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• Pueblo businesses concerned about recent rash of robberies Play Video

  January 9, 2013 2:01 AM

  Pueblo businesses are on alert following a recent rash of robberies. 10 places have already been hit since the beginning of the year. Around 6:15 p.m. Monday, a man stormed into the Fashion Hotline store with a gun and demanded cash. Surveillance video released to News 5... more »

• Wisconsin gunman pleaded guilty to DUI in Colorado

  August 6, 2012 3:53 PM

  DENVER (AP) - The Sikh temple gunman pleaded guilty to driving under the influence in Denver in 1999 but Wade Page never completed his sentence. According to records, Page had a blood alcohol more than 1 1/2 times over the legal limit when he hit a sign at an apartment... more »

• French spymaster: Gunman didn't plan school attack

  March 23, 2012 1:47 PM

  PARIS (AP) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy's spy chief says a gunman who killed three young children and a rabbi at a Jewish school only attacked the school after missing his original target - a French soldier. Ange Mancini, Sarkozy's intelligence adviser, said on French TV that Mohamed Merah had... more »

• Tearful Giffords says goodbye to Congress

  January 25, 2012 4:52 PM

  WASHINGTON (AP) -- The applause rolled through the big chamber, growing ever louder as hundreds of Republicans and Democrats suddenly realized Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was back in the House. But this time she had come to say goodbye. Fellow lawmakers gave her a fitting send-off: cheers, hugs, a... more »

• Update on man with gun at Air Force Base

  November 21, 2011 8:06 PM

  Officials at Schriever Air Force Base tell News 5 they have spoken to the young man holed up inside a building just about 15 minutes ago. The man has been there for nearly 8 hours. He has a gun. No shots have been fired so far. The building was... more »

• Police find gunman dead in Illinois shooting

  November 17, 2011 12:13 PM

  Police in Bedford Park, Illinois say a gunman who opened fire inside a suburban Chicago FedEx sort facility has killed himself. At around 8 a.m. 911 calls poured in to police reporting shots being fired following a domestic disturbance at the Bedford Park FedEx facility. After Bedford Park... more »

• Former Pueblo man admits to robbing casinos

  June 14, 2011 1:58 PM

  A former Pueblo man admits he held up two Las Vegas casinos back in December. Anthony Carleo told a Nevada judge Tuesday that he went to the craps table at the Bellagio, took chips and ran. The video of the helmet-wearing gunman went viral. The judge set... more »

• Seven killed in Dutch mall shooting, including shooter

  April 9, 2011 2:21 PM

  ALPHEN AAN DEN RIJN, Netherlands (AP) - One of the people shot today at a shopping mall in the Netherlands has died, bringing the number of dead to seven, including the gunman. Fifteen others were wounded. Officials and witnesses say the gunman opened fire with a machine gun at a... more »

• New Orleans police: 5 teens shot in bar, 1 dead

  March 13, 2011 12:02 PM

  NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Police say a gunman apparently opened fire on teenagers attending a party in a New Orleans bar and fled, leaving one 18-year-old man dead and four other teens wounded. Police said early Sunday a 16-year-old girl was in critical condition and two other girls ages... more »

• 4 Detroit police officers shot at precinct

  January 23, 2011 7:18 PM

  DETROIT (AP) - A police official says a gunman opened fire inside a Detroit police precinct, shooting at least four officers including a commander. Sgt. Todd Eby tells the Detroit Free Press that he was sitting at his desk at the precinct on the city's northwest side when the... more »

• Gunman reported inside Florida hospital

  November 4, 2010 3:29 PM

  PALM BAY, Fla. (AP) - A gunman has barricaded himself inside a hospital in Florida. Police spokeswoman Yvonne Martinez says the gunman fired shots at Palm Bay Hospital in Brevard County, about an hour east of Orlando, and then barricaded himself in a room Thursday afternoon. Martinez says there... more »

• Police: UT Austin gunman was student, acted alone

  September 28, 2010 2:16 PM

  Law enforcement officials say they believe the gunman who opened fire with an AK-47 at a University of Texas campus library before killing himself was a student who acted alone. Campus police Chief Robert Dahlstrom said at a Tuesday news conference that officials have ruled out the possibility of... more »

• Police: Gunman at UT-Austin kills himself

  September 28, 2010 12:51 PM

  A gunman opened fire inside a library at the University of Texas at Austin, then shot and killed himself, police and university officials said Tuesday. Police Chief Art Acevedo told NBC News that that the dead man suffered what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Police were seeking... more »

• Suspect commits suicide in Otero County

  September 14, 2010 11:25 AM

  A man from Texas committed suicide on an Otero County Road Monday after he was cornered by law enforcement officers according to the Otero County Sheriff's Office. The Otero County Sheriff's office reported a 911 call at about 4:45 p.m. from an address in the 28000 block of County... more »

• Gunman fires at woman in Colorado Springs

  September 7, 2010 11:06 AM

  A gunman fired five or six shots at a woman in a Colorado Springs parking lot Monday night. She was not injured. A suspect has been arrested. Colorado Springs Police report that the 19-year-old woman was approached by a man who made threatening comments to her. She told officers... more »

• Gunman takes hostage at Discovery Channel headquarters

  September 1, 2010 3:06 PM

  SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) - Police in a Washington, D.C., suburb say a gunman has taken at least one person hostage at the headquarters of Discovery Channel networks. Capt. Paul Starks says the suspect has what he called "concerns" with the Discovery Corp., but he would not say if the... more »

• Six dead, 4 wounded in New Mexico shooting

  July 12, 2010 1:43 PM

  Police say six people are dead and four others are hospitalized in a shooting at an Albuquerque fiber optics manufacturer. Authorities say one of the dead was believed to be the gunman at the shooting on Monday at the campus of Emcore Corp. Police Chief Ray Schultz says... more »

• 5 dead after shooting in Miami-area restaurant

  June 7, 2010 8:30 AM

  Miami-area police say a gunman shot and killed four people at a restaurant and wounded three others before killing himself. Hialeah police spokesman Carl Zogby says the shooting last night began in the parking lot of the mall containing the restaurant. The shooting happened after the man was seen... more »

• Hero of Colorado school shootings to receive honor

  June 3, 2010 8:54 AM

  A teacher who tackled a suspected shooter outside a Colorado school is being honored by a group of school resource and drug use prevention officers. David Benke is credited with knocking down Bruco Stong Eagle Eastwood outside Deer Creek Middle School after two students were shot and wounded Feb.... more »

• Court appearance for Ft. Hood shooting suspect

  June 1, 2010 8:17 AM

  The Army psychiatrist accused of gunning down 13 people at Fort Hood is to make his first military courtroom appearance Tuesday as his attorney seeks to delay the case. But Maj. Nidal Hasan isn't expected to speak during the hearing. Military prosecutors and defense attorneys instead plan to... more »

• Ft. Hood suspect moved from hospital to Texas jail

  April 9, 2010 9:39 AM

  The Army officer accused in the Fort Hood shooting rampage has been moved from a military hospital to a jail near the Texas post. According to online jail records, Maj. Nidal Hasan was listed as a Bell County Jail inmate Friday morning. His attorney, John Galligan, says he's concerned... more »

• Update: 4 killed as gunman sprays bullets 'into a crowd'

  March 31, 2010 9:39 AM

  D.C. police say a fourth person is dead after a drive-by shooting in southeast Washington. Police spokeswoman Gwendolyn Crump said early Wednesday that a fourth person has died after the shooting Tuesday night in which nine people were shot. D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier says a gunman sprayed bullets "into... more »

• Parents of Pentagon shooter warned authorities

  March 5, 2010 3:45 PM

  A law enforcement official says the man killed in the shootout at the Pentagon had been acting erratically, and his family feared he had a gun. The sheriff in San Benito County, California said that the parents of John Patrick Bedell reported him missing in early January and were... more »

• Pentagon gunman may have held conspiracy theories

  March 5, 2010 8:34 AM

  There are signs that a man who shot two Pentagon police officers may have had resentment toward the U.S. government and suspicions over the 9/11 attacks. John Patrick Bedell was shot to death after pulling out a gun and firing at the subway entrance to the Pentagon. The... more »

• Update: 3 dead after rampage at St. Louis plant

  January 7, 2010 9:19 AM

  Three people are dead and five have been wounded after a man armed with an assault rifle and a handgun opened fire at a St. Louis manufacturing plant. Police Capt. Sam Dotson confirmed the number but did not have names. Authorities haven't confirmed whether one of the eight was... more »

• Colorado feds look at Fort Hood connection to cleric

  December 1, 2009 6:03 PM

  Federal authorities in Colorado are reviewing a 2002 file on a Muslim cleric who communicated with the shooting suspect at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas. The U.S. Attorney's Office in Denver confirmed Tuesday that it has some record of Anwar al-Awlaki. An official won't confirm a report by... more »

• Fort Hood suspect faces 13 murder charges

  November 12, 2009 12:02 PM

  Military prosecutors say they will charge Fort Hood shooting suspect Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan with 13 counts of premeditated murder, a government official told NBC News. An announcement will be made later Thursday at Fort Hood, officials said. The shootings took place at Fort Hood's crowded Soldiers Readiness... more »

• Gunman surrenders in high school standoff

  November 10, 2009 9:56 AM

  A suspect who held a school administrator hostage at a New York high school surrendered Tuesday morning, the Duchess County Sheriff's Office said. Authorities said there were no injuries. Pine Plains Town Supervisor Gregg Pulver said the single gunman at Stissing Mountain High was a former student in... more »

• 1 killed, at least 7 hurt in Fla. shootings

  November 6, 2009 1:15 PM

  One person was killed and at least eight were critically wounded in a shooting inside a downtown Orlando high-rise building Friday morning, authorities said. The building was described as not yet secure, and the suspect was still on the loose. Quoting emergency dispatchers, NBC station WESH-TV of Orlando reported... more »