Mass Casualty Incidents
The Mass Casualty Incidents topic page provides news, videos and expert columns about dealing with large-scale incidents including terrorist attacks, dirty bombs, natural disasters and more.
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La Crosse police work hard to keep the peace during Octoberfest, and this year, a perimeter protection plan was introduced to prevent a Waukesha-style attack
The gunman fired at random as he drove in the area of Odessa and Midland
These shootings show just how difficult it can be for law enforcement to stop a highly mobile killer
FBI special agent Christopher Combs said the man’s statements on the phone were “rambling”
The chaotic rampage began Saturday afternoon when Texas state troopers tried pulling over a gold car on Interstate 20 for failing to signal a left turn
Odessa police spokesperson Steve LeSueur said that at least one of the shooting victims remained in life-threatening condition
The shooting began with an interstate traffic stop where a man opened fire on police with one of two troopers inside a patrol car struck by gunfire
A woman who police said bought a shotgun and plotted a foiled domestic terror attack on an Ohio bar with her boyfriend pleaded guilty to conspiracy
Police executives have collectively failed to teach officers how to assess a mass casualty threat and, more important, what to do about it
The man’s injuries bring the total number of people shot during the July 28 shooting to 17
An untold, large number of people may be coming to Lincoln County, Nev. in late September, with some perhaps unhinged enough to try and take on the military
Paul A. Steber, a 19-year-old freshman from Boston attending High Point University, was arrested Tuesday
Thomas Matthew McVicker was apprehended in Indianapolis before the plan could be carried out
Up to 29 charter schools recently reported they have no long-term plan for having an armed guard on campus as required by law
The anxiety of one mass shooting after another has led some churches to start training and arming their worshippers with guns
They said they wanted to reflect the son they knew and weren’t trying to “minimize horror of his last act”
Police Commissioner Richard Ross expressed amazement that the standoff, which began Wednesday when LEOs attempted to serve a warrant, ended with no one dead
White supremacist ideology is helping fuel domestic terrorism in the United States, the head of Homeland Security said Tuesday
Police believe the shooting lasted 32 seconds, with officers engaging the shooter about halfway through
The post that led to Richard Dean Clayton’s arrest took place one day after the mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso
In one plan, Conor Climo said he would firebomb a Las Vegas synagogue followed by a “light infantry weapon attack”
A friend of the Dayton gunman who killed nine people told federal agents he bought him body armor, a gun accessory and a 100-round magazine earlier this year
AG Barr staunchly defended the work of LE Monday while also taking aim at some prosecutors
A special task force recommended the idea as one piece of an overall plan designed to keep students safe
Patrick Crusius, 21, emerged with his hands up from a vehicle that was stopped at an intersection shortly after last Saturday’s attack and told officers, “I’m the shooter”
Authorities say his motive isn’t known but he had been interested in conflicting violent ideologies
Video shows the bouncer holding the front door open and waving in or pulling people inside Ned Peppers bar as the shooter got closer
A man “full of anger” stabbed, slashed and robbed his way across two Southern California cities in a bloody rampage
CBP Tornillo Port Director Donna Sifford was shopping on her day off when a gunman entered the store and began shooting
Sen. Richard Blumenthal said there’s “a growing wave of support on both sides of the aisle” for the red-flag plan
Shooter Santino William Legan, 19, appeared to be interested in conflicting ideologies, but authorities still have not determined a motive
