This blog post is part of the A to Z challenge, and yes, there is a "Z" shooting.
This account is from CNN. (https://www.cnn.com/2015/10/18/us/zombicon-shooting-fort-myers-florida/index.html)
October 18, 2015.
ZombiCon is a festival that features bands and DJs performing on stage in the downtown area to people dressed in zombie costumes. Festivalgoers could enter the event through six different points in exchange for a $5 donation to Pushing Daizies, the local artists' charity that organizes it.
"Chaos broke out at the festival in downtown Fort Myers, Florida, after shooting left one man dead and five other people wounded.
Crowds of festivalgoers fled screaming through the streets after the shots rang out late Saturday at ZombiCon. One man died of a gunshot wound at the scene, police said, and five other people suffered non-life-threatening injuries. Four of them were taken to Lee Memorial Hospital for treatment.
There were initial reports that four people were wounded, but police said Sunday that they found another shooting victim who had refused medical attention."
Killed:
Expavious Tyrell Taylor, 20
And the News-Press offers this:
https://www.news-press.com/story/news/crime/2018/02/26/fort-myers-police-announced-arrest-made-2015-fatal-zombicon-shooting-case/373357002/
"After combing through thousands of tips, scanning hundreds of hours of grainy security and cellphone video and talking to countless witnesses, Fort Myers police and the FBI brought the nearly two-and-a-half-year-old Zombicon shooting into the light again with an arrest of a man on Feb. 26, 2018."
I made it, through the entire month, and the entire alphabet. It has been a sad process but overall I am glad I picked this theme - it got stuck in my head in late February and I couldn't let it go.
Viridian
Monday, April 30, 2018
Saturday, April 28, 2018
Y is for San Ysidro McDonald's massacre
This blog entry is part of the A to Z challenge.
This account is from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Ysidro_McDonald%27s_massacre)
The San Ysidro McDonald's massacre was a mass shooting that occurred in and around a McDonald's restaurant in the San Diego neighborhood of San Ysidro on July 18, 1984. The perpetrator shot and killed 21 people and injured 19 others before being fatally shot by a SWAT team sniper.
At approximately 3:56 p.m. on July 18, the perpetrator drove his black Mercury Marquis sedan into the parking lot of the McDonald's restaurant on San Ysidro Boulevard. In his possession were a 9mm Browning HP semi-automatic pistol, a 9mm Uzi carbine, a Winchester 1200 12 gauge pump-action shotgun, and a cloth bag filled with hundreds of rounds of ammunition for each weapon. A total of 50 customers were present inside the restaurant.
The details are painful to read. The shooter methodically shot patrons, including those trying to hide, including children. Some minutes later, a SWAT sniper perched on a roof obtained an unobstructed view of the shooter from the neck down for a few seconds; he fired a single round, killing him.
The incident had lasted for 78 minutes, during which time the perpetrator fired a minimum of 245 rounds of ammunition, killing 20 people and wounding 20 others, one of whom died the following day. Seventeen of the victims were killed inside the restaurant and four in the immediate vicinity.
Killed:
Elsa Herlinda Borboa-Fierro (19)
Neva Denise Caine (22)
Michelle Deanne Carncross (18)
María Elena Colmenero-Silva (19)
Gloria López González (22)
Blythe Regan Herrera (31)
Mateo Herrera (11)
Paulina Aquino López (21)
Margarita Padilla (18)
Claudia Perez (9)
Jose Rubén Lozano Perez (19)
Carlos Reyes (8 months)
Jackie Lynn Wright Reyes (18)
Victor Maxmillian Rivera (25)
Arisdelsi Vuelvas Vargas (31)
Hugo Luis Velazquez Vasquez (45)
Laurence Herman Versluis (62)
David Flores Delgado (11)
Omarr Alonso Hernandez (11)
Miguel Victoria Ulloa (74)
Aida Velazquez Victoria (69)
19 other people were injured, some seriously.
Remember the victims.
Viridian
This account is from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Ysidro_McDonald%27s_massacre)
The San Ysidro McDonald's massacre was a mass shooting that occurred in and around a McDonald's restaurant in the San Diego neighborhood of San Ysidro on July 18, 1984. The perpetrator shot and killed 21 people and injured 19 others before being fatally shot by a SWAT team sniper.
At approximately 3:56 p.m. on July 18, the perpetrator drove his black Mercury Marquis sedan into the parking lot of the McDonald's restaurant on San Ysidro Boulevard. In his possession were a 9mm Browning HP semi-automatic pistol, a 9mm Uzi carbine, a Winchester 1200 12 gauge pump-action shotgun, and a cloth bag filled with hundreds of rounds of ammunition for each weapon. A total of 50 customers were present inside the restaurant.
The details are painful to read. The shooter methodically shot patrons, including those trying to hide, including children. Some minutes later, a SWAT sniper perched on a roof obtained an unobstructed view of the shooter from the neck down for a few seconds; he fired a single round, killing him.
The incident had lasted for 78 minutes, during which time the perpetrator fired a minimum of 245 rounds of ammunition, killing 20 people and wounding 20 others, one of whom died the following day. Seventeen of the victims were killed inside the restaurant and four in the immediate vicinity.
Killed:
Elsa Herlinda Borboa-Fierro (19)
Neva Denise Caine (22)
Michelle Deanne Carncross (18)
María Elena Colmenero-Silva (19)
Gloria López González (22)
Blythe Regan Herrera (31)
Mateo Herrera (11)
Paulina Aquino López (21)
Margarita Padilla (18)
Claudia Perez (9)
Jose Rubén Lozano Perez (19)
Carlos Reyes (8 months)
Jackie Lynn Wright Reyes (18)
Victor Maxmillian Rivera (25)
Arisdelsi Vuelvas Vargas (31)
Hugo Luis Velazquez Vasquez (45)
Laurence Herman Versluis (62)
David Flores Delgado (11)
Omarr Alonso Hernandez (11)
Miguel Victoria Ulloa (74)
Aida Velazquez Victoria (69)
19 other people were injured, some seriously.
Remember the victims.
Viridian
Friday, April 27, 2018
X is for the Xerox shooting
This post is part of the A to Z challenge.
This account is from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_murders).
The Xerox shooting was an incident of mass murder that occurred on November 2, 1999, in a Xerox Corporation building in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States.
At 8:00 in the morning a service technician working at Xerox opened fire inside the building with a semi-automatic pistol, killing his supervisor and six co-workers, and fired in the direction of another co-worker who fled the building. The eighth person escaped injury.
After the shooting, the shooter fled in a company van, and by mid-morning, he was found sitting in the van near the Hawaii Nature Center in Makiki, above downtown Honolulu. He held a standoff with police that lasted for five hours, during which he brandished a pistol, read magazines and smoked cigarettes. Adding to the tension of the standoff, the Hawaii Nature Center was hosting thirty-five local school children, who were trapped inside without food or water. The shooter surrendered to police at approximately 3:00 p.m. He eventually was tried and convicted of the murders.
Killed:
Jason Balatico, 33
Ford Kanehira, 41
Ronald Kataoka, 50
Ronald Kawamae, 54
Melvin Lee, 58
Peter Mark, 46
John Sakamoto, 36
After this event, the HI state legislature passed a law that requires doctors to reveal information about the mental state of persons applying to buy guns.
Viridian
This account is from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_murders).
The Xerox shooting was an incident of mass murder that occurred on November 2, 1999, in a Xerox Corporation building in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States.
At 8:00 in the morning a service technician working at Xerox opened fire inside the building with a semi-automatic pistol, killing his supervisor and six co-workers, and fired in the direction of another co-worker who fled the building. The eighth person escaped injury.
After the shooting, the shooter fled in a company van, and by mid-morning, he was found sitting in the van near the Hawaii Nature Center in Makiki, above downtown Honolulu. He held a standoff with police that lasted for five hours, during which he brandished a pistol, read magazines and smoked cigarettes. Adding to the tension of the standoff, the Hawaii Nature Center was hosting thirty-five local school children, who were trapped inside without food or water. The shooter surrendered to police at approximately 3:00 p.m. He eventually was tried and convicted of the murders.
Killed:
Jason Balatico, 33
Ford Kanehira, 41
Ronald Kataoka, 50
Ronald Kawamae, 54
Melvin Lee, 58
Peter Mark, 46
John Sakamoto, 36
After this event, the HI state legislature passed a law that requires doctors to reveal information about the mental state of persons applying to buy guns.
Viridian
Thursday, April 26, 2018
W is for the Waffle house shooting
This blog entry is part of the A to Z challenge.
I am blogging mass shootings in the USA - Remember the victims.
Unfortunately I have several chocies for the letter W.
The shooting on Nov. 1 2015 at Winston-Salem State University? (http://www.wxii12.com/article/student-killed-student-injured-in-shooting-on-winston-salem-state-university-campus/2061345) Or at Wake Forest University, Jan. 20, 2018? (http://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2018/01/wfu-shooting-0129) Or the shooting at the Washington Navy Yard, Sept. 16, 2013? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Navy_Yard_shooting)
Sadly, current events lead me to Waffle House, Nashville TN.
This account is from Wikipedia. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashville_Waffle_House_shooting)
On April 22, 2018, a mass shooting occurred at an American Waffle House restaurant in the Antioch neighborhood of Nashville, Tennessee. Four were killed and two were injured from gunshots. Two others were cut by broken glass. The suspected shooter was captured on April 23, ending a 34-hour manhunt.
The gunman used a AR-15 style rifle. He fatally shot two people outside the Waffle House. He then went inside the restaurant and continued to fire, killing a third person and fatally injuring a fourth, who died at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, with four others being treated for related injuries. One customer who suffered a bullet graze wound, 29-year-old James Shaw Jr., hid near the restaurant's bathrooms, rushed the shooter, and wrestled the rifle away. The gunman then fled on foot, leaving behind his rifle and ammunition. He was eventually caught.
Killed:
Taurean C. Sanderlin
Joe R. Perez
DeEbony Groves
Akilah DaSilva
Remember the victims.
Viridian
I am blogging mass shootings in the USA - Remember the victims.
Unfortunately I have several chocies for the letter W.
The shooting on Nov. 1 2015 at Winston-Salem State University? (http://www.wxii12.com/article/student-killed-student-injured-in-shooting-on-winston-salem-state-university-campus/2061345) Or at Wake Forest University, Jan. 20, 2018? (http://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2018/01/wfu-shooting-0129) Or the shooting at the Washington Navy Yard, Sept. 16, 2013? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Navy_Yard_shooting)
Sadly, current events lead me to Waffle House, Nashville TN.
This account is from Wikipedia. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashville_Waffle_House_shooting)
On April 22, 2018, a mass shooting occurred at an American Waffle House restaurant in the Antioch neighborhood of Nashville, Tennessee. Four were killed and two were injured from gunshots. Two others were cut by broken glass. The suspected shooter was captured on April 23, ending a 34-hour manhunt.
The gunman used a AR-15 style rifle. He fatally shot two people outside the Waffle House. He then went inside the restaurant and continued to fire, killing a third person and fatally injuring a fourth, who died at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, with four others being treated for related injuries. One customer who suffered a bullet graze wound, 29-year-old James Shaw Jr., hid near the restaurant's bathrooms, rushed the shooter, and wrestled the rifle away. The gunman then fled on foot, leaving behind his rifle and ammunition. He was eventually caught.
Killed:
Taurean C. Sanderlin
Joe R. Perez
DeEbony Groves
Akilah DaSilva
Remember the victims.
Viridian
Wednesday, April 25, 2018
V is for Virginia Tech
This entry is part of the A to Z challenge.
This account is from Wikipedia.
The Virginia Tech shooting, also known as the Virginia Tech massacre, occurred on April 16, 2007, on the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States. A senior at Virginia Tech, shot and killed 32 people and wounded 17 others in two separate attacks (another six people were injured escaping from classroom windows), approximately two hours apart, before committing suicide.
The shootings occurred in two separate incidents. The first incident was in West Ambler Johnston Hall, during which the perpetrator killed two students. The second incident was in Norris Hall, where the other 31 deaths and all the nonlethal injuries, occurred. The shooter used two firearms during the attacks: a .22-caliber Walther P22 semi-automatic handgun and a 9 mm semi-automatic Glock 19 handgun.
West Ambler Johnston Hall is a residence hall. The shooter shot two people here, then went to his own residence hall and changed his blood stained clothes. He mailed a package of writings and video recordings, then walked over to Norris Hall. In a backpack, he carried several chains, locks, a hammer, a knife, two handguns with nineteen 10- and 15-round magazines, and nearly 400 rounds of ammunition.
The shooter entered Norris Hall, which housed the Engineering Science and Mechanics program among others, and chained the three main entrance doors shut. He placed a note on one of the chained doors, claiming that attempting to open the door would cause a bomb to explode. At about 9:40 a.m., he began shooting. The Wikipedia report is painful reading. The shooter went from classroom to classroom, shotting at faculty and students. In room 204, Professor Liviu Librescu, a Holocaust survivor, forcibly prevented the shooter from entering the room. Librescu was able to hold the door closed until most of his students escaped through the windows, but he died after being shot multiple times through the door. One student in his classroom was killed. Hearing the commotion on the floor below, Professor Kevin Granata took twenty students from a third-floor classroom into his office where the door could be locked. He then went downstairs to investigate and was shot and killed by Cho. None of the students locked in Granata's office were harmed.
Approximately ten to twelve minutes after the second attack began, the perpetrator shot himself in his right temple with the Glock 19. During this second assault, he had fired at least 174 rounds, killing thirty people and wounding seventeen more. All of the victims were shot at least three times each; of the thirty killed, twenty-eight were shot in the head.
Killed:
Jamie Bishop (35)
Jocelyne Couture-Nowak (49)
Kevin Granata (45)
Liviu Librescu (76)
G. V. Loganathan (53)
Ross Alameddine (20)
Brian Bluhm (25)
Ryan Clark (22)
Austin Cloyd (18)
Daniel Perez Cueva (21)
Matthew Gwaltney (24)
Caitlin Hammaren (19)
Jeremy Herbstritt (27)
Rachael Hill (18)
Emily Hilscher (19)
Matthew La Porte (20)
Jarrett Lane (22)
Henry Lee (20)
Partahi Lumbantoruan (34)
Lauren McCain (20)
Daniel O'Neil (22)
Juan Ortiz (26)
Minal Panchal (26)
Erin Peterson (18)
Michael Pohle Jr. (23)
Julia Pryde (23)
Mary Karen Read (19)
Reema Samaha (18)
Waleed Shaalan (32)
Leslie Sherman (20)
Maxine Turner (22)
Nicole White (20)
Others were wounded by gunfire, or hurt by broken glass trying to escape.
Remember the victims.
Viridian
This account is from Wikipedia.
The Virginia Tech shooting, also known as the Virginia Tech massacre, occurred on April 16, 2007, on the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States. A senior at Virginia Tech, shot and killed 32 people and wounded 17 others in two separate attacks (another six people were injured escaping from classroom windows), approximately two hours apart, before committing suicide.
The shootings occurred in two separate incidents. The first incident was in West Ambler Johnston Hall, during which the perpetrator killed two students. The second incident was in Norris Hall, where the other 31 deaths and all the nonlethal injuries, occurred. The shooter used two firearms during the attacks: a .22-caliber Walther P22 semi-automatic handgun and a 9 mm semi-automatic Glock 19 handgun.
West Ambler Johnston Hall is a residence hall. The shooter shot two people here, then went to his own residence hall and changed his blood stained clothes. He mailed a package of writings and video recordings, then walked over to Norris Hall. In a backpack, he carried several chains, locks, a hammer, a knife, two handguns with nineteen 10- and 15-round magazines, and nearly 400 rounds of ammunition.
The shooter entered Norris Hall, which housed the Engineering Science and Mechanics program among others, and chained the three main entrance doors shut. He placed a note on one of the chained doors, claiming that attempting to open the door would cause a bomb to explode. At about 9:40 a.m., he began shooting. The Wikipedia report is painful reading. The shooter went from classroom to classroom, shotting at faculty and students. In room 204, Professor Liviu Librescu, a Holocaust survivor, forcibly prevented the shooter from entering the room. Librescu was able to hold the door closed until most of his students escaped through the windows, but he died after being shot multiple times through the door. One student in his classroom was killed. Hearing the commotion on the floor below, Professor Kevin Granata took twenty students from a third-floor classroom into his office where the door could be locked. He then went downstairs to investigate and was shot and killed by Cho. None of the students locked in Granata's office were harmed.
Approximately ten to twelve minutes after the second attack began, the perpetrator shot himself in his right temple with the Glock 19. During this second assault, he had fired at least 174 rounds, killing thirty people and wounding seventeen more. All of the victims were shot at least three times each; of the thirty killed, twenty-eight were shot in the head.
Killed:
Jamie Bishop (35)
Jocelyne Couture-Nowak (49)
Kevin Granata (45)
Liviu Librescu (76)
G. V. Loganathan (53)
Ross Alameddine (20)
Brian Bluhm (25)
Ryan Clark (22)
Austin Cloyd (18)
Daniel Perez Cueva (21)
Matthew Gwaltney (24)
Caitlin Hammaren (19)
Jeremy Herbstritt (27)
Rachael Hill (18)
Emily Hilscher (19)
Matthew La Porte (20)
Jarrett Lane (22)
Henry Lee (20)
Partahi Lumbantoruan (34)
Lauren McCain (20)
Daniel O'Neil (22)
Juan Ortiz (26)
Minal Panchal (26)
Erin Peterson (18)
Michael Pohle Jr. (23)
Julia Pryde (23)
Mary Karen Read (19)
Reema Samaha (18)
Waleed Shaalan (32)
Leslie Sherman (20)
Maxine Turner (22)
Nicole White (20)
Others were wounded by gunfire, or hurt by broken glass trying to escape.
Remember the victims.
Viridian
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
U is for Umpqua Community College
This entry is part of the A to Z challenge.
This information is from Wikipedia.
October 1, 2015.
Umpqua Community College, near Roseberg, Oregon. The shooting started in classroom 15, in Synder Hall. The shooter had two semi automatic handguns, (Glock 19 and Taurus PT24/7), plus others that he did not use. All were purchased legally by the shooter. He shot the English teacher at point blank range, then methodically shot the other students in the room. Some students were shot multiple times.
Two plainclothes detectives from the Roseburg Police Department were the first to respond to the scene. They arrived at the hallway of Snyder Hall at 10:44, six minutes after the first 9-1-1 call was received. Two minutes later, the perpetrator reloaded his handguns and leaned out of the classroom, firing several shots at the officers. They fired three shots in return, hitting him once in the right side. After two more minutes of shooting at the officers, the wounded shooter retreated into the classroom and killed himself with a single shot to his head. It was all over in 10 minutes.
Killed:
Lucero Alcaraz, aged 19
Treven Taylor Anspach, 20
Rebecka Ann Carnes, 18
Quinn Glen Cooper, 18
Kim Saltmarsh Dietz, 59
Lucas Eibel, 18
Jason Dale Johnson, 33
Lawrence Levine, 67
Sarena Dawn Moore, 44
Eight other students were injured.
Remember the victims.
Viridian
This information is from Wikipedia.
October 1, 2015.
Umpqua Community College, near Roseberg, Oregon. The shooting started in classroom 15, in Synder Hall. The shooter had two semi automatic handguns, (Glock 19 and Taurus PT24/7), plus others that he did not use. All were purchased legally by the shooter. He shot the English teacher at point blank range, then methodically shot the other students in the room. Some students were shot multiple times.
Two plainclothes detectives from the Roseburg Police Department were the first to respond to the scene. They arrived at the hallway of Snyder Hall at 10:44, six minutes after the first 9-1-1 call was received. Two minutes later, the perpetrator reloaded his handguns and leaned out of the classroom, firing several shots at the officers. They fired three shots in return, hitting him once in the right side. After two more minutes of shooting at the officers, the wounded shooter retreated into the classroom and killed himself with a single shot to his head. It was all over in 10 minutes.
Killed:
Lucero Alcaraz, aged 19
Treven Taylor Anspach, 20
Rebecka Ann Carnes, 18
Quinn Glen Cooper, 18
Kim Saltmarsh Dietz, 59
Lucas Eibel, 18
Jason Dale Johnson, 33
Lawrence Levine, 67
Sarena Dawn Moore, 44
Eight other students were injured.
Remember the victims.
Viridian
Tuesday quilt project - small quilt top
Good day, and maybe Spring is finally here!
Here is a small quilt top I finished last week. It is entirely made of feedsack squares, 3 inches (finishing at 2.5 inches). I sewed the squares into random nine patches, and thought about setting them with alternate white squares. It would have made a good-sized throw. But no, I decided to set them together like this:
Here is a small quilt top I finished last week. It is entirely made of feedsack squares, 3 inches (finishing at 2.5 inches). I sewed the squares into random nine patches, and thought about setting them with alternate white squares. It would have made a good-sized throw. But no, I decided to set them together like this:
Some of those feedsacks are ugly, some are pretty, but it all comes together. All old fabric, even the border. I'll have fun quilting this square top later - other projects are calling me.
I have a page on Facebook: keep up with my infrequent quilt posts at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Viridian61/347674418583948?ref=hl
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Monday, April 23, 2018
T is for Troutdale Oregon
This entry is part of the A to Z blog challenge.
Information about this shooting came from
Oregon live: http://www.oregonlive.com/gresham/index.ssf/2014/06/oregon_school_shooting_troutda.html
and CBS news https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gunfire-reported-at-oregon-high-school/
June 10, 2014.
Early in the morning in Troutdale OR, a suspect, a male student at the school, entered the school with a gun. He shot one student and a physical education teacher. He was found in a bathroom, dead from a self inflicted gunshot.
Weapon used: AR-15 type assault weapon, owned by the perpetrator's family, taken from its secured storage place.
Killed: Emilio Hoffman
Injured: Todd Rispler
Sadly, there have been so many school shootings that this one is lost in time, and does not even have a Wikipedia page.
Viridian
Information about this shooting came from
Oregon live: http://www.oregonlive.com/gresham/index.ssf/2014/06/oregon_school_shooting_troutda.html
and CBS news https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gunfire-reported-at-oregon-high-school/
June 10, 2014.
Early in the morning in Troutdale OR, a suspect, a male student at the school, entered the school with a gun. He shot one student and a physical education teacher. He was found in a bathroom, dead from a self inflicted gunshot.
Weapon used: AR-15 type assault weapon, owned by the perpetrator's family, taken from its secured storage place.
Killed: Emilio Hoffman
Injured: Todd Rispler
Sadly, there have been so many school shootings that this one is lost in time, and does not even have a Wikipedia page.
Viridian
Saturday, April 21, 2018
S is for Sandy Hook, CT
This entry is part of the A to Z challenge.
This information is from Wikipedia.
The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting occurred on December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut, United States, when a 20-year-old man fatally shot 20 children between six and seven years old, as well as six adult staff members. Prior to driving to the school, he shot and killed his mother at their Newtown home. As first responders arrived at the scene, the perpetrator committed suicide by shooting himself in the head.
The incident was the deadliest mass shooting at either a high school or grade school in U.S. history and the fourth-deadliest mass shooting by a single person in U.S. history. The shooting prompted renewed debate about gun control in the United States, including proposals for making the background-check system universal, and for new federal and state gun legislation banning the sale and manufacture of certain types of semi-automatic firearms and magazines with more than ten rounds of ammunition.
I was sure that changes would be enacted after such as awful shooting, but they were not.
Some time before 9:30 a.m. on Friday, December 14, 2012, the perpetrator shot and killed his mother at their Newtown home. He then drove to the Sandy Hook school. Shortly after 9:35 a.m., using his mother's Bushmaster XM15-E2S rifle, he shot his way through a glass panel next to the locked front entrance doors of the school. Reading the details of the account on Wikipedia is incredibly painful, and I will just summarize. Some teachers were shot in the hallway, some escaped. The shooter entered two classrooms, shooting everyone there. He then committed suicide as police and first responders arrived.
Killed:
Perpetrator's mother
Nancy Lanza, 52, (shot at home)
School personnel
Rachel D'Avino, 29, teacher's aide
Dawn Hochsprung, 47, principal
Anne Marie Murphy, 52, teacher's aide
Lauren Rousseau, 30, teacher
Mary Sherlach, 56, school psychologist
Victoria Leigh Soto, 27, teacher
Students
Charlotte Bacon, 6
Daniel Barden, 7
Olivia Engel, 6
Josephine Gay, 7
Dylan Hockley, 6
Madeleine Hsu, 6
Catherine Hubbard, 6
Chase Kowalski, 7
Jesse Lewis, 6
Ana Márquez-Greene, 6
James Mattioli, 6
Grace McDonnell, 7
Emilie Parker, 6
Jack Pinto, 6
Noah Pozner, 6
Caroline Previdi, 6
Jessica Rekos, 6
Avielle Richman, 6
Benjamin Wheeler, 6
Allison Wyatt, 6
Remember the victims.
Viridian
This information is from Wikipedia.
The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting occurred on December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut, United States, when a 20-year-old man fatally shot 20 children between six and seven years old, as well as six adult staff members. Prior to driving to the school, he shot and killed his mother at their Newtown home. As first responders arrived at the scene, the perpetrator committed suicide by shooting himself in the head.
The incident was the deadliest mass shooting at either a high school or grade school in U.S. history and the fourth-deadliest mass shooting by a single person in U.S. history. The shooting prompted renewed debate about gun control in the United States, including proposals for making the background-check system universal, and for new federal and state gun legislation banning the sale and manufacture of certain types of semi-automatic firearms and magazines with more than ten rounds of ammunition.
I was sure that changes would be enacted after such as awful shooting, but they were not.
Some time before 9:30 a.m. on Friday, December 14, 2012, the perpetrator shot and killed his mother at their Newtown home. He then drove to the Sandy Hook school. Shortly after 9:35 a.m., using his mother's Bushmaster XM15-E2S rifle, he shot his way through a glass panel next to the locked front entrance doors of the school. Reading the details of the account on Wikipedia is incredibly painful, and I will just summarize. Some teachers were shot in the hallway, some escaped. The shooter entered two classrooms, shooting everyone there. He then committed suicide as police and first responders arrived.
Killed:
Perpetrator's mother
Nancy Lanza, 52, (shot at home)
School personnel
Rachel D'Avino, 29, teacher's aide
Dawn Hochsprung, 47, principal
Anne Marie Murphy, 52, teacher's aide
Lauren Rousseau, 30, teacher
Mary Sherlach, 56, school psychologist
Victoria Leigh Soto, 27, teacher
Students
Charlotte Bacon, 6
Daniel Barden, 7
Olivia Engel, 6
Josephine Gay, 7
Dylan Hockley, 6
Madeleine Hsu, 6
Catherine Hubbard, 6
Chase Kowalski, 7
Jesse Lewis, 6
Ana Márquez-Greene, 6
James Mattioli, 6
Grace McDonnell, 7
Emilie Parker, 6
Jack Pinto, 6
Noah Pozner, 6
Caroline Previdi, 6
Jessica Rekos, 6
Avielle Richman, 6
Benjamin Wheeler, 6
Allison Wyatt, 6
Remember the victims.
Viridian
Friday, April 20, 2018
Friday quilt block
Hello, and is Spring ever going to arrive in the Midwest USA? Someday maybe!
I am busy today so just a quick note and quilt block.
This is F-8, part of my ongoing Dear Jane project in indigo and white.
Please see dearjane.com for more explanation of the 1863 quilt I am slowly reproducing in blue and white.
Linking up with Can I get a Whoop Whoop, Finished or Not at Busy Hands quilts, and Finish it up Friday at Crazy mom quilts. Possibly also Oh Scrap on Sunday.
I have a page on Facebook: keep up with my infrequent quilt posts at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Viridian61/347674418583948?ref=hl
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I am busy today so just a quick note and quilt block.
This is F-8, part of my ongoing Dear Jane project in indigo and white.
Please see dearjane.com for more explanation of the 1863 quilt I am slowly reproducing in blue and white.
Linking up with Can I get a Whoop Whoop, Finished or Not at Busy Hands quilts, and Finish it up Friday at Crazy mom quilts. Possibly also Oh Scrap on Sunday.
I have a page on Facebook: keep up with my infrequent quilt posts at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Viridian61/347674418583948?ref=hl
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R is for Rancho Tehama Reserve
This is part of the A to Z blogging challenge.
This account is taken from the Wikipedia page for this event.
On November 13/14, 2017, a series of shootings occurred in Rancho Tehama Reserve, an unincorporated community in Tehama County in California located 120 miles (190 kilometers) northwest of Sacramento.
Nine months before the shooting rampage, a judge had issued the shooter a restraining order at a neighbor's request and ordered him to surrender his guns. The restraining order expired in September, but was renewed before the shootings.The shooter manufactured the rifle and possessed the handguns in violation of that restraining order. At least one unregistered semi-automatic ghost rifle and two borrowed semi-automatic pistols were used. (A ghost gun is a firearm without serial numbers. The term is used by gun control advocates, gun rights advocates, law enforcement, and some in the firearm industry. By making the gun themselves, owners may legally bypass background checks and registration regulations.)
The killings started on November 13, when the perpetrator shot his wife, Barbara Glisan (aka Gilsan.) The next day, November 14, he went on a shooting rampage, first killing a man and a woman, both neighbors with whom he had an ongoing feud.
After killing his neighbors, the shooter stole a pickup truck that belonged to one of his victims. He then began firing at random vehicles and pedestrians. At an intersection, he bumped the truck into a vehicle carrying a woman and her three sons, drove up to the driver's side, and fired into it, injuring all of them with gunshots or flying glass.
At the Rancho Tehama Elementary School, the school's secretary heard the gunfire near the school and quickly ordered the school to go on lockdown. A school custodian and the teachers put it into action. The shooter then crashed the pickup truck through the front gates of the school, exited the vehicle with a self-assembled AR-15-type semi-automatic rifle, ran into the center of the school's quad, and fired repeatedly at windows and walls. Nearly 100 rounds of ammunition were fired into the school.
After fleeing the school, the shooter crashed the pickup truck into another vehicle and fired upon the two occupants as they tried to flee; the female driver was killed and her husband was wounded in the legs. The man survived after pleading for his life. A passerby, unaware of the shootings, stopped his car and asked the shooter if he was okay; the shooter shot and wounded him, stole his car, and continued the rampage, killing another person.
After a brief chase, the shooter's stolen truck was rammed by two pursuing Tehama County sheriff deputies who exchanged gunfire with him, and the shooter died by suicide after shooting himself in the head.
Killed:
Barbara Ann Glisan (aka Gilsan), 38
Danny Lee Elliott, 38
Diana Lee Steele, 68
Joseph Edward McHugh III, 56
Michelle Iris McFadyen, 55
Wounded, by bullets or flying glass:
Tiffany Nai Phommathep (shot in vehicle)
John Phommathep Jr., 10 (Tiffany's son, shot in vehicle)
Jake Phommathep, 6 (Tiffany's son, shot in vehicle)
Nikos Phommathep, 2 (Tiffany's son)
James Woods Sr. (shot on sidewalk)
James Woods Jr., 20 (shot on sidewalk)
Jessie Allen Sanders, 39 (shot near elementary school)
Francisco Gudino Cardenas (shot in vehicle)
Alejandro Hernandez, 6 (shot at elementary school)
Troy Lee McFadyen, 59 (Michelle McFadyen's husband, shot near vehicle)
Two unidentified people
Six unidentified children
Remember the victims.
Viridian
This account is taken from the Wikipedia page for this event.
On November 13/14, 2017, a series of shootings occurred in Rancho Tehama Reserve, an unincorporated community in Tehama County in California located 120 miles (190 kilometers) northwest of Sacramento.
Nine months before the shooting rampage, a judge had issued the shooter a restraining order at a neighbor's request and ordered him to surrender his guns. The restraining order expired in September, but was renewed before the shootings.The shooter manufactured the rifle and possessed the handguns in violation of that restraining order. At least one unregistered semi-automatic ghost rifle and two borrowed semi-automatic pistols were used. (A ghost gun is a firearm without serial numbers. The term is used by gun control advocates, gun rights advocates, law enforcement, and some in the firearm industry. By making the gun themselves, owners may legally bypass background checks and registration regulations.)
The killings started on November 13, when the perpetrator shot his wife, Barbara Glisan (aka Gilsan.) The next day, November 14, he went on a shooting rampage, first killing a man and a woman, both neighbors with whom he had an ongoing feud.
After killing his neighbors, the shooter stole a pickup truck that belonged to one of his victims. He then began firing at random vehicles and pedestrians. At an intersection, he bumped the truck into a vehicle carrying a woman and her three sons, drove up to the driver's side, and fired into it, injuring all of them with gunshots or flying glass.
At the Rancho Tehama Elementary School, the school's secretary heard the gunfire near the school and quickly ordered the school to go on lockdown. A school custodian and the teachers put it into action. The shooter then crashed the pickup truck through the front gates of the school, exited the vehicle with a self-assembled AR-15-type semi-automatic rifle, ran into the center of the school's quad, and fired repeatedly at windows and walls. Nearly 100 rounds of ammunition were fired into the school.
After fleeing the school, the shooter crashed the pickup truck into another vehicle and fired upon the two occupants as they tried to flee; the female driver was killed and her husband was wounded in the legs. The man survived after pleading for his life. A passerby, unaware of the shootings, stopped his car and asked the shooter if he was okay; the shooter shot and wounded him, stole his car, and continued the rampage, killing another person.
After a brief chase, the shooter's stolen truck was rammed by two pursuing Tehama County sheriff deputies who exchanged gunfire with him, and the shooter died by suicide after shooting himself in the head.
Killed:
Barbara Ann Glisan (aka Gilsan), 38
Danny Lee Elliott, 38
Diana Lee Steele, 68
Joseph Edward McHugh III, 56
Michelle Iris McFadyen, 55
Wounded, by bullets or flying glass:
Tiffany Nai Phommathep (shot in vehicle)
John Phommathep Jr., 10 (Tiffany's son, shot in vehicle)
Jake Phommathep, 6 (Tiffany's son, shot in vehicle)
Nikos Phommathep, 2 (Tiffany's son)
James Woods Sr. (shot on sidewalk)
James Woods Jr., 20 (shot on sidewalk)
Jessie Allen Sanders, 39 (shot near elementary school)
Francisco Gudino Cardenas (shot in vehicle)
Alejandro Hernandez, 6 (shot at elementary school)
Troy Lee McFadyen, 59 (Michelle McFadyen's husband, shot near vehicle)
Two unidentified people
Six unidentified children
Remember the victims.
Viridian
Thursday, April 19, 2018
Q is for Quebec City Mosque shooting
This blog entry is part of the A to Z challenge.
This is the one time I blog a shooting outside the United States, for the letter Q.
This account is from Wikipedia.
The Quebec City mosque shooting (French: Attentat de la grande mosquée de Québec) was a mass shooting that occurred on the evening of January 29, 2017, at the Islamic Cultural Centre of Quebec City, a mosque in the Sainte-Foy neighbourhood of Quebec City, Canada. Six worshippers were killed and nineteen others injured when a lone gunman opened fire just before 8:00 pm, shortly after the end of evening prayers. Fifty-three people were reported present at the time of the shooting.
According to witnesses at the scene, the gunman entered the mosque shortly after the scheduled 7:30 pm prayers began, wearing either a hood or a ski mask. At about 7:55 pm EST, when the first calls to the police were made, he began shooting at worshippers lingering in the mosque after the prayer. The shooter later surrendered to the police.
The six victims were:
Ibrahima Barry (aged 39)
Mamadou Tanou Barry (aged 42)
Khaled Belkacemi (aged 60)
Aboubaker Thabti (aged 44)
Abdelkrim Hassane (aged 41)
Azzedine Soufiane (aged 57)
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This is the one time I blog a shooting outside the United States, for the letter Q.
This account is from Wikipedia.
The Quebec City mosque shooting (French: Attentat de la grande mosquée de Québec) was a mass shooting that occurred on the evening of January 29, 2017, at the Islamic Cultural Centre of Quebec City, a mosque in the Sainte-Foy neighbourhood of Quebec City, Canada. Six worshippers were killed and nineteen others injured when a lone gunman opened fire just before 8:00 pm, shortly after the end of evening prayers. Fifty-three people were reported present at the time of the shooting.
According to witnesses at the scene, the gunman entered the mosque shortly after the scheduled 7:30 pm prayers began, wearing either a hood or a ski mask. At about 7:55 pm EST, when the first calls to the police were made, he began shooting at worshippers lingering in the mosque after the prayer. The shooter later surrendered to the police.
The six victims were:
Ibrahima Barry (aged 39)
Mamadou Tanou Barry (aged 42)
Khaled Belkacemi (aged 60)
Aboubaker Thabti (aged 44)
Abdelkrim Hassane (aged 41)
Azzedine Soufiane (aged 57)
Viridian
Wednesday, April 18, 2018
P is for Parkland - Stoneman Douglas School
Feb. 14, 2018. Parkland Florida. I was on vacation in Florida at this time and I remember this appearing on the news, very well.
This account is from Wikipedia.
On February 14, 2018, a mass shooting occurred at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Seventeen people were killed and seventeen more were wounded, making it one of the world's deadliest school massacres.
The shooter was at the school near dismissal time, armed with a semi-automatic rifle. He activated a fire alarm and began firing indiscriminately at students and teachers. The fire alarm caused confusion because there had been a fire drill earlier in the day. The shooting lasted six minutes, after which the perpetrator dropped his rifle on the 3rd floor of the building and left the scene by blending in with fleeing students. He was later apprehended.
The fourteen students and three staff members killed were:
Alyssa Alhadeff, 14
Scott Beigel, 35
Martin Duque, 14
Nicholas Dworet, 17
Aaron Feis, 37
Jaime Guttenberg, 14
Chris Hixon, 49
Luke Hoyer, 15
Cara Loughran, 14
Gina Montalto, 14
Joaquin Oliver, 17
Alaina Petty, 14
Meadow Pollack, 18
Helena Ramsay, 17
Alex Schachter, 14
Carmen Schentrup, 16
Peter Wang, 15
Geography teacher Scott Beigel was killed after he unlocked a classroom for students to enter and hide from the gunman. Aaron Feis, an assistant football coach and security guard, was shot and killed as he shielded two students. Chris Hixon, the school's athletic director, was killed as he ran toward the sound of the gunfire and tried to help fleeing students.
Remember the victims.
Viridian
This account is from Wikipedia.
On February 14, 2018, a mass shooting occurred at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Seventeen people were killed and seventeen more were wounded, making it one of the world's deadliest school massacres.
The shooter was at the school near dismissal time, armed with a semi-automatic rifle. He activated a fire alarm and began firing indiscriminately at students and teachers. The fire alarm caused confusion because there had been a fire drill earlier in the day. The shooting lasted six minutes, after which the perpetrator dropped his rifle on the 3rd floor of the building and left the scene by blending in with fleeing students. He was later apprehended.
The fourteen students and three staff members killed were:
Alyssa Alhadeff, 14
Scott Beigel, 35
Martin Duque, 14
Nicholas Dworet, 17
Aaron Feis, 37
Jaime Guttenberg, 14
Chris Hixon, 49
Luke Hoyer, 15
Cara Loughran, 14
Gina Montalto, 14
Joaquin Oliver, 17
Alaina Petty, 14
Meadow Pollack, 18
Helena Ramsay, 17
Alex Schachter, 14
Carmen Schentrup, 16
Peter Wang, 15
Geography teacher Scott Beigel was killed after he unlocked a classroom for students to enter and hide from the gunman. Aaron Feis, an assistant football coach and security guard, was shot and killed as he shielded two students. Chris Hixon, the school's athletic director, was killed as he ran toward the sound of the gunfire and tried to help fleeing students.
Remember the victims.
Viridian
Tuesday, April 17, 2018
Tuesday Quilt block(s)
Good day! Will Spring ever get here in the American Midwest? Maybe!
It's Tuesday so time to share an Indigo quilt block, part of my on-going Jane quilt.
This is C-12. Those little squares finish at 1/2 inch! I strip-pieced the small squares to make the little nine patches. In my usual fashion I guessed at how many strips and squares of white and blue I would need. I of course had quite a bit of strips remaining. So I worked on the "sister" block to this one:
It's Tuesday so time to share an Indigo quilt block, part of my on-going Jane quilt.
This is C-12. Those little squares finish at 1/2 inch! I strip-pieced the small squares to make the little nine patches. In my usual fashion I guessed at how many strips and squares of white and blue I would need. I of course had quite a bit of strips remaining. So I worked on the "sister" block to this one:
This is J-7, and yes, the nine patches are the same size as in the previous block.
See DearJane.com for information about the 1863 quilt I am reproducing.
I have a page on Facebook: keep up with my infrequent quilt posts at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Viridian61/347674418583948?ref=hl
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O is for the Orlando Pulse nightclub
This entry is part of the A to Z challenge.
This account is from the Wikipedia entry for this shooting.
On June 12, 2016, a 29 year old man killed 49 people and wounded 58 others in a terrorist attack inside Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, United States. Orlando Police Department (OPD) officers shot and killed him after a three-hour standoff.
Pulse was hosting a "Latin Night" and thus most of the victims were Latinos. It is the deadliest incident of violence against LGBT people in U.S. history, and the deadliest terrorist attack in the U.S. since the September 11 attacks in 2001. At the time, it was the deadliest mass shooting by a single shooter in the U.S., being surpassed the following year by the Las Vegas shooting.
On June 11, 2016, Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, was hosting Latin Night, a weekly Saturday night event drawing a primarily Hispanic crowd. About 320 people were inside the club, which was serving last call drinks at around 2:00 a.m. EDT on June 12. The shooter approached the building on foot, armed with a SIG Sauer MCX semi-automatic rifle and a 9mm Glock 17 semi-automatic pistol. (These guns were purchased legally.) He started shooting. Police were called in immediately and a hostage situation arose. The Wikipedia entry has the details. Eventually holes were breached in the walls of the nightclub when a policeman drove a BearCat armored vehicle through a wall in the northern bathroom. They then used two flashbangs to distract the shooter, and shot at him. The breach drew the shooter out into the hallway, and at 5:14 a.m., he engaged the officers, and was shot down. After this, thirty hostages were released.
49 people died in the incident (autopies showed 200 shots to these victims) and another 58 were injured, some critically.
Killed:
Stanley Almodovar III, age 23
Amanda Alvear, 25
Oscar A. Aracena-Montero, 26
Rodolfo Ayala-Ayala, 33
Alejandro Barrios Martinez, 21
Martin Benitez Torres, 33
Antonio D. Brown, 30
Darryl R. Burt II, 29
Jonathan A. Camuy Vega, 24
Angel L. Candelario-Padro, 28
Simon A. Carrillo Fernandez, 31
Juan Chevez-Martinez, 25
Luis D. Conde, 39
Cory J. Connell, 21
Tevin E. Crosby, 25
Franky J. Dejesus Velazquez, 50
Deonka D. Drayton, 32
Mercedez M. Flores, 26
Peter O. Gonzalez-Cruz, 22
Juan R. Guerrero, 22
Paul T. Henry, 41
Frank Hernandez, 27
Miguel A. Honorato, 30
Javier Jorge-Reyes, 40
Jason B. Josaphat, 19
Eddie J. Justice, 30
Anthony L. Laureano Disla, 25
Christopher A. Leinonen, 32
Brenda L. Marquez McCool, 49
Jean C. Mendez Perez, 35
Akyra Monet Murray, 18
Kimberly Morris, 37
Jean C. Nieves Rodriguez, 27
Luis O. Ocasio-Capo, 20
Geraldo A. Ortiz-Jimenez, 25
Eric Ivan Ortiz-Rivera, 36
Joel Rayon Paniagua, 32
Enrique L. Rios Jr., 25
Juan P. Rivera Velazquez, 37
Yilmary Rodriguez Solivan, 24
Christopher J. Sanfeliz, 24
Xavier Emmanuel Serrano Rosado, 35
Gilberto Ramon Silva Menendez, 25
Edward Sotomayor Jr., 34
Shane E. Tomlinson, 33
Leroy Valentin Fernandez, 25
Luis S. Vielma, 22
Luis Daniel Wilson-Leon, 37
Jerald A. Wright, 31
This account is from the Wikipedia entry for this shooting.
On June 12, 2016, a 29 year old man killed 49 people and wounded 58 others in a terrorist attack inside Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, United States. Orlando Police Department (OPD) officers shot and killed him after a three-hour standoff.
Pulse was hosting a "Latin Night" and thus most of the victims were Latinos. It is the deadliest incident of violence against LGBT people in U.S. history, and the deadliest terrorist attack in the U.S. since the September 11 attacks in 2001. At the time, it was the deadliest mass shooting by a single shooter in the U.S., being surpassed the following year by the Las Vegas shooting.
On June 11, 2016, Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, was hosting Latin Night, a weekly Saturday night event drawing a primarily Hispanic crowd. About 320 people were inside the club, which was serving last call drinks at around 2:00 a.m. EDT on June 12. The shooter approached the building on foot, armed with a SIG Sauer MCX semi-automatic rifle and a 9mm Glock 17 semi-automatic pistol. (These guns were purchased legally.) He started shooting. Police were called in immediately and a hostage situation arose. The Wikipedia entry has the details. Eventually holes were breached in the walls of the nightclub when a policeman drove a BearCat armored vehicle through a wall in the northern bathroom. They then used two flashbangs to distract the shooter, and shot at him. The breach drew the shooter out into the hallway, and at 5:14 a.m., he engaged the officers, and was shot down. After this, thirty hostages were released.
49 people died in the incident (autopies showed 200 shots to these victims) and another 58 were injured, some critically.
Killed:
Stanley Almodovar III, age 23
Amanda Alvear, 25
Oscar A. Aracena-Montero, 26
Rodolfo Ayala-Ayala, 33
Alejandro Barrios Martinez, 21
Martin Benitez Torres, 33
Antonio D. Brown, 30
Darryl R. Burt II, 29
Jonathan A. Camuy Vega, 24
Angel L. Candelario-Padro, 28
Simon A. Carrillo Fernandez, 31
Juan Chevez-Martinez, 25
Luis D. Conde, 39
Cory J. Connell, 21
Tevin E. Crosby, 25
Franky J. Dejesus Velazquez, 50
Deonka D. Drayton, 32
Mercedez M. Flores, 26
Peter O. Gonzalez-Cruz, 22
Juan R. Guerrero, 22
Paul T. Henry, 41
Frank Hernandez, 27
Miguel A. Honorato, 30
Javier Jorge-Reyes, 40
Jason B. Josaphat, 19
Eddie J. Justice, 30
Anthony L. Laureano Disla, 25
Christopher A. Leinonen, 32
Brenda L. Marquez McCool, 49
Jean C. Mendez Perez, 35
Akyra Monet Murray, 18
Kimberly Morris, 37
Jean C. Nieves Rodriguez, 27
Luis O. Ocasio-Capo, 20
Geraldo A. Ortiz-Jimenez, 25
Eric Ivan Ortiz-Rivera, 36
Joel Rayon Paniagua, 32
Enrique L. Rios Jr., 25
Juan P. Rivera Velazquez, 37
Yilmary Rodriguez Solivan, 24
Christopher J. Sanfeliz, 24
Xavier Emmanuel Serrano Rosado, 35
Gilberto Ramon Silva Menendez, 25
Edward Sotomayor Jr., 34
Shane E. Tomlinson, 33
Leroy Valentin Fernandez, 25
Luis S. Vielma, 22
Luis Daniel Wilson-Leon, 37
Jerald A. Wright, 31
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Monday, April 16, 2018
N is for Nickel Mines, PA
This entry is part of the A to Z challenge.
The account below is from Wikipedia.
On October 2, 2006, a shooting occurred at the West Nickel Mines School, an Amish one-room schoolhouse in the Old Order Amish community of Nickel Mines, a village in Bart Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The gunman took hostages and shot eight out of ten girls (aged 6–13), killing five, before committing suicide in the schoolhouse.
The shooter used a 9mm handgun. At first, the gunman ordered the girls to line up against the chalkboard and allowed a pregnant woman, three parents with infants, and all remaining boys to exit. At approximately 11:07 a.m., he began shooting the hostages. State troopers immediately approached. As the first trooper in line reached a window, the shooting abruptly stopped; the gunman had committed suicide. During the shooting, he fired at least 13 rounds from his pistol.
Killed:
Naomi Rose Ebersol, age 7, died at the scene
Marian Stoltzfus Fisher, age 13, died at the scene
Anna Mae Stoltzfus, age 12, was declared dead on arrival at Lancaster General Hospital, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Lena Zook Miller, age 8, died at Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania
Mary Liz Miller, age 7, died at Christiana Hospital in Newark, Delaware
Injured:
Rosanna King, 6 years old
Rachel Ann Stoltzfus, 8 years old
Barbie Fisher, 11 years old
Sarah Ann Stoltzfus, 12 years old
Esther King, 13 years old
I remember this shooting and the aftermath well. It was after this shooting that many schools began locking their doors during school hours.
Viridian
The account below is from Wikipedia.
On October 2, 2006, a shooting occurred at the West Nickel Mines School, an Amish one-room schoolhouse in the Old Order Amish community of Nickel Mines, a village in Bart Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The gunman took hostages and shot eight out of ten girls (aged 6–13), killing five, before committing suicide in the schoolhouse.
The shooter used a 9mm handgun. At first, the gunman ordered the girls to line up against the chalkboard and allowed a pregnant woman, three parents with infants, and all remaining boys to exit. At approximately 11:07 a.m., he began shooting the hostages. State troopers immediately approached. As the first trooper in line reached a window, the shooting abruptly stopped; the gunman had committed suicide. During the shooting, he fired at least 13 rounds from his pistol.
Killed:
Naomi Rose Ebersol, age 7, died at the scene
Marian Stoltzfus Fisher, age 13, died at the scene
Anna Mae Stoltzfus, age 12, was declared dead on arrival at Lancaster General Hospital, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Lena Zook Miller, age 8, died at Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania
Mary Liz Miller, age 7, died at Christiana Hospital in Newark, Delaware
Injured:
Rosanna King, 6 years old
Rachel Ann Stoltzfus, 8 years old
Barbie Fisher, 11 years old
Sarah Ann Stoltzfus, 12 years old
Esther King, 13 years old
I remember this shooting and the aftermath well. It was after this shooting that many schools began locking their doors during school hours.
Viridian
Saturday, April 14, 2018
M is for Marysville, Washington
This entry is part of the A to Z challenge.
October 24, 2014.
This account is from Wikipedia.
The Marysville Pilchuck High School shooting occurred in Marysville, Washington, on October 24, 2014, when a 15-year-old freshman student shot five other students at Marysville Pilchuck High School, fatally wounding four, before fatally shooting himself. The shooter's father was arrested and convicted the following year for illegally purchasing and owning the gun (a Beretta handgun) used in the shooting, among other firearms.
The shooting took place in the school cafeteria. The shooter seemed to be targeting one table where his friends were sitting.
Killed:
Zoë Raine Galasso, 14
Shaylee Adelle Chuckulnaskit, 14
Gia Christine Soriano, 14
Andrew Fryberg, 15
3 other students were wounded.
Viridian
October 24, 2014.
This account is from Wikipedia.
The Marysville Pilchuck High School shooting occurred in Marysville, Washington, on October 24, 2014, when a 15-year-old freshman student shot five other students at Marysville Pilchuck High School, fatally wounding four, before fatally shooting himself. The shooter's father was arrested and convicted the following year for illegally purchasing and owning the gun (a Beretta handgun) used in the shooting, among other firearms.
The shooting took place in the school cafeteria. The shooter seemed to be targeting one table where his friends were sitting.
Killed:
Zoë Raine Galasso, 14
Shaylee Adelle Chuckulnaskit, 14
Gia Christine Soriano, 14
Andrew Fryberg, 15
3 other students were wounded.
Viridian
Friday, April 13, 2018
Friday quilt block, April 13
It's warm today, and Spring may finally be here in the American Midwest.
It's Friday, and time to share a quilt block. I have a cold that I've had a hard time shaking. But I have managed to get into my sewing room and do some of these cute Dear Jane blocks.
A classic LeMoyne star. Note I added seam lines to avoid set in seams, also known as Y-seams. Paper pieced.
Please see dearjane.com for more explanation of the 1863 quilt I am slowly reproducing in blue and white.
Linking up with Can I get a Whoop Whoop, Finished or Not at Busy Hands quilts, Finish it up Friday at Crazy mom quilts, and Oh Scrap! on Sundays.
I have a page on Facebook: keep up with my infrequent quilt posts at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Viridian61/347674418583948?ref=hl
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It's Friday, and time to share a quilt block. I have a cold that I've had a hard time shaking. But I have managed to get into my sewing room and do some of these cute Dear Jane blocks.
A classic LeMoyne star. Note I added seam lines to avoid set in seams, also known as Y-seams. Paper pieced.
Please see dearjane.com for more explanation of the 1863 quilt I am slowly reproducing in blue and white.
Linking up with Can I get a Whoop Whoop, Finished or Not at Busy Hands quilts, Finish it up Friday at Crazy mom quilts, and Oh Scrap! on Sundays.
I have a page on Facebook: keep up with my infrequent quilt posts at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Viridian61/347674418583948?ref=hl
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L is for Las Vegas
Sunday night, October 1, 2017.
This account is from the Wikipedia entry for this mass shooting event.
A gunman opened fire on a crowd of concertgoers at the Route 91 Harvest music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada, leaving 58 people dead and 851 injured. Between 10:05 and 10:15 p.m. PDT, the shooter fired more than 1,100 rounds from his suite on the 32nd floor of the nearby Mandalay Bay hotel. About an hour after he fired his last shot into the crowd, he was found dead in his room from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. His motive remains unknown.
Guns used:
24 guns in total, including:
14 .223-caliber AR-15-type rifles
8 .308-caliber AR-10-type rifles
.308-caliber Ruger American bolt-action rifle
.38-caliber Smith & Wesson Model 342 AirLite TI revolver
I believe all were purchased legally.
After the shooter used a hammer to break two of the windows in both of his suites at the hotel, he began shooting through them at 10:05 p.m. He ultimately fired more than 1,100 rifle rounds approximately 490 yards (450 m) into the music festival audience. He initially started out with a few single gunshots before firing in prolonged bursts. Many people in the crowd initially mistook the gunfire for fireworks. During the shooting, a security fence hindered concertgoers from fleeing the 15-acre concrete lot. The gunfire continued, with some momentary pauses, over the span of ten minutes and ended by 10:15 p.m.
Fifty-eight people were shot to death at the music festival; The Clark County Coroner's Office determined that all 58 victims died as a result of gunshot wounds. Thirty one of the victims were pronounced dead at the scene, while the rest were pronounced dead at hospitals.
An additional 851 people were injured, 422 of them with gunshot wounds. Think about that number.
From a NY Times website:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/02/us/vegas-victims-names.html
Killed:
Hannah Ahlers
Heather Alvarado
Dorene Anderson
Carrie Barnette
Jack Beaton
Steve Berger
Candice Bowers
Denise Salmon Burditus
Sandy Casey
Andrea Castilla
Denise Cohen
Austin Davis
Thomas Day Jr.
Christiana Duarte
Stacee Etcheber
Brian Fraser
Keri Galvan
Dana Gardner
Angela Gomez
Rocio Guillen
Charleston Hartfield
Chris Hazencomb
Jennifer Irvine
Nicol Kimura
Jessica Klymchuk
Carly Kreibaum
Rhonda LeRocque
Victor Link
Jordan McIldoon
Kelsey Meadows
Calla Medig
Sonny Melton
Pati Mestas
Austin Meyer
Adrian Murfitt
Rachael Parker
Jennifer Parks
Carrie Parsons
Lisa Patterson
John Phippen
Melissa Ramirez
Jordyn Rivera
Quinton Robbins
Cameron Robinson
Tara Roe Smith
Lisa Romero-Muniz
Christopher Roybal
Brett Schwanbeck
Bailey Schweitzer
Laura Shipp
Erick Silva
Susan Smith
Brennan Stewart
Derrick Taylor
Neysa Tonks
Michelle Vo
Kurt Von Tillow
Bill Wolfe Jr.
Remember the victims.
Viridian
This account is from the Wikipedia entry for this mass shooting event.
A gunman opened fire on a crowd of concertgoers at the Route 91 Harvest music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada, leaving 58 people dead and 851 injured. Between 10:05 and 10:15 p.m. PDT, the shooter fired more than 1,100 rounds from his suite on the 32nd floor of the nearby Mandalay Bay hotel. About an hour after he fired his last shot into the crowd, he was found dead in his room from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. His motive remains unknown.
Guns used:
24 guns in total, including:
14 .223-caliber AR-15-type rifles
8 .308-caliber AR-10-type rifles
.308-caliber Ruger American bolt-action rifle
.38-caliber Smith & Wesson Model 342 AirLite TI revolver
I believe all were purchased legally.
After the shooter used a hammer to break two of the windows in both of his suites at the hotel, he began shooting through them at 10:05 p.m. He ultimately fired more than 1,100 rifle rounds approximately 490 yards (450 m) into the music festival audience. He initially started out with a few single gunshots before firing in prolonged bursts. Many people in the crowd initially mistook the gunfire for fireworks. During the shooting, a security fence hindered concertgoers from fleeing the 15-acre concrete lot. The gunfire continued, with some momentary pauses, over the span of ten minutes and ended by 10:15 p.m.
Fifty-eight people were shot to death at the music festival; The Clark County Coroner's Office determined that all 58 victims died as a result of gunshot wounds. Thirty one of the victims were pronounced dead at the scene, while the rest were pronounced dead at hospitals.
An additional 851 people were injured, 422 of them with gunshot wounds. Think about that number.
From a NY Times website:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/02/us/vegas-victims-names.html
Killed:
Hannah Ahlers
Heather Alvarado
Dorene Anderson
Carrie Barnette
Jack Beaton
Steve Berger
Candice Bowers
Denise Salmon Burditus
Sandy Casey
Andrea Castilla
Denise Cohen
Austin Davis
Thomas Day Jr.
Christiana Duarte
Stacee Etcheber
Brian Fraser
Keri Galvan
Dana Gardner
Angela Gomez
Rocio Guillen
Charleston Hartfield
Chris Hazencomb
Jennifer Irvine
Nicol Kimura
Jessica Klymchuk
Carly Kreibaum
Rhonda LeRocque
Victor Link
Jordan McIldoon
Kelsey Meadows
Calla Medig
Sonny Melton
Pati Mestas
Austin Meyer
Adrian Murfitt
Rachael Parker
Jennifer Parks
Carrie Parsons
Lisa Patterson
John Phippen
Melissa Ramirez
Jordyn Rivera
Quinton Robbins
Cameron Robinson
Tara Roe Smith
Lisa Romero-Muniz
Christopher Roybal
Brett Schwanbeck
Bailey Schweitzer
Laura Shipp
Erick Silva
Susan Smith
Brennan Stewart
Derrick Taylor
Neysa Tonks
Michelle Vo
Kurt Von Tillow
Bill Wolfe Jr.
Remember the victims.
Viridian
Thursday, April 12, 2018
K is for Kentucky, Marshall Co. High School
I am blogging this month on mass shootings in America: remember the victims. This is part of the A to Z challenge.
Some information here is from Wikipedia, some from a CNN article about this shooting.
The Marshall County High School shooting occurred at Marshall County High School in Benton, Kentucky, on January 23, 2018. As students were gathering in an open area prior to the start of classes, a 15-year-old student opened fire with a 9mm Ruger handgun, killing one 15-year-old at the scene, and wounding another who died at a nearby hospital. Eighteen other people were injured, fourteen by bullets and three critically. Others were hurt trying to escape. This shooting is still so recent that the Wikipedia page is very short, and hasn't been updated.
Killed:
Bailey Holt, 15
Preston Cope, 15
I do not have the names of the injured.
Viridian
Some information here is from Wikipedia, some from a CNN article about this shooting.
The Marshall County High School shooting occurred at Marshall County High School in Benton, Kentucky, on January 23, 2018. As students were gathering in an open area prior to the start of classes, a 15-year-old student opened fire with a 9mm Ruger handgun, killing one 15-year-old at the scene, and wounding another who died at a nearby hospital. Eighteen other people were injured, fourteen by bullets and three critically. Others were hurt trying to escape. This shooting is still so recent that the Wikipedia page is very short, and hasn't been updated.
Killed:
Bailey Holt, 15
Preston Cope, 15
I do not have the names of the injured.
Viridian
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
J is for Jacksonville FL
I have spotty internet connections today, so my post is a little late. I am blogging this month on mass shootings in America: remember the victims. This is part of the A to Z challenge.
This account is from Wikipedia.
June 17-18, 1990, in Jacksonville FL. On June 17, a man armed with a M-1 carbine shot a pimp and a prostitute. He drove away, stopped and asked two young men for directions, and then shot and injured them.
On June 18 at about 10:44 a.m., the shooter parked his car at the General Motors Acceptance Corporation office located in Jacksonville. He entered the building through the front door, armed with his M1 carbine, a .38-caliber revolver, several loaded magazines, and ammunition packed in his pockets. Then, without saying a word, he immediately began shooting with the M1 carbine at two customers at the front counter, killing Julia Burgess and wounding David Hendrix with four shots. Walking through the open office, he then systematically moved from desk to desk and shot at the GMAC workers, deliberately aiming at those hiding under their desks.
When the GMAC employees realized what was going on, many of them escaped through a back door of the building, while the assailant started shooting at those ducking for cover. GMAC employees Janice David, Sharon Hall, Jewell Belote, Lee Simonton, Denise Highfill, Ron Echevarria, and Nancy Dill were also shot. The shooter then put the .38-caliber revolver to his head and committed suicide. In just about two minutes, he had fired at least 28 rounds from his carbine, hitting 11 of the 85 workers in the office, as well as the two customers. Six of his victims died at the scene, while another three died at hospital, the last being Jewell Belote, who succumbed to his wounds nine days after the shooting.
Killed:
June 17
Louis Carl Bacon, 39
Doretta Drake, 30
June 18
Julia White Burgess, 42, customer
Drew Woods, 38
Cynthia L. Perry, 30
Barbara Duckwall Holland, 45
Janice David, 40
Sharon Louise Hall, 45
Jewell Belote, 50, died on June 27
Lee Simonton, 33
Denise Sapp Highfill, 36
Injured:
June 17
Unidentified teenager, 17
Unidentified teenager, 18
June 18
David Hendrix, 25, customer
Phyllis Griggs
Ron Echevarria
Nancy Dill
Viridian
This account is from Wikipedia.
June 17-18, 1990, in Jacksonville FL. On June 17, a man armed with a M-1 carbine shot a pimp and a prostitute. He drove away, stopped and asked two young men for directions, and then shot and injured them.
On June 18 at about 10:44 a.m., the shooter parked his car at the General Motors Acceptance Corporation office located in Jacksonville. He entered the building through the front door, armed with his M1 carbine, a .38-caliber revolver, several loaded magazines, and ammunition packed in his pockets. Then, without saying a word, he immediately began shooting with the M1 carbine at two customers at the front counter, killing Julia Burgess and wounding David Hendrix with four shots. Walking through the open office, he then systematically moved from desk to desk and shot at the GMAC workers, deliberately aiming at those hiding under their desks.
When the GMAC employees realized what was going on, many of them escaped through a back door of the building, while the assailant started shooting at those ducking for cover. GMAC employees Janice David, Sharon Hall, Jewell Belote, Lee Simonton, Denise Highfill, Ron Echevarria, and Nancy Dill were also shot. The shooter then put the .38-caliber revolver to his head and committed suicide. In just about two minutes, he had fired at least 28 rounds from his carbine, hitting 11 of the 85 workers in the office, as well as the two customers. Six of his victims died at the scene, while another three died at hospital, the last being Jewell Belote, who succumbed to his wounds nine days after the shooting.
Killed:
June 17
Louis Carl Bacon, 39
Doretta Drake, 30
June 18
Julia White Burgess, 42, customer
Drew Woods, 38
Cynthia L. Perry, 30
Barbara Duckwall Holland, 45
Janice David, 40
Sharon Louise Hall, 45
Jewell Belote, 50, died on June 27
Lee Simonton, 33
Denise Sapp Highfill, 36
Injured:
June 17
Unidentified teenager, 17
Unidentified teenager, 18
June 18
David Hendrix, 25, customer
Phyllis Griggs
Ron Echevarria
Nancy Dill
Viridian
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
Tuesday Quilt block April 10
Hello and welcome to Tuesday on my blog. Spring should be coming - one of these days!
It's time to share my progress on my current indigo and white quilt.
This is block E-5, called Rising Sun.
I paper pieced the background rays and appliqued the circle in the center. The circle covers the points that may not exactly match! And I cut the center away, to reduce bulk.
See DearJane.com for information about the 1863 quilt I am reproducing.
Linking up with Connie at Freemotion by the River and Let's Bee Social, Silly Mama quilts.
I have a page on Facebook: keep up with my infrequent quilt posts at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Viridian61/347674418583948?ref=hl
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It's time to share my progress on my current indigo and white quilt.
This is block E-5, called Rising Sun.
I paper pieced the background rays and appliqued the circle in the center. The circle covers the points that may not exactly match! And I cut the center away, to reduce bulk.
See DearJane.com for information about the 1863 quilt I am reproducing.
Linking up with Connie at Freemotion by the River and Let's Bee Social, Silly Mama quilts.
I have a page on Facebook: keep up with my infrequent quilt posts at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Viridian61/347674418583948?ref=hl
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I is for Isla Vista, Santa Barbara CA
This post is part of the A to Z challenge. My theme: Mass shootings in the USA - remember the victims.
May 24, 2014. Evening in Isla Vista, near the campus of Univ. of California, Santa Barbara.
This account is from Wikipedia.
The attack began when the shooter stabbed three men to death in his apartment. Afterwards, he drove to a sorority house and shot three female students outside, killing two. He drove to a nearby deli and shot to death a male student who was inside. He began to speed through Isla Vista, shooting and wounding several pedestrians and striking several others with his car. The shooter exchanged gunfire with police twice during the attack, receiving a non-fatal gunshot to the hip. The rampage ended when his car crashed into a parked vehicle and came to a stop. Police found him dead in the car with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
The shooter used several handguns, all purchased legally. He killed a total of 6 people (3 by gunfire) and wounded 14 others.
All six murder victims were students at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).
Deaths in apartment stabbings:
George Chen (19)
Cheng Yuan "James" Hong (20)
Weihan "David" Wang (20)
Deaths from gunshots:
Katherine Breann Cooper (22)—shot near sorority house
Christopher Ross Michaels-Martinez (20)—shot inside deli
Veronika Elizabeth Weiss (19)—shot near sorority house
Fourteen other people were injured; seven from gunshot wounds and seven by blunt trauma sustained when the shooter struck them with his vehicle.
Viridian
May 24, 2014. Evening in Isla Vista, near the campus of Univ. of California, Santa Barbara.
This account is from Wikipedia.
The attack began when the shooter stabbed three men to death in his apartment. Afterwards, he drove to a sorority house and shot three female students outside, killing two. He drove to a nearby deli and shot to death a male student who was inside. He began to speed through Isla Vista, shooting and wounding several pedestrians and striking several others with his car. The shooter exchanged gunfire with police twice during the attack, receiving a non-fatal gunshot to the hip. The rampage ended when his car crashed into a parked vehicle and came to a stop. Police found him dead in the car with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
The shooter used several handguns, all purchased legally. He killed a total of 6 people (3 by gunfire) and wounded 14 others.
All six murder victims were students at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).
Deaths in apartment stabbings:
George Chen (19)
Cheng Yuan "James" Hong (20)
Weihan "David" Wang (20)
Deaths from gunshots:
Katherine Breann Cooper (22)—shot near sorority house
Christopher Ross Michaels-Martinez (20)—shot inside deli
Veronika Elizabeth Weiss (19)—shot near sorority house
Fourteen other people were injured; seven from gunshot wounds and seven by blunt trauma sustained when the shooter struck them with his vehicle.
Viridian
Monday, April 9, 2018
H is for Hazard KY
Hazard Community and Technical College (HCTC), located in Hazard, Kentucky, is one of 16 two-year, open-admissions colleges of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS). (Wikipedia)
Jan. 15, 2013. 6 pm on a Tuesday. Two people were killed and one teen was critically injured in a parking lot shooting at Hazard Community and Technical College. The teen later died at the hospital. A man with a semi automatic pistol shot into a car with one of the victims. It appeared to be a domestic incident unrelated to the school. The school parking lot was a meeting place for the shooter to return his 2 year old son to his mother after a court ordered visit. The 2 year old was uninjured in this incident.
The shooter had purchased (legally) a semi automatic gun just hours before.
Killed:
Caitlin Paige Cornett 20
Jackie Doug Cornett 53 (Caitlin's uncle)
Taylor Cornett 12 (Jackie's daughter)
There is no Wikipedia entry for this shooting - I am using a local KY website.
Viridian
Jan. 15, 2013. 6 pm on a Tuesday. Two people were killed and one teen was critically injured in a parking lot shooting at Hazard Community and Technical College. The teen later died at the hospital. A man with a semi automatic pistol shot into a car with one of the victims. It appeared to be a domestic incident unrelated to the school. The school parking lot was a meeting place for the shooter to return his 2 year old son to his mother after a court ordered visit. The 2 year old was uninjured in this incident.
The shooter had purchased (legally) a semi automatic gun just hours before.
Killed:
Caitlin Paige Cornett 20
Jackie Doug Cornett 53 (Caitlin's uncle)
Taylor Cornett 12 (Jackie's daughter)
There is no Wikipedia entry for this shooting - I am using a local KY website.
Viridian
Saturday, April 7, 2018
G is for Gabby Giffords
Another entry for the A to Z challenge.
I am taking this account of the events in Tucson AZ from the Wikipedia entry.
Jan. 8, 2011, about 10:10 in the morning. A United States Representative from Arizona, Gabrielle Giffords, was holding a constituent meeting called "Congress on Your Corner" at the Safeway supermarket in La Toscana Village mall, which is in Casas Adobes, an unincorporated area north of Tucson, Arizona. Giffords had set up a table outside the store and about 20 to 30 people were gathered around her when a 22-year-old man suddenly drew a semi automatic pistol and shot Giffords in the head. He then shot randomly at the crowd. The shooter stopped to reload, but dropped the loaded magazine from his pocket to the sidewalk, from where bystander Patricia Maisch grabbed it. Another bystander clubbed the back of the assailant's head with a folding chair, injuring his elbow in the process. The shooter was tackled to the ground by Bill Badger, a 74-year-old retired United States Army Colonel who had also been shot himself. The shooter was further subdued by Maisch and bystanders Roger Sulzgeber and Joseph Zamudio.
While waiting for help to arrive, Giffords' intern Daniel Hernández Jr. applied pressure to the gunshot wound on her forehead, and made sure she did not choke on her blood. Hernández was credited with saving Giffords' life.
Six people were killed in the attack.
Christina-Taylor Green, 9
Dorothy "Dot" Morris, 76
John Roll, 63
Phyllis Schneck, 79
Dorwan Stoddard, 76
Gabriel "Gabe" Zimmerman, 30 a congressional staffer for Giffords
In addition to the six dead, thirteen other people were wounded by gunshot in the attack, while a fourteenth person was injured subduing the shooter. Gabrielle Giffords and two other members of her staff were among the surviving gunshot victims.
Viridian
I am taking this account of the events in Tucson AZ from the Wikipedia entry.
Jan. 8, 2011, about 10:10 in the morning. A United States Representative from Arizona, Gabrielle Giffords, was holding a constituent meeting called "Congress on Your Corner" at the Safeway supermarket in La Toscana Village mall, which is in Casas Adobes, an unincorporated area north of Tucson, Arizona. Giffords had set up a table outside the store and about 20 to 30 people were gathered around her when a 22-year-old man suddenly drew a semi automatic pistol and shot Giffords in the head. He then shot randomly at the crowd. The shooter stopped to reload, but dropped the loaded magazine from his pocket to the sidewalk, from where bystander Patricia Maisch grabbed it. Another bystander clubbed the back of the assailant's head with a folding chair, injuring his elbow in the process. The shooter was tackled to the ground by Bill Badger, a 74-year-old retired United States Army Colonel who had also been shot himself. The shooter was further subdued by Maisch and bystanders Roger Sulzgeber and Joseph Zamudio.
While waiting for help to arrive, Giffords' intern Daniel Hernández Jr. applied pressure to the gunshot wound on her forehead, and made sure she did not choke on her blood. Hernández was credited with saving Giffords' life.
Six people were killed in the attack.
Christina-Taylor Green, 9
Dorothy "Dot" Morris, 76
John Roll, 63
Phyllis Schneck, 79
Dorwan Stoddard, 76
Gabriel "Gabe" Zimmerman, 30 a congressional staffer for Giffords
In addition to the six dead, thirteen other people were wounded by gunshot in the attack, while a fourteenth person was injured subduing the shooter. Gabrielle Giffords and two other members of her staff were among the surviving gunshot victims.
Viridian
Late! Saturday finish
Hello and welcome to some quilting content.
I have been doing some other blogging (the A to Z challenge) and forgot my regular Friday quilt block post. Here is another block I finished for my indigo and white project.
I have been doing some other blogging (the A to Z challenge) and forgot my regular Friday quilt block post. Here is another block I finished for my indigo and white project.
This is H-7, a classic star pattern.
Please see dearjane.com for more explanation of the 1863 quilt I am slowly reproducing in blue and white.
Linking up with Can I get a Whoop Whoop, Finished or Not at Busy Hands quilts, and Finish it up Friday at Crazy mom quilts.
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Friday, April 6, 2018
F is for First Baptist Church, Sutherland TX
Sunday, Nov. 5, 2017:
11 AM. A man parked close to the door of the church and shot two people outside. He then went into the church and methodically shot at people in the pews. He used a semi automatic rifle and a handgun. According to Wikipedia, the shooter was prohibited by law from purchasing or possessing firearms and ammunition due to a domestic violence conviction in a court-martial while in the United States Air Force. The Air Force failed to record the conviction in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) National Crime Information Center database, which is used by the National Instant Check System to flag prohibited purchases. The error prompted the Air Force to begin a review.
26 people were killed and 20 injured.
From CNN's web site, those killed are:
Sara and Dennis Johnson
Lula White
Annabelle Pomeroy
Haley Krueger
Bryan Holcombe, guest pastor that day
Karla Holcombe
Danny Holcombe
Noah Holcombe
Crystal Holcombe (and unborn child)
Emily Hill
Megan Hill
Greg Hill
Tara Elyse McNulty
Richard and Theresa Rodriguez
Robert and Shani Corrigan
Joann Ward, and her children Brooke Ward and Emily Garza
Karen and Robert Scott Marshall
Peggy Lynn Warden
Keith Allen Braden
A chase ensued after the shooting and the shooter ended up killing himself.
Viridian
11 AM. A man parked close to the door of the church and shot two people outside. He then went into the church and methodically shot at people in the pews. He used a semi automatic rifle and a handgun. According to Wikipedia, the shooter was prohibited by law from purchasing or possessing firearms and ammunition due to a domestic violence conviction in a court-martial while in the United States Air Force. The Air Force failed to record the conviction in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) National Crime Information Center database, which is used by the National Instant Check System to flag prohibited purchases. The error prompted the Air Force to begin a review.
26 people were killed and 20 injured.
From CNN's web site, those killed are:
Sara and Dennis Johnson
Lula White
Annabelle Pomeroy
Haley Krueger
Bryan Holcombe, guest pastor that day
Karla Holcombe
Danny Holcombe
Noah Holcombe
Crystal Holcombe (and unborn child)
Emily Hill
Megan Hill
Greg Hill
Tara Elyse McNulty
Richard and Theresa Rodriguez
Robert and Shani Corrigan
Joann Ward, and her children Brooke Ward and Emily Garza
Karen and Robert Scott Marshall
Peggy Lynn Warden
Keith Allen Braden
A chase ensued after the shooting and the shooter ended up killing himself.
Viridian
Thursday, April 5, 2018
E is for Edmond OK
August 20, 1986 (well before Columbine), Edmond Post office sorting facility.
A man entered, carrying 3 semi-automatic pistols, and sought out the supervisors who had verbally disciplined him the previous day. He found one of them (the other came to work late that day) and shot him. According to Wikipedia, 100 workers occupied the small facility at the time of the attack. Fourteen people died at the scene, and six others received wounds requiring hospitalization. The day's violence ended when the perpetrator shot himself in the forehead.
Killed
Patricia Ann Chambers, 41, part-time clerk
Judy Stephens Denney, 41, part-time clerk
Richard C. Esser Jr., 38, supervisor
Patricia A. Gabbard, 47, clerk
Jonna Gragert Hamilton, 30, clerk
Patty Jean Husband, 48, supervisor
Betty Ann Jarred, 34, clerk
William F. Miller, 30, rural carrier
Kenneth W. Morey, 49, rural carrier
Leroy Orrin Phillips, 42, rural carrier
Jerry Ralph Pyle, 51, rural carrier
Paul Michael Rockne, 33, letter carrier
Thomas Wade Shader Jr., 31, part-time clerk
Patti Lou Welch, 27, clerk
Injured
William Nimmo
Gene Bray
Michael Bigler
Steve Vick
Judy Walker
Joyce Ingram
This incident may, unfortunately, be the origin of the phrase "going postal". (According to Wikipedia).
Viridiain
A man entered, carrying 3 semi-automatic pistols, and sought out the supervisors who had verbally disciplined him the previous day. He found one of them (the other came to work late that day) and shot him. According to Wikipedia, 100 workers occupied the small facility at the time of the attack. Fourteen people died at the scene, and six others received wounds requiring hospitalization. The day's violence ended when the perpetrator shot himself in the forehead.
Killed
Patricia Ann Chambers, 41, part-time clerk
Judy Stephens Denney, 41, part-time clerk
Richard C. Esser Jr., 38, supervisor
Patricia A. Gabbard, 47, clerk
Jonna Gragert Hamilton, 30, clerk
Patty Jean Husband, 48, supervisor
Betty Ann Jarred, 34, clerk
William F. Miller, 30, rural carrier
Kenneth W. Morey, 49, rural carrier
Leroy Orrin Phillips, 42, rural carrier
Jerry Ralph Pyle, 51, rural carrier
Paul Michael Rockne, 33, letter carrier
Thomas Wade Shader Jr., 31, part-time clerk
Patti Lou Welch, 27, clerk
Injured
William Nimmo
Gene Bray
Michael Bigler
Steve Vick
Judy Walker
Joyce Ingram
This incident may, unfortunately, be the origin of the phrase "going postal". (According to Wikipedia).
Viridiain
Wednesday, April 4, 2018
D is for the Dallas Police shooting
July 7, 2016:
A man ambushed and fired upon a group of police officers on Main Street in Dallas, Texas, killing five officers and injuring nine others. The shooting happened at the end of a protest against police killings of unarmed men. The shooter had several guns, including one semi-automatic. After the shooting on Main Street the man barricaded himself inside El Centro College. You many remember this shooting incident because the police sent in a robot, a remote control bomb detonation robot, to eventually kill the shooter.
The officers killed were identified as:
DPD Senior Cpl. Lorne Ahrens, age 48, who had been with the department since 2002.
DPD Officer Michael Krol, 40, who had been with the department since 2007.
DPD Sgt. Michael Smith, 55, a former Army Ranger[51] who had been with the department since 1989.
DART (Dallas Area Rapid Transit) Officer Brent Thompson, 43, a former Marine who had been with the department since 2009. Thompson was the first DART officer to be killed in the line of duty since the department's inception in 1989.
DPD Officer Patricio "Patrick" Zamarripa, 32, a former Navy sailor and Iraq War veteran who had been with the department since 2011.
This was the deadliest single incident for law enforcement officers in the United States since the September 11 attacks.
I retrieved this information for the Wikipedia entry for this shooting.
Viridian
A man ambushed and fired upon a group of police officers on Main Street in Dallas, Texas, killing five officers and injuring nine others. The shooting happened at the end of a protest against police killings of unarmed men. The shooter had several guns, including one semi-automatic. After the shooting on Main Street the man barricaded himself inside El Centro College. You many remember this shooting incident because the police sent in a robot, a remote control bomb detonation robot, to eventually kill the shooter.
The officers killed were identified as:
DPD Senior Cpl. Lorne Ahrens, age 48, who had been with the department since 2002.
DPD Officer Michael Krol, 40, who had been with the department since 2007.
DPD Sgt. Michael Smith, 55, a former Army Ranger[51] who had been with the department since 1989.
DART (Dallas Area Rapid Transit) Officer Brent Thompson, 43, a former Marine who had been with the department since 2009. Thompson was the first DART officer to be killed in the line of duty since the department's inception in 1989.
DPD Officer Patricio "Patrick" Zamarripa, 32, a former Navy sailor and Iraq War veteran who had been with the department since 2011.
This was the deadliest single incident for law enforcement officers in the United States since the September 11 attacks.
I retrieved this information for the Wikipedia entry for this shooting.
Viridian
Tuesday, April 3, 2018
Tuesday Quilt block April 3
It is April, and is Spring finally here?
Where I am in the American Midwest, we had a light dusting of snow yesterday night, which then melted yesterday, and my son mowed the yard for the first time this season! Strange huh?
It's Tuesday and time to share a quilt block.
Where I am in the American Midwest, we had a light dusting of snow yesterday night, which then melted yesterday, and my son mowed the yard for the first time this season! Strange huh?
It's Tuesday and time to share a quilt block.
This is B-11 of the Jane Stickle quilt. I appliqued the outer curved pieces on; paper pieced the center bits; then added them all together. A little wonky but it will do.
Linking up with Connie at Freemotion by the River and Let's Bee Social.
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C is for Columbine HS
The Columbine shooting shocked many of us at the time, though there were school shooting and other mass shootings before it happened.
It happened on April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School, Jefferson County, Colorado. I have just read the Wikipedia account, and it is painful reading, as two students entered the school and deliberately sought out students and teachers and shot them. One student was equipped with a 12-gauge Savage-Springfield 67H pump-action shotgun (which he discharged a total of 25 times) and a Hi-Point 995 Carbine 9 mm carbine with thirteen 10-round magazines (which he fired a total of 96 times). The other student was equipped with a 9×19mm Intratec TEC-9 semi-automatic handgun with one 52-, one 32-, and one 28-round magazine and a 12-gauge Stevens 311D double-barreled sawed-off shotgun. He primarily fired the TEC-9 handgun for a total of 55 times, while he discharged a total of 12 rounds from his double-barreled shotgun.
The dead and injured include:
1. Rachel Scott, age 17. Killed by shots to the head, torso, and leg alongside the west entrance of the school.
2. Richard Castaldo, age 17. Shot in the arm, chest, back, and abdomen alongside the west entrance to the school.
3. Daniel Rohrbough, age 15. Fatally injured by shots to the abdomen and leg on the west staircase, shot through the upper chest at the base of the same staircase.
4. Sean Graves, age 15. Shot in the back, foot, and abdomen on the west staircase.
5. Lance Kirklin, age 16. Critically injured by shots to the leg, neck, and jaw on the west staircase.
6. Michael Johnson, age 15. Shot in the face, arm, and leg to the west of the staircase.
7. Mark Taylor, age 16. Shot in the chest, arms, and leg to the west of the staircase.
8. Anne-Marie Hochhalter, age 17. Shot in the chest, arm, abdomen, back, and left leg near the cafeteria's entrance.
9. Brian Anderson, age 17. Injured near the west entrance by flying glass.
10. Patti Nielson, age 35. Hit in the shoulder by shrapnel near the west entrance.
11. Stephanie Munson, age 17. Shot in the ankle inside the North Hallway.
12. William David Sanders, age 47. Died of blood loss after being shot in the neck and back inside the South Hallway.
13. Evan Todd, age 15. Sustained minor injuries from the splintering of a desk he was hiding under.
14. Kyle Velasquez, age 16. Killed by gunshot wounds to the head and back.
15. Patrick Ireland, age 17. Shot in the head and foot.
16. Daniel Steepleton, age 17. Shot in the thigh.
17. Makai Hall, age 18. Shot in the knee.
18. Steven Curnow, age 14. Killed by a shot to the neck.
19. Kacey Ruegsegger, age 17. Shot in the shoulder, hand and neck.
20. Cassie Bernall, age 17. Killed by a shotgun wound to the head.
21. Isaiah Shoels, age 18. Killed by a shot to the chest.
22. Matthew Kechter, age 16. Killed by a shot to the chest.
23. Lisa Kreutz, age 18. Shot in the shoulder, hand, arms and thigh.
24. Valeen Schnurr, age 18. Injured with wounds to the chest, arms and abdomen.
25. Mark Kintgen, age 17. Shot in the head and shoulder.
26. Lauren Townsend, age 18. Killed by multiple gunshot wounds to the head, chest and lower body.
27. Nicole Nowlen, age 16. Shot in the abdomen.
28. John Tomlin, age 16. Killed by multiple shots to the head and neck.
29. Kelly Fleming, age 16. Killed by a shotgun wound to the back.
30. Jeanna Park, age 18. Shot in the knee, shoulder and foot.
31. Daniel Mauser, age 15. Killed by a single shot to the face.
32. Jennifer Doyle, age 17. Shot in the hand, leg and shoulder.
33. Austin Eubanks, age 17. Shot in the hand and knee.
34. Corey DePooter, age 17. Killed by shots to the chest and neck.
13 dead and 24 non-fatal injuries (21 by gunfire, others from trying to escape)
This is tough blogging. Not as tough as what these families have endured.
Viridian
It happened on April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School, Jefferson County, Colorado. I have just read the Wikipedia account, and it is painful reading, as two students entered the school and deliberately sought out students and teachers and shot them. One student was equipped with a 12-gauge Savage-Springfield 67H pump-action shotgun (which he discharged a total of 25 times) and a Hi-Point 995 Carbine 9 mm carbine with thirteen 10-round magazines (which he fired a total of 96 times). The other student was equipped with a 9×19mm Intratec TEC-9 semi-automatic handgun with one 52-, one 32-, and one 28-round magazine and a 12-gauge Stevens 311D double-barreled sawed-off shotgun. He primarily fired the TEC-9 handgun for a total of 55 times, while he discharged a total of 12 rounds from his double-barreled shotgun.
The dead and injured include:
1. Rachel Scott, age 17. Killed by shots to the head, torso, and leg alongside the west entrance of the school.
2. Richard Castaldo, age 17. Shot in the arm, chest, back, and abdomen alongside the west entrance to the school.
3. Daniel Rohrbough, age 15. Fatally injured by shots to the abdomen and leg on the west staircase, shot through the upper chest at the base of the same staircase.
4. Sean Graves, age 15. Shot in the back, foot, and abdomen on the west staircase.
5. Lance Kirklin, age 16. Critically injured by shots to the leg, neck, and jaw on the west staircase.
6. Michael Johnson, age 15. Shot in the face, arm, and leg to the west of the staircase.
7. Mark Taylor, age 16. Shot in the chest, arms, and leg to the west of the staircase.
8. Anne-Marie Hochhalter, age 17. Shot in the chest, arm, abdomen, back, and left leg near the cafeteria's entrance.
9. Brian Anderson, age 17. Injured near the west entrance by flying glass.
10. Patti Nielson, age 35. Hit in the shoulder by shrapnel near the west entrance.
11. Stephanie Munson, age 17. Shot in the ankle inside the North Hallway.
12. William David Sanders, age 47. Died of blood loss after being shot in the neck and back inside the South Hallway.
13. Evan Todd, age 15. Sustained minor injuries from the splintering of a desk he was hiding under.
14. Kyle Velasquez, age 16. Killed by gunshot wounds to the head and back.
15. Patrick Ireland, age 17. Shot in the head and foot.
16. Daniel Steepleton, age 17. Shot in the thigh.
17. Makai Hall, age 18. Shot in the knee.
18. Steven Curnow, age 14. Killed by a shot to the neck.
19. Kacey Ruegsegger, age 17. Shot in the shoulder, hand and neck.
20. Cassie Bernall, age 17. Killed by a shotgun wound to the head.
21. Isaiah Shoels, age 18. Killed by a shot to the chest.
22. Matthew Kechter, age 16. Killed by a shot to the chest.
23. Lisa Kreutz, age 18. Shot in the shoulder, hand, arms and thigh.
24. Valeen Schnurr, age 18. Injured with wounds to the chest, arms and abdomen.
25. Mark Kintgen, age 17. Shot in the head and shoulder.
26. Lauren Townsend, age 18. Killed by multiple gunshot wounds to the head, chest and lower body.
27. Nicole Nowlen, age 16. Shot in the abdomen.
28. John Tomlin, age 16. Killed by multiple shots to the head and neck.
29. Kelly Fleming, age 16. Killed by a shotgun wound to the back.
30. Jeanna Park, age 18. Shot in the knee, shoulder and foot.
31. Daniel Mauser, age 15. Killed by a single shot to the face.
32. Jennifer Doyle, age 17. Shot in the hand, leg and shoulder.
33. Austin Eubanks, age 17. Shot in the hand and knee.
34. Corey DePooter, age 17. Killed by shots to the chest and neck.
13 dead and 24 non-fatal injuries (21 by gunfire, others from trying to escape)
This is tough blogging. Not as tough as what these families have endured.
Viridian
Monday, April 2, 2018
B is for San Bernardino
On December 2, 2015, a training event and holiday party was in progress at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino CA. About 80 employees were in a rented banquet room. A man and a woman (husband and wife), armed with semi-automatic pistols and rifles, approached the building and shot and killed two people outside.
Then then entered the building and went to banquet room and started shooting. According to the Wikipedia account, they shot more than 100 bullets in 2 to 3 minutes. Some people were able to flee to other parts of the building, but others were shot if they moved or tried to escape. The two shooters then fled and a chase ensued.
Three explosive devices were left by the man in a backpack but failed to work. They may have been targeted at the first responders.
14 people were killed:
Robert Adams 40
Isaac Amanios 60
Bennetta Betbadal 46
Harry Bowman 46
Sierra Clayborn 27
Juan Espinoza 50
Aurora Godoy 26
Shannon Johnson 45
Larry Daniel Kaufman 42
Damian Meins 58
Tin Nguyen 31
Nicholas Thalasinos 52
Yvette Velasco 27
Michael Wetzel 37
According to autopsy reports released on May 27, 2016, the 14 deceased all died from multiple gunshot wounds, and almost all of them were shot in the back. In addition, 22 people were seriously injured. I am not sure about minor injuries.
My information comes from the Wikipedia page for this shooting. Note the use of a semi automatic pistol, and the short time during which the shooting happened.
Viridian
Then then entered the building and went to banquet room and started shooting. According to the Wikipedia account, they shot more than 100 bullets in 2 to 3 minutes. Some people were able to flee to other parts of the building, but others were shot if they moved or tried to escape. The two shooters then fled and a chase ensued.
Three explosive devices were left by the man in a backpack but failed to work. They may have been targeted at the first responders.
14 people were killed:
Robert Adams 40
Isaac Amanios 60
Bennetta Betbadal 46
Harry Bowman 46
Sierra Clayborn 27
Juan Espinoza 50
Aurora Godoy 26
Shannon Johnson 45
Larry Daniel Kaufman 42
Damian Meins 58
Tin Nguyen 31
Nicholas Thalasinos 52
Yvette Velasco 27
Michael Wetzel 37
According to autopsy reports released on May 27, 2016, the 14 deceased all died from multiple gunshot wounds, and almost all of them were shot in the back. In addition, 22 people were seriously injured. I am not sure about minor injuries.
My information comes from the Wikipedia page for this shooting. Note the use of a semi automatic pistol, and the short time during which the shooting happened.
Viridian
Sunday, April 1, 2018
A is for Aurora, CO
And so I begin the A to Z challenge. I hope I make it to the end!
My category is Politics and News.
My theme is Mass Shootings in America: Remember the Victims.
In July 2012 a group of patrons were in a movie theater, for a midnight showing of a current Batman movie, The Dark Knight Rises. A man entered the theater, set off tear gas grenades, and started shooting into the audience. He had a shotgun, a semi-automatic rifle, and a handgun. The shooter fired 76 shots in the theater: six from the shotgun, 65 from the semi-automatic rifle, and five from the .40-caliber handgun. (Note the high number from the semi-automatic.) I believe all guns were obtained legally.
From Wikipedia:
The dead included:
Jonathan Blunk, age 26, shot once in the back (fatally) and once in the head
Alexander J. Boik, age 18, shotgunned once in the head (fatally), chest, and shoulder
Jesse Childress, age 29, shotgunned once in the torso (fatally), both legs, and right arm
Gordon Cowden, age 51, shot once in the chest
Jessica Ghawi (a.k.a. Jessica Redfield), a sports journalist, age 24, shot six times, four in the torso and limbs and once in the head (fatally).
John Larimer, age 27, shot twice in the chest and abdomen (both fatally)
Matt McQuinn, age 27, shot nine times, including in the chest and neck (both fatally)
Micayla Medek, age 23, shot once in the chest
Veronica Moser-Sullivan, age 6, shot four times, including in the chest (fatally), limbs, and lower right side
Alex Sullivan, age 27, shot once in the chest
Alexander C. Teves, age 24, shot once in the head
Rebecca Wingo, age 31, shot and shotgunned in the head (both fatally), shot once in the torso, and once in a limb
The total number of casualties is reported as 80 - these deaths, plus others hit by bullets, and at least 8 people injured trying to flee the theater.
Viridian
My category is Politics and News.
My theme is Mass Shootings in America: Remember the Victims.
In July 2012 a group of patrons were in a movie theater, for a midnight showing of a current Batman movie, The Dark Knight Rises. A man entered the theater, set off tear gas grenades, and started shooting into the audience. He had a shotgun, a semi-automatic rifle, and a handgun. The shooter fired 76 shots in the theater: six from the shotgun, 65 from the semi-automatic rifle, and five from the .40-caliber handgun. (Note the high number from the semi-automatic.) I believe all guns were obtained legally.
From Wikipedia:
The dead included:
Jonathan Blunk, age 26, shot once in the back (fatally) and once in the head
Alexander J. Boik, age 18, shotgunned once in the head (fatally), chest, and shoulder
Jesse Childress, age 29, shotgunned once in the torso (fatally), both legs, and right arm
Gordon Cowden, age 51, shot once in the chest
Jessica Ghawi (a.k.a. Jessica Redfield), a sports journalist, age 24, shot six times, four in the torso and limbs and once in the head (fatally).
John Larimer, age 27, shot twice in the chest and abdomen (both fatally)
Matt McQuinn, age 27, shot nine times, including in the chest and neck (both fatally)
Micayla Medek, age 23, shot once in the chest
Veronica Moser-Sullivan, age 6, shot four times, including in the chest (fatally), limbs, and lower right side
Alex Sullivan, age 27, shot once in the chest
Alexander C. Teves, age 24, shot once in the head
Rebecca Wingo, age 31, shot and shotgunned in the head (both fatally), shot once in the torso, and once in a limb
The total number of casualties is reported as 80 - these deaths, plus others hit by bullets, and at least 8 people injured trying to flee the theater.
Viridian
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