Mass Shootings

USF president Rhea Law cited an "abundance of caution" for the added patrols and encouraged students and employees to take advantage of mental health services offered by the university.

By early Friday, memorials dotted the campus and a school-wide vigil had been scheduled as students and faculty tried to start healing from the previous day's shooting.

Authorities say Phoenix Ikner used a gun that belongs to his mother, a Leon County sheriff's deputy. Two people were killed, but two other victims were expected to soon be discharged from the hospital, and the conditions of four more was upgraded.

Two people were killed and at least six people injured after a shooting on Florida State University's campus, authorities said.

The two people who died were not students at the university, authorities said. Their identities are currently unknown.

The city of Orlando is organizing three days for the visits, which start nine years after the mass shooting on June 12.

Sam Fuentes collaborated with director Kim A. Snyder to produce “Death by Numbers,” which chronicles Fuentes' journey from the 2018 massacre through the shooter's 2022 sentencing trial.

Zephen Xaver had pleaded guilty last year to the 2019 slayings, but his attorneys had asked for a life sentence rather than death because of his history of mental illness.

Six months after the Feb. 14 Kansas City parade, parents their children are deeply changed. We meet kids who survived the mass shooting only to live with long-term emotional scars.

The local United Way gave $1.2 million to victims and $832,000 to 14 community groups, hoping to reach other victims from the violence at the Chiefs’ parade as well as those working to prevent gun violence.

The Highlands County jury voted 9-3 to recommend the death penalty for Zephen Xaver in the execution-style deaths of five women at a SunTrust. The final decision rests with Circuit Judge Angela Cowden.

Parkland. Uvalde. Columbine. Sandy Hook. A supermarket in Buffalo. A church in South Carolina. A synagogue in Pittsburgh. When violence comes to a public place, as it does all too often in our era, a delicate question lingers afterward: What should be done with the buildings where blood was shed?