The FBI was alerted to an alarming comment on YouTube from a user named Nikolas Cruz, who posted months ago that he planned to become a “professional school shooter,” according to a Mississippi man.
Philip Mudd, a former FBI agent and deputy director for the FBI’s national security branch, has interviewed terrorists and investigated some of the most atrocious attacks.
The FBI is distributing a 40-minute film to teach emergency responders how to respond to school shootings.
The father of an 18-year-old who was fatally shot during the mass shooting at an Oregon community college said the Secret Service and FBI blocked him from meeting with President Obama while in town to comfort the victims’ families.
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The horrific Sandy Hook school shooting that killed 20 children and six staff members was a hoax? So claimed former Atlanta Braves star Chipper Jones in an odd tweet that suggested the FBI confirmed the shooting was not real, Huffington Post reports. The next day, on Saturday, Jones apologized, saying he…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI plans to train 30,000 officers nationwide how to handle an active shooter in schools, businesses and other public places, the USA Today reports. More than 200 agents are helping with the training, which was hatched after the 2012 Newton, Conn., school massacre. “We have found a block of training…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Minnesota teen, who kept a notebook critiquing school shootings, planned a massacre of his own at his high school and was found with several pressure-cooker bombs, an assault rifle and other guns, the New York Daily News reports. John David LaDue, 17, planned to kill his family, bomb his school and…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Following the mass shooting in a Connecticut elementary school, attention has shifted to the ATF, the federal agency responsible for regulating the gun industry. A Washington Post investigation found that ATF is inadequately resourced and so beleaguered that it hasn’t had a director in years. Sources said the gun industry, particularly the NRA,…
