Aug 04 Watch 3:47 Death of Dayton gunman's sister makes family history a focus By PBS NewsHour A gunman in Dayton, Ohio, killed nine people and injured 27 in under a minute early Sunday morning, before he was fatally shot by police. Among the dead was the shooter’s sister, making family dynamics a main focus for investigators. Continue watching
Aug 04 Watch 3:39 El Paso 'standing strong' after shopping center massacre By PBS NewsHour A gunman, now in custody, opened fire at a shopping center in El Paso, Texas on Saturday, killing 20, and wounding dozens of others. Texas Tribune reporter Julian Aguilar joins Hari Sreenivasan via Skype from El Paso for more on… Continue watching
Aug 04 Watch 8:28 The 'gamification' of domestic terrorism online By PBS NewsHour Hate-filled online posts or “manifestos” have often been purposely left behind by shooters for the public and authorities to find. New York Times opinion writer-at-large Charlie Warzel, who covers information technology, joins to hari Sreenivasan to discuss the ‘gamification’ and… Continue watching
Aug 04 Watch 10:00 How news organizations should cover white supremacist shootings, according to a media expert By PBS NewsHour While reporting on the white supremacist ideology behind mass shootings, are journalists inadvertently magnifying the message? Joan Donovan, director of the Technology and Social Change Research project at Harvard University, joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss how reporters should -- and… Continue watching
Aug 04 El Paso suspect appears to have posted anti-immigrant screed By Michael Biesecker, Reese Dunklin, Michael Kunzelman, Associated Press About 20 minutes before the shooting started at an El Paso Walmart, a rambling screed was posted to an online message board saying the massacre was in response to an “invasion” of Hispanics coming across the southern border. Continue reading
Aug 04 Trump tweets, stays out of sight for hours after shootings By Jonathan Lemire, Associated Press As the nation reeled from two mass shootings in less than a day, President Donald Trump spent the first hours after the tragedies out of sight at his New Jersey golf course, sending out tweets of support awkwardly mixed in… Continue reading
Aug 04 Mass shootings devastate El Paso and Dayton. Here's what we know The latest on the two massacres. Continue reading
Aug 04 Watch 5:03 'When is enough going to be enough?' asks Dayton mayor By PBS NewsHour Nine people were killed and 27 were wounded in a mass shooting in the downtown entertainment district of Dayton, Ohio. The police patrolling the area fatally shot the gunman within a minute of the attack.The shooting took place less than… Continue watching
Aug 04 Sister: El Paso shooting victim, 25, 'gave her life' for son By Morgan Lee, Associated Press A 25-year-old woman who was shot while apparently shielding her 2-month-old son was among the 20 people killed when a gunman opened fire in a crowded El Paso shopping area, her sister said. Continue reading
Aug 04 2 mass shootings in less than 24 hours shock US By Associated Press Two mass shootings at crowded public places in Texas and Ohio in less than 24 hours claimed at least 29 lives and left scores injured, a shocking carnage even in a country accustomed to gun violence. Continue reading