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Nevada: The Las Vegas Festival Tragedy
On October 1, 2017, a mass shooting occurred when 64-year-old Stephen Paddock opened fire on the crowd attending the Route 91 Harvest music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada from his 32nd-floor suites in the Mandalay Bay hotel. He fired more than 1,000 rounds, killing 60 people and wounding at least 413 others. The ensuing panic brought the total number of injured to approximately 867. About an hour later, he was found dead in his room from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The motive for the shooting is officially undetermined.
By Sandun Nayanajith2 years ago in Criminal
Nebraska: The Death of Crazy Horse
In Nebraska’s turbulent frontier days, one of the most enduring and controversial events was the death of Crazy Horse—a respected Lakota leader whose passing marked a turning point in Native American resistance. This article explores the circumstances surrounding his death, the controversies that followed, and the lasting impact on both Native American communities and U.S. history.
By Sandun Nayanajith2 years ago in Criminal
Missouri: The Central Visual and Performing Arts High School Shooting
On October 24, 2022, a mass shooting occurred at Central Visual and Performing Arts High School in the Southwest Garden neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri, United States when a 19-year-old former student opened fire on students and staff, killing two and injuring seven before being fatally shot by police.
By Sandun Nayanajith2 years ago in Criminal
Mississippi: The Murder of Louis Allen
Louis Allen (April 25, 1919 – January 31, 1964) was an African-American logger in Liberty, Mississippi, who was shot and killed on his land during the civil rights era. He had previously tried to register to vote and had allegedly talked to federal officials after witnessing the 1961 murder of Herbert Lee, an NAACP member, by E. H. Hurst, a white state legislator. Civil rights activists had come to Liberty that summer to organize for voter registration, as no African-American had been allowed to vote since the state's disenfranchising constitution was passed in 1890.
By Sandun Nayanajith2 years ago in Criminal
Michigan: The Detroit Shooting Spree
Dontae Smith has pleaded guilty to the shooting spree he committed in August of that year, when he was 19 years old. The shootings took place in the area of Wyoming, near 7 Mile, in the early hours of Aug. 28. One man and his dog were both shot and survived. That survivor, John Palik, tells that his heart breaks for the victims' families. But his heart also breaks for the suspect.
By Sandun Nayanajith2 years ago in Criminal
A dentist, gambler, gunslinger.
In the 1993 film Tombstone, Doc Holliday, portrayed by Val Kilmer, is depicted as a good-hearted gunslinger who aids Wyatt Earp in maintaining law and order in the perilous Old West town of Tombstone, Arizona. However, much like Earp, historical evidence suggests that the real Doc Holliday was far from the noble figure portrayed in popular culture. Here is the true story behind the legend of the "slickest gunslinger in the West."
By Anthony Maghanga2 years ago in Criminal
Victor Salva, Hollywood Director And Convicted Pedophile. Content Warning.
Victor Salva is a name synonymous with both the rise and fall of a Hollywood career, one that was marred by unspeakable crimes. The director, best known for his work on films like *Jeepers Creepers*, was not just a figure of cinematic achievement but also a man with a dark and sinister past. Salva’s career trajectory and criminal history are inextricably linked, forever tainting the legacy of the films he created. The story of Victor Salva is not just a tragic tale of a man’s rise to fame, but a disturbing reminder of how predators can sometimes lurk behind seemingly successful and talented individuals.
By Victoria Velkova2 years ago in Criminal
U.S. Consumer Confidence Dips as Inflation Expectations Spike
As the new year unfolds, American consumers are feeling the weight of rising inflation expectations. The latest data from the University of Michigan’s Consumer Sentiment Index reveals a dip in confidence, driven by concerns about higher prices and economic uncertainty. With year-ahead inflation expectations reaching their highest level since May, the economic landscape is shifting—and not everyone is optimistic about what lies ahead.
By mureed hussain2 years ago in Criminal
A New World Order: The Nail in the Coffin for Restorative Justice?. Content Warning.
The dichotomy between the old and new world orders - perhaps most accurately distinguished by way of characterising the former as solidly grounded in liberal ideals and the latter as an aggregate project of revisionism, populism and empirical denialism - have invited swaths of commentary, academic insight and mainstream rhetoric into the temporal challenges that such a transformation engenders. Suffice to say that discussing a topic on a scale as large as this - i.e., from what is new, has changed, or been consigned to the bin labelled "obsolete" - gives rise to a remit unable to be defined in a single article. With that being said, however, the primary concern of this article is to consider the landscape of a project for change in an omnipresent institution: a restorative justice approach in the criminal justice system.
By Brook Moore2 years ago in Criminal
