Joey Tapley was buying some bullets with his cousin at the Academy Sports and Outdoors store in Topeka, Kansas, on Friday when he heard some loud bangs. “I look up and they are just loading up weapons from the counter and then they run off,” the 24-year-oldtold WIBW-TV. “And my instincts kicked in.” Tapley ran
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Seth Fontenot will learn Wednesday how much time he has to spend in prison for the shooting death of 15-year-old Austin Rivault on Feb. 10, 2013. A jury in March convicted Fontenot, now 21, of manslaughter in Rivault’s death. He also was convicted of two counts of aggravated battery for shooting two then 15-year-olds, Cole
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Perhaps it’s technically the New York Timesthat’s saying a “flaw” is what allowed Roof, the Charleston church killer, to buy a gun. “Flaw” is the word used in the NYTheadline. The actual communication from the FBI is summarized this way in the text: A loophole in the system and an error by the F.B.I. allowed
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