Two students and two teachers were killed at a Georgia high school
What do we know about the Apalachee High School shooting victims?
Two students and two teachers were killed at a Georgia high school
What do we know about the Apalachee High School shooting victims?
Two students and two teachers were killed at a Georgia high school
What do we know about the Apalachee High School shooting victims?
Two students and two teachers were killed at a Georgia high school
What do we know about the Apalachee High School shooting victims?
Two students and two teachers were killed at a Georgia high school
What do we know about the Apalachee High School shooting victims?
Biden was focusing on outreach to Black Americans
Protesters deliver messages in many ways
The gunman in the US’ Winder shooting that left five people dead, including two teachers, has been identified as Michael Schermerhorn. He had previously been investigated by federal and local agencies over ” online threats to commit a school shooting”, according to the FBI. The shooting was the worst school shooting in the state of Georgia’s history.
A 14-year-old boy has opened fire at a golf school in US’ Georgia, killing two 14-year-olds and injuring a teacher. The gunman will be charged with murder, authorities said. “Those that are deceased are heroes in my book. Those that are injured are also heroes in my book,” Chris Hosey, director of Georgia Bureau of Investigation, said.
The mother of the 14-year-old boy who opened fire at Georgia’s Apalachee High School, killing two other students and injuring a teacher, said she is responsible for keeping her other children safe. “At that moment, the primary thing was continuing this communication with my daughter, but now I’m also responsibility for keeping my other children safe,” she added.
A rocket hit a sports complex filled with children playing soccer in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights on the same day that an Israeli strike in Gaza killed dozens of people. It was the deadliest single attack on Israel since October 7, the date of Hamas-led attack on Israel that sparked the current war in Gaza.
The UN has said that a UN-run school housing thousands of displaced people in the Gaza Strip is sheltering over 6,000 displaced people at the moment. Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), said that militants are holed up in the school.
American scientist Freeman Hrabowski said he was the “only Black kid” during his PhD studies at Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the early 1970s. He added, “There was never a faculty member of colour and only one woman. From that initial instalment, the scheme has boosted the numbers of Black science students in the US. King posed this question to the group.”
US President Joe Biden is set to speak at the Morehouse College graduation in Atlanta, Georgia. This comes after students at Atlanta University Center protested against Biden’s stance on Israel’s actions in Gaza and asked for Biden to not be invited to the event. The Atlanta HBCU alumni association had petitioned the administration not to invite Biden to their event.
Students staged a silent walkout during Virginia Commonwealth University’s graduation ceremony to protest US President Joe Biden’s remarks on student protests. Earlier in the day, Biden had criticised the students, saying that some of them used “violent” methods. During his address, Biden had also said that he’s not against “patriotic” protesters but that they should “find a new way of doing it”.
Students at Brown University on April 30 set up an encampment on campus for six days to show support for Palestinians and demand that the school cut its financial ties toIsraeli companies they say are complicit in the ongoing war in Gaza. They also called for the school to divest from weapons manufacturers and companies tied to the Israeli military.
At least 144 Vanderbilt University professors have signed a letter, expressing support for student protesters and criticising its “excessive and punitive” response. Students were protesting at a campus-designated assembly area since 1969 and the site of a camp out the school administration banned in a last-minute change. Hundreds of students have been arrested at campus protests within the last week.