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Video game maker cancels 3 tournaments after Florida mass shooting

Reuters
Posted at Aug 29 01:51 AM

Video game maker Electronic Arts canceled three tournaments of its Madden NFL 19 football game to review safety protocols after a competitor who lost a tournament attacked with a gun, killing two gamers and wounding 11 others.   Read more »

Florida shooting reignites U.S. gun rights debate

Scott Malone, Reuters
Posted at Aug 28 04:20 AM

The slaying of two competitors at a Florida video game tournament on Sunday has stirred the long-simmering gun rights debate in the state on the eve of its hotly contested state and federal primary elections. Read more »

Police seek motive in shooting at Florida video game tournament

Reuters
Posted at Aug 27 11:17 PM

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Police on Monday were trying to determine why a gunman opened fire at a Jacksonville, Florida, video game tournament, killing two people and injuring 11 others before fatally shooting himself.   Read more »

Multiple fatalities in shooting in Florida video game tournament - reports

Reuters
Updated as of Aug 27 03:58 AM

(UPDATED) A shooter killed four people and wounded 10 others on Sunday at a video game tournament that was being streamed online from a restaurant in Jacksonville, Florida, local media said citing police sources. Read more »

Pinay nursing student shot in the spinal cord in Toronto shooting

Rachelle Cruz, ABS-CBN North America
Posted at Jul 31 11:27 AM

TORONTO – A 31-year-old nursing student is fighting for her life after being severely injured during a mass shooting in Greektown last July 22. Read more »

No Filipino casualty in Texas school shooting: DFA

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 19 05:07 PM

The Department of Foreign Affairs on Saturday said no Filipino was among those killed or wounded in the latest mass shooting in the US that claimed the lives of at least 10 people. Read more »

Fear grips Fil-Am parents after deadly Texas school shooting

Cheryl Piccio, ABS-CBN North America News Bureau
Updated as of May 19 09:09 AM

Filipino-Americans who live close to Santa Fe High School were concerned over a school shooting that claimed at least 10 lives.   Read more »

'I had to get out': Students fled Texas high school shooter

Liz Hampton, Reuters
Posted at May 19 05:45 AM

SANTA FE, Texas - Students at Santa Fe High School in Texas were just beginning Friday classes when an alarm bell sounded, gun shots rang out, and they had to run from the latest mass shooting at a U.S. school. Read more »

Grandparents, mum and kids shot dead in Australia murder-suicide

Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 12 06:25 PM

Three generations of a single family were identified Saturday as the victims of Australia's worst mass shooting in 22 years. Read more »

US poised for largest gun control protest in a generation

Chris Lefkow, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 24 03:09 PM

The student-organized "March For Our Lives" is to feature rallies from coast to coast, with the main event scheduled to take place in Washington within sight of the US Capitol. Read more »

Classes to resume at Florida high school 2 weeks after massacre

Zachary Fagenson, Reuters
Updated as of Oct 19 08:36 AM

Students and teachers traumatized by one of the deadliest US mass shootings ever were due back in classes on Wednesday for the first time since a gunman killed 17 people in their Florida high school 2 weeks ago. Read more »

Trump says he'd run unarmed into Florida school shooting

Michael Mathes, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 27 08:15 AM

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said Monday he would have rushed unarmed into the Florida school targeted by a mass shooter, as student survivors of the massacre brought their campaign for gun control to Washington. Read more »

Australia's Turnbull declines to offer Trump advice on gun control

Reuters
Posted at Feb 24 04:15 PM

Australia has some of the world's toughest gun control laws.   Read more »

US educators say no to 'arms race' in schools

Chris Lefkow, Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Feb 23 12:04 PM

WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump has proposed arming "highly trained" teachers to deter school shootings, but the idea has drawn little support from those most directly concerned -- teachers. Read more »

Survivors of Florida school shooting launch gun control push

Katanga Johnson and Zach Fagenson, Reuters
Updated as of Oct 01 09:43 AM

Dozens of students and parents from the Florida high school where 17 teens and staff members were slain last week in a shooting rampage arrived in the state capital of Tallahassee on Tuesday to lobby for a ban on assault-style rifles. Read more »

Grief and anger as Florida prepares to bury victims of school massacre

Bernie Woodall and Zachary Fagenson, Reuters
Posted at Feb 16 07:35 PM

The shooting has raised questions among anguished parents about the adequacy of school security measures  Read more »

Paradise lost: Massacre jolts Florida's 'safest city'

Bernie Woodall and Zachary Fagenson, Reuters
Posted at Feb 16 12:55 PM

PARKLAND, Florida - Michele Roseman was convinced that she had found a safe place to raise her children when she came to Parkland, Florida, in 2000. She was stunned when one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history unfolded in her adopted town. Read more »

White supremacist-linked teen confesses to Florida shooting

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 16 07:11 AM

PARKLAND, UNITED STATES - A troubled teen with alleged ties to a white supremacist group confessed Thursday to murdering 17 people at his former high school in Florida, as the FBI admitted it had received a tip-off about the 19-year-old gunman yet failed to stop him. Read more »

Florida shooter belonged to white supremacist organization, rights group says

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 16 04:53 AM

Florida shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz was a member of a white supremacist group and had taken part in military-style training exercises. Read more »

Obama calls for ‘long overdue’ gun safety laws after Florida shooting

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 16 03:37 AM

The former US president called for a "change" as the country reels from another mass school shooting. Read more »