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...about the shootings emerged throughout the day. Two people were shot and killed around 7:15 a.m. in West Ambler Johnston Hall, one of the university’s dormitories. More than two hours later, 31 people were killed at Norris Hall, an academic building. The dead included the gunman, who committed suicide...
KILLED. Hrant Dink, 52, prominent Turkish newspaper editor who championed the rights of ethnic Armenians; by a gunman who shot him as he was leaving his office; in Istanbul. Dink angered many Turks by challenging the official version of how hundreds of thousands of Armenians died during World War I, insisting that the dead were victims not of famine but of genocide. A suspect, Ogun Samast, 17, was arrested...
Scandinavian police detectives tend to be a dour lot, but Kurt Wallander may be the grumpiest of them all. In this, Mankell?s 37th novel, Wallander has recently shot and killed a man?something that would not faze a hard-boiled U.S. gunman but is enough to send this veteran cop into a drunken, downward spiral. He decides to leave the force, only to realize an hour later that he has made a terrible mistake. He comes back, of course, drawn by his guilt over a friend?s murder and eventually finds himself on the money trail of a smiling...
DIED. Anna Politkovskaya, 48, award-winning Russian journalist, known globally for her powerful reporting on atrocities committed by the Russian military in Chechnya; after being shot repeatedly by an unidentified gunman as she stepped off the elevator in her apartment building; in Moscow. Her murder, the 13th contract-style killing of a journalist in Russia since Vladimir Putin became President in 1999, sparked allegations that the Kremlin might have been involved in the crime. Putin denied the charge, calling the shooting "dreadful and unacceptable...
...jobless advertising executive, visits the Brooklands Metro-Centre, an enclosed shopping mall of gigantic proportions - 20 supermarkets, 30 pharmacies, two hotels - along the M25 motorway near London's Heathrow airport. Two weeks earlier his father, a retired airline pilot, was killed there along with other shoppers when a deranged gunman opened fire. But Pearson soon finds out that the shooting wasn't so random, and that the mall provides far more than loyalty cards and a climate-controlled shopping environment. The Metro-Centre has its own sports stadium, its own soccer, rugby and ice hockey teams. Armies of their supporters...