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Shooting at Illinois business

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"When Will This Stop? 17 Shot Dead in Florida School Massacre, the 18th School Shooting of Year"
.. with the video ..

"Published on Feb 15, 2018 by Democracy Now! [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzuqE7-t13O4NIDYJfakrhw / https://www.youtube.com/user/democracynow , https://www.youtube.com/user/democracynow/videos ]
In Parkland, Florida, 17 people died Wednesday in one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history. The massacre at the Stoneman Douglas High School was the 18th school shooting this year, according to Everytown for Gun Safety. This means there has been a school shooting on average every 60 hours so far this year. Police have identified the gunman as a 19-year-old former pupil named Nikolas Cruz. He was carrying an AR-15 with multiple magazines of ammunition. In addition to the 17 dead, 15 people were injured. We speak to Geraldine Thompson, a former Florida Democratic state senator. She represented the Orlando district where the 2016 Pulse nightclub massacre took place.
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/2/15/when_will_this_stop_17_shot [with embedded video, and transcript]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAw_B0QgZu4 [with comments]"
.. the first item in one of F6's big ones ..
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By Brian Ries, Meg Wagner, Jessie Yeung and Dakin Andone, CNN
Updated 1 hr 10 min ago11:21 PM ET, Fri February 15, 2019

What we covered here

What happened: A gunman opened fire at the Henry Pratt Company ..
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/15/us/illinois-active-shooter-report/index.html ..
in Aurora, Illinois, a manufacturing plant southwest of Chicago.

Victims: Five victims were confirmed dead and five police officers were wounded.

The suspect: Aurora police said the alleged shooter was killed. He's been identified as 45-year-old Gary Martin.

4 hr 45 min ago

Our live coverage of the shooting at an Aurora, Illinois, business has concluded, but stick with CNN as the story continues to develop throughout the night.

4 hr 52 min ago

New Illinois governor: "There is no way to prepare"

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, who was sworn into office just over a month ago, thanked law enforcement and told reporters there was "no way to prepare for the pain of losing innocent people in the state that you were elected to lead, the state that you were elected to protect."

"There is no way to prepare. There are no words for the kind of evil that robs our neighbors of their hopes, their dreams and their futures. There are no words to express our gratitude to the families of the officers who were injured in the line of duty as they responded within moments to the gravest kind of danger that they can face. Tomorrow, the families of the victims will be less than whole."

5 hr 18 min ago

Mayor: It's a "shame" mass shootings have become "commonplace"

In Friday evening's news conference, Aurora, Illinois, Mayor Richard Irvin lamented the fact his city is just the latest to fall victim to a mass shooter.

"It's a shame that mass shootings such as this have become commonplace in our country," he said. "It's a shame that a cold and heartless offender would be so selfish as to think he has the right to take an innocent life. But we as a society cannot allow these horrific acts to become commonplace."

VIDEO

5 hr 23 min ago

Five police officers were wounded in the shooting

More - https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/active-shooter-aurora-illinois/index.html

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