43 h. ago ‘It’s terrifying, but it’s not surprising’: a Brown University student on surviving her second school shooting

Mia Tretta has advocated for gun-violence prevention since being shot as a high school student in California in 2019As federal and local authorities in Providence, Rhode Island, continue searching for the person who killed two Brown University students and injured nine others on Saturday, campus members and the broader community are grieving and dealing with a shattered sense of safety.But for 21-year-old Brown University junior Mia Tretta, it’s familiar territory. Continue reading...

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43 h. ago ‘It’s terrifying, but not surprising’: a Brown University student on surviving her second school shooting

Mia Tretta has advocated for gun-violence prevention since being shot as a high school student in California in 2019As federal and local authorities in Providence, Rhode Island, continue searching for the person who killed two Brown University students and injured nine others on Saturday, campus members and the broader community are grieving and dealing with a shattered sense of safety.But for 21-year-old Brown University junior Mia Tretta, it’s familiar territory. Continue reading...

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65 h. ago Brown University shooting latest: Officials admit manhunt for double killer could take ‘some time’ after initial suspect cleared

Police release ‘person of interest’ more than 24 hours after mass shooting at Rhode Island Ivy League school with suspect on the loose

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3 d. ago Brown University shooting latest: ‘Person of interest’ released and manhunt continues for suspect in attack that killed 2

Police release ‘person of interest’ more than 24 hours after mass shooting at Rhode Island Ivy League school with suspect on the loose

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3 d. ago A Brown University student survived being shot in high school. Then came the active shooter alerts

Brown University junior Mia Tretta experienced a tragic sense of déjà vu when emergency alerts warned of a shooting on campus

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3 d. ago They survived school shootings. Now these Brown students are angry and in shock after university killings

One student, who witnessed the Parkland shooting firsthand, said she was ‘angry’ to experience a second school shooting in her lifetime

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3 d. ago Brown University student says this was second school shooting she survived

Zoe Weissman, 20, said she hid in a classroom during the horror mass shooting at Brown University but had also experienced a deadly school shooting as a teenager

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3 d. ago Two survivors of Brown University attack escaped other school shootings

Mia Tretta was shot in the abdomen in 2019 at a school near LA and Zoe Weissman witnessed a Florida shooting in 2018Brown University shooting: what we know so farAs the deadly attack unfolded at Brown University, leaving students hiding under desks and reeling as gunshots rang out, the scene was eerily familiar for at least two students.Years earlier, Mia Tretta, 21, and Zoe Weissman, 20, had both survived school shootings. “What I’ve been feeling most is just, like, how dare this country allow this to happen to someone like me twice?” Weissman told the New York Times. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Brown University shooting latest: 2 dead and 9 wounded as suspect remains at large

Suspect at large as Rhode Island Ivy League school reports ‘multiple shooting victims’ transported to nearby hospital

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4 d. ago Brown University shooting latest: 2 dead and 8 wounded as suspect remains at large

Suspect at large as Rhode Island Ivy League school reports ‘multiple shooting victims’ transported to nearby hospital

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4 d. ago Brown University shooting latest: 2 dead and 8 in critical condition as suspect remains at large

Suspect at large as Rhode Island Ivy League school reports ‘multiple shooting victims’ transported to nearby hospital

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5 d. ago John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando is the most fun I’ve had fending off undead hordes since Left 4 Dead

If you've had a hunger for an old-school brand of co-op zombie shooter, Saber Interactive's take is doing a lot to make the act of gunning down hordes of enemies fun again.

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6 d. ago Nigerian child recalls how he was taken in mass school abduction: ‘They said they’d shoot us’

When gunmen stormed St. Mary Catholic School in Nigeria's Papiri community, the children tried to escape but were told they would be shot if they ran away

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6 d. ago 'They said they'd shoot us': Nigerian child recalls how he was taken in mass school abduction

When gunmen stormed St. Mary Catholic School in Nigeria's Papiri community, the children tried to escape but were told they would be shot if they ran away

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2 w. ago Scots teen shared chilling video warning of plans to 'shoot up' Perth school

Patrikas Jaksta shared a video of himself firing a gun on Snapchat.

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3 w. ago How cult leader ‘Commander Butcher’ plotted to sow mayhem across US

Guilty plea by far-right activist lays bare plans for bombings, school shootings and Santas handing out poisoned candiesMichail Chkhikvishvili, a self-described cult leader who called himself “Commander Butcher”, did not look like a Hollywood vision of a contemporary terrorist, despite the bizarre, almost made-for-TV extremist actions he planned, such as having people dressed as Santa Claus hand out poison candies on the streets of New York.Chkhikvishvili appeared in a Brooklyn court last week as one might find an office IT tech: close-cropped hair and black-rimmed glasses, attentive, clear-spoken and cooperative as he was questioned about his understanding of a plea that could see him imprisoned for up to 18 years at his March sentencing. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago School in lockdown after shooting with two suspects at large

Woodrow Wilson Senior High in Los Angeles' El Sereno area has been shutdown following a shooting near the school, with the two suspects remaining at large as police spot one sprint away

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4 w. ago ‘Do we live in a war zone?’: how US schools prepare for a shooting

In the troubling HBO documentary Thoughts and Prayers, the $3bn active shooter preparedness industry shows the bleak reality of being a child in the USTalking about changes experienced by kids Ttday often runs the risk of sounding reactionary, not to mention naive. No, there wasn’t as much talk about autism, or transgender kids, or any number of topics growing up in the ‘80s and ‘90s, because they weren’t understood or discussed in the same way – not because they didn’t exist. But it’s striking, watching the new HBO documentary Thoughts and Prayers, the degree to which it shows a demonstrable change from the experiences of someone growing up 30 or 40 years ago versus today: the absolute universality of emergency action plans that go beyond the scope of the fire drills you might remember. Thoughts and Prayers surveys many of those lockdown drills, and the many supplements available to contemporary schools designed to offer further protection from an active shooter: bulletproof backpa...

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