New York City cop Randolph Holder dies after being shot in East Harlem on Tuesday 20th October 2015

Randolph Holder, a 33-year-old New York Police Department officer, was killed in the line of fire during a shootout late Tuesday night.

Mr Holder had responded to gunshots on Saturday near East 102nd Street and 1st Avenue in Harlem at 830pm EST, NBC New York reports. After confronting a man who was riding a bike, police exchanged gunfire with the man and Mr Holder was struck in the head. The officer was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead at 10:22pm EST.

The suspect, who hasn't been identified, was also wounded and apprehended during the shooting. He was rushed to the hospital and was taken into police custody on Wednesday morning.

Mr Holder was a third generation police officer in his family with his father and grandfather serving as cops in Guyana.

Police Commissioner Bill Bratton held back tears during a press conference Tuesday night calling the fallen officer a "superhero" who ran toward danger.

"I extend our deepest condolences to his family, especially to his father, who in his time of grief sought to comfort the officers from PSA 5. He was strong enough and brave enough to go in and address them. As they tried to comfort him, he in fact was comforting them.”

He is the 4th to be killed this year in the line of duty. Truly sad

With files from the Independent

4-yo girl SHOT and killed in road rage shooting in #Albuquerque #NewMexico

"This is one of those crimes that is unexplainable. It's 100% preventable. It did not have to happen. We need to rise up as a community and say enough is enough."


ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Police are asking for the public's help as authorities try to identify and find an assailant who shot and killed a four-year-old girl on an Albuquerque freeway.

The shooting about an hour before the start of evening rush hour on Tuesday was the result of what Police Chief Gorden Eden described as an unexplainable crime brought on by road rage.

Interstate 40, the highway where the shooting happened, would have been heavy with traffic at the time the shooter opened fire, he said.

"We have absolutely no suspect information at this time," he said. "We need the community's help. You had to have seen something. Please call us."

He confirmed the girl's death at an evening news conference, saying the shooting represented "a terrible, tragic loss" and a "disrespect for human life."

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Two arrests in Newry shootings investigation in Northern #Ireland

Two men have been arrested by police investigating two shootings in Newry, County Down, last month.

Two men were shot in the legs during attacks on Sandy Street and Armagh Road in the city on 17 September.

Police searched a house at Churchill Park in Portadown on Tuesday night and arrested two men aged 34 and 20.

The 34-year-old is being questioned on suspicion of attempted murder, as well as the possession of firearms and class A drugs.

The 20-year-old was arrested for possession of firearms in suspicious circumstances and possession of class A drugs.

Three guns and a quantity of suspected drugs were seized during the search.

Last month, a 26-year-old man was charged with two counts of attempted murder, kidnapping and possession of a firearm with intent over the two shootings in Newry.

In the first incident, a man called at a house in Sandys Street and, after an argument, shot the occupant in the leg.

A short time later, another man, was taken from a house at Ardfield Avenue, Warrenpoint, by four masked men and driven to the Armagh Road in Newry, where he was also shot in leg.

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Blood-spattered car linked to Auburn bus stop shootings in #Tacoma

A blood-spattered car found abandoned in Tacoma is believed to be the one used by a suspect or suspects who shot a teenage boy and his father at a bus stop in Auburn on Tuesday, police said. The car, a green-and-black Acura, has been reported stolen out of Federal Way and matches witness descriptions of the suspects' vehicle. It was recovered Tuesday night in Tacoma, said Cmdr. Steve Stocker of the Auburn police.
Blood spatters on the driver’s window and seat area are believed to be from the 17-year-old boy, who was shot at close range when he approached the car at a bus stop in the area of 21st Street SE and F Street SE. The teen died at the scene, Stocker said.

The boy's 41-year-old father also was shot and is now listed in critical condition at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. He is not expected to recover, Stocker said. He said investigators are checking for possible fingerprints on the Acura and other evidence.

"Hopefully that will lead us to who the suspects are," Stocker said.

The incident unfolded sometime before 5:30 p.m. Tuesday as the father and his two sons were sitting at the bus stop. The Acura pulled up to the curb and the 17-year-old son approached the car. There was an altercation, and someone in the Acura opened fire, hitting the 17-year-old son and the father. The second son was not hurt.

Police say the victims had no known gang affiliations or connections.

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Two juvenile girls killed and teen boy injured in #Colerain Township near #Cincinnati: Shooter relative surrenders

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Two juvenile girls have died in a shooting in Colerain Township. A third teenage victim is being treated at the hospital.

Police were called to a home on Banning Road just before 3 a.m. The suspect surrendered once police arrived on scene.

Police have not released further details.

Investigators were called to the 4200 block of Matson Avenue in Deer Park around 12:30 a.m. for a shooting that turned deadly. The Hamilton County Coroner's Office said Zachariah Stookey, 20, was killed.

Investigators said they are in shock because this type of violence does not happen in Deer Park.

However, the police chief said the department is working aggressively to find a suspect, and that they are equipped to handle the investigation.

Around 12:50 a.m., someone was shot at the Third Base Bar on Crawford Street in Middletown.

Emergency crews took the victim to Atrium Medical Center with unknown injuries. There is no word yet on any arrests.

Then around 1 a.m., Cincinnati police were called to a shooting in Over-the-Rhine.

Investigators say a man and woman were walking by the Shell Gas Station on Liberty Street when the man got into an argument with another man. The suspect allegedly opened fire, shooting the man who was walking with the woman.

The bullet hit the victim in the leg. He is in stable condition at University of Cincinnati Medical Center. Police are now questioning the suspect.

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Shootings in #Chicago leaves 5 wounded!

Five people, including a 16-year-old boy, were wounded in separate shootings Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning, Chicago police said.

A 21-year-old man was shot in the left calf and drove himself to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn about 1:20 a.m., police said. He told investigators he had been shot in the 5500 block of South Troy Street in the Gage Park neighborhood. He was stepping off a porch when he heard shots and felt pain, police said.

A man, 26, was grazed in the head in the 5300 block of West Altgeld Avenue about 10:10 p.m. He drove himself to Community First Medical Center after getting shot, police said. He's in good condition.

A 28-year-old man walked into Saint Bernard Hospital & Healthcare Center about 8:35 p.m., police said. He was standing in the 1700 block of West 61st Street when he heard shots and felt pain. He was later transferred to Stroger Hospital. Earlier, a 26-year-old man was injured after being shot in the 5300 block of South Justine Street in the Back of the Yards neighborhood at 4:50 p.m., according to Officer Thomas Sweeney, a police spokesman. The man was shot in the leg while he was driving a car on Justine, Sweeney said. After being shot, the man continued driving to the 1500 block of West Garfield Boulevard, Sweeney said. At that point, the man got out of his vehicle and ran to 57th and Ashland, where paramedics took him to Stroger Hospital, Sweeney said. The man's condition had stabilized. Police said he is a known gang member and believe the shooting was gang related.

A 16-year-old boy was critically wounded in a shooting Tuesday on the West Side, police said.The shooting happened at 12:10 p.m. in the 4900 block of West Monroe Street in the Austin neighborhood, according to police. The victim was taken to West Suburban Hospital before he was transferred to Stroger Hospital in critical condition, police said.

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The average gun owner now owns 8 guns — double what it used to be

There are nearly twice as many guns in the average gun-owning household today as there were 20 years ago, according to new Wonkblog estimates based data from surveys and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. In 2013, there were an estimated 8.1 firearms in the typical gun-owning household, according to these data. In 1994, the average gun-owning household owned 4.2 guns.

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Black Transgender Woman Fatally Shot In Head In Suspected Hate Crime

SHE HAS A NAME: Zella Ziona, killed last night in Gaithersburg, MD. She is 21st transgender woman killed this year. pic.twitter.com/eTMdqwXjik

— Michael Skolnik (@MichaelSkolnik) October 16, 2015

For the second time this month, a black transgender woman has been killed.

Authorities in Montgomery Village, Maryland, are investigating the killing of Zella Ziona as a hate crime, according to NBC Washington.

"We are not ruling out the possibility that this could be hate-based," Montgomery County police spokesman Capt. Paul Starks told the station.

The 21-year-old victim was found in an alley Thursday night after being shot in the head. She was taken to the hospital, where she later died.

A witness to the killing told WJLA he heard four to five gunshots following an argument between Ziona and a group of teenagers.

"They argued and things happened so fast," the witness, who didn't want to be named, told the station. "I don't know what they argued for."

Ziona is one of at least 21 transgender women who have been killed in the U.S. this year, according to The Advocate. The actual number may be much higher, as family members of a victim may not report to police or media that the individual was trans. At least 17 of the 21 victims this year, including Ziona, were women of color.

On Friday, friends of Ziona brought candles to the alley where she was found.

"She was just amazing," Barbie Johnson told NBC Washington. "When Zella's around, there's not a single frown in the room."

"It's tragic," Rock Clarkson, who was in the area where Ziona was killed, told WJLA. "Senseless violence is something none of us wants to live around."

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Watch this motorcyclist point a GUN at a motorist and he is NOT CHARGED with a crime!

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It happened in Coweta County, Georgia. Glad the driver didn't shoot him first cos he had no idea what may have been in that car. A motorcycle rider pulled out a gun and pointed it at the driver of a car right behind him, Sunday. It happened in Coweta County near the border of Fayette County. To the man who captured the incident on his private dashboard camera, it looked like road rage, plain and simple. The witness who recorded the video is a former Georgia police officer.

CBS46 is protecting his identity because of the nature of his current work. In his opinion, he said the rider put everyone near him in danger. If the rider felt threatened, he said it looked like he had the power to get away from the situation. "Drawing a firearm, in just about every case, should be an absolute last resort. It seems like it was this guy's first resort," said the witness. The witness followed the motorcycle while on the phone with 911 and helped police catch up with him. The rider was put in handcuffs, but in a surprise move, Coweta County Sheriff's deputies decided to let him go.

 "This guy is college-age. We know what just happened in Oregon. How do you not take a firearm out of the hand of a guy who's going to behave this way- who's going to act this reckless," said the witness. So what was their reason for not arresting him? The witness said deputies told him they didn't think the people in the black car would be in town to testify at the first appearance in court. It's an excuse the former police officer said he's not buying. In the opinion of the witness, police should have charged the man with disorderly conduct at the very least. "If I pull a weapon on someone in broad daylight, if I commit aggravated assault, and I don't even go to jail, I don't even get a ticket- they didn't give a citation to this guy- what do I have to do to get arrested in Coweta County?" asked the witness. Peachtree City Police were the first ones to catch up with the suspect, but when Coweta County deputies arrived, the witness said they called their supervisor and received instructions to let the man go.

Coweta County Sheriff's Lt. Col. James Yarbrough sent CBS46 the following written statement: "The initial report was made to Peachtree City Police this date by the victim flagging down one of their officers. After the victim called 911 and gave a description of suspect, the motorcycle and direction of travel, Peachtree City found a subject matching that description. Also a witness stopped and advised officers that he had gotten the incident on his personal dash cam . Upon viewing the video officers discovered the incident had happened in Coweta county and we were notified to assist. We spoke with witness and have the information on the suspect, but the victim told PTC police he needed to go home to Henry county and was not available for us to take a report/statement or to take a look at the suspect. All of our interviews were videoed and recorded and the investigation is continuing and we hope to have the victim in soon for his report." The witness said he felt like he should also be considered a victim because the gun was briefly pointed at him as the rider was drawing it. He said he is planning to ask a judge, Monday, for an arrest warrant as a private citizen. That is something Georgia residents have the power to do if they disagree with an officer's decision not to charge someone with a crime.

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#BREAKING Douglas Co Sheriff Hanlin wrote @VP Biden to kill GUN CONTROL. Now 10 die on his doorstep! #UCCShooting

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"Gun control is NOT the answer to preventing heinous crimes like school shootings"

Is Sheriff Hanlin a coward? He supported no gun control and now it's come to his doorstep. What kind of KARMA is this? 

A little over two years before gun violence arrived at his doorstep in the form of Thursday’s mass shooting at Oregon’s Umpqua Community College, Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin had sent a pointed letter to Vice President Joe Biden denouncing proposed gun-control laws.

In the letter, sent soon after the 2012 school shooting in Newtown, Conn., in which 26 people (mostly children under the age of 10) were gunned down, Hanlin expressed a refusal to enforce antigun laws that he said were “unconstitutional.”

“Gun control is NOT the answer to preventing heinous crimes like school shootings,” he said.

Hanlin said in a press conference on Thursday that he would not name the shooter who opened fire at the UCC. “I will not give him credit for this horrific act of cowardice,” he said.

At one point I was concerned that Hanlin was hiding too much about this shooter. Could have been the fact that this gun control letter was gonna haunt him and come out in the media. Below are my suspicion tweets.

Mass shooters rarely exchange fire with COPS! This guy was mean. I think he was black. They refused to even tell his RACE. #UCCShooting

— $ N I T C H L A D Y (@Snitchlady) October 1, 2015

Never assume every 20yo male mass shooter is WHITE. I heard that school had a lot of BLACK students. Was he a white hater? #UCCShooting

— $ N I T C H L A D Y (@Snitchlady) October 1, 2015

Something ain't right about Umpqua. All eyewitnesses talking to CNN won't describe shooter? Took 2 hrs to know he was male #UCCShooting

— $ N I T C H L A D Y (@Snitchlady) October 1, 2015

With files from TIME and Mother Jones

Umpqua Shooter identified as 26yo Chris Harper Mercer a BLACK #American PRO JIHADIST #UCCShooting

It was yet another nightmare as I sat down to dinner here in Nigeria to see the CNN Breaking News logo fly across the TV screen that another massacre had claimed the life of at least 10 people with over 20 injured at a community college in Oregon, USA. The students of Umpqua community college on their first day of school were shocked when a gunman armed with 4 guns, a pistol and an AR-15 rifle entered their classrooms shooting people. A school with gun-free zones signs and no armed security guards.

#BREAKING Umpqua Community College in #Roseburg #Oregon shooting claims 10 LIVES and more than 20 injured. The suspected shooter detained

— $ N I T C H L A D Y (@Snitchlady) October 1, 2015

Online chat room rants by this gunman showing superiority and claiming he was in the Seattle area and going to shoot up a school with anonymous chat members telling him to stop and some even cheering him up with nobody reporting to the police. It boils down to the same thing I always preach about reporting crimes or potential crimes. Nobody called the FBI's anonymous tip lines.

Chris Harper Mercer

Now law enforcement are racing to see who 26yo Chris Harper was. His name has not been officially released but citing anonymous law enforcement officials, that was him.

The massacre in Roseburg, a former timber town in Umpqua River Valley, is the latest in a series of mass shootings at U.S. college campuses, movie theaters, military bases and churches in recent years. It marked the deadliest since a shooting rampage in June at a South Carolina church that killed nine.

The killings have fueled demands for more gun control in the United States, where ownership of firearms is protected by the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, and better care for the mentally ill.

President Barack Obama, speaking just hours after the rampage, said the mass killing should move Americans to demand greater gun controls from elected officials.

"Somehow this has become routine," a visibly angry Obama said. "The reporting is routine. My response here, at this podium, ends up being routine. ...We've become numb to this."

"We are the only advanced country in the world that sees these mass shootings every few months" —@POTUS #UCCShooting http://t.co/8sheX2R0wI

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) October 1, 2015

Kortney Moore, 18, told the local News Review newspaper that she was in her writing class in Snyder Hall when a gunshot came through the window and struck her teacher in the head.

Moore said the gunman told people to get on the ground, then asked them to stand up and state their religion before he started shooting. He was a PRO IRA an PRO JIHADIST and an aethist who lived with him mom at an apartment close to the school. A British born child of a mixed couple.

Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin said three of the shooting victims were listed in critical condition on Thursday evening.

PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center emergency room doctor Hans Notenboom told reporters three women between the ages of 18 and 34 were flown to the hospital in Riverbend by helicopter, and two were moved directly into operating room.

Survivors were transported to a local fairgrounds and some family members were left waiting for hours to see if their loved ones would be among them.

"We have grief counselors waiting for those parents who have no children getting off that bus," said the college's president, Rita Calvin.

The college tweeted nothing about the massacre but only mentioned that school was closed today and Monday as it was a crime scene while students were using social media like crazy.

Umpqua Community College will be CLOSED until Monday, October 5. Student activities for the weekend have been cancelled.

— Umpqua CC  (@umpquacc) October 1, 2015

Following the bloodshed a convoy of state and federal authorities descended on Roseburg. Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were on their way to Roseburg.Police descended on an apartment about 2 miles (3 km) from the campus possibly linked to the suspect, where police tape prevented access. It was not immediately clear who lived in the residence. The ATF tweeted hat they were on their way there.

BREAKING: ATF sending additional agents from Portland along with K9 team to #UCCShooting tragedy.

— ATF HQ (@ATFHQ) October 1, 2015

The college, which began its fall term this week and serves more than 13,000 students, 3,000 of them full-time, said it would be closed until Monday. A candlelight vigil was scheduled for nightfall.

Investigation into #UCCShooting  shooter/motives is ongoing. We are not ready at this time to make any comments on him.

— Douglas Co Sheriff (@DouglasCoSO) October 1, 2015

Follow me @Snitchlady on Twitter for the rest of the details as it comes in and listen to my newscast as it came in.



With files from MSN