https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_shooting_of_Dallas_police_officers#cite_note-CNN.Killed-14
On July 7, 2016, at the end of a peaceful protest, Micah Xavier Johnson ambushed and shot twelve police officers and two civilians in Dallas, Texas, United States, killing five of the officers. Johnson was an African-American Army Reserve Afghan War veteran who expressed his hatred of white people
and was reportedly angry over recent police shootings of black men. The
protest was being held against police killings in the aftermath of the
shooting deaths of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, Minnesota, in the preceding days.
Following the shooting, police confronted Johnson at a parking garage, and a standoff ensued. In the early hours of July 8, police killed Johnson with a bomb attached to a bomb disposal robot. Some experts believe it was the first time in U.S. history a robot was used by police to deliver lethal force.
The shooting was the deadliest incident for U.S. law enforcement since the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Saturday, July 9, 2016
Shooting of Alton Sterling
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Alton_Sterling
On July 5, 2016, Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old black man, was shot several times after being tackled to the ground by two white Baton Rouge Police Department officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Police were responding to a report that a man dressed in red and selling CDs used a gun to threaten someone outside a convenience store. The shooting was recorded by multiple bystanders. The videos show the confrontation and shooting at point-blank range.
The shooting led to protests in Baton Rouge and a civil rights investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice.
On July 5, 2016, Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old black man, was shot several times after being tackled to the ground by two white Baton Rouge Police Department officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Police were responding to a report that a man dressed in red and selling CDs used a gun to threaten someone outside a convenience store. The shooting was recorded by multiple bystanders. The videos show the confrontation and shooting at point-blank range.
The shooting led to protests in Baton Rouge and a civil rights investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Shooting of Philando Castile
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Philando_Castile
On July 6, 2016, Philando Castile was fatally shot in Falcon Heights, Minnesota, a suburb of St. Paul. Castile was pulled over in a traffic stop by a St. Anthony Police Department officer, Jeronimo Yanez, who asked for Castile's driver's license and vehicle registration. According to Diamond Reynolds, Castile's girlfriend, who was with him in the vehicle, Castile told Yanez he had a firearm that he was licensed to carry. Yanez then shot Castile, who died shortly after arriving at the hospital. A video of the immediate aftermath was live-streamed by Reynolds on Facebook.
On July 6, 2016, Philando Castile was fatally shot in Falcon Heights, Minnesota, a suburb of St. Paul. Castile was pulled over in a traffic stop by a St. Anthony Police Department officer, Jeronimo Yanez, who asked for Castile's driver's license and vehicle registration. According to Diamond Reynolds, Castile's girlfriend, who was with him in the vehicle, Castile told Yanez he had a firearm that he was licensed to carry. Yanez then shot Castile, who died shortly after arriving at the hospital. A video of the immediate aftermath was live-streamed by Reynolds on Facebook.
Saturday, February 27, 2016
Four killed by Washington state gunman 2016 02 27
Four killed by Washington state gunman
2016- 02-Feb- 27
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-washington-shooting-idUSKCN0W00F0
The four people killed by a Washington state man who later fatally shot himself were his wife, her two adopted sons and a neighbor, the Mason County Sheriff's Office said on Saturday, a day after the shooting in a rural home west of Seattle.The sheriff's office chief deputy said the gunman, David Wayne Campbell, 51, had "an extensive criminal history."
Friday, February 26, 2016
2016 Hesston shooting
2016 Hesston shooting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Hesston_shooting
On February 25, 2016, three people were killed and fourteen others injured in a series of shootings in Newton and Hesston, Kansas, including in and outside an Excel Industries building.[1][2] The shooter, identified as Excel employee Cedric Larry Ford, was then killed by responding police officer
Can We Predict Mass Shootings?
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Gunman Kills at Least 7 in Michigan
Gunman Kills at Least 7 in Michigan
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/22/us/kalamazoo-michigan-random-shootings.html?_r=0
TEXAS
CHARTER TOWNSHIP, Mich. — At least seven people in the Kalamazoo,
Mich., area were killed and at least one more was injured Saturday night
by a gunman who the police said randomly opened fire as he drove around
the city and its suburbs.
Several anxious hours later, Undersheriff Paul Matyas of Kalamazoo County said in a text message that a suspect was in custody.
Shootings were reported at a Cracker Barrel restaurant, a Ford dealership and other locations, according to WOOD-TV,
the local NBC affiliate. At the Cracker Barrel, in Texas Township, the
victims were shot as they sat in their cars, according to the television
report.
At
4 a.m. on Sunday, the Cracker Barrel parking lot remained wrapped in
yellow crime scene tape, but the scene was quiet except for the hum of
idling news trucks and cars whizzing past on the interstate below. The
five people killed there included a 9-year-old, the authorities said.
A father and his son were killed at the car dealership, the authorities said.
Two
more shootings occurred at an intersection near the restaurant and at a
residence in Richland Township, where a woman was shot multiple times,
according to WOOD-TV.
“They
all appear to be related,” Undersheriff Matyas said. “We have multiple
people dead. In summary, what it looks like is we have somebody just
driving around, finding people and shooting them dead in their tracks.”
Lt. Dale Hintz of the Michigan State Police told WWMT-TV that the gunman had been driving around Kalamazoo County in a dark blue Chevrolet HHR.
The
suspect in custody was driving a vehicle that matched that car’s
description, the authorities said, and the Chevrolet also appeared to
match images of a vehicle from surveillance video at the Ford
dealership.
The authorities described the suspect as a 45-year-old from Kalamazoo.
“It’s very likely this is the person, but we have more work to do to be 100 percent sure,” Chief Hadley said.
He
said that officers from the Department of Public Safety and deputies
from the Kalamazoo Sheriff’s Department spotted the suspect’s car in
downtown Kalamazoo, pulled him over and arrested him.
No shots were fired during the arrest, Chief Hadley said.
Friday, February 5, 2016
Commanding Officer of USS Dallas Removed from Duty
Commanding Officer of USS Dallas Removed from Duty
GROTON -- The Navy has relieved the commanding officer of one of 16 submarines homeported at the Naval Submarine Base for performance-related issues, the service announced in a press release Wednesday.
He is the third commanding officer of a submarine to be relieved this year.
Cmdr. Edward Byers, of the Los Angeles attack submarine the USS Dallas, was informed Tuesday of his removal, which was effective immediately.
Capt. Oliver Lewis, who recently became commander of Submarine Squadron 12, headquartered at the base, removed Byers from his position.
"The actions taken to relieve Commander Byers was based on longterm professional performance shortfalls, and not due to any acts of personal misconduct or any singular event," said Cmdr. Tommy Crosby, spokesman for Submarine Force Atlantic.
Byers has been administratively reassigned to the staff of the Undersea Warfare Development Center, which became headquartered at the base last fall.
The command is intended to train the submarine force in advanced tactics, techniques and procedures for anti-submarine warfare.
Capt. Jack Houdeshell, deputy commander at Submarine Squadron 4, who previously served as CO of the Dallas, has been assigned as commanding officer.
On Jan. 4, Capt. Dave Adams, the CO of the Kings Bay, Ga.-based guided missile submarine USS Georgia, was relieved of duty based on an investigation into a Nov. 25, 2015, incident "in which Georgia was returning to port, struck a channel buoy and then grounded," the Navy said.
Two days later, on Jan. 6, Cmdr. Mike Conner, of the Guam-based attack submarine Oklahoma City was relieved of duty for leadership and proficiency deficiencies.
He is the third commanding officer of a submarine to be relieved this year.
Cmdr. Edward Byers, of the Los Angeles attack submarine the USS Dallas, was informed Tuesday of his removal, which was effective immediately.
Capt. Oliver Lewis, who recently became commander of Submarine Squadron 12, headquartered at the base, removed Byers from his position.
"The actions taken to relieve Commander Byers was based on longterm professional performance shortfalls, and not due to any acts of personal misconduct or any singular event," said Cmdr. Tommy Crosby, spokesman for Submarine Force Atlantic.
Byers has been administratively reassigned to the staff of the Undersea Warfare Development Center, which became headquartered at the base last fall.
The command is intended to train the submarine force in advanced tactics, techniques and procedures for anti-submarine warfare.
Capt. Jack Houdeshell, deputy commander at Submarine Squadron 4, who previously served as CO of the Dallas, has been assigned as commanding officer.
On Jan. 4, Capt. Dave Adams, the CO of the Kings Bay, Ga.-based guided missile submarine USS Georgia, was relieved of duty based on an investigation into a Nov. 25, 2015, incident "in which Georgia was returning to port, struck a channel buoy and then grounded," the Navy said.
Two days later, on Jan. 6, Cmdr. Mike Conner, of the Guam-based attack submarine Oklahoma City was relieved of duty for leadership and proficiency deficiencies.
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