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US Gun Shooting

The 18-year-old gunman, armed with assault rifles and wearing body armour, opened fire at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde

Updated On: 02 Aug 2023 | 10:46 AM IST

In some cases, misinformation about mass shootings or other events are spread by well-intentioned social media users trying to be helpful

Updated On: 26 May 2022 | 7:44 AM IST

18-year-old opens fire in elementary school, is shot dead

Updated On: 26 May 2022 | 2:58 AM IST

UN chief Antonio Guterres was deeply shocked and saddened by the heinous mass shooting in an elementary school in Texas, the US, said his spokesman

Updated On: 25 May 2022 | 12:23 PM IST

In an emotional address following the school shooting incident in Texas, the US Vice President Kamala Harris condemned the attack while calling for "action and taking a stand"

Updated On: 25 May 2022 | 10:07 AM IST

Until the massacre at Colorado's Columbine High School in 1999, the number of dead tended to be in the single digits but since then, the number of school shootings have killed 10 or more

Updated On: 25 May 2022 | 8:11 AM IST

The deceased children are in the second, third and fourth grades - aged between 7 years and 10 years

Updated On: 25 May 2022 | 7:35 AM IST

President Joe Biden delivered an emotional call for new restrictions on firearms after a gunman opened fire at a Texas elementary school on Tuesday.

Updated On: 25 May 2022 | 7:31 AM IST

A white gunman in military gear attacked shoppers and workers at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, on Saturday, killing 10 people

Updated On: 16 May 2022 | 7:24 AM IST

Police officials said the 18-year-old gunman, who is white, was wearing body armour and military-style clothing when he pulled up and opened fire at people

Updated On: 15 May 2022 | 7:03 AM IST

The rabbi of a Texas synagogue where a gunman took hostages during livestreamed services said he threw a chair at his captor before escaping with two others after an hourslong standoff

Updated On: 18 Jan 2022 | 7:31 AM IST

US counties with high poverty rates are likely to face a higher risk of firearm-related deaths among children and young adults, according to a new study

Updated On: 18 Dec 2021 | 11:10 AM IST

A court in New Orleans is the latest to uphold a federal ban on bump stocks devices attached to semiautomatic firearms so that a shooter can fire multiple rounds with a single trigger pull.

Updated On: 17 Dec 2021 | 9:48 AM IST

The parents of a teen accused of killing four students at a Michigan high school were charged with involuntary manslaughter

Updated On: 04 Dec 2021 | 7:59 AM IST

President Joe Biden announced new efforts to stem a rising national tide of violent crime, declaring the federal government is taking on the bad actors doing bad things to our communities

Updated On: 24 Jun 2021 | 6:24 AM IST

People gathered around Chicago on Sunday to remember a 13-year-old boy fatally shot by a police officer and to call for changes in policing and an end to gun violence

Updated On: 19 Apr 2021 | 6:30 AM IST

The assailant who attacked the Molson Coors complex on Wednesday was identified as a 51-year-old Milwaukee man who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound

Updated On: 27 Feb 2020 | 9:55 AM IST

Mass shootings also took place in 25 other wealthy nations between 1983 and 2013, but the number of mass shootings in the United States far surpasses that of any other country

Updated On: 21 May 2018 | 9:05 AM IST