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Anthony McRae Michigan State Shooter Kills 3

Anthony McRae is a man who earlier would head to Michigan State University and kill three people and critically injured five more. According to police reports Anthony McRae would go to the campus of Michigan State University and open fire killing three people and injuring five more. After a intense manhunt police would get a tip from Lansing Michigan regarding Anthony McRae who would be found dead from a self inflicted gunshot wound. Police are still attempting to figure out what preceded the mass shooting.

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A tip from a member of the public led Lansing law enforcement to the man who opened fire on Michigan State University, killing three students and critically wounding five more, police revealed Tuesday.

Anthony McRae, 43, was located “shortly after” the on-campus shooting, and was found to have died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound in an off-campus area within hours.

“It was a caller’s tip that led law enforcement to that suspect in the city of Lansing,” Michigan State University Police and Public Safety Deputy Chief Chris Rozman said Tuesday.

Investigators began scouring surveillance footage as the bloodshed unfolded Monday night, and quickly located an image of the suspect, which they then immediately disseminated to the public, Rozman told reporters during a Tuesday morning press conference.

“It was shortly after we released it that he was recognized by an alert citizen,” Rozman said. “And that was exactly what we were trying to achieve by releasing that picture, was to generate immediate tips for this person that was mobile, that we had no idea where he was at that point.”

Police said late Monday three people were killed and five more were critically wounded after the gunman opened fire inside one of the college’s on-campus academic halls.

Four of the five surviving wounded victims required surgery. Officials have not yet identified the victims, but said they would be doing so later Tuesday.

Anthony McRae is not affiliated with the university, and police are still working to “ascertain his place of residence” and his hometown, Rozman said. Investigators currently have “absolutely no idea” of his motive.

According to police, Anthony McRae opened fire shortly before 8:30 p.m. inside Michigan State University’s Berkey Hall, an academic building in the northern portion of campus.

“We had officers in that building within minutes and in that building they encountered several students who were injured,” Rozman said. He confirmed that two of the students were slain inside Berkey Hall, along with several of the surviving victims.

The university ordered its students to shelter in place shortly thereafter.

“While the officers were managing that scene at Berkey Hall, we began receiving additional reports of another shooting at the MSU Union building just to the west of Berkey Hall,” Rozman went on.

The third student was found killed inside the student union, which is “within very close proximity to Berkey Hall,” he said.

“The suspect actually quickly fled that building,” Rozman said.

Hundreds of law enforcement officers from the FBI, local and state police and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives descended upon the crime scene.

James Tarasca, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Detroit Field Office, said Tuesday the bureau deployed agents, analysts and specialty teams in the wake of the shooting.

Investigators located Anthony McRae – and a weapon – around 11:35 p.m., officials said. Rozman would not disclose the location where police found McRae, but confirmed police did execute a search warrant on “a residence that was connected to the suspect.”

Dr. Denny Martin, interim president of Sparrow Hospital, where victims are recovering, broke down as he explained the work of his staff in the aftermath of the shooting.

“I can’t speak to anything about the identity of the individuals,” he said. The facility is treating the five surviving victims, all of whom remained hospitalized. “Everyone is in critical condition at this time, but actively being cared for by our team.”

The university has canceled classes until Monday morning and is offering counseling and support services to grieving students in need, officials said.

MSU boasts 17,000 on-campus students and 50,000 students university-wide.

“This is the morning that nobody ever wants to have. This is the day that nobody ever wants to be standing up at a lectern,” Lansing Mayor Andy Schor said.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/michigan-state-university-shooter-anthony-mcrae-found-dead-callers-tip-police-officials-say

El Paso Shooter Patrick Crusius Sentenced To 90 Life Terms

Patrick Crusius is the man responsible for a mass shooting at an El Paso Texas Walmart that left twenty three people dead and many injured back in 2019. Now Patrick Crusius has plead guilty to ninety Federal charges including 23 counts of hate crime that resulted in death and 22 counts of hate crime that resulted in severe injury. Patrick Crusius was quickly sentenced to ninety life sentences that are to be served consecutively meaning he will never be free again. Patrick Crusius agreed to plea guilty to the charges after Federal prosecutors took the death penalty off of the table

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A Texas man pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal hate crime and weapons charges in the racist attack at an El Paso Walmart in 2019, which prosecutors say was preceded by the gunman posting an online screed that warned of a “Hispanic invasion.”

Patrick Crusius, 24, showed little emotion while shackled in an El Paso courtroom just a few miles from the store where he was accused of killing 23 people, including citizens of Mexico, in what remains one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history.

Sentencing is not scheduled until later this year, but the U.S. government had previously announced it wouldn’t seek the death penalty. Crusius waived most of his rights to appeal on a total of 90 federal charges, which U.S. District Judge David Guaderrama said would each carry a life sentence.

“I plead guilty,” he said.

Crusius had originally pleaded not guilty before federal prosecutors took the death penalty off the table. He could still receive the death penalty, however, under separate state capital murder charges in Texas, although it remains unclear when that case might go to trial.

Albert Hernandez, whose sister and brother-in-law were killed in the attack, was one of about 40 people with close ties to the victims in the court gallery. He called Crusius a coward who was trying to “save his own skin” by pleading guilty in federal court.

“This guy knew what he was doing. It was premeditated,” Hernandez said of the shooting. “He came here to take care of business.”

Crusius surrendered to police after the massacre, saying, “I’m the shooter, ” and that he was targeting Mexicans, according to court records. Prosecutors have said he drove more than 10 hours from his hometown near Dallas to the largely Latino border city and published a document online shortly before the shooting that said it was “in response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas.”

The Aug. 3, 2019, shooting happened on a busy weekend at a Walmart that is typically popular with shoppers from Mexico and the U.S. In addition to those killed, more than two dozen were injured, and hundreds more were scarred by being present or having a loved one hurt.

Prosecutors presented a detailed narrative of the attack during Wednesday’s plea hearing, describing how it began with a pedestrian gunned down in the parking lot before Crusius, wearing earmuffs that mute the sound of gunfire, opened fire at people at a fundraiser for a soccer team.

As Crusius moved inside the store, prosecutors said, nine people were cornered and shot to death at a bank near the entrance. Among them were husband and wife Jordan and Andre Anchondo, whose infant son survived with broken bones in a hand.

It’s also where gunfire cut down Margie Reckard, whose August 2019 funeral drew thousands of sympathizers from as far away as California and across the border in Mexico – after her husband announced that he was alone with almost no family left and invited the world to attend.

The killing continued as Crusius fired his assault rifle down multiple aisles, according to prosecutors. Exiting Walmart, he fired on a passing car, killing an elderly man and wounding his wife.

Former El Paso Mayor Dee Margo attended the plea hearing and called it a “gut-wrencher.”

“We have an evil white supremacist who showed up and attacked us for who we are,” he said.

After the hearing, defense attorney Joe Spencer said Crusius wanted to accept responsibility. “There are no winners in this case,” he said.

Prosecutors say Crusius consented after surrendering to two videotaped interviews with detectives and the FBI on Aug. 3 and providing two thumb drives that contained his racist writings and other records.

Crusius’ writings before the shooting echoed both the anti-immigration rhetoric of American politics and racist screeds put out by other mass shooters in the U.S. and abroad.

More than three years after the shooting, the description of an “invasion” on the U.S.-Mexico border has continued in American politics. Critics have condemned the characterization as anti-immigrant and dangerous in the aftermath of El Paso and other racially motivated attacks.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, has recently embraced using the word “invasion” while authorizing a series of hardline immigration measures. In November, Abbott sent a letter to state police and the Texas National Guard with the subject line “Defend Texas Against Invasion.”

Abbott has defended his statements by saying he is invoking language included in the U.S. Constitution. Some legal scholars have called it a misreading of the clause.

“If this is not an invasion, what is it?” Abbott asked CNN’s Jake Tapper during an interview last month. “Think about the volume of people coming across the border.”

America’s Voice, an immigration reform group, said it tracked more than 80 Republican candidates during last year’s midterm elections who amplified what they called “invasion” and “replacement” conspiracies.

“I think it’s been creeping over the years,” said Zachary Mueller, political director of America’s Voice. “What I would say is that in 2021, there was a marked shift where it went from the fringes of the Republican Party into the mainstream of the Republican Party.”

A database of mass killings in the U.S. since 2006 compiled by The Associated Press, USA Today, and Northeastern University shows that the number of deadly mass shootings linked to hate crimes has increased in recent years. Among 13 prominent instances, the 2019 Walmart shooting was the deadliest. The database tracks every mass killing – defined as four dead, not including the offender – in the U.S. since 2006.

https://abc13.com/el-paso-walmart-shooting-2019-suspect-patrick-crusiu/12788962/

Payton Gendron To Plead Guilty To Buffalo Massacre

Payton Gendron the eighteen year old responsible for the Buffalo massacre that saw ten people killed and three others injured is going to plead guilty to State charges. Now Payton Gendron is still facing Federal hate crime charges though if he is pleading guilty to State charges he will most likely do the same at the Federal levels. Payton Gendron who was charged with 10 counts of first-degree murder, 10 counts of second-degree murder as a hate crime and three counts of attempted murder as a hate crime. Payton Gendron who travelled to Buffalo New York to a predominantly black area would open fire at a grocery store killing ten people and injuring three more.

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alleged mass shooter charged with killing 10 people in what prosecutors called a racially motivated attack at a Buffalo, New York, grocery store earlier this year is expected to plead guilty to state charges Monday, according to a victims’ attorney.

Payton Gendron is scheduled to appear in court at 9:30 a.m. ET, where he is expected to enter guilty pleas on all 25 counts in a state indictment, Terrence Connors, who represents the families of seven people who were killed in the shooting and two who were injured, told CNN earlier this month. The suspect previously pleaded not guilty.

The hearing was originally scheduled for last Monday but was postponed due to a snowstorm in the Buffalo area.

Payton Gendron is charged with 10 counts of first-degree murder, 10 counts of second-degree murder as a hate crime and three counts of attempted murder as a hate crime, according to the indictment. He also faces a domestic terror charge and a weapons charge, the indictment shows.

Investigators believe the suspected gunman targeted the victims, ages 20-86, based on race. Authorities have said he traveled from hours away to carry out the attack on May 14 at the Tops Friendly Markets, which is in a predominantly Black community. Eleven of the 13 people shot were Black and two were White, officials said.

If convicted on the state charges, Payton Gendron faces life in prison without parole, the only sentence for the domestic terror charge, Erie County District Attorney John Flynn said in June. To use this charge, prosecutors must prove five or more individuals were murdered with the intent of racial motivation, he added.

When reached by CNN earlier this month, the suspect’s attorney, Dan DuBois, was not permitted to comment because of a gag order in the case, he said. The Erie County District Attorney’s Office, which is prosecuting the case, is also under a gag order and declined to comment at the time.

“This is a remarkable group of families that I speak for,” Connors said when announcing the suspect’s plan to plead guilty. “The tragedy is still heavy in their hearts, but they’ve turned this nightmare into positive action. From their standpoint, he has become irrelevant to their lives. Their lives have become about making something positive from this horrible tragedy.”

The suspect also faces multiple federal hate crime charges, which carry the potential for the death penalty, in addition to several firearms charges.

Federal prosecutors argue the alleged gunman’s motive was to “prevent Black people from replacing white people and eliminating the white race, and to inspire others to commit similar attacks,” according to a criminal complaint.

Payton Gendron has pleaded not guilty to the federal charges.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said following the attack that the AR-15 style rifle used in the shooting was legally purchased in New York State, but was modified with a high-capacity magazine, which is not legal in the state.

Payton Gendron Pleads Guilty

The gunman who killed 10 people and wounded three in May in a racist attack at a grocery store in a predominantly Black neighborhood of Buffalo, New York, pleaded guilty Monday to state charges of domestic terrorism as a hate crime, murder and attempted murder.

Payton Gendron, a 19-year-old White man, pleaded guilty to one count of domestic act of terrorism motivated by hate, 10 counts of first-degree murder, three counts of attempted murder and a weapons possession charge in the mass shooting at Tops Friendly Markets on May 14. The charges come with a mandatory sentence of life in prison without the chance of parole.

Payton Gendron wore a red jumpsuit and had his hands cuffed in front of him in court Monday. He answered “yes” or “no” to several questions affirming he understood why he was pleading guilty and, on the individual counts, said the word “guilty.” He showed no emotion during the hearing.

The guilty plea ensures there will be no state trial and Gendron will not appeal, defense attorney Brian Parker said afterward.

“This critical step represents a condemnation of the racist ideology that fueled his horrific actions on May 14. Before he is sentenced to life without the possibility of parole on February 15, the surviving victims and deceased victims’ family members will all have a chance to address the court, the community and our client directly,” he said. “It is our hope that a final resolution of the state charges will help in some small way to keep the focus on the needs of the victims and the community.

Erie County District Attorney John Flynn described the attack as a racist hate crime and outlined the timeline of the mass killing.

“In just over two minutes the defendant, with the intent to murder as many African Americans as he could, killed 10 innocent Black people and attempted to kill three others,” Flynn said in a news conference after the hearing.

The guilty plea comes six months after Gendron used an illegally modified semiautomatic rifle to carry out the mass shooting. Flynn said he got a letter from the defense a few weeks ago saying the defendant was willing to plead guilty.

The victims, including customers, employees and an armed security guard, ranged in age from 20 to 86. Eleven of the 13 people shot were Black and two were White, officials said.

Social media posts and a lengthy document written by the gunman reveal he had been planning his attack for months and had visited the Tops supermarket several times previously. He posted that he chose Tops because it was in a particular ZIP code in Buffalo that had the highest percentage of Black people close enough to where he lived in Conklin, New York.

The document outlined his goals for the attack, according to Flynn: “To kill as many African Americans as possible, avoid dying and spread ideals.”

Payton Gendron also faces multiple federal hate crime charges, which carry the potential for the death penalty, in addition to several firearms charges. He has pleaded not guilty to the federal charges.

Flynn on Monday outside court laid out the evidence against Gendron, which was primarily based on surveillance video from the Tops supermarket and from a camera attached to Gendron’s helmet that was live-streaming the attack.

Payton Gendron arrived to the grocery store with a modified semiautomatic rifle and targeted people because they were Black, Flynn said. At one point, Gendron pointed his rifle at a White man but did not kill him and said “sorry” because the man was White, “thus further demonstrating the defendant’s racially motivated attack,” Flynn said.

Gendron shot four people outside the grocery store and nine more inside before surrendering to Buffalo Police officers who responded to the scene, according to the indictment.

The state charge of terrorism motivated by hate, passed in 2020, had never been used before in New York.

“No individual in the history of the state of New York has been found guilty of domestic terrorism charge motivated by hate until today,” he said.

He made the case that the gunman had not achieved his goals.

“This racist murderer did not fulfill what he set out to accomplish. He failed. He failed miserably because today this city, this community, is stronger and better than it ever was, and we have shown the world that racism has no part in our community.”

Andre Bing Identified As Walmart Shooter

Andre Bing has been identified as the Walmart shooter that left six people dead and others injured in Virginia on Tuesday night. According to police reports Andre Bing was an overnight team lead and had been with Walmart for over a decade. At the time of the shooting in the Walmart break room there were fifty employees present when Andre Bing opened the door and began to fire killing six people and injuring four more before turning the gun on himself.

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Several coworkers of the Walmart supervisor suspected of committing the deadly rampage inside a Chesapeake, Virginia, store said the shooter had exhibited odd and threatening behavior in the past.

Andre Bing, the suspected gunman who worked as a night shift team leader, could be gruff with fellow employees and expressed paranoid views about the government, according to interviews with coworkers.

“He said a lot of disturbing things,” said Donya Prioleau, who said she was in the employee break room when Bing entered and opened fire unexpectedly.

“We don’t know what made him do this,” she said. “None of us can understand why it happened.”

She said Bing “came in, shot three of my friends … before I took off running. Half of us didn’t believe it was real until some of us saw all the blood on the floor.”

In the past, Prioleau said, Bing could be “condescending when he spoke to us. He didn’t have good communication skills. He was quite mean to a lot of us.”

Shaundrayia Reese, who worked with Bing from 2015 to 2018, described him as a loner.

“He was always saying the government was watching him. He didn’t like social media and he kept black tape on his phone camera. Everyone always thought something was wrong with him,” Reese said.

A video Reese says she took in 2016 shows a man she identifies as Bing talking to people before realizing he’s being filmed and walking away.

“He didn’t like to be recorded,” Reese said. “He was always scared that the government was listening.”

Joshua Johnson, who worked as a maintenance worker at the store until 2019, also told CNN that Bing had previously issued ominous threats if he ever lost his job.

“He said if he ever got fired from his job he would retaliate and people would remember who he was,” Johnson said.

Neither Johnson nor Reese reported any concerns about Bing to management, they said.

According to Johnson, Bing had problems with some of the maintenance workers and would threaten to write them up if they didn’t follow his orders.

Chesapeake Police Chief Mark Solesky said there is no clear motive for the shooting known at this time.

Walmart confirmed Bing was an employee and said in a statement the company was “thankful for the local first responders and will continue to work with local law enforcement as they continue their investigation.”

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/23/us/andre-bing-walmart-shooting-invs

Chesapeake Virginia Walmart Shooting Leaves 6 Dead

A shooting at a Chesapeake Virginia Walmart has left six people dead. According to police reports a Walmart employee would open fire at 10:10pm in a staff break room leaving six people dead and four others injured. The gunman apparently than fatally shot himself. According to one witness the gunman apparently opened the door to the break room and immediately began to fire. This story is still breaking an other than where he was employed little is known about the Walmart gunman so far.

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A mass shooting at a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia Tuesday night that left six people dead was carried out by one of the store’s employees before he took his own life by turning the gun on himself, the Chesapeake Police Department says.

Chesapeake Police Chief Mark Solesky told reporters Wednesday morning that the male employee used a pistol in the attack, which also left four other people hospitalized.

Their conditions are currently unknown, and following a search by a SWAT team at the individual’s home, police believe there is “no risk to the public at this time,” Solesky added.

The employee has not been identified, as police say they have yet to contact his next of kin. Prior to the shooting, officials say he was not familiar to law enforcement. He died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police say.

The investigation is still ongoing,” Solesky said. “We will be processing that scene for days.”

The comments from the police chief come after a video emerged of an employee claiming a store manager carried out the mass shooting.

Kevin Harper, a Walmart employee who managed to flee the store, said in a video that “we lost a few of our associates.”

“I just left out of the break room, the manager comes in there and started capping people up in there. Started shooting bro,” Harper said.

Employee Briana Tyler said that workers had gathered in the store’s break room as they typically did ahead of their shifts.

“I looked up, and my manager just opened the door and he just opened fire,” she told ABC’s “Good Morning America,” adding that “multiple people” dropped to the floor.

“He didn’t say a word, he didn’t say anything at all,” she said.

Chesapeake police said earlier they responded to an “active shooter” call at the store located along Battlefield Blvd. at approximately 10:12 p.m. When officers arrived, they coordinated with a tactical team to enter the store, where they found multiple bodies, said Chesapeake police spokesman Leo Kosinski.

The shooting happened inside the store, but police confirmed at least one body was found at its entrance, Kosinski said at a briefing.

Over 35 to 40 minutes later, officers walked throughout the store, where they found multiple people dead and rescued other victims, he added.

“It’s sad. We’re a couple of days before the Thanksgiving holiday,” Kosinski said.

The City of Chesapeake confirmed at least seven fatalities, including the lone gunman, but said many details are pending the police investigation.

“We’re only a few hours into the response, so we don’t have all the answers yet. Chesapeake Police continue their investigation into the active shooter event at Walmart on Sam’s Circle. We do know there are multiple fatalities plus injuries and the shooter is confirmed dead,” a tweet read.

Walmart, Inc. said it was “shocked” by the shooting and that it was cooperating with law enforcement efforts.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/chesapeake-virginia-walmart-shooting-leaves-multiple-people-dead-police