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Saturday, 7 November 2009
Schools were closed, streets deserted, and checkpoints set up at entrances to Fort Hood last night, as investigators tried to establish how a lone gunman was able to plan and carry out one of the most deadly killing sprees in US military history.
The Crime Exchange
Saturday, 7 November 2009
Our correspondent swaps places with his Baltimore Sun counterpart. Minutes after I arrived, writes Mark Hughes, I was at the scene of a shooting...
Sacked ex-employee goes on shooting spree
Saturday, 7 November 2009
A sacked employee went on a shooting spree in a US office complex, killing one person and injuring five others before being caught by police.
Military base gunman remains in critical coma
Saturday, 7 November 2009
The military psychiatrist responsible for a shooting spree that left 13 dead remained in a coma today, frustrating attempts to work out what made him kill.
'People were off guard in the base'
Saturday, 7 November 2009
It is in the heart of Texas gun country, but Ford Hood is the last place one would expect a massacre to take place, said a former British Army officer who served in the vast military base.
Honduran 'unity' cabinet collapses
Saturday, 7 November 2009
An agreement to end a four-month political crisis in Honduras collapsed early yesterday after the two rival leaders failed to form a unity cabinet to heal the damage from a coup in June.
Officer 'shouted Allahu Akbar' before rampage
Friday, 6 November 2009
The military psychiatrist was today being investigated for alleged links to extremist websites as he remained on a life-support machine.
Troubling portrait emerges of Fort Hood suspect
Friday, 6 November 2009
His name appears on radical Internet postings. A fellow officer says he fought his deployment to Iraq and argued with soldiers who supported US wars. He required counseling as a medical student because of problems with patients.
US gun rampage search leads to web extremists
Friday, 6 November 2009
A US officer who killed 13 soldiers in a gun rampage at a Texas army base was being investigated for links to extremist websites.
Gunman kills one in Orlando shooting
Friday, 6 November 2009
A gunman opened fire in the offices of his former workplace, killing one person and injuring five others.
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