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| Two police officers shot dead in Topeka, Kansas as US gun murders mount | Two police officers shot dead in Topeka, Kansas as US gun murders mount |
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| Incidents of gun violence across the US, leading to deaths, woundings and arrests, continued to be reported on Sunday and Monday while the nation's attention remained on Newtown, Connecticut, where 20 young children and six adults were killed by a gunman on Friday. | Incidents of gun violence across the US, leading to deaths, woundings and arrests, continued to be reported on Sunday and Monday while the nation's attention remained on Newtown, Connecticut, where 20 young children and six adults were killed by a gunman on Friday. |
| A Twitter account, @GunDeaths, is attempting to catalogue "every gun death in North America regardless of cause and without comment". Some of the reports below are taken from links to local media provided by @GunDeaths. | A Twitter account, @GunDeaths, is attempting to catalogue "every gun death in North America regardless of cause and without comment". Some of the reports below are taken from links to local media provided by @GunDeaths. |
| • On Sunday, two Kansas police officers were shot outside a grocery store, while responding to a report of a suspicious vehicle. The officers died later at a hospital, authorities said. Topeka police chief Ronald Miller called the shootings of Corporal David Gogian and Officer Jeff Atherly "unspeakable". He said Gogian, 50, and Atherly, 29, were shot in the head by a gunman, later identified as 22-year-old David Edward Tiscareno, who opened fire within minutes of their arrival to investigate the vehicle. A third officer was at the scene when the shooting happened, but was not injured. Tiscareno was later apprehended, apparently seriously injured. According to the Officer Down Memorial Page, 120 police officers have been killed in 2012 – 44 of them by deliberate gunfire. There had been no line-of-duty fatalities in the Topeka police department since 2000. | • On Sunday, two Kansas police officers were shot outside a grocery store, while responding to a report of a suspicious vehicle. The officers died later at a hospital, authorities said. Topeka police chief Ronald Miller called the shootings of Corporal David Gogian and Officer Jeff Atherly "unspeakable". He said Gogian, 50, and Atherly, 29, were shot in the head by a gunman, later identified as 22-year-old David Edward Tiscareno, who opened fire within minutes of their arrival to investigate the vehicle. A third officer was at the scene when the shooting happened, but was not injured. Tiscareno was later apprehended, apparently seriously injured. According to the Officer Down Memorial Page, 120 police officers have been killed in 2012 – 44 of them by deliberate gunfire. There had been no line-of-duty fatalities in the Topeka police department since 2000. |
| • Late on Sunday, two people were wounded when shots were fired at a movie theater in San Antonio, Texas. Witnesses said that a number of shots were fired inside the Santikos Mayan Palace theater-complex at around 9.25pm. The 14-screen complex was evacuated. A spokesman for Bexar County Sherriff's Office said the shooting had begun at a nearby restaurant and that the suspect, who was apprehended after being shot at and possibly wounded by an off-duty police officer, had shot at a San Antonio Police Department patrol car. Of the off-duty police officer who fired on the suspect, the spokesman said: "She took all appropriate action to keep everyone safe inside the movie theater." | • Late on Sunday, two people were wounded when shots were fired at a movie theater in San Antonio, Texas. Witnesses said that a number of shots were fired inside the Santikos Mayan Palace theater-complex at around 9.25pm. The 14-screen complex was evacuated. A spokesman for Bexar County Sherriff's Office said the shooting had begun at a nearby restaurant and that the suspect, who was apprehended after being shot at and possibly wounded by an off-duty police officer, had shot at a San Antonio Police Department patrol car. Of the off-duty police officer who fired on the suspect, the spokesman said: "She took all appropriate action to keep everyone safe inside the movie theater." |
| • In Lucedale, Mississippi on Sunday morning, one man was killed and two were critically injured after being shot, local media reported. Authorities said a 27-year-old man was killed and his father injured in the incident, which began as an argument over a driver's behaviour in a truck, before a second son, aged 20, used a gun kept in the family's home to shoot and wound the men's assailant. | • In Lucedale, Mississippi on Sunday morning, one man was killed and two were critically injured after being shot, local media reported. Authorities said a 27-year-old man was killed and his father injured in the incident, which began as an argument over a driver's behaviour in a truck, before a second son, aged 20, used a gun kept in the family's home to shoot and wound the men's assailant. |
| • In Camden, New Jersey, late on Sunday night, an unidentified person was shot outside an apartment building. Local media said the case, in which details have not been released, was a record 67th homicide in Camden this year. | • In Camden, New Jersey, late on Sunday night, an unidentified person was shot outside an apartment building. Local media said the case, in which details have not been released, was a record 67th homicide in Camden this year. |
| • In Columbus, Ohio, police said that an unidentified man found dead in a vacant house on Sunday had been shot, making him the city's 88th homicide victim this year. | • In Columbus, Ohio, police said that an unidentified man found dead in a vacant house on Sunday had been shot, making him the city's 88th homicide victim this year. |
| • Police said that a murder-suicide had led to a couple being found dead at a house in Kalamazoo, Michigan on Sunday. The mother of Andrea Rachdi, 25, told a local television station that her daughter had been shot and killed by her husband, Nawfal Rachdi, who then shot himself. | • Police said that a murder-suicide had led to a couple being found dead at a house in Kalamazoo, Michigan on Sunday. The mother of Andrea Rachdi, 25, told a local television station that her daughter had been shot and killed by her husband, Nawfal Rachdi, who then shot himself. |
| • In Illinois, it was reported that Springfield police were investigating the shooting death of an unidentified 27-year-old man on Sunday night. | • In Illinois, it was reported that Springfield police were investigating the shooting death of an unidentified 27-year-old man on Sunday night. |
| • This article was amended on 18 December 2012 because the movie theater shooting was in San Antonio, Texas, not San Antonio, California. | • This article was amended on 18 December 2012 because the movie theater shooting was in San Antonio, Texas, not San Antonio, California. |
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