavy was happening...

im sure that fox news will apply their usual shithead filters to "iranian band massacre"

seems less like a spree shooting and more like an aggrieved murder suicide. not that i am trying to be spree shooting thread cop

Shit, I remember them in No One Knows About Persian Cats. How terrible.

why did i read the comments?

I remember the trailer for that documentary they were in.

people i know getting emergency texts from the university system saying there is someone with a gun on the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota...shit

UMN tweeting that it appears to be an attempted robbery, situation ongoing

http://www.post-gazette.com/local/2013/11/13/Shooting-reported-at-Pittsburgh-Brashear-High-school/stories/201311130158

Friend just posted that there is an active shooter in her hospital in Milwaukee on facebook

fuck. a Children's Hospital too?

Ok, so this is someone trustworthy but l don't see any news sites reporting this so idk