Mass Shootings

Rich Fierro told reporters how he grabbed the shooter's body armor and began punching him. Police say Fierro and another man, Thomas James, stopped the shooter after he began spraying bullets inside Club Q on Saturday night.

The man suspected of opening fire at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs was being held on murder and hate crime charges Monday, while hundreds of people gathered to honor the five people killed and 17 wounded in the attack on a venue that for decades was a sanctuary for the local LGBTQ community.

Colorado Springs' police and city officials credit at least two strangers with stopping the gunman and limiting the bloodshed. Here's what they did.

"It's surreal to think that you're here in one hour and gone the next," said a student at the memorial on campus.

"What do we have the death penalty for?" one Parkland parent questioned after the jury could not unanimously agree on a death sentence for shooter Nikolas Cruz, who killed 17 people.

A Connecticut jury has ordered conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay $965 million to Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims’ relatives and an FBI agent.

Authorities say a gunman has killed 17 people and wounded 24 others in a school in central Russia.

A quarter-century later, Michael Carneal is 39 with a parole hearing next week that comes at a very different time in American life — after Sandy Hook, after Uvalde.

After losing one nearly $50 million verdict in Texas, Alex Jones is going on trial again in Connecticut for calling the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting a hoax.

The poll found that 71% of Americans say gun laws should be stricter, including about half of Republicans and a majority of those in gun-owning households.

“We all have one thing in common, and it’s that we would do anything for our kids,” the Oklahoma mother of two told FOX Television Stations.

A defense mental health expert in the penalty trial of Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz said he could pinpoint when he realized the 23-year-old mass murderer still has “irrational thoughts” — the two were making small talk when Cruz began describing plans for an eventual life outside prison.

The parents of a 6-year-old killed in the Sandy Hook shooting testified a day earlier that Alex Jones’ false hoax claims made their lives a “living hell” of death threats and harassment.

The House passed legislation Friday to revive a ban on semi-automatic guns, the first vote of its kind in years and a direct response to the firearms often used in the crush of mass shootings ripping through communities nationwide.

Firearm company CEOs testified at a congressional hearing that their products are legal and they are horrified by violence but guns themselves aren't to blame.

The suspect in the Fourth of July massacre in Highland Park now faces 110 additional criminal charges after a Lake County grand jury handed down an indictment Wednesday.

As jurors watched jail security video, the guard described how Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz violently attacked him, flipping him on the ground and grabbing his Taser from his holster while in the Broward County jail.

Alex Jones is facing a defamation trial over his false comments that the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre was a hoax. Jury selection began Monday.

Jurors in Nikolas Cruz's penalty trial watched video that showed him casually walking into a sandwich shop minutes after he murdered 17 people at his Parkland high school. He blended in with other fleeing students as they evacuated the campus — and even tried to get a ride from another student whose sister was seriously wounded in the mass shooting.