Monthly Misfortune May 2015 ---
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- 3 killed May 31, 2015 (Kamoke, Pakistan) - A man and his son are among three election workers machine-gunned by the Tehreek-e-Taliban.
- 5 killed May 31, 2015 (Misrata, Libya) - An Islamic State suicide car bomber takes the lives of five bystanders at a city entrance.
- 1 killed May 31, 2015 (Baghdad, Iraq) - Video is released of a man being burned alive by the Shia militia group, Imam Ali.
- 3 killed May 31, 2015 (Logar, Afghanistan) - A teacher and two students are killed when Muslim extremists fire a rocket into a government school.
- Egyptian security officials report that militants have blown up a natural gas pipeline leading to Israel
- Libyan Civil War A suicide bomber strikes a checkpoint near the city of Misrata causing several deaths. (Reuters via LBC)
- 4 injured, one arm ripped off. May 31, 2015 Boko Haram A bomb hidden in bag of charcoal explodes at a market place in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri (Channel STV) (fox)
- 2015 Indian heat wave The death toll from the heat wave reaches 2,100 with intense heat to continue until Monday. (NHK)
- May 31, 2015 Russian Su-24 attack aircraft intercept the US destroyer Ross in the Black Sea at the edge of Russian territorial waters. (Reuters)
- May 31, 2015 Qatar agrees to temporarily extend travel bans on five senior Taliban leaders released last year from Guantanamo Bay
- 1 killed 2 arrested. May 31, 2015 Singapore car shot crashing police barricades to diplomat meeting hotel related to drugs not terrorism
- 2 injured 3 arrested May 31, 2015 3 facing charges in shooting at Summerville restaurant
- 1 shot 2 cars hit suspect at large May 31, 2015 Police say man shot in leg, 2 cars damaged outside Atlanta shopping mall
- 1 killed 1 arrested May 31, 2015 Police: Aberdeen man, 61, dies after downtown assault
- arson May 31, 2015 Ohio: Suspect in St. Paul Catholic Church fire confesses, sent to mental health facility
- 3 killed 2 wounded suspect suicide by cop May 31, 2015 Jeffry Scott Pitts Georgia Liquor Store Shooting Rampage
- 1 killed May 31, 2015 Dad believes son was killed in Tampa drive-by shooting for talking to cops
- 1 killed May 31, 2015 LAKE ELSINORE: Temecula teen charged as adult in shooting of 15-year-old
- May 31, 2015 (Kamoke, Pakistan) - A man and his son are among three election workers machine-gunned by the Tehreek-e-Taliban.
- May 31, 2015 (Misrata, Libya) - An Islamic State suicide car bomber takes the lives of five bystanders at a city entrance.
- May 31, 2015 (Baghdad, Iraq) - Video is released of a man being burned alive by the Shia militia group, Imam Ali.
- May 31, 2015 (Logar, Afghanistan) - A teacher and two students are killed when Muslim extremists fire a rocket into a government school.
- Egyptian security officials report that militants have blown up a natural gas pipeline leading to Israel outside El-Arish, the provincial capital of North Sinai. That pipeline was attacked at least 20 times in the last 5 years. (AP via KFox)
- Libyan Civil War A suicide bomber strikes a checkpoint near the city of Misrata causing several deaths. (Reuters via LBC)
- Boko Haram
- 4 injured, one arm ripped off. May 31, 2015 A bomb hidden in bag of charcoal explodes at a market place in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri (Channel STV) (fox)
- 2015 Indian heat wave The death toll from the heat wave reaches 2,100 with intense heat to continue until Monday. (NHK)
- May 31, 2015 Russian Su-24 attack aircraft intercept the US destroyer Ross in the Black Sea at the edge of Russian territorial waters. (Reuters)
- May 31, 2015 Qatar agrees to temporarily extend travel bans on five senior Taliban leaders released last year from Guantanamo Bay in exchange for releasing American sergeant Bowe Bergdahl.(AP via Yahoo! News)Law and crime
- 1 killed 2 arrested. May 31, 2015 Singapore car with drugs shot crashing police barricades to diplomat meeting hotel One man is dead and two are detained after an incident at Singapore's Shangri-La Hotel which is currently hosting a high-level international dialogue over the South China Sea.(Straits-Times) Shangri-La shooting: Terrorism ruled out Failed checkpoint breach near hotel likely to be drug-related Investigations so far indicate that it's a situation related to drugs, not terrorism. It was just days after local student had been detained trying to join the Islamic State, and group had identified Singapore as a possible target. "All Singaporeans are thankful that it (a terror attack) did not happen this time,"
- 2 injured 3 arrested May 31, 2015 3 facing charges in shooting at Summerville restaurant AP Police have arrested a man and two women in connection with a shooting that injured two people at in Summerville. WCSC-TV (http://bit.ly/1HGbI5t ) reports police responded to a shooting at a restaurant at early Sunday morning....
- 1 shot 2 cars hit suspect at large May 31, 2015 Police say man shot in leg, 2 cars damaged outside Atlanta shopping mall AP Atlanta police are investigating after a man was shot in the leg outside a popular shopping mall. before 7 p.m. Sunday. victim argument with the suspect over a woman he met on Instagram, suspect then pulled out a gun and started shooting.
- 1 killed 1 arrested May 31, 2015 Police: Aberdeen man, 61, dies after downtown assault AP olice say a 61-year-old man has died after being assaulted in downtown Aberdeen. pronounced dead at an area hospital shortly after the early Sunday morning assault. The department says a 54-year-old man has been arrested in connection to Witchey’s death.
- arson May 31, 2015 Ohio: Investigators receive confession from suspect in St. Paul Catholic Church fire by David DeWitt charred side of an altar and carpet at St. Paul Catholic Church on College Street in Athens. A series of fires set to altar linens inside St. Paul Catholic Church Sunday led to an Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office investigation and a confession from a suspect Monday afternoon. "The individual was taken to a mental health facility and is there now,"
- 3 killed 2 wounded suspect suicide by cop May 31, 2015 Jeffry Scott Pitts Georgia Liquor Store Shooting Rampage In Conyers, Georgia, 36-year-old Jeffrey Scott Pitts arrives at liquor store with a ballistic vest and a rifle with a 100 round magazine. He gets angry with the clerk and owner over handing over his ID, and starts shooting randomly at customers until another customer returns fire. He leaves, shoots and wounds his mother and father at home before his is killed in a shootout with police.
- 1 killed May 31, 2015 Dad believes son was killed in Tampa drive-by shooting for talking to cops CBS News TAMPA BAY, Fla. -- A 14-year-old boy who witnessed a stabbing last year and survived being shot at five times just months later was killed in a drive-by shooting in Tampa over the weekend, and his father believes he was killed for cooperating with ...shooting outside of Woodlawn Terrace Park at around 4:20 p.m. on Sunday found 14-year-old Edward Harris IV with a gunshot wound. ... in October 2014, Harris was a witness to a fight in which someone stabbed another person. In that case, an arrest was made. months later, in January of this year, Harris was a victim of an armed robbery in which two men robbed him of his hat at gunpoint while he was playing basketball at a community center in Tampa. An arrest was also made in that case. Three months later, in April, Harris was shot at five times but was not hit
- 1 killed May 31, 2015 LAKE ELSINORE: Temecula teen charged as adult in shooting of 15-year-old Press-Enterprise According to sheriff's officials, the shooting happened around 12:45 a.m. Sunday at a motel in the 31000 block of Auto Center Drive in Lake Elsinore. charged with murder in the death of a 15-year-old friend in Lake Elsinore, is
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Woman found shot to death in northeast Kansas
Sunday, May 31 AP
Police in Kansas City, Kansas, are investigating a weekend shooting death.
'An Eye For An Eye': Judge Orders Victim To Pepper Spray Attacker
Sunday, May 31 Opposing Views
A woman who pepper sprayed a man in the face at an Ohio restaurant got an unusual sentence this week when a ju...
Before slayings, a D.C. family had big plans for the future
Sunday, May 31 MSN
Mystery still surrounds aspects of the gruesome crime, but interviews with friends, co-workers and neighbors have brought the Savopoulos family and their final days into focus. Savvas, 46, was remembered as a shrewd businessman and proud...
Megan Huntsman, Killer Of Six Newborns, Gets Sentence: Does The Punishment Fit The Crime?
Sunday, May 31 Inquisitr - Aric Mitchell
Megan Huntsman, the Utah mom convicted earlier this year of strangling six of her own children to death and keeping their bodies in her garage, has received a final sentence. The judgment: 49 years in prison...
Car Thief Steals Nissan Maxima With 9-Month-Old Baby Inside
Sunday, May 31 Inquisitr
A car thief in Georgia didn't expect an extra passenger when stealing a blue Nissan Maxima sedan this Saturday. A 9-month-baby girl, who is now safe, was left in the backseat of the car unattended, when...
Elderly Woman Sexually Assaulted By Assisted Living Employee
Sunday, May 31 Inquisitr - Renee Jacques
Mint Hill Police in North Carolina have made an arrest in regards to the sexual assault against 86-year-old Doris Starnes at the nursing home where she resided. WSOCTV reports that police have arrested 43-year-old Willie Shaw,...
Man In Water Shot: Trooper Kills Man Trying To Get Out Of High Water With Vehicle
Sunday, May 31 Inquisitr - Heather Tooley
A man in high water was shot and killed by Oklahoma troopers after they responded to a call that his vehicle was stranded in south Tulsa late Friday. CNN reports that two highway patrol troopers in...
Man fatally shot in Glenarden, police investigate
Sunday, May 31 AP
Police say a man was fatally shot in Glenarden over the weekend. Glenarden Police say they responded to a report of a shooting on the 2800 block of Horn Beam Court shortly before 5 p.m....
Delaware police investigating drug store robbery
Sunday, May 31 AP
Delaware State Police are investigating a drug store robbery in Newark. Police say a man wearing a mask confronted a Rite Aid store clerk outside of the drug store with a handgun.
Tattoo Artist Wanted By NYPD For Alleged Savage Beating Of Girlfriend
Sunday, May 31 Opposing Views
New York tattoo artist Dakota Bond, 38, allegedly beat his girlfriend until she was unrecognizable and has bee...
Impact Statements Released Showing The Horrors Oncologist Farid Fata Committed Against His Patients
Sunday, May 31 Inquisitr
Some of Dr. Farid Fata's patients never even had cancer and others could have never benefited from the painful cancer treatments he put them through, according to the victim impact statements that have been released. Over...
Police Shootings Killed Nearly 400 in 5 Months, Report Finds
Sunday, May 31 TIME - Justin Worl
Two-thirds of those who were unarmed were Hispanic or black...
WaPo raises the alarm over "grossly underreported" police shootings
Sunday, May 31 Hot Air - Jazz Shaw
Body count...
Woman Who Killed Her Six Newborn Babies To Serve 49 Years In Prison
Sunday, May 31 Opposing Views
A Pleasant Grove, Utah, woman convicted of strangling six of her newborn babies to death and hiding their bodi...
'Go to a Room, Lock Door, Stay Away From Windows': Frat House Stabbing Puts University on Lockdown
Sunday, May 31 Blaze - Zach Noble
The harrowing words came at 5 a.m. on Sunday morning: "Seek shelter immediately. Go to a room, lock door, stay away from windows." Two people had been stabbed on campus. POLICE EMERGENCY Medford campus. Seek shelter...
Nurse Dubbed 'The Angel Of Death' Wrongly Accused Of Murder
Sunday, May 31 Inquisitr
A nurse charged with poisoning and murdering her patients tries to recover after being wrongly accused of the horrific crimes. Staff nurse Rebecca Leighton said she lost complete control of her life and wonders if she'll...
Son Arrested for Killing Mother After Argument Over College Grades
Sunday, May 31 Inquisitr
A 22-year-old man home from college murdered his mother after a prolonged argument regarding his unacceptable grades, authorities in Alabama said Saturday. Tyler Ryan Blansit called 911 on Friday a