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Many people thought there were more than two shooter because of what Eric and Dylan had on the day of the shooting. They thought they were apart of the trench coats but they were not it was just to hide some of their weapons. They had been in trouble before for stealing other things. Cassie’s mother wrote a book based on how her daughter die because they yelled “peekaboo” then shot her dead. They found writings were Eric had around plan to kill himself and this was another chance for him to do
He has been charged of four accounts of first-degree murder, seven accounts of attempted murder, one account of illegal position of fire arms. The motive is still unknown. It 's also still unknown whether or not if the shooter has specfic targets or if was a random shooting. The 17-year-old suspect is in custody.
Jonathan Smith was a hero during the Las Vegas shooting on October 3rd, 2017 in the article of , ”The man who was shot during the Las Vegas shooting.”. This man was at the Las Vegas concert and didn’t realize he was apart of one of the biggest mass shooting attacks. He had driven from his home town, Orange County, to Las Vegas California with some of his family for the country music festival. During the concert he thought he heard fireworks, then he saw guards escorting Jason Aldean off stage, he knew at this time what he heard was gunshots. Smith and his brother Rust focused on the family, as they told them to hold hands and run.
Twenty-three days is a long time to stay in and worry about being next on the shooters list. “The day of October 2, 2002, the beltway snipers began terrorizing people (Fbi.gov).” The beltway snipers, who are they, what crime did they commit, and theories of why they committed the crime is what this paper is about. The beltway snipers were, “John Muhammad, 41 and Lee Boyd Malvo, 17 (Fbi.gov.)”
Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, and John Wayne Gacy are all infamous American serial killers, but none of these serial killers legacy comes close to H. H. Holmes’s legacy. H. H. Holmes was America’s first documented serial killer who was activated during the Gilded Age. However, not many people know much about H. H. Holmes and how he changed America’s Culture of the Gilded Age. Holmes embodied the dark side of the late 1980s in America, which most Americans wanted to hide. When told about the I-search assignment, Holmes’ legacy and impact he had on America’s culture were one of the first ideas I had.
From 1976 to 1977, the streets of New York City were engulfed in fear that was a result of a single serial killer attacking random, innocent victims. David Berkowitz, commonly known as ‘The Son Of Sam’ was responsible for the deaths of 6 people and leaving several other injured as a result of his ruthless attacks. David catapulted New York City into a panic when he began targeting college students and couples at random using his infamous .44 caliber handgun. He had made claims that his neighbor had been telling him to kill and that he received these messages through his neighbor Sam Carr’s dog. He had believed that he was merely a messenger, and that it was his job to carry out the killings as he was instructed to do by Carr’s dog.
The family came running out of their house while the shooter Byron de la Beckwith left the area of the crime. Later on the F.B.I. finds Byron in the woods near the scene of the crime and brings him in as a suspect, where he had a trial in a racist state, with a racist judge, and a racist jury. The evidence had his finger prints on it, he was spotted at the scene of the crime, and his car was found near the scene of the crime, but because it was a horribly racist time period he was found not guilty, and was let out into the public, where on his way home the people of the city threw an entire parade for him. Nearly twenty-six years later Myrlie Evers heads to the D.A.'s office in hopes to reopen the case, where a man named Bobby Delaughter is introduced.
In the United States of America, at least 19,000 of about 4 million yearly deaths are caused by gang and gun violence. Long Way Down, by Jason Reynolds, is a story representing the negative influences of gang and gun violence. After losing his older brother to gun violence, Will Holloman seeks revenge on who he believes is the triggerman. As the story progresses, he is met by the ghosts of those whose lives were taken by gun violence. In Long Way Down, Will’s community, specifically Will and Mikey, is mostly influenced by the intimidation of gang violence and death, which made the act of revenge difficult for Will to carry out.
It’s scary how fear can take the place of everything else in someone’s mind, even a person’s sense of judgement. Fear changed the life of a former SEAL trainee. Dustin Turner, (also known as Dusty) and Billy Joe Brown were accused and convicted of murdering Jennifer Evans in Virginia on June 19, 1995 at a nightclub. Many people see this tragic night differently, but the truth is, only those three-people witnessed this and only two are alive to tell their stories. Sadly, two people aren’t always going to have one same situation.
It was two years ago. Two long agonizing years that i had to deal with the agony of my son being hung in the Springfield Square. “Stop,” the officer screams, “put that food back!” December 5th 1906 my son Austin Girth made the horrible mistake of stealing food from the local market. Austin was only 13 at the time he stole the food.
In “The Fourth State of Matter” Jo Ann Beard portrays a perspective of the shooting of the physics department at the University of Iowa that not everyone knows about. A look at the relationships and some of the tension with the shooter and the people the shooter interacted with. The man responsible for the shooting at the University of Iowa was a Chinese doctoral student who worked in the physics department with the people he had shot, and the shooter was referred as Gang Lu. Ever since Lu had been working there, he had never enjoyed the company and presence of his fellow co-workers.
A historical event that happened in my lifetime that had an impact on my life is the Walmart shooting in Thornton. Scott Ostrem was a forty-seven year old terrorist who had shot and killed three people in the Walmart in Thornton Colorado, on November 1, 2017. According to Scott’s step sister, after a party in 1988 where Scott had ingested sixteen doses of LSD, and when he had come home “he was terrified. He had voices in his head. Demons.
In A Letter Home, 1,000 Ohio National Guardsmen are pointing innocent college students at gunpoint, and this is the outbreak. “By now you know the end of it all from the news. Four Kent State students died, and nine students were wounded” (6). These are two of the many similarities found in this story, but there are also many differences as
One striking example of the Milwaukee police department’s incompetence in this particular chain of working-class murders is the Konerak Sinthasomphone incident. Sinthasomphone was a Laotian 14-year-old who Dahmer had lured back into his apartment (). At one point, he managed to escape through the front door and wander into the streets, dazed (it was later found out he was lobotomized), naked, and beaten (Worthington 2). Two women found him and called the police, reporting a badly injured child walking the streets, unable to speak properly (2). Officers John Balcerzak and Joseph Gabrish arrived at the scene as Dahmer rushed over to make up a fake explanation (1).