Red flags, warning signs continue to be missed before shootings.
Columbine April 20, 1999
FBI: Columbine detonator too advanced for the gunman
Columbine warning signs overlooked, evidence shows / Young killer had 15 run-ins with the law before school rampage – SF GATE
The 1999 massacre at Columbine High School two years ago might never have happened had school officials and the local sheriff acted on clear signs that the two killers were prone to violence and familiar with lethal weapons, according to a report made public today by Gov. Bill Owens of Colorado. – NEW YORK TIMES
Families Allege Columbine Cover-Up – CBS
Police Knew of Columbine Threat, Papers Show – LA TIMES
Virginia Tech 2007
Virginia Tech has paid $32,500 to satisfy federal fines lodged by the U.S. Department of Education, which charged that the university did not adequately warn its campus community at the beginning of a 2007 rampage that became one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history. – WASHINGTON POST
The shooter alarmed instructors, classmates – NBC
Fort Hood 2009
FBI and Army officials repeatedly ignored multiple warning signs that could have prevented the November 2009 massacre at Fort Hood, Texas, according to a long-awaited report released Thursday by two U.S. senators. – CNN
Lawmaker: Report shows FBI ignored accused Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan out of political correctness – CBS
Norway attacks 2011
Norway shooting: police response criticised – TELEGRAPH
Norwegian police ‘could have stopped Anders Breivik massacre’ – INDEPENDENT
The laughing gunman was a freemason – TELEGRAPH
Breivik uses meditation as a form of mind control – GUARDIAN
Sandy Hook 2012
Four years before Adam Lanza massacred more than two dozen people in Newtown, Conn., in 2012, police officials were warned of his homicidal plans, according to documents released by the F.B.I. this week. – NYT
Adam Lanza Threatened Sandy Hook Killings Years Earlier, Records Show – NYT
Officials told NBC’s Pete Williams that they were investigating a report that someone had an “altercation” with four staff members the day before the shootings – three of whom were killed the next day. – NBC
Sandy Hook victims identified, bodies removed from school overnight – CBS
Judge Won’t Release Sandy Hook Shooter’s Documents – TIME
5 Years After Sandy Hook Shooting, State Police Have Not Released Report On Response – COURANT
Newly released videos from cameras on cruisers of Newtown officers who responded to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting show officers preparing to approach the school but provide little more detail of what police did that day.” The videos clearly show an urgency by the officers to get to the school but then don’t show much about what happened when they got there and why it took more than five minutes to go inside,” said school security expert Vincent Riccio, who has also viewed the videos.- HC
Aurora 2012
Judge waits to release sealed documents just before leaving a state judge job and joining the state Supreme Court. – FOX
Aurora, Colo, shooter James Holmes met with not one, but at least three mental health professionals at the University of Colorado prior to the massacre. How long he met with each one and the depth of their involvement is not clear, but it adds to the picture of Holmes being clearly on their radar in the time period leading up to the shootings. – CBS
James Holmes was among elite in neuroscience before Aurora theater massacre – DENVER POST
2 witnesses say Aurora shooter had help
Navy Yard Shooter 2013
FBI: Navy Yard shooter said ‘low-frequency attacks’ drove him to kill – CNN
Navy base didn’t consider Navy Yard shooter a threat – USA TODAY
San Bernardino 2015
San Bernardino Couple Spoke of Attacks in 2013, F.B.I. Says – NYT
Much information about the San Bernardino case still has not been made public – WJLA
Pulse Nightclub 2016
Pulse gunman’s father was FBI informant under criminal investigation, – WGN9
Orlando shooting: Killer’s behavior had long been an issue – CNN
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Sutherland Springs church shooting 2017
UPDATE: DOJ to pay $144 ML for missed warnings concerning Sutherland Springs shooting victims
Air Force Didn’t Alert FBI to Texas Church Shooter’s Criminal Past – MILITARY
Family that lost 9 in Sutherland Springs, Texas, shooting sues federal government – WUSA
How was he missed? Menacing Texas church gunman left series of red flags – USA TODAY
Sheriff didn’t pursue sex case against Sutherland Springs church gunman – NBC
PARKLAND 2018
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Santa Fe, Texas shooting – May 18, 2018
Feds Won’t Charge Shooter In Santa Fe School Shooting
Police may have shot students? The autopsy report was supposed to be finished by mid-June 2018
Santa Fe High School received nine threats in months before mass shooting – CHRONICLE
“He was wearing a trench coat with combat boots. He had a ‘Born to Kill’ shirt on.” NYT
Trench coats were banned at Santa Fe high school – KHOU
Jacksonville Shooter 2018
Jacksonville shooting suspect was hospitalized in psychiatric facilities: on antipsychotic and antidepressant medications – HILL
Existing Law Didn’t Protect Victims From the Jacksonville Shooter – DS
It appears that, like so many mass public shooters before him, current gun laws should have been enough to prevent him from possessing firearms.
He had numerous interactions with law enforcement because of a tendency toward outbursts that displayed oppositional or threatening behavior.
Court documents reveal that the suspected shooter was involuntarily committed to mental health facilities on six different occasions as a teenager, spent 97 days at a Utah facility for youth with behavioral health problems, and routinely had the police called on him by his mother. Under both Maryland and federal law, the involuntary commitments were enough to disqualify him from legally purchasing or possessing firearms unless he had his rights restored.
And yet, according to officials, the alleged shooter was able to successfully purchase two handguns from a federally licensed firearms dealer in Baltimore in the weeks prior to the shooting, meaning he passed, at the very least, a federally-mandated background check for disqualifying criminal and mental health histories, submitted his fingerprints, and passed a firearms safety training course.
The documents obtained by the Associated Press show that his parents – Nasa engineer Richard Katz and government toxicologist Elizabeth Katz – disagreed over their youngest son’s care. – BBC
NEWBURY PARK, CA – 11.7.2018
“In April of this year, deputies were called to his house for a ‘subject disturbing.’ They went to the house, they talked to him. He was somewhat irate. Acting a little irrationally. They called out our crisis intervention team, our mental health specialists who met with him, talked to him and cleared him. Didn’t feel he was qualified to be taken under 5150. And he was left at that scene last April.” – CNN
“It’s the second time in about a year and a month that this has happened,” Champion said in an interview with California’s OnSceneTV, which aired on “CBS This Morning.” “I was in the Las Vegas Route 91 mass shooting, as well as probably 50 or 60 others who were in the building at the same time as me tonight,” he said. – HP
2019 New Zealand Massacre
A Man Warned Police About the Suspect at the Rifle Club
Hey YouTube: The NZ massacre video is doctored!?
Watch the NZ shooting video here
New Zealand Shooter Was Active for More Than 30 Minutes, Timeline Shows
Russia Criminalizes The Spread Of Online News Which ‘Disrespects’ The Government
Police were training on the day of the shooting
The shooter broke off the attack only after being confronted with a weapon.
Brenton Tarrant pictured in North Korea.
All of a sudden he is a lone attacker. Who are the other 3 suspects?
Why did it take police 31 minutes to arrive at the mosque?
Judge says what the news media can report in court and when and how the material is published.
2019 Highland Ranch Colorado school shooting coverage
2019 Virginia Beach shooting coverage
August 3, 2019 El Paso Walmart Shooting
August 4, 2019 Dayton, Ohio Shooting
Odessa, Texas shooting – 8.31.2019
2021 Michigan scool shooting: “I am angry”: Prosecutor says simple things could have prevented 2021 Michigan school shooting – CNN
Uvalde Massacre May 2022
Uvalde shooter threatened rapes, school shootings on Yubo app in April – CNN
Uvalde Shooter Fired Outside School for 12 MINUTES | Was inside for over an HOUR – WSJ
Videos show parents begging cops to stop Texas school shooting
Highland Park Shooting July 4, 2022
Highland Park shooter interviewed by cops TWICE in 2019 – threatened to ‘kill everyone’
Highland Park shooter painted man with a machine gun on his mom’s home brick exterior
Suspected gunman’s communications raise questions about missed warning signs
The Nashville Shooter
The Nashville Shooter – March 27, 2023 – Unusual events
Texas Mall Shooter May 2023
Details about Texas mall shooting suspect raises questions about “missed warning signs”