A 4-year-old boy was shot in the chest with a Daisy Roger .177 caliber BB gun in Freeport, Fla., on Dec. 7. The victim’s 14-year-old cousin was standing six feet away when he pulled the trigger. The boy underwent surgery and was last reported to be in critical condition.
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The Gun Report: December 5, 2013 – NYTimes.com
Katrina Yuzefpolsky was 8 years old when nine of her family members were shot and killed by a mentally unstable relative at a Christmas party in Covina, Calif., in 2008. Dressed as Santa Claus, Bruce Jeffrey Pardo, who had been married to Katrina’s aunt, had a seamstress build extra room into his costume to accomodate his firearms. A bullet tore through Katrina’s cheek, but she, her parents and her sister fled the scene and survived.
Now 13, she has just begun discussing the origin of her scar in school, where she was named most likely to become president. If that prediction ever comes true, she said, “I would tell everyone that they’d have to get rid of their guns.”
Hundreds of settlers escorted to Joseph’s Tomb near Nablus | Maan News Agency
Part of an ongoing campaign by extremists and the current government to “establish” religious claim to Palestinian territory by Israel – Hundreds of Israeli settlers escorted by Israeli troops arrived at Joseph\’s Tomb near Balata refugee camp east of Nablus early Tuesday morning.
Local sources told a Ma\’an reporter that ten Israeli military vehicles escorted dozens of settlers\’ buses to visit the site at dawn in northern West Bank.
Settlers performed religious rites throughout the early morning hours.
While the settlers visited the site, a number of Palestinian young men gathered in the area hurling stones and empty bottles at Israeli soldiers.
via Hundreds of settlers escorted to Joseph’s Tomb near Nablus | Maan News Agency.
Staffers for French aid organization killed in Afghanistan | News | DW.DE | 27.11.2013
The beat goes on and on and on – some never tire of killing for no reason but it’s their job! WTF
\”They were killed in the course of their work to support development in the north. We deplore the deaths of our colleagues while they were carrying out their duties,\” he added. \”Today our thoughts are with the families and relatives of our lost colleagues and to our teams in Afghanistan.\”
The Taliban were not immediately available for comment. Northern Afghanistan is generally more peaceful than the south and east of the country, but insurgents, militias and criminal gangs are active in the area.
via Staffers for French aid organization killed in Afghanistan | News | DW.DE | 27.11.2013.
The Opps! Gun Report: November 22, 2013 – NYTimes.com
Charles O. White Jr., 17, was shot and killed by his friend, who was playing with a handgun as they walked down the street in Muskegon Heights, Mich., Tuesday night. 17-year-old Vance Thompson was charged with involuntary manslaughter.
The Gun Report: November 22, 2013 – NYTimes.com
Two men were shot, one fatally, after a neighborhood dispute in Magalia, Calif., Thursday morning. The man believed to be the shooter was found dead in the backyard. Neighbors said the two men have had disputes over loud music.
The Gun Report: November 19, 2013 – NYTimes.com
Michael Nugent, 21, died from a chest wound he suffered when his best friend’s gun dropped to the ground and fired in a home in Claremont, Calif., early Sunday. Investigators confiscated several firearms from the scene. During the week, a daycare operates out of the home.
The Gun Report: November 19, 2013 – NYTimes.com
22-year-old Mariah Anderson was shot and killed in the parking lot of the Walmart where she worked in New Castle, Pa., late Sunday. The gunman has been identified as the father of her three children. He is believed to have taken his own life after fleeing the scene. The victim had filed a protection-from-abuse order against him last Tuesday.
Deadly blasts target Iranian embassy in Beirut – LEBANON – FRANCE 24
“There’s large scale destruction, there’s blood on the ground here on the scene. It’s not a pretty sight,” said Salhani, adding that the attack occurred, “outside the Iranian Embassy, which is surrounded by residential buildings, as most embassies are in Beirut. Many of the buildings here have their windows knocked out, you can see water spraying out of buildings and glass all over the ground.”
The al Qaeda-linked Abdullah Azzam Brigades claimed responsibility for the double suicide attacks.
In a Twitter post in Arabic, the group’s spiritual guide Sheikh Sirajeddine Zureiqat, said the “double martyrdom operation” was carried out by “two Sunni heroes of Lebanon”. A later Twitter posting warned that the group will continue its operations in Lebanon until Hezbollah pulls its fighters out of Syria.
Security camera footage showed a man rushing toward the outer wall of the Iranian Embassy before detonating a belt packed with explosives. The second explosion was caused by a car bomb, said Lebanese security officials.
There were conflicting reports about whether the victims of the attack included Iran’s cultural attaché to Lebanon, Sheikh Ebrahim Ansari. Earlier Tuesday, Iran’s ambassador told the Associated Press that Ansari had succumbed to wounds sustained in the bombings.
But in an interview with Iranian state TV later Tuesday, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham said Ansari was critically wounded and showing “signs of life”.
Shiite-dominated neighbourhoods of Beirut have been targeted in the past few months with car bombs and rockets in what Syrian rebels say is retaliation for Hezbollah’s involvement in the Syrian civil war.
Hezbollah fighters in Syria have been supporting forces loyal to Assad, who hails from the Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shia Islam.
via Deadly blasts target Iranian embassy in Beirut – LEBANON – FRANCE 24.
Weekend Gun Report: November 15-17, 2013 – NYTimes.com
Sunday:
A child was shot while riding a bike in Jacksonville, Fla., Sunday afternoon. Trevor Patrick Clark, 15, was killed when a gun carried by another teenager discharged in Morrow County, Ohio, Sunday morning. A 16-year-old boy was wounded when a 14-year-old boy opened fire with a single-barrel shotgun following an argument in Spindale, N.C., Sunday afternoon. A drive-by shooting in the Orange Mound area of Memphis, Tenn., left a 19-year-old in critical condition early Sunday. A 21-year-old man was fatally shot while being shown a gun that fell and accidentally fired in the Bay Ho neighborhood of San Diego, Calif., early Sunday.
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