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News: Two shootings in a week?
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At least seven people are dead and 12 wounded in a shooting at Fort Hood in Texas, the base's public affairs office told NBC News on Thursday.
The official would not give his name nor additional details. It was unknown whether victims are soldiers or civilians. One gunman was reportedly in custody and another was on the loose, NBC News said. A third shooter may be involved, according to NBC News affiliate KCEN, which said the person had opened fire on the SWAT team at the base.
KCEN in Waco reported that the second suspect may be holed up in a building on the post. A congressman told MSNBC that a graduation ceremony may have been taking place at the time of the shooting.
mnsbc.msn.com
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I saw this on the news 
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omg... that's scarrry  ... iheard about it
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Gunman Hasan not dead
9:21 PM ET -- Gunman Hasan not dead but wounded. Lt. Gen Bob Cone is holding a press conference right now and he has just confirmed that the gunman Nidal Malik Hasan is not dead, contrary to prior reports. He was shot and wounded and has not been interrogated yet. Cone also cannot speak to if Hasan was firing indiscriminately or targeting specific people. Cone praised the first responders on the scene, saying this could have been much worse than it was.
Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/1...347366.html&cp
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Plz Shoot Him soon! 
I was watching the press conference
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I cannot think of anyone who would want to shoot the people who serve our country. I wish they would have killed him. 
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I just a video to this and it's sad.
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Orlando police confirmed that a man suspected in a deadly mass shooting inside a downtown Orlando office building has been taken into custody.
The suspect, Jason Rodriguez, 40, is a former employee of Reynolds, Smith & Hill, a construction engineering firm with offices on the eighth floor of the Gateway Center, the site of the shooting.
One person is dead and five are confirmed shot in the attack, which took place about 11:45 a.m. the office building near Interstate 4 and Ivanhoe Boulevard. The shooter used a handgun, police said.
Demings said Rodriguez appeared to shoot indiscriminately. Officers think the shooting was confined to the firm's offices.
A SWAT team spotted the suspect more than two hours after the attack through a window at his mother's residence.
Rodriguez came out of the home without incident, Orlando Police Chief Val Demings said. He is now at police headquarters and is expected to be booked into Orange County Jail.
Witnesses at the Hollowbrook Apartments, 5465 Curry Ford Road, saw a SWAT team sweep into the complex to arrest Rodriguez before 2:30 p.m.
A neighbor said Rodriguez has lived with his mother in her apartment since September.
Yahaira Milkez, 19, has lived at the complex about two months. She saw the suspect's arrest from her second-floor window. He was led out wearing a striped green shirt, she said.
"I just heard screaming. They [police] said, Come out with your hands in the air." The suspect complied calmly, she said.
orlandosentinel.com
another shooting happened today, in Orlando where I'm at.
Two shootings in a week? what the hell is going on here?
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Well truthfully, there have been bigger weeks in terms of violence. And every day there at least a couple hundred deaths around the world are from shootings or other random violent acts.
The biggest thing is to realize we are all on this planet together, and make the best of it.
Best of life to all those affected by last week's events.
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I just saw Obama speak about the Fort Hood shooting and they showed the soldiers that died. Two of them were my age 22, and there was one soldier that was only 19 years old
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I really don't see why the U.S. press and goverment are making such a huge deal out of this. Anything that has to do with the U.S troops, they want to make a big deal out of it. What about all the other big mass violent acts killing hundreds of people, which have happened in the past few weeks, that don't get airtime? My news channel literally had the ignorance and insensitivity to go ahead and say this was the worst event since the 9/11 attacks. Are you serious? 9/11 happens every day in countries like Israel, Jordan, etc.
I honestly think the fact that the man was Muslim and of Middle-Eastern descent really angered the government about this. I doesn't matter whether he was Black, Asian, Latino, White or whatever. But ever since 9/11, alot of White Americans have this hate with a passion for any sort of Middle-Eastern, labeling them as terrorists.
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Originally posted by NE.
I really don't see why the U.S. press and goverment are making such a huge deal out of this. Anything that has to do with the U.S troops, they want to make a big deal out of it. What about all the other big mass violent acts killing hundreds of people, which have happened in the past few weeks, that don't get airtime? My news channel literally had the ignorance and insensitivity to go ahead and say this was the worst event since the 9/11 attacks. Are you serious? 9/11 happens every day in countries like Israel, Jordan, etc.
I honestly think the fact that the man was Muslim and of Middle-Eastern descent really angered the government about this. I doesn't matter whether he was Black, Asian, Latino, White or whatever. But ever since 9/11, alot of White Americans have this hate with a passion for any sort of Middle-Eastern, labeling them as terrorists.
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Ignorance at its best. These people died because some asshole decided to shoot the place and you're saying it's not news worthy? Come on! This happened on U.S. soil. And don't make this a race issue. EVERY race hates the Middle East. Also, about 9/11, this is the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil since that tragedy.
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Originally posted by Flashing Lights
Ignorance at its best. These people died because some asshole decided to shoot the place and you're saying it's not news worthy? Come on! This happened on U.S. soil. And don't make this a race issue. EVERY race hates the Middle East. Also, about 9/11, this is the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil since that tragedy.
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I never said it wasn't news-worthy. I'm just saying that their are plenty more important issues and events that they aren't covering, but instead focusing on one mild event compared to some other painful events that are happening that they aren't interested in covering. Ok, it happened on U.S soil. What makes U.S. soil any more special than any other country? Are they of some lower standard, beacause in many, tragic events are of the norm?
And No, minorities generally have no issue with Middle-Easterns. We know what it feels like to be discriminated against. They're not after us.
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Make this three then, there was a school shooting up in Kansas City.
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The Kansas City School District will take extra security measures today at Central High School, a day after a large fight broke out at the school and four people were shot in an off-campus disturbance.
Extra school district administrators and security will be at Central High School, said Andrew Riley, district spokesman. Police plan additional patrols around the school.
“We are doing this to reestablish a sense normalcy and reestablish a learning environment . . . ,” Riley said. “We want to make sure that they know this is a safe building.”
Those are in addition to the schools normal security measures, including metal detectors.
He said the school is not on a formal lockdown where classroom doors would be locked and students’ move further restricted. Students will be able to leave the school if they have proper credentials or parents call.
The additional security measures were put into place after a negative incident in the community spilled into the school, Riley said.
“The world is a challenging place for kids,” Riley said. “They see something outside that causes them to react in a variety of ways. Sometimes they bring that to school.”
The melee erupted at the school about 1:05 p.m. at the school at 3221 Indiana Avenue. Security guards used pepper spray to break it up. That’s when a juvenile allegedly hit a guard, police said. That student was arrested.
That as many as five students were directly involved in the fight, Riley said, but it attracted other students.
Police called for two ambulances to help treat students exposed to pepper spray. Police received about 20 prank 911 calls from students during the melee reporting events that were untrue.
About 4:45 p.m., three teenage girls and one man were shot after a group of 10 to 20 teens began arguing in the street in the 4500 block of Prospect around 4:45 p.m.
Two of the girls were driven to the hospital and an ambulance transported another. They were all expected to survive.
Detectives were looking for a man in his late teens who fled the scene in a silver Chevy Monte Carlo.
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I live very close to there.
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