High School Shooting at Alpine, Texas

BREAKING NEWS - ACTIVE SHOOTING AT ALPINE TEXAS

11 AM EST

There is an active shooter situation at a high school in Alpine, Texas, according to a sheriff in Brewster County.

TV station Fox 24 said that at least one person was killed.

Ruth Hucke, a spokeswoman for Big Bend Regional Medical Center in Alpine, said hospital personnel were tending to three "victims."

Hucke declined to say how the victims were injured or further identify them. When asked if the victims had been shot, Hucke said she "can't say anything further."

Hucke said the hospital would provide a statement later Thursday. She had no additional details.

Police said schools have been locked down amid the search for the shooter(s). They now believe there may be two active shooters.

The police didn't immediately provide additional information, other than the person was a male.

Students reported hearing about two or three shots, local TV station KWES reported.

The Alpine Independent School District website says the town of about 5,900 residents has three schools — elementary, middle and a high school.

Alpine is 355 kilometres southeast of El Paso.

Mexican Drug Cartel Beheading a Woman

This is just disgusting.

I am amazed that the Mexican authorities aren't putting prices on the heads of Mexican drug lords. Possibly because Mexican drug lords put prices on the heads of anyone who gets in their way.

Hence why beheading women is so methodical in Mexico. Like they've done it before many times. Disgusting.

It just proves that while many Canadians and Americans visit Mexico as tourists you really have to stick to the tourist spots - leave the sanctity of the tourist hot spots and you are likely to be murdered for your wallet or purse.

Because why should they care about you when they murder their own people like sheep in a slaughterhouse?

Toronto Police Shooting a Man with a Knife

Toronto police shot to death a young man - shot at him 9 times center mass - just because he had a knife.

He had no hostage. Was surrounded by cops. Trapped on a Toronto TTC bus. He was a threat to nobody but himself.

In a world of pepperspray, tasers, and police batons they could have taken him down a different way - and he would have lived.

Instead Sammy Yatim, 18, was shot dead by a trigger-happy Toronto Police Constable James Forcillo early Saturday, July 27, 2013.

Why? Because he had a knife.

Whoop dee do. I keep a katana next to my bed in a box.

Hutaree Militants seeking to Overthrow Government

9 members of a Midwest Christian militia led by ringleader David Brian Stone are in jail now for plotting to overthrow the U.S. government and detonate WMDs at a police funeral.

The ringleader Stone was fond of making speeches and believed he could encourage others to join in a civil war against the government.

“We are the American military. We outnumber them,” a speaker identified as Stone says on an audio tape recorded by an undercover FBI agent. “People should not be afraid of the government. The government should fear the people.”

The agent infiltrated the Hutaree militia and had built explosives under Stone’s direction, accompanied Stone and others as they tried to attend a Feb. 6 meeting of militias in Kentucky.

“Now it’s time to strike and take our nation back so we will be free of tyranny,” Stone, 44, of Clayton, Mich., says on the recording played in court. “The war will come whether we are ready or not.”

Stone and eight other Hutaree members, self-proclaimed “Christian Warriors” who trained themselves in paramilitary techniques in preparation for a battle against the U.S. government, are charged with seditious conspiracy, plotting to levy war against the U.S. They were arrested after a series of weekend raids across the Midwest.

The group planned to make a false 911 call, kill responding police officers, then set off a bomb at the funeral to kill many more. After the attacks the group planned to retreat to “rally points” protected by trip-wired explosives for a violent standoff with law enforcement personnel.

Federal officials began monitoring the militia last summer and discovered an attack was planned for April. The Hutaree was planning training that month where they would kill people that “came upon them.” Court documents said the undercover agent and a cooperating witness were part of the federal probe.

Eight suspects were arraigned Wednesday in Detroit. U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Donald A. Scheer entered not guilty pleas on behalf of seven who stood mute to the charges, including David Brian Stone. Stone’s eldest son, 21-year-old Joshua Matthew Stone, pleaded not guilty.

“It’s not about a religious group,” says prosecutor Waterstreet. “It’s not about the militia. It’s about a group who decided to oppose by force the U.S. by using violence and weapons.”

Stone sought to “own his own country” and send police retreating to the cities. Waterstreet said Stone “indicated the wives and children of the brotherhood (police) were equal targets.”

In the hierarchy of Hutaree David Brian Stone led the militia and Joshua Matthew Stone was a squad leader. David Brian Stone Jr., the elder Stone’s 19-year-old son, was in charge of detonations and explosives.

Kristopher Sickles, 27, of Sandusky, Ohio described himself as leading the militia in that state. Sickles bragged that he killed his cat to see if he could shoot something he had feelings for.

Others charged in the case had responsibilities including communications and recruitment. Michael David Meeks, 40, and Thomas W. Piatek, 46, of Whiting, Indiana. were “heavy gunners” in charge of “laying down heavy fire” in encounters with the enemy.

Defense lawyers are arguing there's nothing wrong with having an opinion about the United States federal government.

If these men were Muslim militants there wouldn't even be a question about their guilt. Being a Christian doesn't excuse a person from acts of terrorism. Terrorism is terrorism, regardless of what religion you believe in.

Eight family members in Georgia trailer park killed

UNITED STATES - Eight people are dead in a Georgia trailer park and two more critically injured in what is being called a mass shooting.

In custody is Guy Heinze Jr. who has been charged with possession of marijuana and the drug Darvocet, tampering with evidence and obstruction of an officer. He has NOT been charged with the gruesome murders however although he remains a suspect.

Police received a 911 call shortly after 8:00 am (1200 GMT) Saturday "of multiple deceased persons found in a mobile home in the New Hope mobile park." Officers arriving on the scene found seven dead people and two more who were critically injured in the trailer park in Brunswick, Georgia, about 70 miles (115 kilometers) south of Savannah.

Police are currently withholding motive, who did the shooting and what exactly happened as more details become clear. Today police released the 911 tape:

"My whole family is dead," said Guy Heinze Jr., 22, when he called in the 911 call. Barely coherent, he said he had arrived at the mobile home Saturday morning to find family members dead and bleeding. "My whole family is dead ... it looks like they've been beaten to death, but I don't know, man."

He then says the ambulance "better hurry," because his cousin, Michael Toler, a 19 year-old man with Down syndrome, was alive, but "that his face is smashed in." Michael later died from his wounds.

Later neighbour Orlinski takes the phone and tells the dispatcher: "I know there's a little baby. ... Shoot, there's a little baby. I don't know if the baby was in there or not."

Heinze apparently moved several of the bodies, trying to find someone who was still alive.

One police source says it may have been a mass murder-suicide, but they won't know until all the facts have been confirmed.

An official close to the investigation confirms some of the victims were shot. The quiet community has a low crime rate compared to other parts of Georgia. The killing at the New Hope trailer park, a 250-acre former plantation of pine trees and pecan groves, is the latest in a spate of mass killings in the United States.

In August, a Pennsylvania man embittered by what he described as constant rejection by women, walked into a women's health club and opened fire on a dance class, killing three women before turning the gun on himself in Greenhill, Alabama.

Seattle man kills his 5 children

UNITED STATES - A man and his five children are dead in what police believe was a murder-suicide at a mobile home in Washington state.

Police suspect the father shot and killed his children, ages seven to 16, before taking his own life Saturday.

The bodies of four girls and a boy, who was the youngest of the siblings, were found inside their home at the Deer Run mobile park in Pierce County, 70 kilometres south of Seattle.

The body of the 35-year-old father was found in his still-running car, 30 kilometres from his home.

He had apparently killed himself with a rifle, Auburn Police Sgt. Scott Near said. No note was left in the car.

The mother's aunt, Penny Flansburg, identified the couple as Angela and James Harrison and the children as Maxine, Samantha, Heather, Jamie and James.

The father worked as a diesel mechanic, and the mother works at Wal-Mart, Flansburg said.

A classmate of the eldest daughter said she told him Friday night that her parents had fought and her father had followed her mother, trying to persuade her to return after she left the home.

This latest mass murder is part of a string of mass murders in the USA.

Sat 4 April: Father shoots his five children, then himself, near Seattle.

Sat 4 April: Gunman kills three policemen in Pittsburgh before being wounded and captured.

Fri 3 April: Gunman kills 13 people at an immigration centre in Binghamton, New York state, then shoots himself.

Sun 29 March: Gunman kills seven elderly residents and a nurse at a nursing home in Carthage, North Carolina, then is shot and wounded himself.

Sun 29 March: Man kills five relatives and himself in Santa Clara, California.

Copkiller in Pittsburgh guns down three officers

UNITED STATES - Today three police officers have been killed by a gunman in Pittsburgh - the second mass shooting in the US in the last 24 hours. The three dead officers are Eric Kelly, Stephen Mayhle and Paul Sciullo III. Kelly had been on the force for 14 years and the other two only two years each. Another officer was shot in the hand and a fifth broke his leg on a fence.

The officers were the first Pittsburgh city officers to die in the line of duty in 18 years. (The last Pittsburgh police officers killed in the line of duty were Officers Thomas L. Herron and Joseph J. Grill, who died after their patrol car collided with another vehicle while chasing a stolen car on March 6th, 1991.)

Today's shooting is one of the biggest police death tolls since September 11th 2001 and a similar shooting in Oakland California 2 weeks ago.

The officers were responding to an emergency call from the house of the gunman, 23-year-old Richard Poplawski, who was arrested after a four-hour standoff.

Police said he was waiting, armed with multiple assault rifles (including an AK-47), a bulletproof vest, a .357 Magnum handgun, several other handguns and "enough ammunition to take on a small army". He shot and killed two officers as they entered the house, and a third who tried to help them.

Poplawski then traded gunfire with police for four hours before being injured and giving himself up.

Gail Moschetti, who lives diagonally across the street from the Poplawski house, said she heard hundreds of shots as she and her husband took refuge in their basement. Tom Moffitt, 51, a city firefighter who lives two blocks away, said he came to the scene and heard "hundreds, just hundreds of shots."

Poplawski's friends said he had recently lost his job, and was worried that US President Barack Obama was about to ban assault rifles. (I agree, his logic doesn't make much sense.) Poplawski's best friend Edward Perkovic said Poplawski feared "the Obama gun ban that's on the way" and "didn't like our rights being infringed upon."

Perkovic, 22, said he got a call at work from him in which Poplawski said, "Eddie, I am going to die today. ... Tell your family I love them and I love you."

Perkovic said: "I heard gunshots and he hung up. ... He sounded like he was in pain, like he got shot."

The shooting comes a day after a immigrant gunman killed 13 people in New York state, because he had lost his job and had poor English.

In a televised press conference, Pittsburgh Police Chief Nathan Harper said it was a "very sad day" for the city. "Our hearts and our prayers go out to the officers who paid the ultimate sacrifice," he said.

Chief Harper said the emergency call had been made by the gunman's mother, who had apparently stayed in the basement of the house during the whole incident, and had learned her son intended to going on a shooting rampage.

According to Pittsburgh Police Chief Harper the gunman had been "lying in wait", and the first two officers who reached the house were shot in the head as they entered.

Poplawski has been charged with three counts of homicide, aggravated assault and a weapons violation.

Poplawski had been laid off from his job at a glass factory earlier this year. A highschool dropout, Poplawski had recently stopped attending classes to get his GED certificate and was hoping to join the Marine Corps so he could fight overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan.