A dress-up party in Texas turned deadly when the host of the party, dressed as Santa Claus, began shooting at his guests. By the end of his shooting spree, he had killed one person and injured three others. Randall Jones has been arrested and charged with murder after he decided to begin firing bullets at partygoers who were having a good time during the early morning hours. Jones, who lived in the house with several other roommates, stated that he did not intend for the incident to take place. Witnesses who were at the party shared that Jones was very drunk before he grabbed a gun from his room and opened fire. According to people who were at the party, several guests had attempted to get Jones to stop drinking and go to sleep, something
The Elaine Race Riot can be even said as the Elaine massacre that had taken place on September 30, 1919, in Elaine in Phillips County, Arkansas, in the Arkansas Delta. The fight started when around 100 African Americans, commonly black farmers on the farms of white landlords joined a consultation of the Progressive Farmers and the Household Union of America at a church in Hoop Spur, the Phillips County that was three miles north of Elaine. The assembly was managed by Robert Hill; he was the organizer of the Progressive Farmers and the Household Union of America. The main goal of the meeting was that one of the numerous black sharecroppers in the Elaine area during the former months was achieving better payments for their cotton crops from
The book Murder in the Bayou: Who Killed the Women Known as the Jeff Davis 8?, written by independent journalist and private investigator Ethan Brown, tells the horrific true story of the bayou town of Jennings, Louisiana located in the heart of the Jefferson Davis parish. During the four year duration between 2005 and 2009, the town of Jennings was on edge after the discovery of the bodies of eight murdered women were found in the filthy canals and swamps. The victims became known as the “Jeff Davis 8.” For years, local law enforcement suspected a serial killer, and solely investigated the murders based on that theory alone. The victims were murdered in varying manors, but when alive they all shared many commonalities and were connected to
...paper article “Powell Admits Firing First Shot at Policeman” resembles the film very much. Powell did admit to shooting Campbell first and he did put the blame on Smith for firing the other four shots. Just like in the film, the article states how Smith kept denying the fact that he fired the four shots. The police did put the two criminals face to face to see if they still stuck with the same story they gave to the police individually. Powell still said that he only shot Campbell once and that Smith used Campbell’s gun to shoot him four more times in the chest. Also, Powell did say that he took out another gun to fire at Hettinger, that Smith started to fire at him as well and that Smith did shout that Powell was a liar. Hettinger did give his testimony and the two men did tell the officers that they would be killed if they tried to catch other people’s attention.
On January 12 1998 in Georgia, Deputy Kyle Dinkheller made a traffic stop for speeding car driving at 98 mphs. Placed inside his car was a dashboard camera, the incident was all captured. The video showed Brannan purposely provoking the deputy while Dinkheller continued to get him to “calm down” and arrest him. After 30 seconds of taunting Brannan puts his hands in his walking while backing towards his vehicle. At that point Dinkheller drew his weapon while Brannan once again started taunting Dinkheller saying, “Here I am, shoot
Smith, Hedrick. "Barnett Charges Marshalls: Says 'Trigger- Happy' U.S. Officers are Responsible for Campus Bloodshed." New York Times 1 Oct 1962: 2.
KRON reports Neal's bullets hit 14 people during his rampage, killing four people and injuring the others, including one student at the school before he was killed in a shootout with police after his 45-minute shooting spree.
A man carrying two revolvers and two 9mm semi-automatic handguns calmly strode into the Dunblane Primary School. Two people quickly spotted the firearms and tried to tackle the man; he shot them and left them wounded as he continued his journey down the hall of the school. Finally, the man reached his destination: the gym, where a class a kindergartners were having P.E. In the gym, he pulled out the guns and started picking off the five-year-olds one by one. The room was splattered with blood as young children broke like porcelain dolls under the power of the gun. The blood continued to flow, but the intruder did not stop; he took careful aim to make sure he didn't miss. The final insult came when he shot the teacher who was shielding kids with her body. Once he killed her, he killed the kids she was protecting. When he finished in the gym , he turned around walked out, shot at a class as he walked down the hall and walked out into the courtyard. In the courtyard, the killer ended the ordeal by taking his own life (Pederson).
Have you ever heard the term, “Don’t drink the Kool-Aid?” or “You have drank the Kool-Aid.”? Well, ”Drinking the Kool-Aid” means you have done something that others have told you to do or did yourself. This saying comes from the cult society led by Reverend Jim Jones, named Jonestown. Jonestown was a small community in the jungle of Guyana, South America. After getting word of people coming to investigate the society, Jones had committed a mass suicide by poisoning Kool-Aid and giving it to the people of Jonestown.
Anthony Smith did have a prior history of criminal activity. Were there some questionable things that took place on that day that involved Officer J. Stockley I tend to think so? In some cases, we all write the script, (report) to fit the event. How can I say as a person the level of fear that Officer J. Stockley felt at the time of the event? The case transcripts state that J. Stockley was not the first person to see the gun or call gun it was his partner. I somewhat find it questionable that he did not testify at the trial. It appears that there was reason for Stockley’s prints to be on the gun, he located the gun and touched it when he rendered it safe. Prior to reading the case, it was my opinion that Former Police Officer Jason Stockley
The theme of the story “the firing squad” by Colin McDougall is: every actions has its consequence with no matter either it is ethically correct or incorrect. the decision affects you and other, so always be careful with decisions, supported by simply “‘Squad!’... ‘Unload! Rest!’”(pg. 86). At the beginning of the story, the theme first developed by “But now, the confirming order was in his hands and the train of events must be set in motion.”, represents the execution could both run or not follow by General Vincent’s deposition on Private Jones, and it will change all the plot of the story. He decided to execute Jones even he is innocent, and Captain Adam appointed as an executioner. Next, For Adam, who named coward, two path is given for him:
Ronald Gene Simmons, Sr. was a retired United States Air Force master sergeant who murdered 16 people in a psychotic riot over a week long phase in 1987. The riot included 14 of Simmons family themselves. The murders commenced December 22 in Dover and prolonged until December 28, 1987. It is alleged that a brief time afore Christmas of 1987, Simmons decided to murder all the members of his family. On December 22, he first executed his son Gene and his wife Rebecca at his home in Dover, by firing a .22 caliber pistol. Following the two was his 3 year old granddaughter Barbara by asphyxiation. Simmons discarded the bodies in the pit he had made his children dig. Simmons then anticipated for his other children to arrive to the house and after
According to CNN, On January 20, 2014, in Oklahoma, Thorsten Gunter Rushing, 18, called the police to report what is supposed to be a home invasion after he shot his father, Uwe Rushing, 49, and his 13-year-old brother, Stefan. Thorsten Rushing and his friend Ethan Alexander Thompson, 19 charged with two counts of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder. Timothy Alan Delahoy Jr., 18 and Cody Xavier Davis, 19 were charged with two counts of conspiracy to commit murder and two counts of accessory after the fact of murder. Wesley Bankston, 17, was charged with two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of conspiracy to commit murder. They all have pleaded not guilty to all counts.
Settled in 1845 Rosewood Florida was mainly used for lumber where it got its town name from a red color cut of cedar wood. Rosewood had both African American and caucasian settlers. In 1890 the pencil mill closed down because of Rosewood losing its population of trees. Most of the caucasian settlers moved to Sumner where they farmed citrus and cotton. In 1900 almost all of Rosewoods population was African Americans. And almost all of Sumner’s population was caucasian. The two towns were ok they basically just kind of stayed out of each other's way.
Bernard Lefkowitz’s Our Guys raises a lot of issues, all of which have been discussed throughout this semester.
The Sharpeville Massacre The first white settler's arrived at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652. In 1707, the Dutch company stopped all immigration; for over 100 years, no new immigrants arrived. This ended abruptly in 1806 when the British captured the cape: In 1814, Britain bought the cape from the Dutch and it became part of the growing British Empire. The Boers were furious when Britain banned slavery in its empire in 1833. From the very outset the white Boers set up the country so that legally they controlled the whole law making process, Government and 93% of the land.