The Mavs are goin’ ALL OUT to honor wounded U.S. troops Wednesday night … ‘cause they’re flying in 120 soldiers and hookin’ them up with courtside seats AND a fancy 4-course meal!! The team announced it’ll host its 14th annual Seats for Soldiers…
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Thursday, November 15, 2018
Monday, October 2, 2017
Las Vegas Shooting: 50 Dead, 200 Wounded at Jason Aldean Concert
At least 50 people are dead and 200 more wounded after a gunman opened fire on a country music festival in Las Vegas Sunday night.
The assailant opened fire with a fully automatic weapon just as Jason Aldean was beginning his show at the Route 91 Harvest Festival.
Videos posted on social media show Aldean, one of the biggest names in the genre, singing as very rapid gunfire begins in the background.
He can be seen running from stage as he, and the thousands in the crowd who came to see him, realized the horror of what was happening.
No matter how often these tragedies occur (and it is far too often), one never goes into an event thinking it will happen then or there.
The terror is unimaginable.
In this case, it was also protracted. A gunman continued to rain bullets on the audience for up to two terrifying hours, reports indicate.
Victims ran to safety, according to NBC News, during momentary breaks in the violence, at which point the shooter presumably reloaded.
Many were trapped in the venue for what must have felt like an eternity, but police SWAT officers eventually found and killed the shooter.
He was found on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Casino, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said, and shot dead.
“Right now we believe it’s a solo act, a lone wolf attacker,” Lombardo told reporters. “We are pretty confident there is no longer a threat.”
The gunman has not yet been identified.
Aldean said he was safe in an Instagram post early Monday, sharing an image of the city and asking for prayers for the victims:
“Tonight has been beyond horrific. I still dont know what to say but wanted to let everyone know that Me and my Crew are safe.”
“My Thoughts and prayers go out to everyone involved tonight,” he wrote, clearly as stunned and traumatized as anyone else.
“It hurts my heart that this would happen to anyone who was just coming out to enjoy what should have been a fun night.”
Aldean’s wife Brittany Kerr posted her own message on Instagram, saying, “We are safe… our angels were definitely watching over us tonight.”
“No words for what happened,” she added.
“Just horrific. Praying for everyone.”
Witness accounts are what you would expect – unable to fully do justice to what happened as you read this, but terrifying nonetheless.
Country star Jake Owen was one of the witnesses, having just finished his set and was still on stage when the shooting started.
“I was crouched down behind a cop car,” he said.
“There was blood on people and you could see a couple of people in the streets that looked like they had been shot,” Owen added.
Ivetta Saldana told the Las Vegas Review-Journal, “It was was a horror show. People were standing around, then they hit the floor.”
Robyn Webb, who was at the concert along with her husband last night, told the newspaper, “It just kept coming. It was relentless.”
Authorities, meanwhile, are searching for a 62-year-old woman named Marylou Danly, whom they believe is the gunman’s roommate.
Police have searched a home in Mesquite, Nevada, 85 miles from Las Vegas, where it is believed the gunman lived with Danly.
She is considered a person of interest in the case.
Monday, July 25, 2016
Fort Myers Nightclub Shooting Leaves 2 Dead, Many Wounded
A shooting at a nightclub in Fort Myers, Florida has taken the lives of at least two people.
According to various news outlets, a minimum of 16 other patrons were wounded in the attack.
The New York Times has confirmed that authorities responded to the incident at Club Blu around 12:30 a.m.
Once they arrived on the scene, police found several victims suffering from gunshot wounds.
The club was reportedly hosting a “swimsuit glow party” indoors with live performances on Sunday night when the tragedy took place.
“[At] this time, the scene is still very active as investigators and crime scene personnel attempt to determine what had occurred,” Captain Jim Mulligan of the Fort Myers Police Department said in a statement.
“The Police Department is attempting to determine a motive for this incident.”
About an hour after police cars and ambulances arrived at the club, many of those injured were taken Lee Memorial Health System for treatment.
The victims ranged from 12 to 27 years old because the party was actually aimed at a young demographic.
“Sixteen people were treated in the trauma center and emergency department,” Cheryl Garn, a hospital spokesperson, told the aforementioned newspaper.
Club Blu bills itself as a New Orleans-style restaurant and lounge, according to its Facebook page.
“We are deeply sorry for all involved. We tried to give the teens WHAT WE THOUGHT WAS A SAFE PLACE TO HAVE A GOOD TIME. Ages 12-17,” the establishment has said via statement.
“There was armed security as well as full security, inside and out.
“As the club was closing and parents were picking their children up…..that’s when all this took place. There was nothing more we could of done [as] you see it was not kids at the party that did this despicable act.”
Authorities have detained three adults in relation to the shooting.
However, the motive for the shooting remains unclear.
“It was chaos. I saw a bunch of people running across the street,” nearby resident Jermaine Wilson told CNN. “It’s incredible that this can happen at a teenage [event].”
This tragedy comes a mere six weeks after gunman Omar Seddique Mateen killed 49 people and injured 53 others at gay nightclub Pulse in Orland on Junoe 12.
The incident was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.
Sunday, July 17, 2016
Baton Rouge Shooting: 3 Cops Dead, 3 Other Officers Wounded
Tragedy has once again struck Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
A trio of police officers are dead and a handful more injured after a gunman opened fire at a shopping center in the southern city, according to the Baton Rouge mayor’s office and many other outlets.
CNN confirms that cops have shot one suspect, but an investigation is underway to determine whether others were involved.
“This is still an active scene,” Kip Holden, the mayor of East Baton Rouge Parish, told network, adding:
“They are investigating. Right now we are trying to get our arms around everything. It’s just been one thing after another.”
Baton Rouge Police Department spokesman Sgt. Don Coppola says three officers are injured, though it’s unknown at this time whether those injuries are life-threatening.
The shooting took place around 9 a.m.
Sunday’s horrific event took place fewer than two weeks after the shooting death of Alton Sterling.
The 37-year-old father was killed by Baton Rouge cops outside a store where he was selling homemade CDs and DVDs.
As depicted above, Sterling’s death was captured on video, with the clip stirring up feelings of outrage and sadness around the country and Internet.
In the disturbing piece of footage, Sterling is tackled to the ground by two officers and later held down while one of these officers shoots him multiple times, killing him on the spot.
Just one day later, 32-year-old Philando Castile was pulled over for a seemingly routine traffic stop in Falcon Heights, Minnesota.
However, he was also shot and killed in the car while his girlfriend filmed the tragedy on camera; the couple’s young daughter sat in the backseat.
These controversial deaths were followed by a shooting in Dallas last week that left five police officers dead and seven officers and two civilians wounded.
It took place on Thursday, July 7 at a gathering of Black Lives Matter protesters.
The victims in today’s awful case were from Baton Rouge Police Department, as well as East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office.
“This is an unspeakable and unjustified attack on all of us at a time when we need unity and healing,” Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards says.
Baton Rouge Shooting: 3 Cops Dead, 3 Other Officers Wounded
Tragedy has once again struck Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
A trio of police officers are dead and a handful more injured after a gunman opened fire at a shopping center in the southern city, according to the Baton Rouge mayor’s office and many other outlets.
CNN confirms that cops have shot one suspect, but an investigation is underway to determine whether others were involved.
“This is still an active scene,” Kip Holden, the mayor of East Baton Rouge Parish, told network, adding:
“They are investigating. Right now we are trying to get our arms around everything. It’s just been one thing after another.”
Baton Rouge Police Department spokesman Sgt. Don Coppola says three officers are injured, though it’s unknown at this time whether those injuries are life-threatening.
The shooting took place around 9 a.m.
Sunday’s horrific event took place fewer than two weeks after the shooting death of Alton Sterling.
The 37-year-old father was killed by Baton Rouge cops outside a store where he was selling homemade CDs and DVDs.
As depicted above, Sterling’s death was captured on video, with the clip stirring up feelings of outrage and sadness around the country and Internet.
In the disturbing piece of footage, Sterling is tackled to the ground by two officers and later held down while one of these officers shoots him multiple times, killing him on the spot.
Just one day later, 32-year-old Philando Castile was pulled over for a seemingly routine traffic stop in Falcon Heights, Minnesota.
However, he was also shot and killed in the car while his girlfriend filmed the tragedy on camera; the couple’s young daughter sat in the backseat.
These controversial deaths were followed by a shooting in Dallas last week that left five police officers dead and seven officers and two civilians wounded.
It took place on Thursday, July 7 at a gathering of Black Lives Matter protesters.
The victims in today’s awful case were from Baton Rouge Police Department, as well as East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office.
“This is an unspeakable and unjustified attack on all of us at a time when we need unity and healing,” Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards says.
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