#mass-shooting

#mass-shooting

According to authorities and witness accounts, a father-and-son pair of gunmen armed with rifles opened fire on a huge crowd of people assembled early Sunday night at Bondi Beach for a "Hanukkah By The Sea" event hosted by the Chabad of Bondi. Footage of the attack showed the gunmen firing from a bridge on the crowd as people fled the gunfire in a panic.

At about 5pm, the Chanukah by the Sea event begins at Archer Park, a small, grassy area at the back of Bondi beach. The park is just north of Bondi Surf Bathers Life Saving club, and has several small shelters for picnics and a children's playground. Chanukah by the Sea is a regular event for Bondi's large Jewish community, to mark the beginning of the religious festival.

Six teenagers were wounded in a mass shooting at a Brooklyn "Sweet 16" birthday bash early Sunday morning - with a pair of gunmen still on the loose, according to police. Cops responded to Burbuja Events catering hall at 2929 Atlantic Avenue in Cypress Hills on a 911 call shortly after 1:15 a.m., where they found the victims with gunshot wounds, police said.

Two gunmen responsible for a Brooklyn mass shooting early on Sunday morning that left six teenagers injured remain on the lam, police reported. According to police sources, the teens were hanging out in front of Burbuja Events located at 2929 Atlantic Ave. in Cypress Hills amid the falling snow at around 1:16 a.m. on Dec. 14 when a hail of gunshots rang out.

A manhunt is underway in South Africa after a shooting incident at a bar near the city of Pretoria caused the deaths of at least 11 people, including three children aged from 3 to 16, police said on Saturday. Another 14 were wounded in the shooting in the "shebeen" in the township of Saulsville, 18 kilometers (11 miles) west of Pretoria, they said.

Gunmen have stormed into a hostel in South Africa's capital and killed at least 11 people, including a three-year-old child, and injured more than a dozen others. I can confirm that a total of 25 people were shot, police spokesperson Athlenda Mathe said of the early morning attack in Pretoria. She said 14 people had been hospitalised. Ten died on this particular scene, and one died in hospital, added Mathe.

When Rahmanullah Lakanwal came to the U.S. from Afghanistan he appeared lively and full of hope, but over the course of years, he slipped into isolation and was prone to taking cross country drives without telling his family, according to a volunteer who worked closely with his family. Lakanwal, an Afghan national, is accused of shooting two National Guard soldiers on November 26. One of those soldiers, 20-year-old Sarah Beckstrom, died from her wounds.

Gary Schuelke looked in the mirror. What looked like a pimple stared back. He squeezed. To his surprise, a tiny piece of bullet fell out. Another half inch higher and he might have lost an eyeball. The fragment struck Schuelke, then a San Bernardino police sergeant, during a firefight weeks earlier between police including Schuelke's son and a married couple who murdered 14 people and wounded 22 at a holiday-themed meeting of San Bernardino County workers on Dec. 2, 2015.

Robert Dear, who killed three people and wounded nine others in a shooting rampage at a Colorado Planned Parenthood 10 years ago, died in federal custody over the weekend, officials announced. The Bureau of Prisons announced the news on Tuesday, confirming Dear died of natural causes on Saturday at a medical facility for federal inmates in Springfield, Mo. He was 67. No other details surrounding Dear's death have been provided.

A mass shooting in Newark left two people killed, including an 10-year-old boy, and three others injured Saturday night, according to the Essex County Prosecutor's Office. The office said Newark Police were called to the scene at the 300 block of Chancellor Ave. around 7:00 p.m. Saturday. A 21-year-old woman was also killed in the shooting. The woman and the boy were pronounced dead at University Hospital.