The FBI has joined the investigation into a mass shooting that killed four people, including a 6-year-old boy, and injured 15 others at the popular Gilroy Garlic Festival in California on Sunday.
A public works employee employee who opened fire at a municipal building Virginia Beach, killing 12 people and seriously wounding several others legally purchased the two handguns found at the scene, the ATF said.
The FBI and ATF are helping local law enforcement investigate a mass shooting at a Colorado school that left one student dead and eight others injured on Tuesday.
Denver-area public schools were closed Wednesday as the FBI launched a manhunt for a young woman whom authorities described as armed, “extremely dangerous” and “infatuated” with the Columbine school massacre.
Heavily armed FBI and ATF agents wearing bulletproof vests searched the Baltimore home Sunday night of the father of the man who opened fire at a video game tournament in Jacksonville, Fla., leaving three dead and 11 others injured.
The FBI reported 30 active shootings in 2017, more than any year on record, according to a recently released report by the bureau.
The 29-year-old accused of killing four people in a shooting rampage at a Waffle House in Tennessee used an AR-15 that authorities temporarily seized from him after he entered a restricted area near the White House and demanded to talk to President Trump in July 2017.
A majority of the assailants in mass attacks in the U.S. last year shared strikingly similar traits, a new Secret Service report found.
