A 30-year-old woman was shot in both legs in the Bayview area of San Francisco, Calif., early Saturday. The victim was coming out of a store when she heard gunshots and ran. She made it a block before she realized she had been shot. Her boyfriend drove her to the hospital. The shooter’s identity is unknown and no arrest has been made.
Category Archives: Gun-violence
The Gun Report: December 17, 2013 – NYTimes.com
A 22-year-old woman was shot in the leg while taking a gun from her toddler in a home in Rapid City, S.D., Thursday night. Police said the victim discovered her 23-month-old son playing with an unsecured revolver, and when she attempted to take the weapon, it discharged, firing twice. Police reminded gun owners to safely secure their firearms.
The Gun Report: December 17, 2013 – NYTimes.com
James Tyler Wisdom, 19, was fatally shot when a friend’s gun discharged from an upstairs bedroom and traveled through the floorboards downstairs in a home in Colombia, Tenn., early Sunday. Ryan Frederick, 24, who served in the Army Reserve for 7 years and holds a gun permit, was showing off his new handgun to a friend when it accidentally went off. “It was an accident, but it shouldn’t have happened and I’m going to miss him,” Frederick said.
The Gun Report: December 17, 2013 – NYTimes.com
A 10-year-old boy was shot and wounded in Harrisburg, Pa., Monday night. The victim was sitting on the couch in his living room watching TV when he was struck in the face by a bullet. There were four other children in the room, but no one else was injured. Police determined that seven shots were fired at the house. No word on suspects.
The Gun Report: December 17, 2013 – NYTimes.com
A 6-year-old girl was shot in the leg and wounded as she and her mother walked to their apartment in north DeKalb County Monday afternoon. The child and her mother heard gunshots, and when they got home, the woman realized her daughter had been shot in the leg. No word on suspects.
The Gun Report: December 17, 2013 – NYTimes.com
A 5-year-old girl was wounded by a stray bullet in DeKalb County, Ga., late Sunday. The child heard gunshots and looked out her bedroom window to see what was going on when she was struck in the shoulder. Police do not have any information about a motive or suspects.
71 journalists were killed in 2013 – Reporters Without Borders
71 journalists were killed in 2013
2013 in numbers
Journalists killed: 71 (-20%)
Journalists arrested: 826 (-6%)
Journalists threatened or physically attacked: 2160 (+9%)
Journalists kidnapped: 87 (+129%)
Journalists who fled their country: 77 (+5%)
Media assistants killed: 6
Netizens and citizen-journalists killed: 39 (-17%)
Bloggers and netizens arrested: 127 (-12%)
Journalists killed:
39% in a war zone
8% freelance
4% women journalists
Media types
Print: 37%
Radio: 30%
TV: 30%
Website: 3%
via 71 journalists were killed in 2013 – Reporters Without Borders.
Broke 10,000 killed since 2012! Weekend Gun Report: December 13-15, 2013 – NYTimes.com
According to Slate’s gun-death tracker, an estimated 11,545 people have died as a result of gun violence in America since the Newtown massacre on December 14, 2012.
Weekend Gun Report: December 13-15, 2013 – NYTimes.com
A 14-year-old girl was found shot to death on a street in Compton, Calif., Saturday night; witnesses said the girl had been riding a bicycle when she was killed.
Weekend Gun Report: December 13-15, 2013 – NYTimes.com
A man was grazed in the back of the head when one of several people playing video games was handling a gun that accidentally went off in Lafayette, Ind., Thursday night.
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