5 Dead in New Mexico Shooting

Around nine in evening on Saturday, a police department in Albuquerque, New Mexico received a  call from  a young man of the age 15, complaining about a party, who was later identified the suspect of the shooting that occurred later on. When police arrived they found five victims who were shot dead multiple times outside the home, where the party took place. Three of the victims were said to be children and two adults. One of the victims was identified as a local pastor, with the remaining victims being his family members. Police claim they are doing a thorough investigation because of all the physical evidence.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/20/justice/new-mexico-shooting/index.html?hpt=ju_c2

Illegal Gun Dealing

On Friday, January 11th, a Virginia woman was accused of purchasing twenty-five firearms in a fifteen day period, planning on trafficking the firearms. Although their is no law indicating how many firearms one can purchase, Kimberly Dinkins went to sell them to other people and make her own profit. The Bureau  of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives said the Kimberly stated she sold all the firearms, but lied when the police found some still under her possession. According to the authorities, one of the  firearms she sold was to a drug trafficker in Maryland. Kimberly is soon to be in court represented by the federal public defender's office.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/11/justice/virginia-woman-indicted/index.html?hpt=ju_c2

Police Standoff in Aurora, Colorado

Early Saturday morning, a woman fled from an apartment complex that was being held hostage from a gunman. The woman that fled the apartment, uninjured, reported to the police she saw the three victims, dead, once she heard gunshots at about three in the morning.  Once the police showed up at the scene, they tried everything from calling the gunman on the phone, using bullhorn commands, and tear gas to get the gunman to come out of the building. According to reporters, five hours into the incident SWAT was called in and drove an armored  vehicle into a window of the house, which caused the man to fire at the vehicle, the police didn't return fire. Minutes after the vehicle incident the man once again started firing at the police from an upstairs window, this time the police returned fire and killed the man. No officers were injured and the  names of the victims are to be announced.

 http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/05/justice/colorado-aurora-standoff/index.html?hpt=ju_c2

New Year's Stampede

One in the morning on New Year's day, a total of 60 people were killed due to a stampede of people leaving a firework show in Abidjan in Ivory Coast. A total of twenty-six children, twenty-eight women, and six men were killed in addition to 49 other citizens being injured. Reporters claimed that the deaths occurred due to suffocation and being trampled on by other men and women. Almost all the victims were young because they wanted to be apart of the yearly celebration while the elder people stayed home. Police say that there were no other reasons why the stampede occurred other than carelessness and the narrow streets that thousands of people were compacted in.  

http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/01/world/africa/ivory-coast-deaths/index.html?hpt=wo_c2