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Shots from Chattanooga Police Ended Last Week's Active Shooter Attack

Fletcher said his officers — in an act he described as heroic — engaged the gunman "immediately, aggressively" with the sole intent that he harm as few people as possible.

July 20, 2015

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Who Was the Chattanooga Shooter?

A few months before Thursday’s shootings, he had a scrape with the law. In April, he was charged with driving under the influence in Chattanooga, according to court records. A booking photo from the arrest shows him with a half-smile and a full beard. He was to appear in court July 30.

July 17, 2015

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Chattanooga Gunman Identified, Believed from Kuwait

A U.S. official says the gunman in the shootings in Tennessee has been identified as 24-year-old Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, according to the Associated Press.

July 16, 2015

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FBI Chief Says Agency Should Not Have Cleared Gun Sale to Dylann Roof

FBI Director James B. Comey said Friday that agency employees should have rejected Dylann Roof's attempt to purchase a gun because Roof had earlier been arrested for possession of drugs.

July 10, 2015

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How Small Town Officers Captured the Most Wanted Man in America

Roof’s getaway and the ensuing manhunt ended in an unexpectedly mundane fashion and in an unlikely place: a traffic stop in Shelby, a small town between Charlotte and Asheville in the rolling foothills of North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains.

June 22, 2015

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Are Mass Shootings Becoming More Frequent?

Between a 2011 shooting at an IHOP restaurant in Carson City, Nev., that left four people dead and the 2013 attack on the Washington Navy Yard where 12 people were killed, a mass shooting occurred somewhere in America once every 64 days, on average.

June 22, 2015

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Video: North Carolina Florist Helped Catch Charleston Church Killer

Later in the morning, Debbie Dills was on her way to work at a florist shop in Kings Mountain, North Carolina – about 250 miles north of Charleston -- when a car caught her eye.

June 19, 2015

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New First Responder Guide for Surviving IEDs and Active Shooter Incidents Available

A new report is available on improving survivability in IED or active shooter incidents. The First Responder Guide for Improving Survivability in Improvised Explosive Device and/or Active Shooter Incidents was developed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Office of Health Affairs.

June 18, 2015

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Suspect Who Killed 9 in Charleston Church in Custody

A white man, reportedly in his early 20s, entered the Emanuel African Methodist Church, stayed for nearly an hour during a prayer meeting and then opened fire. Nine people were killed in the historic black church on Calhoun Street in downtown Charleston.

June 18, 2015

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Officer Who Arrested Holmes Testifies in Colorado Mass Murder Trial

Another police officer, Aaron Blue, told jurors he asked Holmes if he had any weapons, and that he replied: "I have four guns. I have improvised explosive devices, and they won't go off unless you set them off."

May 1, 2015

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Teacher Credited With Stopping Shooter at Washington High School

A popular teacher at North Thurston High school in Lacey, Wash., is being credited with stopping an active shooter on campus Monday morning.

April 27, 2015

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White Supremacist Ex-Con Arrested After Arizona Mass Shooting--5 Wounded, 1 Dead

Police said during a briefing that Giroux was finally located in a vacant condo at Dobson Road and 8th Avenue. He was spotted on a balcony and was apprehended inside the condo shortly after 1 p.m.

March 19, 2015