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Officer Who Saved YouTube Shooting Victim’s Life Honored by City

At Tuesday night’s Pacifica City Council meeting, Officer Joseph Gomez was presented with the Departmental Life Saving Medal for his actions during the attack on April 3.

May 16, 2018

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Emergency Response Shield

Hardwire, LLC

Hardwire’s Emergency Response Shield is armor that can be used to protect individuals in an active shooter emergency.

April 30, 2018

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Police Could Not Detain YouTube Shooter Before Shooting, Experts Say

Both the San Diego Sheriff's Department and the Mountain View Police Department, which made contact with Aghdam less than 12 hours before the shooting, have rebutted the family's claims. Both agencies said the family did not say Aghdam might be violent, armed or a danger to the YouTube campus when they spoke with officers.

April 6, 2018

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Officers Had Contact with YouTube Shooter Night Before Attack

“Our officers made contact with the woman after the license plate of her vehicle matched that of a missing person out of Southern California,” said Mountain View Police spokeswoman Katie Nelson.

April 4, 2018

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Casualties Reported at California Active Shooter Scene

The San Mateo County Coroner's office has responded to the scene. Injured persons are being received at Stanford Hospital and San Francisco General Hospital, according to local media.

April 3, 2018

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Tennessee Police Say They Foiled Church Shooting Last Weekend

Police approached Tolar at work and say he was found to have an AR-15 and 1,500 rounds of ammo in his vehicle. He was subsequently arrested.

February 23, 2018

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Broward County Deputies Criticized for Response to School Shooter

Sheriff Scott Israel said that, to his knowledge, deputies followed protocol and did not wait for specialized teams to arrive before going into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. But he said that details over the office's response remained unclear.

February 22, 2018

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Active Shooters, Gun Control, and Mental Health

If we are truly serious about reducing active shooter deaths, we must stop the political posturing and the self-serving, useless rhetoric and commit ourselves to the many viable solutions that are out there. We owe it to our children to find a way.

February 16, 2018

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SWAT Responding to Active Shooter at Florida School, Mass Casualty Incident

The Broward Sheriff’s Office sent out a tweet Wednesday, just before 3 p.m., calling this an “active shooter” situation.

February 14, 2018

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Can Keeping Mass Killers' Names Out of the Media Save Lives?

Others have mounted like-minded efforts, among them the FBI-endorsed Don’t Name Them campaign developed by the ALERRT Center at Texas State University; and guidelines crafted by Columbia Journalism Review, the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, and Mother Jones magazine.

January 5, 2018

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Coroner: Vegas Concert Gunman Killed Himself, All 58 Victims Died of Gunshot

More than 500 people also were injured. The gunman, Stephen Paddock, a 64-year-old Mesquite resident, took his life before Metro Police officers breached his two-room suite.

December 22, 2017

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Unarmed Security Officer Shot, Seriously Wounded at Cincinnati Hospital

The suspect fatally shot himself, Isaac said. The suspect "has not been identified -- we're not certain if he's known to any of the employees or medical staff."

December 20, 2017