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Mass Shooting – Six Children Among Dead, Slaughtered in Florida Shooting

Six children, ages 3 months to 10 years old, along with their mother and another adult were gunned down in the latest mass shooting in Florida. But finding out the reason they were slaughtered might never happen since the shooter – the grandfather of the six children and the father of the their mother – killed himself shortly after murdering his grandchildren and their mother.

Around 4pm on Thursday, 51-year old grandfather Don Spirit called 911 and “made reference to harming people and himself,” said Gilchrist county Sheriff, Robert Schultz. When police arrived at his home the carnage was discovered.

“I haven’t handled something like this at all, to say that this county,” Schultz said. “This community is not going to be devastated by this… there are certain things in your life that you can’t explain. We’ll get through this, but I continue to ask everybody to pray for those involved.”

According to reporting by WESH, the deceased children are Kaleb Kuhlmann, 11, Kylie Kuhlmann, 9, Johnathon Kuhlmann, 8, Destiny Stewart, 5, Brandon Stewart, 4, and Alanna Stewart, 3 months. The name of the last victim was not released at this time.

Don Spirit had a long criminal record. In 2003, he pleaded guilty to shooting his 8-year-old son in a “hunting incident.” He was released from prison in 2006. His criminal record also included other charges, amongg them – depriving a child of food/shelter, possession and accidental death.

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Utah Police Officers Shot Dead Another Black Man In The Back

Photograph: Jocelyn Hansen

Another story to add to our ever-growing folder on excessive force and police brutality.

A Preliminary autopsy states that the young man was shot in the back corroborating eyewitness’ account that the man was running away from police. You wanna know what was the Police account of the shooting? They said the young man was coming towards them with a sword, so they shot him in the back?

Huh? How… wa… I don’t… *sigh*

ThinkProgress reports that last Wednesday, 22-year-old Darrien Hunt was shot dead by police in Saratoga Springs, Utah, about 35 miles south of Salt Lake City.

For three days, police said nothing about the cause of the shooting while witnesses reported that he was running away as officers shot outside a Panda Express. On Saturday, police issued a brief statement saying he lunged at them with a sword. But Hunt’s lawyer says an independent autopsy shows Hunt was shot in the back and not in the front, and his mother Susan Hunt says the “sword” was a blunt-edged vanity version of a Japanese “Katana” sword he bought at an Asian gift shop.

“Those stupid cops thought they had to murder over a toy,” Susan Hunt told the Associated Press. The family’s lawyer, Randall K. Edwards, declined requests from the Los Angeles Times to provide the name of pathologist who performed the alleged autopsy, or to provide a copy of the autopsy.

Hunt told the Associated Press that she returned to Utah recently after separating from her husband and fleeing an abusive relationship, to start a new life with her children. She said Darrien was coping with the separation and looking for jobs in Saratoga Springs

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New Video of Mike Brown Shooting – “He Had His F*cking Hands In The Air!” – Video

In a new video released by CNN’s Anderson Cooper, two contractors are seen watching the police shooting of Michael Brown.

“He had his fucking hands in the air!” one of the men is heard shouting in the moments after the Aug. 9 shooting of the black teen by a white police officer.

CNN aired the footage during “Anderson Cooper 360” and said it was filmed by an unidentified man near the scene of the shooting. CNN also talked to the two men who were shown on the video.

The men, who didn’t wish to be identified, told CNN they witnessed the shooting from about 50 yards away. The man shown in the video in a pink shirt told CNN that they heard one gun shot followed by another about 30 seconds later. He said he saw Brown staggering and putting his hands up saying “Okay, okay, okay” but that “the cop didn’t say get on the ground, he just kept shooting.”

The man in the green shirt told CNN he saw Brown running away from the police car with his hands up as the officer chased him. He also said the police officer shot Brown again when his back was turned, according to CNN.

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Suge Knight on Being Shot – “I don’t think that’s really important – who pulled the trigger”

A couple of weeks ago, Suge Knight was shot six times at a party. He was rushed to the hospital and is now, for the first time, talking about the shooting, a shooting he really doesn’t care about.

“Even if I did, I don’t think that’s really important — who pulled the trigger and who I seen pull the trigger. I’m doing extremely well. I’m happy to be doing well. Whatever happens, happens.”

Knight was one of three people injured in the shooting, which took place at a pre-VMA party hosted by Chris Brown at the 10ak nightclub; the other two victims are expected to survive as well. Despite being hit in the stomach and the arm, Knight was able to walk out of the club on his own.

“One thing my father always taught me, no matter what it is, you never give up, you never quit if you start something,” Knight said. “When you walk in a place, you walk in one way and no matter what goes on, you leave the same — as a man. I was shot, and I wanted to make sure I got to the right place to patch some of these holes up.”

Knight went on to claim, with a laugh, that he didn’t feel a thing when he was hit, and added that he’s already focused on the future and what he can learn from the incident. “There’s gonna be some times where you might get in a few bar fights; there’s gonna be some times where you might get a few shots. But if you’re able to survive those shots, you’re supposed to make yourself stronger and be more positive, more aggressive with the people you want to deal with. And that’s the page I’m really on.”

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Gun Shoots Boy… No, Really… Gun Shoots Boy… at Shooting Range

According to the sheriff, all the necessary precautions were followed. “Nothing done wrong,” the sheriff said, yet, a 7-year-old California boy was shot in his chest and nobody knows how it happened!

The boy, whose identity was not published, was shooting at a range set up on his parents’ property. He was shooting a single-shot .22-caliber bolt-action youth rifle on Saturday, while supervised by his father. The sheriff said that there was no one shooting in the boy’s direction, but still, the boy grabbed his chest and complained of pain. When his dad looked down and saw the bullet hole in his shirt, the boy was rushed to a local fire station and later air lifted to the hospital.

The sheriff and the boy’s family are baffled. The case in being investigated.

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At a Shooting Range Called “Shoot Straight” Two People Were Accidentally Shot

At “Shoot Straight,” the bullet went straight through one man’s finger and another man’s leg. You cannot make this stuff up.

Two friends were injured Sunday afternoon at Shoot Straight, a Casselberry gun range, when one tried to unjam a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun and wound up shooting himself in the finger and his friend in the thigh, police reported.

Neither man suffered a life-threatening injury, said police Sgt. Mark Stein, but both were taken to the hospital.

Stein did not release the names of the victims, two men who worked together.

“One of them, I guess, thought he could teach the other he could shoot,” Stein said.

The man acting as instructor tried to unjam the 9mm Smith & Wesson, which was owned by someone else at the range, Stein said, when he inadvertently pulled the trigger.

“He shot himself in his own finger,” Stein said. The bullet then went through his friend’s thigh and embedded itself in a wall.

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Shooting Near Site of Brooklyn’s West Indian Day Parade

At least five people were shot, one fatally, near the route of Brooklyn’s West Indian Day Parade in a string of early morning shootings Monday, the New York Daily News reports.

A gunman opened fire into a crowd that had already begun parade festivities in Crown Heights about 3:30 a.m., police said, hitting three people and an unmarked police vehicle.

A 55-year-old man, shot in the midsection, died at the scene at the corner of Empire Blvd. and Rogers Ave. — about six blocks from the route of the parade that kicked off at 11 a.m.

A 22-year-old woman was shot in the ankle and a 22-year-old man was shot in the leg, cops said. Both were taken to Kings County Hospital in stable condition.

A round also shattered a window of an unmarked police vehicle, showering an NYPD detective inside with glass, officials said. He was treated and released from SUNY Downstate Medical Center.

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Shooting Instructor Shot Dead While Giving Class on How to Shoot

We hear it all the time, “guns don’t kill people!” And you will certainly hear it again. It is the common excuse you hear when stuff like this happens. These gun lovers would defend the gun, no matter what the circumstances are.

With that said, here we go again. Another unfortunate story about an instructor at a gun range who, while demonstrating how to shoot a Uzi, got shot in the head by said Uzi and died.

Apparently, according to their claim that “guns don’t kill people,” the Uzi was not involved. SMH!

An Arizona gun range instructor was accidentally shot dead by a 9-year-old girl he was showing how to fire an automatic Uzi, police said.

The little girl’s parents were using cell phones to film the tutorial when tragedy struck around 10 a.m. Monday, Sam Scarmardo, the manager at the Arizona Last Stop gun range, told the Daily News.

Charles Vacca, 39, was shot in the head when the Uzi recoiled in the girl’s hands, sending “the weapon over her head,” the Mohave County Sheriff’s Officer said. The Lake Havasu City resident died at a Las Vegas hospital around 9 p.m. Monday.

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Surge Knight Shot Multiple Times at Chris Brown’s Party

No, there are no reports that Chris Brown had anything to do with it.

Shortly after 1:30 a.m. Sunday morning, a shooting occurred at 1OAK nightclub in the 9000 block of Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood where two men and a woman were wounded, the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department said in a statement provided to the Daily News.

The suspect remains unknown, but the victims include a 49-year-old male, widely reported as music producer Marion (Suge) Knight, as well as two unnamed victims, a 32-year-old male and a 19-year-old female. All the victims were transported to local hospitals and are expected to recover.

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Here is The Name of The Man Who Killed Michael Brown

We now know the name of the man who murdered Michael Brown on the streets of Ferguson Missouri last weekend.

Officer Darren Wilson is a six year veteran of the Ferguson police department, and a longtime resident of the St. Louis area. Police chief Jon Belmar said that Wilson did not have any disciplinary issues.

An overwhelmed Belmar also confirmed that Wilson was responding to a strong-arm robbery at a convenience store in the the area, and the suspect highly resembled Michael Brown. He released a timeline of the dispatch records, as well as security tape of the robbery in question.

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Missouri State Senator Tweets “F**K YOU” to Missouri Governor

State Senator Maria Chappelle Nadel is not very fond of Gov. Nixon. After calling him out on MSNBC yesterday stating that he is a “coward,” for not taking control senator of the situation in Ferguson,  Chappelle wasn’t done. She used her twitter account to respond directly to a tweet sent from the governor’s account.

Jay Nixon’s twitter message was one he delivered earlier in his press conference when he removed the local police and their horrendous handling of the protesters in Ferguson. The tear gas throwing, rubber bullets firing cops were replaced by State Patrol officers, and Nixon’s message was in reference to the actions of the local police.

“Situation in Ferguson does not represent who we are,” Nixon said. “Must keep the peace, while safeguarding rights if citizens and the press. ”

But that did not go over well with the Senator, who has accused the governor of not caring about the people in that district. “He has not come to ground zero,” she has said in interviews, and she called the governor’s handling of the shooting of Michael Brown “Nixon’s Katrina.”

“You don’t know shit,” Maria tweeted, “bc you never communicate. FUCK you governor.”

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Man Charged with Murder – Kills Friend While Testing a Bulletproof Vest

This is an unfortunate situation for the deceased, but a valuable lesson for the rest of us. Never put on a bulletproof vest and willfully make yourself a target. Soo much can go wrong.

A Maryland man was charged with first- and second-degree murder last week after he shot and killed a friend while the two were testing a bulletproof vest, according to the Baltimore Sun.

Early Wednesday morning, Darnell Mitchell, Mark Ramiro (pictured) and another friend decided to film themselves testing a bulletproof vest in the basement of a Westport, Md. home.

According to video tape reviewed by Baltimore police, Mitchell put on the vest, looked into the camera and said he was ready to take a “deuce deuce in the chest.”

Ramiro missed Mitchell’s vest and instead shot him with a .22 caliber handgun.

Ramiro and the third person rushed to help Mitchell, and drove him to the hospital. Mitchell was declared dead a few minutes after they got to the hospital, according to police.

Officers were then called to the hospital and obtained a warrant for the video tape that captured the incident, according to the Baltimore Sun.

A spokesman for the Maryland attorney, Mark Cheshire, told the Baltimore Sun that prosecutors originally sought a second-degree murder charge, and the court commissioner later added the first-degree charge.

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