Shooter had long history with City Hall
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Charles Lee "Cookie" Thornton always seemed to be fighting City Hall. Even before he shot and killed five people at a City Council meeting, thousands of dollars in parking tickets and citations piled up against the asphalt company owner. He raged at meetings over the years that he was being persecuted, mocking city officials as "jackasses" and accusing them of having a racist "plantation mentality."
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. Sept. 21, 2004 - Police scoured the city for a 24-year-old man accused of marching into the state Capitol, gunning down an unarmed security guard and fleeing.
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Police shot and killed a gunman outside Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter's office in the state capitol on Monday after he brandished his weapon and made a threat, authorities said.
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A gunman fatally shot three people at a business meeting before turning the gun on himself Monday night in an office building at the old Philadelphia Navy Yard, police said.
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JERUSALEM -- An Israeli court yesterday sentenced a Jewish settler to eight years in prison over membership in what it called a Jewish terrorist underground that killed eight Palestinians. After his arrest last year, Shahar Dvir Zeliger, 28, led investigators to caves in the West Bank where the group kept weapons, which were used in the deadly shootings. In September ...
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Mayor Frank Melton came into office like a Wild West marshal sworn to clean up the town. But somewhere along the line, prosecutors say, the crimefighting mayor crossed over from lawman to vigilante.
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The Baseline Killer sometimes strikes up a conversation just before he attacks, authorities said Wednesday as they released new information about one of the two serial killers stalking the city.
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SALT LAKE CITY, Utah  - The gunman who shot dead five people in a Salt Lake City shopping mall rampage was an 18-year-old Bosnian refugee, but his motive was a mystery, police said on Tuesday.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- The gunman believed to have killed four people at a megachurch and a missionary training school had been thrown out of the school a few years ago and had been sending it hate mail, police said in court papers Monday.
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Ford City native Laurie Winnell said she didn&#39;t recognize the sound of gunfire Wednesday night as she headed to her seat at the heavy metal band rock show in Columbus, Ohio, in which a gunman killed four people before police shot him.
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A judge from a suburban county has been appointed to preside over the murder trial of accused courthouse shooter Brian Nichols
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The gunman who went on a deadly shooting spree in a downtown high-rise law office went to the building in search of an attorney because he felt cheated over an invention, authorities said Saturday.
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Federal agents investigating the April 16 shootings at Virginia Tech think Seung Hui Cho displayed many of the same characteristics of a criminal behavioral profile called the "Collector of Injustice," or someone who considers any misfortune against him the fault or responsibility of others.
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A lore has grown up around the man in paper targets at police firing ranges, giving birth to multiple theories on who he is.
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Across the country, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, a Republican, has emerged as the face of gun control.
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John Hinckley, left, arrives at Federal Court in Washington guarded by US Marshals in this Sept. 2, 2003, file photo. Hinckley, 48, the man who shot President Reagan in 1981, says his mental condition has
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By Jennifer Latson, Daily Press, Newport News, Va.  Jun. 25--NEWPORT NEWS -- Newport News Commonwealth's Attorney Howard Gwynn ruled this afternoon that a police officer who shot and killed a man in February was justified in the shooting.