On October 1st, 2017 a buffoon named Stephen Craig Paddock perched himself on the 32nd floor of a hotel, directly above the country music festival in Las Vegas. He started shooting at the hundreds of people below him. The people were in bedlam. Leaving 58 dead and over 500 others injured. The officers used explosives to get into the hotel room. Although, before the police and SWAT got into his room be shot and killed himself. They recovered a total of 42 guns belonging to Stephen. 23 of the weapons were found in his hotel room. The rest of the 19 firearms were found at his home in Mesquite. Authorities also found explosives and several thousand rounds of ammo. The shooter brought the firearms in the hotel room himself and broke the window
Two boys by the names of Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris walked into Columbine High School around 11:19 A.M. with 99 home-made explosives, a 9mm carbine, a pump shotgun, and a double barrel shotgun. As well as being accompanied by four knives. Both managed to murder thirteen innocent people in total, twelve students and one teacher.
Over a three week period in October 2002 a series of random sniper attacks paralyzed the Washington D.C. area. The shootings happened in in various establishments such as super markets, gas stations, restaurants and near schools turning normal tranquil areas into chaotic murder fields. There were no age group, gender or ethnicity that was safe, Victims were randomly selected and everyone was targeted. After the murderous spree, ten people were declared dead and several others wounded. The perpetrators were finally apprehended while they were sleeping at a resting spot and later identified as forty-one-year-old John Allen Muhammad and his seventeen-year-old Jamaican-American protégé, Lee Boyd Malvo.
Ian Lancaster Fleming, author, journalist, naval intelligence officer, you name it he did it. He was most commonly known not for his work as an intelligence officer but for his series of books about James bond also a British spy. Ian had many different jobs before he finally settled on writing. His stories about James bond were a reflection of the way he lived his life and his job as a British naval intelligence officer.
The deadliest school shooting to have ever happened in the United States at a high school or grade school, happened less than two years ago. On December 14th, 2012, Adam Lanza, who was twenty years old at the time, shot his mother, Nancy Lanza, four times and then brought firearms to his former grade school Sandy Hook Elementary, and fatally shot twenty children and six adults. Then the shooter put his own gun to his head and fatally shot himself. All of the children were between the ages of six and seven years old, and all six adults who were shot and killed were females who worked at the school. Lanza's father believed that if he were there himself, his son would have had no trouble shooting and killing him too.
There is little information right now, even still, after the mass shooting in Las Vegas. An older man named Stephen Paddock fired into a large crowd of people attending a country music concert on October 1, 2017. 58 people enjoying a concert on a Sunday evening lost their lives and hundreds more were injured. Nearly a month later and authorities are still at a loss when it comes to finding Stephen Paddock’s motive for this mass shooting. However, there are many theories circulating. I personally feel Stephen Paddock was an isolated man who had a warped view on the community, and one day decided something needed to change and he was going to plan a way to do it.
He was shot four times, twice in the chest. Once in the arm, and once in the thigh.” As stated by MTV News Staff, September 13, 1996 Rapper Tupac Shakur Gunned Down, MTV news staff says, “The drive by shooting had taken place Saturday night in Las Vegas, Nevada. The shooting occurred when the car stopped at a red light at East Flamingo Road and Koval Lane. Tupac was hit with a 40- caliber glock several times. Shakur spent weeks I the hospital on respirator in critical condition. Six days later passing
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.
The noises of the gun came with waves of bullets that rained on the innocent people. The Las Vegas Shooting is the worst mass shooting in modern American history. It was all caused by Stephen Paddock, who killed 58 people and injured over 800 people. The Las Vegas Shooting happened because of a man with a odd history. Some people wonder how he got all of the guns and planned the attack.
First of all, Dred Scott was a slave in the 1800s and not like the other slaves. Instead of trying to escape, he worked twice as hard! Of course he dreamed of being free, but not from escaping, but by legal rights. Dred scott was a brave man for suing for his rights, one of the first!
While it is the year 1928, James J. Braddock is at the peak of his career: he makes over $8,000 per fight. He isn’t considered a good boxer; he is one of the greats. After 5 years pass, James goes from making $8,000 a fight to $50, losing money. Money is tight and food is scarce in James’ household now. Claiming he isn’t hungry, James, being considerate of his daughter’s needs, gives her his dinner. But he shouldn’t fight without eating. James goes to his fight with an injured hand and an empty stomach. James loses the fight, and he isn’t given the $50 he was promised. After the fight is over, he is told that the fight was pathetic, and his boxing license is revoked. Much later, James’ manager gets him a fight against Griffin. James wins,
After a long day of work, all I wanted to do was sleep. I had paid five cents to spend the night, and I intended to make good use of it. I was resting in the Bayard Street tenement in the year 1889. I was willing to endure the crowded, unsanitary, and non-private room because it was all I could afford; you do what you can to survive. The six other single men, beat from a long day of back-breaking work, were already sleeping or resting against the wall. The lack of bunks meant that I would be sleeping on the floor. I am lucky. A room down the hall had twelve men and a woman occupying it. I am even more better off than the homeless children forced to live on the streets and in alleys. All of our possessions and our bodies themselves made the
On Thursday, November 20, 2014 at 12:25a.m, a 31 year old male by the name of Myron May, according to the San Bernardino Sun Newspaper, decided to walk into the Strozier Library (located at Florida State University in Tallahassee, FL) where students were studying for their midterms and opened fire, letting off five to six shots from his .380 semi-automatic gun. By 12:30a.m, Myron May was shot dead by the police. Within just five minutes, three students were wounded. Two of these students were transported to the hospital and the third was only grazed by the bullet.
Only a few days ago, an incident occurred where there was shooting in Las Vegas near an open area across the Las Vegas Strip from the Mandalay Bay hotel-casino. The gunman open fired at a festival and at least 59 people died including him and about 527 were injured. The latest information about the shooter is that he is a 64 year old resident of Mesquite, Nevada named Stephen Craig Paddock. I think that the incident was uncanny because, what would a 64 year old man want by killing hundreds of people. From the information gathered by the police, the man fired from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel. At least 23 weapons were found in his room. Authorities also searched his room and found even more weapons such as rifles and bombs. “The
The class didn't know if they would make it out of the building that day until a SWAT team member came into their classroom. The police identified the gunman as Nikolas Cruz, a 19-year old former pupil of the school expelled a year ago for disciplinary problems. He was described as a strange kid who liked guns. Unlike many mass shooters, Mr Cruz did not intend to die. He slipped out of the school by blending in with evacuating pupils. Police caught him in a nearby town soon after the shooting. (Blad, Evie. "A Florida City Forever Changed." Education Week, 28 Feb. 2018, p. 12. Academic OneFile
“We don’t know much, but I’ll tell you what we do know so far. The victim is 22 year-old Brandon McNeely, a student at the nearby university. It looks like he was walking home from the local bar and used the alley as a shortcut. That’s when he was shot by an unknown person. His body was discovered at 6:30 this morning and we believe that he died around 3:00. The forensics report says that he was shot with a 9 millimeter hollow point bullet with 115 grain powder. The bullet passed through his sternum and into his heart. He died