Two dead, three hurt in Sweden school attack

[lostinblue 1,989]

UPDATED: A boy and a teacher have died and three others are injured after a knife attack at a school in Trollhättan, western Sweden. Another student has told The Local he feared he would be "murdered".

• Pupil and teacher dead and three injured in school attack
• Another pupil and teacher being treated in hospital
• 21-year-old attacker seriously injured
• Student tells The Local his teacher was stabbed
• 'If I had not run, I would have been murdered,' student tells The Local
• PM Stefan Löfven: 'A dark day for Sweden'

The attack took place on Thursday morning at the school, around 75km from Gothenburg, after a man wearing a mask walked into a building on the premises.

Police spokesman Stefan Gustafsson later told Swedish media that the attacker used “several knife-like objects”.

A hospital in Trollhättan confirmed that a teacher died in the incident.

Police later told the TT news agency that one of the two boys, 11 and 15, being treated for serious stab wounds along with a male teacher at Trollhättan hospital had also died. The attacker is also injured.

"The suspect has been shot and is being treated at NÄL (the regional hospital). He is seriously injured and is being operated on," said hospital spokesperson Niklas Claesson.

Police, who were alerted about the attack at around 10.10am, said they had identified the suspect, a 21-year-old local resident. The motive was not immediately clear.

Media reports said the assailant was wearing a Star Wars mask, and school children initially thought it was a prank.

"When we first saw him, we thought it was a joke. He was wearing a mask and black clothes and (carrying) a long sword. Some students warned to take their picture with him and feel the sword," one unidentified pupil told TT.

A teenage student at the school has told The Local of the moment he realised what was happening:

“I was in a classroom with my class when one of my classmates’ sisters called her to warn her that there was a murderer at the school. So we locked the door to the classroom, but our teacher was still outside in the corridor.”

“We wanted to warn him, so a few of us went outside and then I saw the murderer, he was wearing a mask and had a sword. Our teacher got stabbed."

“The murderer started chasing me, I ran into another classroom. If I had not run, I would have been murdered. I’m feeling really scared. Everyone’s scared here.”

Stefan Benhage, a photographer for local newspaper TTELA, told his publication just after the attack happened that there was "complete chaos" at the school and described pupils sobbing at the scene.

A large number of police cars and ambulances are in the area. One ambulance crashed into the school wall as it arrived at the school.

Around 400 pupils are understood to be taught at the school, aged between six and fifteen.

Trollhättan is an industrial town in west Sweden, located around 75km north of Gothenburg, the nation's second largest city.

According to Sweden's education watchdog, the Swedish Schools Inspectorate, only 16 percent of 15-year-olds at the school passed all subjects in 2014. It is among the 10 worst performing schools in Sweden.

"This is a school where problems have been picked up in a recent national inspection," Larz Blomqvist, chairman of the teacher's union in the municipality, told The Local.

"It's been hard to provide quiet and proper teaching...there's been bad behaviour and a sort of lack of control."

But he disputed suggestions in international media that the attack could have been a result of racial tensions in the area.

"No, no, I doubt it. I don't have the full information but that sounds very unlikely."

http://www.thelocal.se/20151022/masked-man-enters-school-with-sword

Limit guns and evil still walks among us .

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[decocker 7,198]

now lets see sweden get up there with one or two of these school knife attacks per day. then we can talk, lib.

“The murderer started chasing me, I ran into another classroom. If I had not run, I would have been murdered. I’m feeling really scared. Everyone’s scared here.”

good luck out-running a bullet.

Edited October 22, 2015 by decocker

[Dakine10 5,452]

Limit guns and evil still walks among us .

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Quite true. I have yet to see any gun legislation introduced with the intent of eliminating evil.

Thanks though, for mixing a strawman argument in with all your red herrings. At least it breaks up the monotony.

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

UPDATED: A boy and a teacher have died and three others are injured after a knife attack at a school in Trollhättan, western Sweden. Another student has told The Local he feared he would be "murdered".

• Pupil and teacher dead and three injured in school attack
• Another pupil and teacher being treated in hospital
• 21-year-old attacker seriously injured
• Student tells The Local his teacher was stabbed
• 'If I had not run, I would have been murdered,' student tells The Local
• PM Stefan Löfven: 'A dark day for Sweden'

The attack took place on Thursday morning at the school, around 75km from Gothenburg, after a man wearing a mask walked into a building on the premises.

Police spokesman Stefan Gustafsson later told Swedish media that the attacker used “several knife-like objects”.

A hospital in Trollhättan confirmed that a teacher died in the incident.

Police later told the TT news agency that one of the two boys, 11 and 15, being treated for serious stab wounds along with a male teacher at Trollhättan hospital had also died. The attacker is also injured.

"The suspect has been shot and is being treated at NÄL (the regional hospital). He is seriously injured and is being operated on," said hospital spokesperson Niklas Claesson.

Police, who were alerted about the attack at around 10.10am, said they had identified the suspect, a 21-year-old local resident. The motive was not immediately clear.

Media reports said the assailant was wearing a Star Wars mask, and school children initially thought it was a prank.

"When we first saw him, we thought it was a joke. He was wearing a mask and black clothes and (carrying) a long sword. Some students warned to take their picture with him and feel the sword," one unidentified pupil told TT.

A teenage student at the school has told The Local of the moment he realised what was happening:

“I was in a classroom with my class when one of my classmates’ sisters called her to warn her that there was a murderer at the school. So we locked the door to the classroom, but our teacher was still outside in the corridor.”

“We wanted to warn him, so a few of us went outside and then I saw the murderer, he was wearing a mask and had a sword. Our teacher got stabbed."

“The murderer started chasing me, I ran into another classroom. If I had not run, I would have been murdered. I’m feeling really scared. Everyone’s scared here.”

Stefan Benhage, a photographer for local newspaper TTELA, told his publication just after the attack happened that there was "complete chaos" at the school and described pupils sobbing at the scene.

A large number of police cars and ambulances are in the area. One ambulance crashed into the school wall as it arrived at the school.

Around 400 pupils are understood to be taught at the school, aged between six and fifteen.

Trollhättan is an industrial town in west Sweden, located around 75km north of Gothenburg, the nation's second largest city.

According to Sweden's education watchdog, the Swedish Schools Inspectorate, only 16 percent of 15-year-olds at the school passed all subjects in 2014. It is among the 10 worst performing schools in Sweden.

"This is a school where problems have been picked up in a recent national inspection," Larz Blomqvist, chairman of the teacher's union in the municipality, told The Local.

"It's been hard to provide quiet and proper teaching...there's been bad behaviour and a sort of lack of control."

But he disputed suggestions in international media that the attack could have been a result of racial tensions in the area.

"No, no, I doubt it. I don't have the full information but that sounds very unlikely."

http://www.thelocal.se/20151022/masked-man-enters-school-with-sword

Limit guns and evil still walks among us .

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It's funny that you have to go to other countries and point out these stories. Doesn't matter to you the countless gun deaths here in the US, you're determined to be armed every second of the day. And that's your choice/right.

But, you should really find a better argument. Because it says something when you're willing to ignore the thousands of people killed by gun violence every year to point out a knife attack in Sweden.

[lostinblue 1,989]

It's funny that you have to go to other countries and point out these stories. Doesn't matter to you the countless gun deaths here in the US, you're determined to be armed every second of the day. And that's your choice/right.

But, you should really find a better argument. Because it says something when you're willing to ignore the thousands of people killed by gun violence every year to point out a knife attack in Sweden.

US Border Inspector Kills Knife-Wielding Mexican Man

SAN DIEGO — Oct 21, 2015

A U.S. border inspector fatally shot a knife-wielding Mexican man at a California crossing on Wednesday, and an agency official quickly defended his actions.

The Customs and Border Protection officer fired his gun four times around midnight, striking the man in his chest and possibly in his neck at the port of entry in downtown Calexico, about 120 miles east of San Diego and across the border from Mexicali, Mexico, said Pete Flores, the agency's San Diego field office director.

The 35-year-old Mexican, who was not permitted to enter the United States, was on a bicycle in a vehicle inspection lane for "trusted travelers" and appeared as if he wasn't going to stop, Flores said. The man wielded a knife that was about eight inches long after the inspector grabbed his other arm and forced the man to drop his bike.

The man raised his knife and moved toward the inspector, who was backing away when the shots rang, said Flores, who didn't know the precise distance between the two men.

The man was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital. The officer, who worked in Calexico since joining Customs and Border Protection in February 2008, was unharmed. Neither name was released.

"At this point it appears that protocol was followed," Flores said. "When we have an individual who is using deadly force, our protocol is not using anything less, to equal that force."

Wednesday evening, Mexico's Foreign Relations Department issued a statement expressing "profound regret" and calling for the incident to be clarified.

"Mexico has signaled, repeatedly, that the use of lethal force in migratory control and border security efforts must be a last resort, in addition to being proportionate to the circumstances of each situation," the department said.

It added that the country's embassy in Washington and consulate in Calexico were following the case closely.

Customs and Border Protection has come under heavy scrutiny from advocacy groups and some law enforcement experts for use of deadly force. The agency includes the Border Patrol, which operates between border crossings, and an office of field operations, which manages Calexico and other ports of entry.

Customs and Border Protection said last week that its employees used firearms 28 times during the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30 and less lethal weapons — like stun guns, pepper-ball launchers and batons — 740 times. It didn't say how many resulted in death.

The Calexico inspector was put on paid administrative leave, which is standard procedure in a fatal shooting, Flores said. Customs and Border Protection, Calexico police and the U.S. Homeland Security Department's inspector general will investigate the incident.

Flores said he didn't know what words were exchanged between the inspector and the Mexican man or what the man's motives were for crossing the border.

Customs and Border Protection captured video of the incident, but Flores said the agency did not plan to release it publicly.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/us-border-inspector-kills-knife-wielding-mexican-man-34641300

Knife violence happens all the time marvin

[ready4ONE 5,400]

Knife violence. More guns, less knife violence! I am sure that the 9.8 people shot dead here in the USA since Lost started this thread (30 per day ÷ 24 hrs = 1.4 per hour × 7 hours since thread posted = 9.8 roughly) or at least their survivors, are happy learn this factoid?

Edited October 22, 2015 by ready4ONE

[Teddy B 17,252]

Knife violence. More guns, less knife violence! I am sure that the 9.8 people shot dead here in the USA since Lost started this thread (30 per day ÷ 24 hrs = 1.4 per hour × 7 hours since thread posted = 9.8 roughly) or at least their survivors, are happy learn this factoid?

I'm really pulling for the .8 guy, he was already 2/10 of the way to the grave.

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

US Border Inspector Kills Knife-Wielding Mexican Man

SAN DIEGO — Oct 21, 2015

A U.S. border inspector fatally shot a knife-wielding Mexican man at a California crossing on Wednesday, and an agency official quickly defended his actions.

The Customs and Border Protection officer fired his gun four times around midnight, striking the man in his chest and possibly in his neck at the port of entry in downtown Calexico, about 120 miles east of San Diego and across the border from Mexicali, Mexico, said Pete Flores, the agency's San Diego field office director.

The 35-year-old Mexican, who was not permitted to enter the United States, was on a bicycle in a vehicle inspection lane for "trusted travelers" and appeared as if he wasn't going to stop, Flores said. The man wielded a knife that was about eight inches long after the inspector grabbed his other arm and forced the man to drop his bike.

The man raised his knife and moved toward the inspector, who was backing away when the shots rang, said Flores, who didn't know the precise distance between the two men.

The man was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital. The officer, who worked in Calexico since joining Customs and Border Protection in February 2008, was unharmed. Neither name was released.

"At this point it appears that protocol was followed," Flores said. "When we have an individual who is using deadly force, our protocol is not using anything less, to equal that force."

Wednesday evening, Mexico's Foreign Relations Department issued a statement expressing "profound regret" and calling for the incident to be clarified.

"Mexico has signaled, repeatedly, that the use of lethal force in migratory control and border security efforts must be a last resort, in addition to being proportionate to the circumstances of each situation," the department said.

It added that the country's embassy in Washington and consulate in Calexico were following the case closely.

Customs and Border Protection has come under heavy scrutiny from advocacy groups and some law enforcement experts for use of deadly force. The agency includes the Border Patrol, which operates between border crossings, and an office of field operations, which manages Calexico and other ports of entry.

Customs and Border Protection said last week that its employees used firearms 28 times during the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30 and less lethal weapons — like stun guns, pepper-ball launchers and batons — 740 times. It didn't say how many resulted in death.

The Calexico inspector was put on paid administrative leave, which is standard procedure in a fatal shooting, Flores said. Customs and Border Protection, Calexico police and the U.S. Homeland Security Department's inspector general will investigate the incident.

Flores said he didn't know what words were exchanged between the inspector and the Mexican man or what the man's motives were for crossing the border.

Customs and Border Protection captured video of the incident, but Flores said the agency did not plan to release it publicly.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/us-border-inspector-kills-knife-wielding-mexican-man-34641300

Knife violence happens all the time marvin

https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-11

This was 4 years ago. I wonder how much has changed...

[decocker 7,198]

is this the thread to post dead kids? shall we keep tally of the method of death?

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A 32-year-old man is facing murder charges in the road-rage killing of a 4-year-old Albuquerque girl, who was shot in the backseat of her father's truck — a death that horrified the public.

Police said Tony Torrez was arrested Wednesday and admitted to the shooting in the death of Lilly Garcia.

The announcement came a few hours after police said a person of interest had been taken into custody.

Lilly was riding in the backseat with her 7-year-old brother after they were picked up from school Tuesday when someone in a Toyota opened fire on the family as they traveled down the main east-west freeway in Albuquerque.

The father told authorities that he was trying to exit I-40 when a car forced him out of his lane, according to a police statement.

"The two drivers exchanged words when Torrez pulled out a gun and shot at the red truck driven by Lilly's father," the statement continued. "Lilly was hit at least once in the head."

The father quickly pulled over and tried to administer first aid to his daughter as a bystander called 911.

http://www.blueridgenow.com/article/20151022/news/151029937

[decocker 7,198]

them pesky nazis are at it again.

http://news.yahoo.com/police-racist-motive-behind-swedish-school-attack-061904917.html

[Expat1 971]

Calexico: (def) The area of the US west of the Tx/La border and south of interstate 10

[eieio 1,594]

the assailant was wearing a Star Wars mask,

No surprise there.

[TBoneTX 46,354]

Calexico: (def) The area of the US west of the Tx/La border and south of interstate 10

Also sometimes sadly known as the de-Constitutionalized Zone.

[Expat1 971]

Also sometimes sadly known as the de-Constitutionalized Zone.

Yup. You don't want to be caught without papers between the border and the border checkpoints.....it's the USSR at the height of the movies about how bad the USSR was..

[decocker 7,198]

No surprise there.

really? not a fan i take it..