church shooting
DOJ Agrees to $145 Million Settlement Over Background Check Lapse in Texas Church Shooting Case
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has reached a tentative agreement with dozens of plaintiffs who allege the department failed to keep its criminal background check system up to date, and that these failures contributed to a deadly shooting at a church in Southerland Springs, Texas, in 2017. In November 2017, a gunman entered the […]
Suspect in California Church Shooting Charged With Hate Crime
SANTA ANA, Calif.—Prosecutors have accused a Las Vegas man of committing a hate crime by killing one person and wounding five in a shooting at a Taiwanese American church luncheon in California. The Orange County District Attorney’s Office said Friday that authorities added hate crime allegations to the murder and attempted murder charges filed against […]
California Today Full Broadcast (May 23)
Members of the Taiwanese community in Southern California held a memorial for the victims of the church shooting earlier this month. They honored the doctor who, many say, sacrificed his life to save others. An ongoing FBI corruption probe has led to one California Democratic Party member resigning from her post. Her resignation comes after […]
California Today Full Broadcast (May 17)
After the church shooting in Orange County that killed one and injured five, residents responded to what motivated the killer. At the same time, the man who died in the incident is being hailed as a hero. A new drug-smuggling passage was discovered during a federal drug investigation. Authorities say it stretches from Mexico to […]
DA: Church Shooter Wanted to ‘Execute’ as Many as Possible
SANTA ANA, Calif.—The man charged with opening fire on a Taiwanese church congregation of mainly elderly people in Southern California wanted to “execute in cold blood as many people in that room as possible,” a prosecutor said Tuesday in announcing murder, attempted murder, and other charges for the shooting that killed one person and wounded […]
Air Force Ordered to Pay More Than $230 Million in Church Shooting
SAN ANTONIO—The U.S. Air Force must pay more than $230 million in damages to survivors and victims’ families of a 2017 Texas church massacre for failing to flag a conviction that might have kept the gunman from legally buying the weapon used in the shooting, a federal judge ruled Monday. More than two dozen people […]
DOJ Settles 2015 Church Shooting With $88 Million
In an update on the 2015 church shooting that left nine people dead in Charleston, South Carolina, the victims’ families have reached a settlement with the federal government. Now, the Justice Department will pay them a total of $88 million.
Dylann Roof Seeks Rehearing on Church Shooting Conviction
Dylann Roof has filed the next step in his federal appeal, challenging a court’s confirmation of his conviction and death sentence for the 2015 racist slayings of nine members of a black South Carolina congregation. In a petition filed Wednesday with the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, attorneys for Roof argued that the court’s […]
Minister: Texas Gunman Grew Angry in Past Over Denied Cash Requests
The man who fatally shot two people at a Texas church was ruled mentally incompetent to stand trial in 2012 and was repeatedly fed by the congregation before he grew angry because church officials refused to give him money, according to court records and the pastor.
Courageous Neighbors Shot, Chased, Texas Church Shooter
A sharpshooting plumber fired the shot which hit a gap in the body armor of Texas church shooter Devin Kelley, inflicting the wound which would eventually kill him. Stephen Willeford learned from his daughter that a man clad in body armor was on a rampage in the nearby church. Willeford “grabbed his rifle and engaged […]