Another fucking spree shooting. Great.

One of my friends was almost a witness to that with her kids; they had stopped to get snow cones and take pictures with the kid who plays Jack on Black-ish and walked up to the building shortly after the incident.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/richmond-bus-station-active-shooter-192526663.html

'Victims' confirmed, shooting scene still active at Lackland Air Force Base, Sheriff's Office says

do they allow open carry type stuff on this base? if not, surely that will be the warcry that comes from the gun fondlers as a result.

Looks like it was a murder-suicide. Should have put it in the disgruntled thread, but it's so hard to tell sometimes.

family massacre in ohio, 7 dead and shooter at large
https://www.rt.com/usa/340620-ohio-active-shooter-casualties/

lockdown at UCLA; 2 shot, condition unknown

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-ucla-shooting-20160601-snap-story.html

According to the Daily Bruin, the shooter has been described as a Caucasian man who stands around 6-feet tall. He was last seen wearing a black jacket and black pants.

sounds about right

repeal the 2nd Amendment everybody

we have some of the strictest gun control laws in the country and still this shit happens

2 dead

This happened just a couple of blocks from my office today. It could have been a lot worse, as I usually see 30-40 people there trying to get spots in the shelter every afternoon.

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2016/06/two_wounded_in_shooting_near_d.html

UCLA incident was murder/suicide. One of the deceased was the shooter.

so not a spree shooting, then.

sorry for my mistake

a shooting splurt, then.

Memorial Day weekend in Chicago

http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/crime/article/Dozens-shot-6-dead-following-Chicago-weekend-7953998.php

everyone knows chicago is crawling with violence, just ask glenn beck or anyone else. this is ucla, where whites go!

The victim was a 39y/o professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering named William Klug, a professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering:

http://www.mae.ucla.edu/william-klug/

He was killed by one of his PhD students whom he denied graduation honors.

jesus

awful

yikes

jfc

=(

there was one in suburban Houston over this past weekend that got almost no press coverage... conspiracy theorists are running wild because the guy was a veteran and houston police are being kinda tight-lipped about it:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/alleged-houston-shooter-veteran-stepmother-haunted-time-afghanistan/story?id=39499672

also notable because a local citizen hero whipped out his own sidearm and started plugging away at the shooter and got shot for his efforts, and then grilled by the police who didn't know if he was in league with the actual gunman or not.

jesus that sounds ugly

^^The aunt of my friend's boss was one of the wounded, and until these last few years, that area was part of my commute 2-3 days a week.

yeah, for years I got my car inspected at the auto place where the guy got shot dead in his SUV.

that sounded pretty grim... but it was unsettling to be watching the news and then recognize somewhere I'd been so many times!

in Houston this weekend. Like they said. An Iraq war vet from California came to Texas to meet like minded people and shot up what he perceived to be Jews and whoever in the middle of a neighborhood on a Sunday before Memorial Day.

He shot around 200 bullets from an AR-15 or something similar killing one civilian, hitting two cops, multiple other citizens, police cars, helicopters, burned down a gas station. It went for a long time while people were trapped in their homes and shot at on the street. The whole thing happened on social media (and in real life) with no real information or coverage from the press or police.

The cops blew up his backpack and then left it there so the news crew could find it the next day. That's how we found out who it was that did it. Meanwhile the victim's cars and bodies were shown on the local news, once they interrupted the Tennis and Auto Races.

WHAT

fucking hell

so why no coverage? is it just the vet angle that they dont want to touch?

smdh we are doomed

"Y'all are Christians":

http://m.chron.com/houston/article/Witness-says-Memorial-shooter-made-7953256.php?cmpid=twitter-tablet

jesus

i can't help it, i just keep thinking that poor fuckin kid, 25 years old, two tours

and holy christ almighty how terrifying for all those people

One reason there was little press coverage was likely because it was the Sunday morning before Memorial Day and there wasn't anyone working at any of the local news stations.

with regard to the ucla shooting

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-mainak-sarkar-ucla-20160602-snap-story.html

Florida Pulse gay club attacked in Orlando - multiple injuries

http://www.bbc.com/news/36510272

20 dead, 50+ injured, shooter killed
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/06/12/us/orlando-nightclub-shooting/index.html

Just fucking horrible.

I am feeling numb and angry. two shootings in my backyard over the weekend - this one was an act of domestic terrorism. and right now, no idea who's included in the 20 dead, praying none of my friends were among the 20.

everybody is freaking out this morning and I can't say I blame them.

i am also flipping out that so many are already rushing to blame Islamic extremism.

YOU CAN'T WILL A BOGEYMAN INTO EXISTENCE. how about maybe offer sympathy for the dead first, speculate later when there's actual hard evidence beyond you wanting to divert attention from our own country's rampantly increasing issues.

we also had a carjacking hostage situation across the street from me yesterday (cops everywhere) - only found out the reason after I got back. my friend couldn't even get into his apt.

I used to spend a lot of time Orlando most weekends (when I lived in Brevard), but I had to look Pulse up on the map. When the news report said it was on Orange, I didn't realize it was all the way down south of 408, so I don't know that part of town too well (or can't remember it, at least).

This is so fucking horrible.

It's a gentrified neighborhood, according to a local interviewed by CNN.

Orlando Sentinel best source: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-updates-shooting-at-pulse-nightclub-20160612-htmlstory.html

it's a popular LGBT club - lots of people like to do karaoke there. I think I went maybe once, but among my theatre pals, it's popular. so far nobody I know has been reported as part of the 20. I asked my brother to check in - he used to dance there. I doubt he was there but....hoping him and his g/f check in soon. (update: his g/f did, so I am guessing he's fine...like I said, only remote possibility that he was there fortunately). FB has an app for friends to check in safe.

everybody is really on edge now. OPD has done a nice job handling both tragedies but I think even they're frazzled and fatigued.

we joke "lol FL" all the time but shit like this is not common. an occasional nightclub shooting like any city, yes. but stuff like this is alien to us in Cent Florida.

I feel like I should feel overwhelmed and emotional but I'm really just numb - this type of thing has become so commonplace to where it's almost expected now, and that's not ok.

the other clubs in the area, like Savoy, must also be freaking out too - copycat potential and all. the feeling of being safe in a public place, while it was never an absolute, is going to keep turning into a remnant of the past if we don't do something about guns.

one of my best friends lives a mile away from the club. gunman IDed as Omar Mateen from Port St Lucie

Even though I don't live there anymore, I still listen to The Philips Phile most days and I think Jack Bradshaw was supposed to be making an appearance there last night (probably over long before this happened). But literally the first time I ever heard about Pulse was on Friday afternoon and now this happens. I imagine the crew at Parliament House is pretty shook right now.

Sorry, this is all immaterial. I'm just trying to tap into my memories of Orlando, as few as they may be.

oh yea, P House crew is shook - I suspect the shooter chose Pulse because of how compact it is and easy to do damage. Parliament House could have been chosen but it's so spread out they probably ruled it out. I think they swept P House to check for explosives after the situation diffused at Pulse.

say what you will about FB, but having a "safety check" app is a very appreciated thing to have.

Shooter's father gave statement to MSNBC staff writer: he says shooter was angered by the sight of two men kissing in downtown Miami