Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta, GA
Bodies of 2 teens found behind Roswell Publix
Posted: Aug 01, 2016 9:08 AM EST
Updated: Aug 01, 2016 12:54 PM EST
ROSWELL, GA (CBS46) -
The bodies of a man and woman were found behind a Publix grocery store in what police are calling a double homicide in Roswell Monday morning.
A delivery driver discovered the bodies around 6 a.m. behind the location on Woodstock Road. The area is near Roswell High School.
Police say the deceased were teenagers from the area and both suffered head injuries.
http://www.cbs46.com/story/32587309/bodies-of-2-teens-found-behind-roswell-publix
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Atlanta, GA
Teen found shot to death in Atlanta
HCN comment: Dark and gloomy scene based on video
http://www.cbs46.com/story/32585417/teen-found-shot-to-death-in-atlanta
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Atlanta, GA
Cops: Kids in car at time of father’s shooting
9:46 a.m. Monday, Aug. 1, 2016
A Cobb County man was fatally shot in his SUV with his two children inside, and the vehicle crashed into a wooded area along Six Flags Parkway, police said.
Cobb police Sgt. Dana Pierce identified the man as Larry Grigsby, 42, of Austell.
Police were dispatched to the 7200 block of Six Flags Parkway after a woman called 911 about 2:30 a.m. Sunday to report a wreck near a Marathon gas station and the West Place and West Parc Apartment Homes.
Man found shot to death behind day care gallery
Man found shot to death behind day care
“When they arrived near the entrance to the West Parc complex, they discovered that the driver of a Chevrolet Trailblazer had likely driven into some trees after being shot,” Pierce said.
Grigsby was alive when police arrived, but he died minutes later.
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/crime-law/cops-kids-in-car-at-time-of-fathers-shooting/nr7yw/
HCN comment: part of the crime is the life-lasting trauma put on the kids
Kansas City
Kansas City, Missouri
4 separate armed robberies reported overnight
Posted: Aug 01, 2016 8:18 AM EST
Updated: Aug 01, 2016 1:14 PM EST
By Laura McCallister, Digital Producer
An employee at BRGR at West 14th and Main street said he was taking out the trash just before 10:30 p.m. Sunday when he was confronted by a man with a gun. (Chopper5)
KANSAS CITY, MO (KCTV) -
Four separate armed robberies were reported over the last 24 hours, including one where workers were locked in a cooler.
An employee at BRGR at West 14th and Main street said he was taking out the trash just before 10:30 p.m. Sunday when he was confronted by a man with a gun. The robber forced the worker to empty his pockets and then put him in a walk-in cooler.
Two other workers who went to see what was happening were also robbed.
The gunman then forced another employee to turn over cash from the register and the restaurant's safe.
... first robbery happened near Gillham Park, the second at East 40th and Olive streets and the third happened less than a mile away at East 35th Street and Prospect Avenue
http://www.kctv5.com/story/32586768/3-people-robbed-at-gunpoint-overnight
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Kansas City, Kansas
Man shot near I-35, Cambridge Circle, police say
Victim expected to survive
UPDATED 9:30 AM CDT Aug 01, 2016
http://www.kmbc.com/news/1-shot-near-i35-cambridge-circle-police-say/40962068
HCN story rehash of story summary: man 29 shot Saturday while riding as passenger in picking truck vehicle after about 3pm
Indiana
To illustrate the trend of people taking shootings not necessarily lightly but in a manner skewed with what should be.
Rapper shoots himself in the cheek, then takes pictures of himself.
The mindset amongst youths that gun violence is cool has got to stop.
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Los Angeles, California
Shooting outbreak on a bus, a home invasion, hit-and-run involving fatality, in the list of referent type events over this past weekend
Seattle, Washington
Hundreds gather to remember 3 teens killed in shooting at Mukilteo house party
MUKILTEO, Wash. -- For the second day in a row, hundreds of people turned out to grieve the loss of three teenagers killed at a house party in Mukilteo early Saturday morning.
HCN comments: The story here is exactly why HCN took up this project of a national review of violence. There is so much violence going on in the East Coast, this is the first time the story has been seen yet and has not been seen in the DC region newspapers.