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Yahoo
28-05-2025
- General
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Shooting at Connecticut mall leaves multiple injured, with shooter on the run: Police
Police in Waterbury, Connecticut, say a shooting at a mall on Tuesday afternoon has injured multiple people. According to a Facebook post from the Waterbury Police Department, a shooting reported at the Brass Mill Center left multiple people injured. 'Multiple victims have been reported, and law enforcement is actively on scene,' police said. 'We urge the public to avoid the area to allow emergency personnel to respond effectively and ensure everyone's safety.' According to reporting from local news station NBC Connecticut, five people were transported to area hospitals with gunshot wounds, but police would not tell the station the severity of their wounds. Multiple media outlets reported that the shooter was still on the loose. The Waterbury Police Department did not immediately respond to USA TODAY's request for comment on Tuesday. Witness Javon Turner told CBS News that he heard the gunshots. "A girl got shot. She was losing a lot of blood," he said. "It was crazy, and I tell everybody, 'Get out of here, let's go.' I tried to get everybody out of here in safety." Fernando Cervantes Jr. is a trending news reporter for USA TODAY. Reach him at and follow him on X @fern_cerv_. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Shooting at Connecticut mall leaves multiple injured: Police
USA Today
28-05-2025
- USA Today
Shooting at Connecticut mall leaves multiple injured, with shooter on the run: Police
Shooting at Connecticut mall leaves multiple injured, with shooter on the run: Police Police in Waterbury, Connecticut, say a shooting at a mall on Tuesday afternoon has injured multiple people. According to a Facebook post from the Waterbury Police Department, a shooting reported at the Brass Mill Center left multiple people injured. 'Multiple victims have been reported, and law enforcement is actively on scene,' police said. 'We urge the public to avoid the area to allow emergency personnel to respond effectively and ensure everyone's safety.' According to reporting from local news station NBC Connecticut, five people were transported to area hospitals with gunshot wounds, but police would not tell the station the severity of their wounds. Multiple media outlets reported that the shooter was still on the loose. The Waterbury Police Department did not immediately respond to USA TODAY's request for comment on Tuesday. Witness Javon Turner told CBS News that he heard the gunshots. "A girl got shot. She was losing a lot of blood," he said. "It was crazy, and I tell everybody, 'Get out of here, let's go.' I tried to get everybody out of here in safety." Fernando Cervantes Jr. is a trending news reporter for USA TODAY. Reach him at and follow him on X @fern_cerv_.
Yahoo
26-05-2025
- Yahoo
One person hospitalized after Connecticut home explosion
SUFFIELD, Conn. (WWLP) – In Suffield, one person is recovering after a fire at a home on Second Street. Springfield man wanted in Connecticut arrested at Hampshire Mall NBC Connecticut states that crews were sent to a home on Second Street around 3:00 p.m. for a report of a propane explosion. Fire officials state there was also a fire at the back of the home that was put out. The home appears to be undergoing renovations or a remodel, and it is unknown at this time if the explosion was connected to that. One person was taken to the hospital, and their condition is unknown at this time. The fire is currently under investigation. WWLP-22News, an NBC affiliate, began broadcasting in March 1953 to provide local news, network, syndicated, and local programming to western Massachusetts. Watch the 22News Digital Edition weekdays at 4 p.m. on Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Yahoo
Connecticut mom's remains found 2 years after she vanished in Japan
The remains of a Connecticut woman who went missing on a hike in Japan two years ago have been recovered, her family announced. Pattie Wu-Murad disappeared in April 2023 during a solo hiking trip in central Japan. Despite an extensive search around the Kumano Kodo Trail, which included American and Japanese search and rescue teams, the U.S. Embassy and the FBI, no trace of her was found. In September 2024, more than a year and a half after her disappearance, a fisherman found Wu-Murad's backpack and one hiking shoe near a stream on a different trail from where her family originally believed she was hiking, the family said. Japanese officials launched another search in that area, but no further evidence was found. Earlier this year, a member of the original U.S. search team who was in Japan in April, retraced the area where Wu-Murad's backpack was found and discovered several other of her personal items and what appeared to be a femur, her family said in a post on social media. On May 9, the family was told that DNA testing using a sample from Wu-Murad's daughter confirmed the remains were a match. "Although we had tried to prepare ourselves for this outcome, the finality of this news is heartbreaking," her family said in a Facebook post. "It offers a measure of closure, but many questions remain unanswered, including the exact circumstances and cause of Pattie's death. We now begin the process of working through international protocols to bring her remains home." Wu-Murad's family said they hope more evidence will be found to shed light on what happened. "There'll be more people on that trail over the coming months and years, and maybe they'll come across more evidence," her husband, Kirk Murad, told NBC Connecticut. The family expressed their gratitude for the search teams, volunteers and outpouring of support they received over the past two years. "Pattie was an incredible woman whose love and friendship touched many lives," they said. "While we are devastated, we are also humbled by the global community that rallied to help find her. We will continue to honor her memory with love and gratitude in our hearts." Raw Video: Mexican navy training ship hits Brooklyn Bridge Italy's Trulli: From Past to Present Will the House Republican budget be a sinking ship in the Senate?
Yahoo
15-05-2025
- Yahoo
Two Connecticut teens arrested after setting laptop on fire
SOUTHINGTON, Conn. (WWLP) – Police are still fighting against the dangerous TikTok laptop trend and have arrested two high schoolers in Southington. Students deliberately short-circuiting school laptops as part of social media trend Students are inserting paper clips or other pieces of metal into laptops to start fires in schools, according to NBC Connecticut. Southington police say a teacher had to throw a smoking laptop out of a classroom window at the school last week, and all students and staff were evacuated. Nobody was hurt, and no other property was damaged. The two teenagers have been charged with reckless burning, reckless endangerment, criminal mischief and breach of peace in the second degree. Police said this might have been influenced by a TikTok trend that has been referred to as the 'Chromebook Challenge.' WWLP-22News, an NBC affiliate, began broadcasting in March 1953 to provide local news, network, syndicated, and local programming to western Massachusetts. Watch the 22News Digital Edition weekdays at 4 p.m. on Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
