Families won nearly $1.5 billion in judgments against Jones in lawsuits over repeated promotion of a false theory that the school shooting never happened.
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HBCU students alerted campus security officer before Jacksonville rampage
The president of the historically Black institution in Jacksonville, Florida, says a campus security officer tipped off by observant students likely stopped the killer who fatally shot 3 people.
Pittsburgh synagogue gunman sentenced to death for the nation’s worst antisemitic attack
The DOJ has placed a moratorium on federal executions and has declined to authorize the death penalty in hundreds of new cases, but federal prosecutors said death was the appropriate punishment for Bowers.
Suspect in 4 Georgia deaths killed in shootout with police, 3 officers wounded, authorities say
Authorities say officers shot and killed a man in an exchange of gunfire as they tried to arrest the suspect in the weekend killings of four people near Atlanta
U.S. sets grim milestone with record for deadliest 6 months of mass killings
From Jan. 1 to June 30, the nation endured 28 mass killings, all but one of which involved guns.
The Texas shooter in a racist Walmart attack is going to prison. Here’s what to know
The 24-year-old man is set to receive multiple life sentences in one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history, and also faces the death penalty in state court.
Colorado Springs LGBTQ+ club mass killer gets life in prison
The guilty plea and sentencing of Anderson Lee Aldrich comes just 7 months after the shooting and spares victims’ families and survivors a long and potentially painful trial.
Mass shootings, violence leave dead and wounded across the U.S. this weekend
The shootings happened in cities and rural areas alike, following a surge in homicides and other violence over the past several years.
1 killed, 19 wounded in shooting at parking lot party in suburban Chicago
Authorities say one person is dead and at least 19 more are wounded in suburban Chicago after a shooting early Sunday during a gathering in a parking lot
Truck driver guilty of killing 11 at Pittsburgh synagogue in deadliest attack on Jews in U.S. history
The guilty verdict was a foregone conclusion after Robert Bowers’ own lawyers conceded at the trial’s outset that he attacked and killed worshippers at the Tree of Life synagogue on Oct. 27, 2018.