Author: John Woodrow Cox
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Inside the mind of an alleged teen school shooter: A plot to kill ‘50 or 60. If I get lucky maybe 150.’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Six days before he allegedly opened fire on an elementary school playground, the eighth-grader returned to his Instagram group chat to fixate, yet again, on his most intense interests: guns and bombs and the mass…
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Analysis: No, there haven’t been 18 school shootings in 2018. That number is flat wrong
The stunning number swept across the internet within minutes of the news Wednesday that, yet again, another young man with another semi-automatic rifle had rampaged through a school, this time at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in South Florida. The figure originated with Everytown for Gun Safety, a nonprofit, co-founded by Michael Bloomberg, that works to…
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‘Resist White Supremacy’: A sign. A farm. And the fury that followed
It had been a week since the road sign had gone up near the entrance of their 116-acre farm in Northern Virginia, and the furious emails, calls and Facebook messages were still pouring in. The responses didn’t surprise the owners of Cox Farms, who had long taken politically charged stands on their land, locally famous…
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Road rage, a bullet to the head – and the frantic effort to save a 4-year-old
CLEVELAND – The bullet exploded from the gun’s barrel, spiraling through cool night air toward a gray SUV’s back passenger-side window. Carter “Quis” Hill was perched in his car seat on the other side of the glass, and as it shattered all around him, the round burrowed into his head, an inch above the right…
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The shooting lasted 12 seconds. But these first-graders’ torment may last years
Recess had finally started, so Ava Olsen picked up her chocolate cupcake, then headed outside toward the swings. And that’s when the 7-year-old saw the gun. It was black and in the hand of someone the first-graders on the playground would later describe as a thin, towering figure with wispy blond hair and angry eyes.…
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Officer Patrick Zamarripa survived three tours in Iraq before being killed in Dallas
It had been 12 hours since he’d lost his son to one of the country’s worst mass police shootings, and he still couldn’t understand why. Dallas police officer Patrick Zamarripa, 32, had survived three tours in Iraq, one of the world’s most dangerous places, his father, Rick Zamarripa, said Friday. And then this. “He comes to the United States…
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New poll finds 9 in 10 Native Americans aren’t offended by Redskins name
Nine in 10 Native Americans say they are not offended by the Washington Redskins name, according to a new Washington Post poll that shows how few ordinary Indians have been persuaded by a national movement to change the football team’s moniker. The survey of 504 people across every state and the District reveals that the…
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Military launches a new investigation into Marine major’s sexual misconduct case
The military has launched a new investigation of Marine Maj. Mark Thompson, the former U.S. Naval Academy instructor who insisted he was innocent of sexual misconduct with two young women while they were students at the school. Following Washington Post revelations about Thompson, a Marine Corps prosecutor and an investigator met this week with one…