Friends of the gunman said they were shocked when they heard who the shooter was.
The courthouse was evacuated and police did a floor-by-floor search of the 12-story building to make sure there was only the single gunman and there were no more threats, Shavack said.
The courthouse was evacuated and police were doing a floor-by-floor search of the 12-story building to make sure there was only the single gunman and there were no more threats, Shavack said.
Three guns were recovered near the gunman's body: a Glock, a Sig Sauer and a .223 Bushmaster rifle.
On Friday, we learned that more than two dozen people were killed when a gunman opened fire in an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut.
Four people were dead including the gunman following a hostage-taking incident on Saturday in Aurora, Colorado, the same town where a man shot dead 12 people and wounded 58 more at a movie theater last July.
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Students said that, as word spread that a gunman was moving through the school, they were told to barricade themselves in classrooms, lie on the floor down and wait for help.
She is understood to have hidden some of the children in a closet, ensuring they were safe, and then told the gunman that her class was in the gym.
During the trial, prison officers Kim Lockwood and Chris Matson told the jury they feared they were about to be killed when the gunman threatened to shoot them moments after arriving at the hospital.
Late Wednesday, state police spokesman Jack Keller said police were working under the assumption Myers was alive and said the heavily armed troopers and local police were ready to wait out the suspected gunman.
Those challenges were evident in 2007, when a gunman at Virginia Tech shot and killed 32, and Democratic Gov. Tim Kaine called for closing a loophole in the law allowing for private sales at gun shows without the same background check that licensed dealers are required to obtain.
The Oikos shootings were the deadliest on a US campus since a gunman killed 32 people at Virginia Tech in 2007.
That night, 12 people were killed and 58 more injured when a lone gunman opened fire in a cinema in Aurora, Colorado, during a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises.
The two sisters, another woman and another man were inside the two-story rental house when the gunman, wearing a ski mask, forced his way in, according to Nassau County Inspector Kenneth Lack.
Armed officers were brought in to surround the area, using helicopters to try to track the gunman down.
Initial reports were that there may have been multiple attackers, but police found no indication of another gunman, said Bradley Wentlandt, the police chief in nearby Greenfield.
Two officers on Friday fired 16 rounds at the gunman on Fifth Avenue, killing the suspect but also wounding eight city residents and a tourist who were simply passing through.
The documents were released Wednesday, and they provide new insight into how the shooting occurred and the motivations behind gunman Jared Loughner.
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