What we know about the victims of the Sweet 16 birthday party shooting

As a room full of Sweet 16 attendees in Dadeville, Alabama, moved to the sounds of a DJ Saturday night, their party was abruptly ended by an eruption of gunfire that injured dozens and left four partygoers dead, at least two of whom were local high school seniors on the brink of graduation. Source: CNN

Opinion: A rookie officer ran toward semi-automatic gunfire. It was his job

A friend of mine recently asked me about last week’s mass shooting in Louisville, Kentucky — one of the 160-odd mass shootings we’ve experienced in this country as of mid-April. The one where a guy in his mid-20s purchased an AR-15-style, semiautomatic rifle equipped with a magazine capable of delivering 30 rounds of ammunition in a matter of seconds. A …