BREAKING, 04/08/2019: Multiple casualties after gunman opens fire on people outside a bar in Dayton, Ohio.

-At least nine victims were shot and killed, while 16 wounded people are receiving treatment at the Miami Valley Hospital.

-The shooter was shot dead by responding police.

-The gunman opened fire at 1:22 AM local time.

-WTVN radio of Columbus, Ohio, says the shooter used “a long gun” in the attack.

-There is still no known motive for the shooting.

-The gunman opened fire on people outside of Ned Peppers Bar in Dayton’s Oregon District.

-The gunman acted alone.

-The number of deceased victims remains at nine, but the number of injured has been increased to 26.

-The shooter was wearing body armour and was carrying several magazines of ammunition.

-Uniformed police officers already in the area responded to the active shooter call less than a minute after the first shots were fired and fatally shot the attacker.

-Pope Francis has spoken to condemn the mass shootings in both Dayton and El Paso.

24-year-old Connor Betts has been identified as the Dayton, Ohio shooter.

-He used .223-calibre rounds and was carrying extended magazines.

-He was a psychology student at Sinclair Community College.

-He previously attended Bellbrook High School.

-Shooter was born 28th October, 1994.

-A further conference will be held at 4PM local time.

-Of the nine victims killed; six were black and three were white, four were female and five were male.

-The eldest victim was 57-years-old.

-One of the deceased victims was the shooter’s sister, aged in her 20′s.

BREAKING, 03/08/2019: Several fatalities in active shooter situation in Wal-Mart store in El Paso, Texas.

-Police say they have multiple people in custody, although it is unknown to what capacity the different suspects were involved.

-Police responded to reports of an active shooter at approximately 11AM local time.

-Witnesses have described a man dressed in black wearing a combat helmet shooting people at random with a semi-automatic rifle.

-A reunification centre is being set up at MacArthur Middle School.

-A possible manifesto is circulating, but there is no confirmation it is authentic.

-Police believe there was only one shooter.

-At least 22 people have been shot and injured.

-Suspected shooter is a 21-year-old man from Dallas, Texas, pictured below in the store’s CCTV footage.

-20 victims have been shot and killed.

-26 people have been shot and injured.

-The first 911 call was at 10:39 AM

-The first officer arrived on the scene at 10:45 AM

-The ages and genders of the victims vary.

-Crusius will be prosecuted by the state of Texas.

-The FBI are investigating the hate crime aspect of the shooting.

-Crusius disarmed and surrendered to police voluntarily.

-The Del Sol Medical Centre received 11 patients with gunshot wounds.

-The eldest of the victims is 82-years-old and the youngest is 35-years-old.

-Of the victims, eight are in a stable condition but three are in a critical condition.

-Seven gunshot victims operated on.

-More operations planned on victims throughout today and this coming week.

-All 11 remain in hospital, but one is expected to be discharged from care later today.

-The shooting is being treated as a domestic terror attack.

-The shooter may soon face state capital murder charges, which could lead to the death penalty.

-The shooter is cooperating with investigators, answering all questions asked of him.

-He purchased the firearm he used legally.

-Police have executed three search warrants in the Dallas area.

-The bodies of the victims are in the process of being recovered.

-Police will release a mugshot of the shooter later today.

Annie McCann was only 16 years-old when she was found deceased under suspicious circumstances on November 2nd, 2008. The teen lived in Fairfax, Virginia at the time, and she was last seen by her family on either the evening of October 30th, 2008, or on the morning of October 31st, 2008. The 31st was a Friday, and according to Annie’s father Daniel McCann, it began as a typical day. Before he left for work that morning, he peeked into Annie’s room and saw what he thought was the shape of her body under the covers. Thinking that Annie would wake up shortly thereafter and get herself to school, Annie’s father left for work.

Annie’s mother Mary Jane McCann was out of town that day, however she still expected a phone call from Annie once Annie returned home from school. When that phone call never came, she called her husband to ask if he had heard from their daughter. Daniel immediately left work to see if Annie had made it home from school. When he arrived, he learned that Annie had never gone to school at all that day–as her school had left a voicemail notifying her family of her absence. Later, Annie’s parents found a note from Annie that she had left behind–it stated that she was depressed and had been contemplating suicide, but instead she decided to just run away and start fresh. After finding the note, Annie’s parents realized that Annie took $1000 in cash, clothing, some snacks, and their family’s white Volvo that she usually drove to school. Upon this discovery, Annie’s parents immediately reported her missing.

Just days later, on November 2nd, 2008, police in Baltimore, Maryland were notified about a body that was found behind a dumpster near the Perkins Homes Housing Project–located an approximate hour drive away from the McCann home. It did not take authorities very long to identify the body as that of Annie McCann. Her backpack was found near her body, which contained her driver’s license and school identification. The white Volvo she was driving was found abandoned at a nearby gas station. The car was checked for fingerprints, and a print matching a local Baltimore teen named Darnell Kinlaw was found. 

Police questioned Darnell, who told them that he and a group of friends happened to come across Annie’s unlocked car in Baltimore. Darnell stated that they noticed Annie in the backseat–presumably dead–so they dumped her body behind the dumpster near the Perkins Home before taking the car for a “joyride.” While this story seemed suspicious, police did not charge Darnell or his friends with anything related to Annie’s case. In fact, authorities were quick to announce that they did not believe foul play was involved in Annie’s death. An autopsy determined that Annie had a significant amount of lidocaine in her system at the time of her death. A bottle of bactine was found in the backseat of Annie’s car, and her DNA was found at the lip of the bottle. A medical examiner determined that Annie died of lidocaine poisoning. The cause of death was a ruled a suicide. 

Annie’s parents were not satisfied with the investigation’s findings. They did not believe that Annie took her own life, nor did they believe she voluntarily ingested bactine. The McCanns decided to launch an investigation of their own, during which evidence was discovered that suggested Annie’s death might have not been a suicide after all.

Patti Krieger was 65-years-old when she vanished from the Sauk Mountain Trail in 2010. While disappearances of lone hikers are sadly not uncommon, Patti wasn’t alone. In fact, she was with six other people as well as her faithful Rottweiler, Bear. They all made it off of that mountain. Patti, meanwhile, is still nowhere to be found.

Among the other people in the group were Patti’s boyfriend, 42-year-old Larry Pressley, a relative of his, Troy Robinson, Robinson’s girlfriend, Nichole Gardner, and three other relatives of Larry. They had headed to the mountain that day to scatter the ashes of Larry’s parents, but after the ceremony, they said Patti had separated herself from the group, going down a different trail along with Bear. They said that they had called out to her to ask her where she was going, but that for whatever reason, she didn’t respond. Assuming the trails would join together again at some point, the group carried on without her. It was four hours later when Larry reported Patti missing, after stopping off for some burritos and beer.

It wasn’t until Patti didn’t turn up for work the next day, however, that any of her family realised something was wrong. Her co-workers got in touch with her son, who went over to his mother’s house to find out where she was. It was then that he discovered Patti and her dog had disappeared the night before, although strangely, the hiking group were in possession of her phone, car keys and ID.

A search of Sauk Mountain was launched by police that included the use of a helicopter and infrared cameras, but they didn’t turn up any clues. Patti’s son, co-workers and friends continued to search by foot, although the sheriff believed that she was no longer on the mountain - dogs had tracked her scent down to the car park at the bottom of the trail. Twenty-six days after their search began, Bear was discovered wandering a nearby mountain road. But there was still no sign of Patti.

Larry and his friends had been living at Patti’s house, and her family soon heard sightings of Larry driving around in her luxury cars. They went over to the residence, but Larry wouldn’t let them in, so they eventually got a court order to gain access to her home. Once inside, they found it trashed; beers cans everywhere, her safe emptied.

Naturally, suspicions began to turn towards Larry. Prior to meeting him, Patti had been married to a successful real estate investor, Jason Graham, who passed away in 2006. Jason was an associate of Larry’s, who got wind of his passing while he was serving time in prison. Upon his release he got in touch with Patti, and said that Jason had asked him to take care of her should anything ever happen.

Patti soon fell for his charms, although their happy union didn’t last long. She told co-workers about his short temper, and of finding a gun as well as a stash of marijuana hidden behind a wall in her home. She also told friends that the pair didn’t have a physical relationship because Larry was impotent, although it later transpired he was sleeping with several other women, and even ended up getting one pregnant.

Less than one year after Patti vanished, Larry married Dawnica Mejia-Lard. Police came to search their house after Larry was arrested for assaulting a police officer, where they found drugs and a number of stolen weapons, including one that belonged to a homicide victim. It wasn’t Larry’s first time in trouble with the law. He had more than 30 previous convictions. Nevertheless, Larry plead guilty to his charge and was sentenced to three years in prison, while Dawnica, his new wife, took the rap for the other charges. She was sentenced to twelve years.

Dawnica handed over her power of attorney to a friend, who went over to the couple’s house to go through her belongings. While she was over there, she found a backpack in the attach - the same one that Larry had used during the hike. It appeared to be covered in blood. Patti’s son turned the backpack over to police, but it is unclear if any further evidence was found.

On 4 February, 2014, 15-year-old Corriann Cervantes from Clear Lake, Texas, had been grounded by her father after he found out she was attempting to skip school. That same day, when Corriann’s father went grocery shopping, she decided to sneak out to meet a friend and they smoked marijuana together. Afterwards, she and her friend went to the apartment of a local middle-aged woman known as “Candy” who allowed teens to smoke and drink at her place. Corriann was heavily intoxicated and explained to Candy how she couldn’t return home as her father had probably locked her out and so she asked to stay the night. A number of other teens later arrived at Candy’s apartment, two of them being 17-year-old Jose Reyes and his friend, 16-year-old Victor Alas. Jose had already sold his soul to the devil, and Victor was trying to accomplish the same. In an attempt to also sell his soul to the devil, Victor asked Jose if it was possible if murdering a female would account for selling his soul to which he said yes. With this knowledge, both Jose and Victor had a brewed a sinister and heinous plan and decided that together, they would perform a satanic ritual in which they would rape, bludgeon, and mutilate a female as an initiation rite. Upon arrival at Candy’s apartment, the duo found a target — Corriann. They lured her to a vacant apartment where Jose proceeded to have consensual sex with her, however, the consensual sex turned into a horrific rape. They began to stab Corriann in the face and in the body a number of times with a screwdriver. When she tried to escape, she was bludgeoned in the face further with the lid of a toilet tank and an ashtray. Begging for her life, Jose then gouged out her eye. After all of the torture, Corriann was put out of her misery and strangled and one of the boy’s carved an upside-down cross into her abdomen. After the gruesome and horrific murder, Jose later bragged to two people explicit details about what they had done to 15-year-old Corriann, and someone reported him to the police

A few days later, on 7 February, a neighbour was passing by when he noticed the apartment door was open. When he opened the door, he discovered Corriann’s disfigured half-naked corpse, was surrounded by religious items placed in a circle, torn clothes and the upside-down cross on her abdomen. The neighbour immediately alerted police. The pair were later arrested and confessed. Jose explained how he was just doing what the devil told him to do. 

Racheal Wiest (16) was murdered by her ex-boyfriend Jacob Boyd (17) on May 25th, 2015. The two teens met at their high school in Irving, Texas and began dating in spring of 2014. However, Racheal’s parents did not allow her to date, so she hid her relationship with Jacob from them–often telling them she was with friends when she was actually with him. Unbeknownst to her family members, Racheal was withdrawing from her friends as well, as she opted to spend most of her free time with Jacob. 

Overtime, though, it appeared that Jacob had a significant amount of control over Racheal. Jacob would reportedly send Racheal dozens of text messages at a time, and then threaten to kill himself if she did not respond. He would pressure her into having sex multiple times a day, but then would call her a whore afterwards. Additionally, when Racheal attempted to break-up with Jacob, he changed her Facebook password and refused to give it to her until she agreed to date him again.

In early May 2015, Racheal broke up with Jacob yet again. Two weeks later, on May 25th, Racheal and Jacob met up at a mutual friend’s house to discuss potentially rekindling their relationship. Jacob attempted to initiate sex, but Racheal refused. This angered Jacob; he subsequently grabbed Racheal’s phone and threw it to the floor. Then, he attacked Racheal proceeded to choke her to death. The friend stumbled upon the scene and immediately called 911 while attempting CPR to Racheal. Unfortunately, it was too late–she had already passed away. Police arrived on the scene and arrested Jacob. He was charged with murder.