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ANAHEIM (EmergencyNet News) - Four people, including a toddler, were hurt when a gunshot was fired inside a crowded public bus in Anaheim on Thursday. Two teenagers were arrested in the incident. Injured were a man, his wife, and two daughters aged 8-years and 21-months. All sustained facial cuts. The mother of the children also had bullet fragments removed her face. All four victims were treated and released from a hospital. Arrested were two teenagers aged 14- and 15-years-old. No motive has yet been determined in the case.
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CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA (EmergencyNet News) - A tense standoff at a Charlotte courthouse with a man police believe carried a small bomb came to an end on Thursday afternoon. The five-hour standoff began when the man was stopped at a security checkpoint after guards became suspicious about a package he had brought into the courthouse.
The man came to the courthouse for a child custody hearing and was stopped at about 1000 EST after passing through a metal detector and putting what one witness described as a black bag through an X-ray machine. When guards asked to examine the bag, he held up a device with a switch on it and indicated the package in the scanner was a bomb.
During the standoff, the man calmly stood near the metal detector in the courthouse lobby holding a small detonator while the package remained undisturbed inside the X-ray machine. He reportedly asked to talk to a judge and an FBI agent. He surrendered at about 1500 EST.
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EAU CLAIRE, WISCONSIN (EmergencyNet News) - Police said that a man shot and killed his 38-year-old wife and 18-year-old daughter and then drove to the his daughter's 16-year-old boyfriend and wounded him on Thursday morning. The wounded youth was reported to be in serious condition after being shot in the neck.
The 41-year-old shooter, the father of the girl, was arrested after being spotted in the area of the second shooting. Motive for the shooting is still unclear.
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WASHINGTON (EmergencyNet News) - One man was shot and killed in the lobby of a hospital where he was being treated for cancer on Thursday. Police said the victim -- a professional boxer -- seemed to be targeted, although five other people were also were wounded in the shooting.
The gunman apparently waited in the lobby of the Washington Cancer Institute until the 24-year-old victim, an outpatient at the institute, arrived at about 1100 EST. The gunman opened fire when he saw the victim. Police said the gunman stood over the intended victim and fired multiple times.
The vicitm was said to be a promising middleweight fighter who had been recently diagnosed with colon cancer. He had won 13 of his 15 professional bouts. He had been acquitted last spring of a first-degree murder charge.
Among those wounded in the shooting were a 77-year-old volunteer who was shot in the leg and a 74-year-old patient who suffered a graze wound to the head.
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