Could These Recent Shootings Have Been Avoided?
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Newly released video is revealing more chilling moments leading up to what authorities say was a deadly racially motivated shooting at a Dollar General in Jacksonville, Florida. Lt. Antonio Bailey speaks out about confronting the suspect and saving lives. NBC’s Gabe Gutierrez reports for TODAY, in the video published on Aug 29, 2023, by TODAY, as “New video shows chilling moments before Jacksonville shooting“, below:
Investigators release new details in the targeted deaths of three Black Americans, as more information is discovered about the gunman and his motives, in the video published on Aug 29, 2023, by ABC News, as “Jacksonville rocked by racially motivated mass shooting | Nightline“, below:
The Jacksonville sheriff describes the manifesto left behind by the man who shot and killed three people inside a Florida Dollar General over the weekend as “The Diary of a Mad Man.” In the manifesto, the 21-year-old gunman wrote of hating Black people. Here’s what we know so far, in the video published on Aug 28, 2023, by FOX 5 Atlanta, as “New info on deadly Jacksonville mass shooting| FOX 5 News“, below:
WRAL News spoke to a man who says he was a mentor to the UNC faculty member shot to death on campus Tuesday. According to Douglas Chrisey with Tulane University, a former mentor to the victim, the victim said he reported a student to the administration because he was concerned about the student’s mental health, in the video published on Aug 30, 2023, by WRAL, as “UNC faculty member killed in shooting said he had a troubled student“, below:
A shooting took place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the US on Monday, August 28, 2023. The shooter killed a professor before he was apprehended by the police. During the shooting, students were seen jumping out of windows to escape the college. Other students and teachers relied on their active shooter situation training and barricaded their classrooms. Why is Washington not addressing the root cause of US Gun Terror? Palki Sharma tells you more, in the video published on Aug 29, 2023, by Firstpost, as “US College Shooting: Students Jump Out of Windows| Vantage with Palki Sharma“, below:
It is incredulous to those from other countries how the Americans are dealing with the unhinged gun culture and insufficient manner in addressing the gun policy.
An associate professor at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill was gunned down in a lab on campus on Monday. Authorities said Professor Zijie Yan (associate professor of the department of applied physical sciences) was allegedly killed by Tailei Qi, who worked closely with his research group in the past year. The Law&Crime Network’s Jesse Weber breaks it down with former US Marshall Art Roderick, who says the shooting “appears targeted.” in the video published on Aug 30, 2023, by Law&Crime Network, as “UNC Grad Student Allegedly Murders Professor in ‘Targeted’ School Shooting“, below:
Both of these shooters purchased their guns legally.
Regardless whether the shooting was racially motivated or due to poor relationship between student-professor, so many mass shootings in U.S. during recent decades could have been avoided through more strict gun control policy.
Gathered, written, and posted by Windermere Sun-Susan Sun Nunamaker More about the community at www.WindermereSun.com
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