Veteran helped disarm shooter at Colorado gay club: ‘It’s the reflex’

Rich Fierro told reporters how he grabbed the shooter's body armor and began punching him. Police say Fierro and another man, Thomas James, stopped the shooter after he began spraying bullets inside Club Q on Saturday night.

Colorado gay bar shooting suspect facing murder, hate crime charges

The man suspected of opening fire at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs was being held on murder and hate crime charges Monday, while hundreds of people gathered to honor the five people killed and 17 wounded in the attack on a venue that for decades was a sanctuary for the local LGBTQ community.

Police release names of those killed in the Colorado Springs Club Q shooting

Authorities say a 22-year-old gunman opened fire with a semiautomatic rifle at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, killing five people and leaving 25 injured before he was subdued by “heroic” patrons.

PULSE foundation reacts to deadly mass shooting at gay nightclub in Colorado: 'We are deeply saddened'

A foundation created after the 2016 shooting massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando posted a statement Sunday saying it is "deeply saddened and concerned" to hear about the shooting at a LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs Saturday night that left multiple dead and several others injured. 

Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz formally sentenced to life in prison

Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz formally received a sentence of life without parole Wednesday after families of his 17 slain victims spent two days berating him as evil, a coward, a monster and a subhuman.

Families unleash grief and anger on Parkland school shooter: 'This creature has no redeemable value'

They looked the shackled killer Nikolas Cruz in the eye and gave vehement, angry and sometimes tearful statements. Most decried that his jury did not reach the unanimity required to sentence him to death.

'Stunned, devastated': Parents of Parkland victims react to shooter's life sentence

"What do we have the death penalty for?" one Parkland parent questioned after the jury could not unanimously agree on a death sentence for shooter Nikolas Cruz, who killed 17 people.

Nikolas Cruz verdict: Parkland school shooter to get life sentence for killing 17

Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz will be sentenced to life without parole for the 2018 murder of 17 people at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, after the jury said Thursday that it could not unanimously agree that he should be executed.

Alex Jones ordered to pay $965 million for Sandy Hook hoax claims

A Connecticut jury has ordered conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay $965 million to Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims’ relatives and an FBI agent.

Cooper Roberts returns home nearly 3 months after Highland Park parade shooting

Cooper Roberts, the young boy paralyzed from the waist down in the Highland Park Fourth of July parade shooting, has finally returned home after multiple surgeries and weeks of rehab.

Alex Jones takes the stand in trial over his Sandy Hook hoax lies

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is trying to limit damages he must pay for promoting the lie that the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre was a hoax.

Nikolas Cruz Trial: Defense seeks judge’s removal in Florida school shooter case

Attorneys for Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz asked for the judge in his murder case to remove herself on Friday, two days after she scolded them when they abruptly rested their case after calling only a fraction of their expected witnesses.

After school shootings, are states making classrooms safer?

Here is what several states have done to implement school safety in the wake of the Uvalde elementary school massacre.

16 Uvalde fourth graders waited an hour with wounded teacher

Robb Elementary School teacher Elsa Avila describes the hour after she was shot by a gunman who killed 19 students and 2 teachers.

Parkland shooter trial: Nikolas Cruz witnessed dad’s death at age 5, family friend testifies

Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz’s attorneys presented more testimony Monday that the mass killer exhibited violent, disruptive, and troubling behavior from his earliest years and witnessed his adoptive father’s sudden death just before his sixth birthday.