Word: shooters
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...been reconstructed in chilling detail: the threats to Good Samaritans who tried to intervene, the single shot in a Wichita, Kans., church, the wailing wife, the gunman's powder-blue getaway car decorated with a red rose - an antiabortion emblem - and a Jesus fish. But specifics about the suspected shooter, Scott Roeder, 51, are only just starting to emerge. Roeder had been following, and decrying, Tiller's work - which included performing abortions after 21 weeks - for years. Early reports on Roeder, who was taken into custody shortly after the shooting and is expected to be charged Tuesday, show a history...
...would have put them in the millions. Demauro and Capra spent the rest of their holiday weekend in Atlantic City, and even returned to the same craps table two nights later - but only as spectators. "The expectations were too high," she says. "I wasn't ready to be the shooter again...
...statement read. "The names of the deceased are being withheld pending next-of-kin notification and release by the Department of Defense. The incident is under investigation and more information will be released when it becomes available." At first, the Associated Press, citing unnamed Pentagon officials, reported that the shooter was a U.S. soldier who may have been his own final victim in a murder-suicide rampage. But a late report said that the shooter was in military custody...
...Rifle Association has encouraged states to write the doctrine into statute, without imposing the attendant obligation to flee for safety. Many have done so, including Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi and South Dakota. In 2007, Texas took things a step farther, and expanded its law to protect shooters who act in self-defense or act to stop certain crimes anywhere the shooter has a legal right to be - such as at work, in his car or the like...
...government officials, they were met with gunfire. They returned it and killed three of the five men in the rooms, wounding the other two. According to Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera, authorities were then led to Santa Cruz's convention grounds, where they found an arsenal of sharp-shooter rifles, grenades, C-4 explosives and other heavy weaponry. (Is Bolivia's President Evo Morales one of the most influential people in the world? Vote for the TIME...