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I have been provided very little follow-up information regarding Roy’s death, it is still uncertain as to whether Roy died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, or if it occurred after an exchange of gunfire with the FBI. – Joseph Murtha	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When officers exited their patrol vehicle to contact the occupant, they heard one gunshot coming from within the van, officers retreated and requested several tactical teams to respond. – Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images Luna	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There are bodies with a rope around the neck, with hands tied, with broken limbs and with gunshot wounds. Several men had their genitals amputated, all this is evidence of the terrible torture to which the occupiers subjected the residents of Izium. – Oleh Syniehubov	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Two patients arrived dead, one died in the emergency room, in the month of August alone, we managed six mass casualties in our hospital, with a total of almost 80 patients. Throughout the year, we have continued to receive gunshot injuries, shrapnel injuries, stabbing injuries, and victims of mine and IED explosions on a daily basis. The country is suffering the consequences of a very long conflict that has undermined its future. – War Victims in Kabul	Found on CNN 1 year ago
My son is still recovering from gunshot wounds. It's hard sitting in that courtroom with a terrorist. – Scott Olson/Getty Images	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
It's hard, my son is still recovering from gunshot wounds. It's hard sitting in that courtroom with a terrorist. – Zeneta Everhart	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
It wasn't a split-second use of force like a gunshot. – Assistant US Attorney Manda Sertich	Found on CNN 2 years ago
So things are clearly bad but they're being made even worse by the people who have refused to take the vaccine and are instead swallowing horse paste, the emergency room in one Oklahoma town is being overwhelmed by people overdosing on ivermectin, the horse deworming medication. It's gotten so bad that gunshot victims, gunshot victims, are having to wait to be treated. – Joy Reid	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Far and away the gunshot wound to the chest was the most significant injury. – Kim Potter	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I had a short conversation with him... He says that he was shot at, but the driver was hit... The car was shot with an automatic weapon, as far as I know. The driver received three gunshot wounds, he was hospitalized. – David Arahamiya	Found on CNN 2 years ago
During the actual movie time, no one apparently heard the gunshot, i know that we do have security bag checks that we do on the daily and, unfortunately, I’m not sure if just was missed or if it was in a holster on their belt. – Kailyn Dillon	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Details are limited in this investigation, it is not immediately clear how the child sustained the gunshot wound. The mother and father are being questioned by investigators. At this time, no formal charges have been filed. – Birmingham Police Department	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Officers arrived and located multiple victims. At this time, we have a total of nine victims suffering from gunshot wounds as a result of the shooting, of the nine, one of the adult victims is deceased. – Bianca Johnson	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Gotham has fallen silent. The night is no longer broken by the sounds of crime. Children are no longer waken by the sudden crack of a gunshot. There are no more cries in the darkness. No tires screech as wailing sirens chase desperate men and women through narrow streets. In a way it is a Gotham I've always dreamed of. But this is no dream. This is a perversion. This is a nightmare. It is the silence of fear. A silence only broken by the sound of marching feet. A sound that echoes around the world. Marching feet. The rhyme of dictators. Our world is ruled by iron fist of the man of steel. – Batman	added by Multiverse-Goddess 3 years ago
Several firearms were recovered at the scene. It is unknown at this time which weapons are associated with the gunshot wounds of the three victims. – The GBI	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Chad Wolf, the acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, joined the ceremony to honor Underwood and to deliver an American flag to his family. Gov. Gavin Newsom sent an officer of the California Highway Patrol who presented the family with a California flag. In a separate video tribute, Wolf condemned the senseless cowardly violence that took Underwoods life. Officer Underwood gave his life protecting us and we owe him and his family and colleagues a debt of gratitude we will never be able to fully repay, said Wolf. George Phillips, childhood friend of slain Federal Protective Services Officer Dave Patrick Underwood, speaks during a memorial service for Underwood on Friday, June 19, 2020, in Pinole, Calif. Underwood was fatally shot as he was guarding the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building in Oakland, Calif., amid protests on May 29. (Associated Press) Underwood died from gunshot wounds in a drive-by shooting the night of May 29 as a protest in downtown Oakland that began peacefully sank into chaos. Underwood and a colleague were working that night as contract security officers for the Department of Homeland Securitys Federal Protective Service. Federal authorities say the shooter used the protest as cover for the crime. Authorities say that Underwood was targeted because he wore a uniform. Last week, the FBI announced murder charges against Air Force Staff Sgt. Steve Carrillo. Authorities say Carrillo used the same homemade AR-15-style rifle eight days later to kill a Santa Cruz deputy in a hail of gunfire that wounded four other officers. Carrillo faces separate state charges for the June 6 fatal shooting of Santa Cruz County sheriffs Sgt. Damon Gutzwiller. Authorities allege that Carrillo, 32, had ties to the far-right, anti-government boogaloo movement and had hatched a plan to target federal law enforcement officials during the Oakland protest. Colleagues described Underwood as hard-working, highly respected and conscientious. Friends and family talked of his hearty laugh, his personal style he was a sharp dresser and his giving heart. When he stopped playing baseball as an adult, he donated to local youth organizations, so he could help kids find joy in the sport he loved. Underwood was the kind of guy you went to for advice, his older sister said. Hed always say, Angie, believe in yourself. Work hard, and ask for what you want, which is exactly what our mom and dad would have said. – Angela Underwood Jacobs	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Video footage captured from police body cameras shows Atlanta police officers talking with Rayshard Brooks moments before Rayshard Brooks was shot in a Wendys parking lot. Officer Devin Bronsan arrived inthe area after a 911 complaintof someone sleeping in a car. Rayshard Brooks said Rayshard Brooks drank a small amount of alcohol and was administered afield sobriety test. Hisblood-alcohol levelregistered at.108, above the.08 legal limit. I think youve had too much to drink to be driving, said Officer Garrett Rolfe, who responded to the scene after Officer Devin Bronsan, beforehe tried to arrest Rayshard Brooks. A struggle ensuedand the officers bodycams wereknocked to the ground. They could be heard yelling, Youre going to get Tased ! Stop fighting ! ATLANTA ERUPTS AFTER Rayshard Brooks DEATH PROMPTS POLICE CHIEF TO STEP DOWN This screen grab taken from body camera video provided by the Atlanta Police Department shows Rayshard Brooks speaking with Officer Garrett Rolfe in the parking lot of a Wendy's restaurant, late Friday, June 12, 2020, in Atlanta. Garrett Rolfe has been fired following the fatal shooting of Rayshard Brooks and a second officer has been placed on administrative duty. ( Atlanta Police Department via AP) At one point Rayshard Brooks appears to grab Bronsans Taser. Hands off Bronsans Taser ! an officer said. Rayshard Brooks fled from the officers and turnedaround with the stun gun before Rayshard Brooks was shot. It does appear in the video that Rayshard Brooks is fleeing from the Atlanta police officers, that as hes fleeing Rayshard Brooks turns back over Rayshard Brooks shoulder with what appears to the naked eye to be Rayshard Brooks Taser that the eyewitnesses told us they saw the individual have that belonged to one of the officers, Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Vic Reynolds said Saturday, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. An autopsy found that Rayshard Brooks suffered to two gunshot wounds to Rayshard Brooks back. The Fulton County Medical Examiner ruled Rayshard Brooks deatha homicide. Garrett Rolfe has not been charged in Rayshard Brooks death but was fired from the force Sunday. Cedric Alexander, the former public safety director of Dekalb County, Ga., who now works as a police consultant, told the Associated Press that the shooting will lead to questions over how officers could have defused the situation. Heres a man who took Dekalb County upon Cedric Alexander to pull off the road to take a nap. – Cedric Alexander	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
It was frightening because I could hear the occasional gunshot...we waited a long time for the police to come and help us, many hours. – Suvanarat Jirattanasakul	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It was frightening because I could hear the occasional gunshot ... we waited a long time for the police to come and help us, many hours. – Suvanarat Jirattanasakul	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We got this little leopard with a gunshot wound, an operation was carried out and 18 shotgun pellets were removed, mainly from his forehead, eyes and sinuses. – Saltanat Seitova	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
None of it really seems real right now. We were sitting here yesterday evening having drinks with my best friend's fiancé, i go home, go to bed, get woken up two hours later that he's deceased, and she held him till he took his last breath, and tried to bring him back and keep pressure on his gunshot wound. And it was just one fatal shot that took him from us. – Shay Celedon	Found on CNN 4 years ago
She appeared to have died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, at this point it looks like she was alone and took her own life with the weapon she procured. – Dean Phillips	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Before patient arrival, test participants with the 44th Medical Brigade studied patient information on the Medical Hands-free Unified Broadcast device. ( Ashley Force, U.S. Army) Testing of the device has been taking place at the U.S. Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory( USAARL) in Fort Rucker, Ala. The test, which examined how field hospital staff used the device, involved mass casualty simulations with mannequinsmocked up to look like combat victims with gunshot wounds, burns and amputations. The so-called golden hour for battlefield medical treatment is a cornerstone of U.S. military medicine. The term refers to the all-important 60 minutes following a battlefield wound and the critical importance of swift, effective medical care. MARINES 3D-PRINT CONCRETE BARRACKS IN JUST 40 HOURS Anything that helps speed up treatment could prove key to saving lives. For some patients, the Golden Hour is ultimately too long, these patients need to be treated within minutes. – Army Cpt .	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Middle schoolers havent developed the cognitive capacity of an adult to rationally understand the risk of firearms, and they likely cant tell the difference between having a loaded and unloaded gun, we know from Government Accountability Office reports that child safety programs dont work. As adults, we have a responsibility for safe stewardship of weapons. Expecting children to practice safe storage on our behalf just isnt responsible. With the recent school shootings and data from the American Academy of Pediatricsrevealing that 1,300 children die and more than 5,700 are treated for gunshot wounds each year, opponents say the schools decision is tone deaf. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP The school disagrees. Wehave conditions in this country that have made this a political debate and its really not a political debate for us we feel like were doing right for our community. – Kyleanne Hunter	Found on FOX News 5 years ago

I have been provided very little follow-up information regarding Roy’s death, it is still uncertain as to whether Roy died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, or if it occurred after an exchange of gunfire with the FBI.

– Joseph Murtha

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When officers exited their patrol vehicle to contact the occupant, they heard one gunshot coming from within the van, officers retreated and requested several tactical teams to respond.

– Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images Luna

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There are bodies with a rope around the neck, with hands tied, with broken limbs and with gunshot wounds. Several men had their genitals amputated, all this is evidence of the terrible torture to which the occupiers subjected the residents of Izium.

– Oleh Syniehubov

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Two patients arrived dead, one died in the emergency room, in the month of August alone, we managed six mass casualties in our hospital, with a total of almost 80 patients. Throughout the year, we have continued to receive gunshot injuries, shrapnel injuries, stabbing injuries, and victims of mine and IED explosions on a daily basis. The country is suffering the consequences of a very long conflict that has undermined its future.

– War Victims in Kabul

Found on CNN
1 year ago

My son is still recovering from gunshot wounds. It's hard sitting in that courtroom with a terrorist.

– Scott Olson/Getty Images

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It's hard, my son is still recovering from gunshot wounds. It's hard sitting in that courtroom with a terrorist.

– Zeneta Everhart

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It wasn't a split-second use of force like a gunshot.

– Assistant US Attorney Manda Sertich

Found on CNN
2 years ago

So things are clearly bad but they're being made even worse by the people who have refused to take the vaccine and are instead swallowing horse paste, the emergency room in one Oklahoma town is being overwhelmed by people overdosing on ivermectin, the horse deworming medication. It's gotten so bad that gunshot victims, gunshot victims, are having to wait to be treated.

– Joy Reid

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Far and away the gunshot wound to the chest was the most significant injury.

– Kim Potter

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I had a short conversation with him... He says that he was shot at, but the driver was hit... The car was shot with an automatic weapon, as far as I know. The driver received three gunshot wounds, he was hospitalized.

– David Arahamiya

Found on CNN
2 years ago

During the actual movie time, no one apparently heard the gunshot, i know that we do have security bag checks that we do on the daily and, unfortunately, I’m not sure if just was missed or if it was in a holster on their belt.

– Kailyn Dillon

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Details are limited in this investigation, it is not immediately clear how the child sustained the gunshot wound. The mother and father are being questioned by investigators. At this time, no formal charges have been filed.

– Birmingham Police Department

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Officers arrived and located multiple victims. At this time, we have a total of nine victims suffering from gunshot wounds as a result of the shooting, of the nine, one of the adult victims is deceased.

– Bianca Johnson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Gotham has fallen silent. The night is no longer broken by the sounds of crime. Children are no longer waken by the sudden crack of a gunshot. There are no more cries in the darkness. No tires screech as wailing sirens chase desperate men and women through narrow streets. In a way it is a Gotham I've always dreamed of. But this is no dream. This is a perversion. This is a nightmare. It is the silence of fear. A silence only broken by the sound of marching feet. A sound that echoes around the world. Marching feet. The rhyme of dictators. Our world is ruled by iron fist of the man of steel.

– Batman

added by Multiverse-Goddess
3 years ago

Several firearms were recovered at the scene. It is unknown at this time which weapons are associated with the gunshot wounds of the three victims.

– The GBI

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Chad Wolf, the acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, joined the ceremony to honor Underwood and to deliver an American flag to his family. Gov. Gavin Newsom sent an officer of the California Highway Patrol who presented the family with a California flag. In a separate video tribute, Wolf condemned the senseless cowardly violence that took Underwoods life. Officer Underwood gave his life protecting us and we owe him and his family and colleagues a debt of gratitude we will never be able to fully repay, said Wolf. George Phillips, childhood friend of slain Federal Protective Services Officer Dave Patrick Underwood, speaks during a memorial service for Underwood on Friday, June 19, 2020, in Pinole, Calif. Underwood was fatally shot as he was guarding the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building in Oakland, Calif., amid protests on May 29. (Associated Press) Underwood died from gunshot wounds in a drive-by shooting the night of May 29 as a protest in downtown Oakland that began peacefully sank into chaos. Underwood and a colleague were working that night as contract security officers for the Department of Homeland Securitys Federal Protective Service. Federal authorities say the shooter used the protest as cover for the crime. Authorities say that Underwood was targeted because he wore a uniform. Last week, the FBI announced murder charges against Air Force Staff Sgt. Steve Carrillo. Authorities say Carrillo used the same homemade AR-15-style rifle eight days later to kill a Santa Cruz deputy in a hail of gunfire that wounded four other officers. Carrillo faces separate state charges for the June 6 fatal shooting of Santa Cruz County sheriffs Sgt. Damon Gutzwiller. Authorities allege that Carrillo, 32, had ties to the far-right, anti-government boogaloo movement and had hatched a plan to target federal law enforcement officials during the Oakland protest. Colleagues described Underwood as hard-working, highly respected and conscientious. Friends and family talked of his hearty laugh, his personal style he was a sharp dresser and his giving heart. When he stopped playing baseball as an adult, he donated to local youth organizations, so he could help kids find joy in the sport he loved. Underwood was the kind of guy you went to for advice, his older sister said. Hed always say, Angie, believe in yourself. Work hard, and ask for what you want, which is exactly what our mom and dad would have said.

– Angela Underwood Jacobs

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Video footage captured from police body cameras shows Atlanta police officers talking with Rayshard Brooks moments before Rayshard Brooks was shot in a Wendys parking lot. Officer Devin Bronsan arrived inthe area after a 911 complaintof someone sleeping in a car. Rayshard Brooks said Rayshard Brooks drank a small amount of alcohol and was administered afield sobriety test. Hisblood-alcohol levelregistered at.108, above the.08 legal limit. I think youve had too much to drink to be driving, said Officer Garrett Rolfe, who responded to the scene after Officer Devin Bronsan, beforehe tried to arrest Rayshard Brooks. A struggle ensuedand the officers bodycams wereknocked to the ground. They could be heard yelling, Youre going to get Tased ! Stop fighting ! ATLANTA ERUPTS AFTER Rayshard Brooks DEATH PROMPTS POLICE CHIEF TO STEP DOWN This screen grab taken from body camera video provided by the Atlanta Police Department shows Rayshard Brooks speaking with Officer Garrett Rolfe in the parking lot of a Wendy's restaurant, late Friday, June 12, 2020, in Atlanta. Garrett Rolfe has been fired following the fatal shooting of Rayshard Brooks and a second officer has been placed on administrative duty. ( Atlanta Police Department via AP) At one point Rayshard Brooks appears to grab Bronsans Taser. Hands off Bronsans Taser ! an officer said. Rayshard Brooks fled from the officers and turnedaround with the stun gun before Rayshard Brooks was shot. It does appear in the video that Rayshard Brooks is fleeing from the Atlanta police officers, that as hes fleeing Rayshard Brooks turns back over Rayshard Brooks shoulder with what appears to the naked eye to be Rayshard Brooks Taser that the eyewitnesses told us they saw the individual have that belonged to one of the officers, Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Vic Reynolds said Saturday, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. An autopsy found that Rayshard Brooks suffered to two gunshot wounds to Rayshard Brooks back. The Fulton County Medical Examiner ruled Rayshard Brooks deatha homicide. Garrett Rolfe has not been charged in Rayshard Brooks death but was fired from the force Sunday. Cedric Alexander, the former public safety director of Dekalb County, Ga., who now works as a police consultant, told the Associated Press that the shooting will lead to questions over how officers could have defused the situation. Heres a man who took Dekalb County upon Cedric Alexander to pull off the road to take a nap.

– Cedric Alexander

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

It was frightening because I could hear the occasional gunshot...we waited a long time for the police to come and help us, many hours.

– Suvanarat Jirattanasakul

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It was frightening because I could hear the occasional gunshot ... we waited a long time for the police to come and help us, many hours.

– Suvanarat Jirattanasakul

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We got this little leopard with a gunshot wound, an operation was carried out and 18 shotgun pellets were removed, mainly from his forehead, eyes and sinuses.

– Saltanat Seitova

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

None of it really seems real right now. We were sitting here yesterday evening having drinks with my best friend's fiancé, i go home, go to bed, get woken up two hours later that he's deceased, and she held him till he took his last breath, and tried to bring him back and keep pressure on his gunshot wound. And it was just one fatal shot that took him from us.

– Shay Celedon

Found on CNN
4 years ago

She appeared to have died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, at this point it looks like she was alone and took her own life with the weapon she procured.

– Dean Phillips

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Before patient arrival, test participants with the 44th Medical Brigade studied patient information on the Medical Hands-free Unified Broadcast device. ( Ashley Force, U.S. Army) Testing of the device has been taking place at the U.S. Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory( USAARL) in Fort Rucker, Ala. The test, which examined how field hospital staff used the device, involved mass casualty simulations with mannequinsmocked up to look like combat victims with gunshot wounds, burns and amputations. The so-called golden hour for battlefield medical treatment is a cornerstone of U.S. military medicine. The term refers to the all-important 60 minutes following a battlefield wound and the critical importance of swift, effective medical care. MARINES 3D-PRINT CONCRETE BARRACKS IN JUST 40 HOURS Anything that helps speed up treatment could prove key to saving lives. For some patients, the Golden Hour is ultimately too long, these patients need to be treated within minutes.

– Army Cpt .

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Middle schoolers havent developed the cognitive capacity of an adult to rationally understand the risk of firearms, and they likely cant tell the difference between having a loaded and unloaded gun, we know from Government Accountability Office reports that child safety programs dont work. As adults, we have a responsibility for safe stewardship of weapons. Expecting children to practice safe storage on our behalf just isnt responsible. With the recent school shootings and data from the American Academy of Pediatricsrevealing that 1,300 children die and more than 5,700 are treated for gunshot wounds each year, opponents say the schools decision is tone deaf. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP The school disagrees. Wehave conditions in this country that have made this a political debate and its really not a political debate for us we feel like were doing right for our community.

– Kyleanne Hunter

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

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