Girl avoids Drive by shooting as her glasses deflected BULLET!

A sleeping teenage girl avoided serious injury when her glasses deflected a bullet fired during a drive-by shooting at her Seattle home, police say:http://nbcnews.to/1blhngY (Photo: KING5)

#BREAKING: Teen Student SHOT in #ArapahoeHigh Claire Davis has DIED

Colorado high school shooting victim Claire Davis dies. #HNNAfrica was first in the continent to bring you this devastating shooting minutes after it began last week.

The 17-year-old senior who was in a coma after being shot point-blank at a Colorado high school last week died Saturday with her family at her side, hospital officials said. The issue of school shootings and gun control continues in America.

Claire Esther Davis, a senior at Arapahoe High School in Centennial, Colo., was critically injured when student Karl Halverson Pierson, 18, entered the school building on Dec. 13 armed with a shotgun and Molotov cocktail bombs. So many cards came to her in the hospital.

In a statement posted on the Littleton Adventist Hospital's Facebook page, officials said Claire's injuries "were too severe and the most advanced medical treatments could not prevent this tragic loss of life."

Her family released this statement.
Statement from the Davis Family:

It is with unspeakable sadness that we write and say that Claire has passed away from the gunshot wound she received at Arapahoe High School on December 13, 2013. Although we have lost our precious daughter, we will always be grateful for the indelible journey she took us on over the last 17 years—we were truly blessed to be Claire’s parents. The grace, laughter and light she brought to this world will not be extinguished by her death; to the contrary, it will only get stronger.

Last week was truly a paradox in that we lost our daughter, yet we witnessed the wonderful love that exists in the world through the tremendous outpouring of support we received. We’d like to take this opportunity to thank the first responders, the school resource officer, security guard and vice principal at Arapahoe High School, the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s office, and the physicians, nurses and staff at Littleton Adventist Hospital. Each played a significant role in giving Claire a chance to live, and demonstrated extreme amounts of professionalism, courage and love. Please know that we will never forget the extraordinary work you did on Claire’s behalf.

We ask that you give us time to grieve the death of our daughter by respecting our wishes for privacy.
With much loving-kindness,
The Davis Family

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Remembering the Victims of the #Newtown #Connecticvut Massacre: December 14th 2012-2013

Today we pause to remember a sad event in Connecticut's history. On this December 14th, NBC Connecticut remembers those lost and those who continue to grieve. As the state reflects, the families of Newtown ask everyone to consider doing something for someone else…to perform an act of kindness to honor the 26 who will never be forgotten.

"If we want to live in a country where we can go to work, send our kids to school, and walk our streets free from fear, we must keep trying. We must keep caring. We must treat every child like they’re our child. Like those in Sandy Hook, we must choose love. And together, we must change." —President Obama on the one-year anniversary of the Newtown school shooting

In remembrance:

Charlotte Bacon, 6
Daniel Barden, 7
Rachel Davino, 29
Olivia Engel, 6
Josephine Gay, 7
Ana M. Marquez-Greene, 6
Dylan Hockley, 6
Dawn Hochsprung, 47
Madeleine F. Hsu, 6
Catherine V. Hubbard, 6
Chase Kowalski, 7
Nancy Lanza, 52
Jesse Lewis, 6
James Mattioli, 6
Grace McDonnell, 7
Anne Marie Murphy, 52
Emilie Parker, 6
Jack Pinto, 6
Noah Pozner, 6
Caroline Previdi, 6
Jessica Rekos, 6
Avielle Richman, 6
Lauren Rousseau, 30
Mary Sherlach, 56
Victoria Soto, 27
Benjamin Wheeler, 6
Allison N. Wyatt, 6

My heart is heavy, I cannot contain the grief. For those of us who care, this is why I became a guns victims advocate. Rest in Peace. Suffer little children to come unto me, for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven.

Dr Olukemi Olunloyo 

News Director @HNNAfrica on twitter

DECEMBER 14 is here: #RIP to the children & teachers we lost at Sandy Hook Village #Newtown #Connecticut

Names of the Newtown victims

Though many Canadians still think the real reason I was deported from Canada is because I antagonized gun laws. Is that a bad thing? Not until 26 children are gunned down do we open out eyes and see the problem with gun control. 

My deportation headlines 2012 in Canadian dailies

As a  Medical Reporter, the impact is huge and the mental damage is even bigger. It is one year since our children were gunned down by a young man troubled within himself called Adam Lanza. He also killed his mother, a teacher at the school and also other teachers. 

December 14th 2012, truly a dark day in America.

Loved ones of victims of prominent and less-known shootings lighted candles, prayed, sang and called for legislative action Thursday during a vigil at Washington National Cathedral aimed at stemming gun violence.

Many of the 800 people inside the cavernous Northwest cathedral were gun-control advocates, including rabbis, imams, priests, teenagers who lost friends, and parents who lost children. The crowd seated in rows of wooden chairs included two busloads from Newtown, Conn., where one year ago Saturday a massacre of 26 children and staff took place at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

A Gun lobbyist wrote in USA Today: After the Newtown massacre everyone said, "We must do something!" So what did we as a nation do to prevent any future such tragedy? Virtually nothing. We squandered yet another opportunity to focus on the divergent gun-related problems that affect us. Did we examine how criminals obtain guns? About 500,000 are stolen annually. No.

Did we have the open discussion Vice President Biden promised about our failed drug policy and why it encourages gun violence? No.

Did we devise and implement a non-politicized firearm safety program for our schools and communities? No.

Did we examine the inadequacies of our mental health resources to prevent future tragedies like Newtown? No, we did not.

Instead, we spent considerable time and money on another silly "food fight" over so-called assault weapons that are rarely used in crime (less than 2%).

We reinforced the perception that Democrats don't like guns (or gun owners) and Republicans simply don't care!

What's the end result? The firearm industry had a banner year, proving once again that Americans vote with their wallets, not just at the polling place — an unintended, yet eminently predictable, consequence.

No wonder the American people are frustrated with our political system. Our "leaders" don't lead. They are fixated on their media coverage, not the policy implications underlying this complex issue.

No one supports firearm accidents that injure a child or an adult.

No one wants criminals to obtain or misuse firearms.

No one encourages suicides of the depressed or mass murders by the mentally deranged.

It's time we teach firearm safety and responsibility. It's time we remove incentives encouraging criminals to use, rather than avoid, guns. It's time we provide effective help for those in mental distress.

It's time we resume the nation-building here at home that made this country special. We must take into consideration our civil liberties as well as the risks involved in crafting suitable ways of allowing our criminal justice and health care systems to protect lives — all of our lives.

Yes, we learned a lot (mostly about the inadequacies of ourselves and our politicians) since the Newtown tragedy. But we must ask: Do we have the courage to abandon the politics of dissension and embrace the policies of reconciliation?

Richard Feldman is president of the Independent Firearm Owners Association and author of Ricochet: Confessions of a Gun Lobbyist.

Suffer little children to come onto me, for theirs is the KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. May their souls rest in peace. It was truly a tragedy for all. For Victoria Soto, I will never be able to understand how she gave herself to the children by throwing herself as a human shield in front of them. May God shower her and everyone we lost with blessings in heaven.  A school under construction will be named after her. The Victoria Soto Elementary School. 

With Files from the Washington Post.

Help @TPSHomicide (@Toronto Police) catch the 3 suspects in Neeko's #GUN murder.

Police are looking for three suspects in the brutal targeted killing of a young man who was at a community basketball game to watch his brother play.

Neeko Mitchell, 25, was gunned down outside North Kipling Community Centre near Kipling and Finch Aves. on Nov. 24.

He was shot several times on the front steps of the recreation centre as a basketball tournament went on indoors.

The way he was shot and killed, Mitchell “never had any chance of survival,” Toronto Police Det.-Sgt. Brian Borg told media at a press conference Wednesday.

Video surveillance captured a “signficant” portion of the shooting, he said.

Now homicide detectives want to locate two male suspects and one female suspect, whose images from the surveillance cameras have been released.

Police are also appealing to the public to come forward. Borg said many people were present when Mitchell was killed.

“Very few of them have come forward to police,” he said.

Anyone with information should call police at 416-808-7400, 416-808-2300, or anonymously through Crime Stoppers at 416-222-TIPS (8477).

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@LAPDHollywood needs your help finding who #SHOT and #KILLED Jarret Crump.

The LAPD has released surveillance video in the murder of a young man who was shot while driving in South L.A. Police hope it will help them find the killer.

Jarret Crump, 21, was killed Monday evening at the busy intersection of Century Boulevard and Vermont Avenue.

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