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The Army base in Fort Knox, Ky., remained on heightened security late Wednesday.

Investigators were hunting a male suspect Thursday after a civilian employee died in a shooting at the Army base in Fort Knox, Ky. Officials described the shooting as a “personal incident.”

The base was briefly locked down and remained on heightened security Wednesday night.

The victim, who was an employee of U.S. Army Human Resources Command, was transported by ambulance to Ireland Army Community Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to a statement from the public affairs office of the base.

The incident was “not a random act of violence," said Chris Grey, spokesperson for the independent Army investigative agency.

Police are looking for a 5-foot, 9-inch black male with black hair and brown eyes, the statement read. It is believed he may be using a black Yamaha motorcycle for transportation.

The victim's name is being withheld until family members are notified.

The shooting occurred shortly after 5 p.m. ET. The base was placed on full lockdown, but it was lifted early Wednesday evening, the official said.

The military base, which sprawls over 170 miles in three counties about 30 miles south of Louisville, Ky., is separate from but adjacent to the famous federal gold depository.

The incident came less than two weeks after a U.S. Marine shot two colleagues to death at the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia, before killing himself.

NBC News' Courtney Kube and Becky Bratu contributed to this report.

This story was originally published on Wed Apr 3, 2013 9:45 PM EDT

Police say three people were shot Saturday in a shopping plaza near Pittsburgh, Pa., NBC affiliate WPXI reported. Police are still searching for the gunmen.

The Foot Locker, Villa and Dollar Tree stores at the Edgewood Towne Center shopping plaza were shot up, police said. 

Police told WPXI the two shooters knew each other. One of the shooters was inside a store, while the other one was outside. Police said the two made eye contact and began shooting, hitting bystanders, according to WPXI.

The victims were taken to UPMC Presbyterian Hospital. One of the victims was shot in the torso and is in critical condition, KDKA reported, while the other two sustained less serious wounds.

A SWAT team established a perimeter in search of the two gunmen.

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Brunswick City Commissioner James Henry Brooks, 59, was arrested on Thursday.

The commissioner of a town where a baby was shot to death was arrested Thursday, the sixth arrest since the small Georgia community was shaken by last week's attack.

Brunswick, Ga., city commissioner James Henry Brooks was charged with influencing a witness and willful obstruction of law enforcement officers in the investigation into 13-month-old Antonio Santiago's death, Glynn County Undersheriff Ron Corbett said.

Brooks, 59, was still in jail Friday because no bond had been set for the charge of influencing a witness, Corbett said. A bond of $1,256 was set on the other charge.

Antonio's mother, Sherry West, says she was on her morning walk last Friday when two teens came up to her and demanded money. When she told them she didn't have any cash, she says, the older teen shot Antonio in the head and her in the leg. Her injury was not life-threatening.

Brooks' charges stem from a Monday courthouse incident in which he allegedly tried to block a county investigator from speaking with the mother of De'Marquis Elkins, one of the suspects in the case, reported NBC affiliate WTLV.com. 

Brooks was also indicted on unrelated racketeering charges in neighboring Camden County earlier Thursday, The Florida Times-Union reported. He was charged with taking money and influencing others in the local government from 2009 to 2011, the paper reported.

 Corbett, the Glynn County undersheriff, confirmed Brooks was indicted, but couldn't confirm the details.

Authorities investigating baby Antonio's death arrested suspects Elkins, 17, and Dominique Lang, 15, last Friday. Over the course of this week, they also arrested Elkins' mother, aunt, and sister for tampering with evidence.

Elkins' sister, Sabrina, 19, and mother, Karimah, 36, are still in custody, without the possibility of bond. 

A handgun was discovered about two miles away from the crime scene, submerged a marsh, the Brunswick police spokesman said yesterday. On Friday, Corbett said that Elkins' mother, Karimah, who is still in custody, faces a second charge of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, but said he couldn't elaborate on the charge.

The only eyewitness to the shooting was Antonio's mother. West said when she insisted she didn't have any money on her, the older of the two teens pointed a handgun at her. 

"He says, 'Well, I'm gonna kill your baby,'" West said last week. "I put my arms over my baby and he shoves me. And then he shot my baby right in the head."

Both teens have been charged as adults.

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Micheal Ward and Kenneth Williams in a combination image of booking photos from the Chicago Police Department.

Two Chicago men charged in the fatal shooting of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton have pleaded not guilty to multiple counts of first-degree murder.

Michael Ward, 18, and Kenneth Williams, 20, were charged last month in the death of the honors student who attended President Barack Obama's second inaugural just days before her death.

The prosecuting attorney on Thursday announced 141 counts of first-degree murder against Ward and 17 counts against Williams.

After court, Pendleton's father, Nathaniel, said his fight for change will only get stronger as the violence continues to claim young lives in Chicago.

"You're going to feel some anger, but I feel confident they will do what they have to do to make justice happen," Nathaniel Pendleton said.

Prosecutors said Pendleton was the unintended target in a gang war. Ward is accused of pulling the trigger; prosecutors say Williams was his accomplice.

"He didn't do this," Matthew McQuaid, Williams' attorney, said. "He's pleading not guilty. We see this case going to trial at some point because he's not going to plead guilty to something he didn't do."

Prosecutors said Ward gave a videotaped statement to police admitting to driving his mother's white Nissan that day to the park. He said Pendleton "had nothing to do with it" and "she was just there."

Chicago police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said Ward confessed to being the shooter, telling police that Pendleton was not his intended target. The superintendent said the shooting was in retaliation for a shooting last July that left Williams injured.

Pendleton, a student at King College Prep High, was shot as she and a group of other teens sought cover from a rainstorm in Vivian Gordon Harsh Park, on the 4500 block of South Oakenwald Avenue.

First lady Michelle Obama attended her funeral, and President Obama has named her in several speeches on gun control.

Pendleton's parents were guests at the president's State of the Union address, and her mother was in Washington Thursday to attend an event with other mothers whose children have been killed in gun violence.

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Jared Loughner, 24.

Jared Loughner hadn't been the same since he got fired from a job at a mall in Tucson, his parents said. He had been expelled from college. After a visit from campus police, his parents decided to hide a shotgun that Loughner owned in the trunk of their car in the garage so he didn't have access to it in the house.

A slew of details about Loughner, 24 -- who has pleaded guilty to killing six people and wounding former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and a dozen others in a Jan. 8, 2011, shooting spree in Tucson -- emerged as authorities investigating the rampage released more than 2,700 pages of documents that they have compiled.

Among the thousands of interviews, police reports and survivors' statements released Wednesday, one theme was constant about Loughner, who has since been diagnosed with schizophrenia: As his father, Randy Loughner, told investigators at the time, he "just doesn't seem right lately."

Loughner was fired more than a year before the shooting, his father told investigators after the shooting, according to the documents. Trying to have a rational conversation with his son became more and more difficult after that, he said.

"Lost, lost and just didn't want to communicate with me," Randy Loughner said.

After Loughner was expelled, things got worse: Randy Loughner said his son felt harassed by campus police, who came to the Loughner home and asked if there were any firearms in the house. Loughner had bought a 12-gauge shotgun in 2008; at the recommendation of Pima Community College campus police, who recommended any firearms be taken away, they hid the shotgun and an antique weapon they owned.

"He had a shotgun. And I took it away," Randy Loughner told police. "They suggested that if I had any firearms, to take them away. And I did."

A former friend of Loughner's, Zachary Osler, was an employee at a store where Loughner later purchased a Glock handgun used in the Tucson rampage. Osler described the awkward encounter he had with Loughner.

"His response is nothing. Just a mute facial expression. And just like, he, he didn't care," Osler told investigators. He said the change in Loughner's personality made him uncomfortable to be around. 

"He would say he could dream and then control what he was doing while he was dreaming," Osler said, adding Loughner never mentioned Giffords in conversation to him.

Loughner's mother, Amy, felt her son's behavior was so odd that she tested him for drugs. Loughner kept a journal that was written in illegible script, his father said. Despite their concerns, Loughner's parents said they never sent him to get help and he had never been diagnosed as mentally ill.

On the morning of the shooting, Loughner's father said his son had been "acting strange." Loughner had taken his father's car early in the morning, returned home briefly, left again, then returned home once more before leaving on foot with a backpack.

Pima County Sheriff's Deputy T. Audetat Jr. wrote in his police report that when he arrived at the scene, he saw a man being held down by "two or three people". He handcuffed the shooter; in the shooter's pocket, in addition to two Glock magazines, fully loaded, he found a folding knife and a credit card and ID card, he said. 

He described what the shooter was wearing: black beanie, black hooded sweatshirt, khaki pants. Another deputy noticed he was wearing earplugs, he wrote in his report.

One of the victims of the shooting outside the Safeway supermarket, Ronald Barber, told police of the rampage, "I was laying on my right side and I could see the blood coming out. You know, and, uh, and all I remember is seeing the congresswoman with her back to me, on her side. On her right side, uh, with her head up against the window, you know, of the Safeway. And Daniel, um, who is our intern, saying, 'Stay with me, congresswoman, stay with me.'"

Once in the patrol car, Loughner pleaded the Fifth Amendment repeatedly, Deputy Audetat wrote. At the police station, Loughner said very little besides, "I just want you to know that I'm the only person that knew about this," according to the deputy.

In his four-hour interview with authorities following the morning rampage, Loughner sat in restraints and was polite and cooperative with authorities, documents show. He asked to use the restroom at one point, saying thank you when he was permitted to. Although after a while he complained, "I'm about ready to fall over."

Loughner will spend the rest of his life behind bars but is not eligible for the death penalty because of his plea deal in the case. Giffords retired from her position in Congress a year after the shooting to focus on her recovery.

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Mourners gathered at a Brooklyn church Saturday for the funeral of Kimani Gray, a 16-year-old boy who was shot and killed by police.

The teen's funeral was being held at St. Catherine of Genoa Roman Catholic Church, not far from where the teen was killed.

Gray was shot by two officers in the neighborhood of East Flatbush on March 9 after police said he pulled a gun on them. But the teen's family has been demanding an independent investigation into the shooting, arguing that no witnesses saw Gray pull out a gun.

The shooting set off a series of protests in East Flatbush last week.

The New York Daily News reports the two officers involved in the shooting have been sued in the past for alleged civil rights violations. They are on desk duty while the NYPD and the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office investigates.

The teen was with a group of people the night of March 9, but left when he saw police in an unmarked car, police said. Authorities said he was acting suspicious when plainclothes officers approached him.

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According to police, Gray pointed a .38-caliber revolver at them, and they opened fire. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.

A gun was recovered at the scene, according to police.

The medical examiner's office ruled that Gray was hit seven times, and had wounds in both the front and back of his body, including his shoulder, rib cage, forearm and legs.

Gray was black. The officers involved in the shooting were black and Hispanic.

A police officer may use deadly force when the officer has a reasonable fear of serious injury or death. Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said the shooting appeared to be within those guidelines.

But supporters of Gray maintain he wasn't armed. His mother has said she also believes he was not, and said he left the house Saturday afternoon like it was any other weekend, heading out to hang with friends.

Hundreds turned out at a wake Friday for Gray. A woman attending the wake at Caribe Funeral Home described the service as "very emotional."

"I can't sit in there for too long without crying," said Fatimah Shakur of Bedford-Stuyvesant. "Someone has to bury their child."

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The above screen shot shows a video posted by horsehumane on YouTube. horsehumane reposted a video originally posted by Tim Sappington, which shows him fatally shooting a horse.

An employee of a southeastern New Mexico slaughterhouse has posted a video online showing him fatally shooting a horse in the head.

That has sparked outrage among animal activists and led to death-threat calls to the Roswell meat company, which is working with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to get a horse slaughter plant in the area.

A maintenance contractor with Valley Meat Co. is shown in the video bringing a horse out of its pen, swearing at activists and then killing the horse with a single gunshot, KOB-TV reported Thursday.

Rick De Los Santos, a part-owner of Valley Meat Co., said he has been slammed with hate calls and death threats since the video hit the Internet.

"I didn't have anything to do with that video. That's the honest truth," De Los Santos said.

De Los Santos said the contract worker, Tim Sappington, shot the video on his own time and at his own home.

"He shot a horse. That's what he eats. It's not against the law to slaughter your own horse," De Los Santos said. "Now, putting it on YouTube, I would not have done that."

Last year, De Los Santos sued the USDA to resume the inspections necessary to open what would be the nation's first new horse slaughterhouse in more than five years.

The suit alleges USDA inaction on the company's application was driven by emotional political debates and has cost the company hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Many animal humane groups and public officials were outraged at the idea of resuming domestic horse slaughter, including New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez.

But others — including some horse rescuers, livestock associations and the American Quarter Horse Association — support a return to domestic horse slaughter.

They point to a 2011 report from the federal Government Accountability Office that shows horse abuse and abandonment have been increasing since Congress effectively banned horse slaughter by cutting funding for federal inspection programs in 2006. 

Dramatic video of a gunman firing repeatedly into a Philadelphia shop and the ensuing struggle that left three people injured was released by police on Thursday as they stepped up the hunt for the attacker.

Footage posted on YouTube by the Philadelphia Police Department shows one victim trying to keep the culprit out by holding the door closed while others fall to the floor and try to shield themselves. Bullets pierce the glass door and the suspect reaches around to fire again at the group.  

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Police are seeking the public's assistance in identifying the suspect for a shooting that injured three men in Philadelphia.

Separate video of Tuesday night's shooting filmed outside the store shows the suspect walking to the front door and firing into the shop. After several failed attempts to get at the victims inside, he backs up and fires through the glass.

The attacker then turns and runs away, leaving three victims with non-life-threatening gunshot wounds.

Police describe the shooter as being a black male between 6 feet and 6 feet and 2 inches tall, of medium build with a beard or goatee and wearing a dark colored sweatshirt. 

A Marine opened fire on two of his comrades Thursday night at a base in Quantico, Va., before turning the gun on himself, leaving all three dead, military officials said.

A relationship dispute was believed to be behind the shooting, which occurred in the staff barracks area of the Officer Candidates School at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Northern Virginia, a Marine official said.

The assailant and both victims, a man and a woman, were staff members at the school and not students, a senior defense official said. The official called the incident "isolated," adding: "There was nothing random here."

The names of the dead were being withheld for 24 hours pending notification of next of kin.

Military police and Prince William County, Va., Sheriff's Department officers responded to a report of gunshots around 10:30 p.m. local time and were on the scene within five minutes, base commander Col. David W. Maxwell said at a press conference on Friday.

They found one Marine dead and the shooter inside the barracks, a Marine official said. At 3 a.m., officers entered the barracks and found two more bodies, including that of the shooter, the official said. The three, all active duty Marines, were pronounced dead at the scene.

Why officers hesitated before entering the barracks remained unclear Friday morning.

“There was a lag but I can’t go into the details about the length of the lag the occurred,” base spokesman Lt. Agustin Solivan said Friday.

The assailant appeared to have died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, base officials said.

Authorities did not fire any shots and did not hear any shots fired, Maxwell said. “There was no standoff or barricades,” Maxwell said.

Early reports indicated that the shooter may have barricaded himself in the barracks.

The base had been under lockdown after the incident, but its status early Friday returned to "Code Green," meaning operations were normal.

A message posted on Quantico's Facebook page had earlier had told residents to remain in their homes with their doors locked. Personnel on the base were notified of the situation via an emergency alert system. The base returned to normal operations at 2:30 a.m., Maxwell said.

“Early this morning, the Secretary was saddened to learn of the shootings at Marine Corps Base Quantico,” defense department spokesman George Little said in a written statement. “His heart and his prayers are with them and their families.”

Quantico is about 40 miles south of Washington in the Northern Virginia suburbs.

“This is a truly tragic loss again for the Marine Corps, which has had a number of tragic losses in the last couple of weeks,” Maxwell said.

The base provided chaplains and counselors to base residents on Friday.

The Officer Candidates School calls itself "the first proving ground for future Marine officers." Its graduates attain the rank of 2nd lieutenant.

It has a reputation for being challenging.

"The mission of OCS is to train, screen and evaluate candidates, who must demonstrate a high level of leadership potential and commitment to success in order to earn a commission," the Marine Corps says on the school's website. "Officer Candidates School training will be more demanding than any you've experienced before, regardless of commissioning program."

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The entrance to Marine Corps Base Quantico in Northern Virginia is shown early Friday after three Marines, including the suspected assailant, died in a shooting.

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Lieutenant Jeff Kramer, public affairs officer for the El Paso County sheriff's office, briefs reporters on the investigation of the murder of the head of Colorado state's prison system in Monument, Colo., on March 20.

Days after the leader of Colorado's Department of Corrections was shot and killed at his home, investigators are casting a wide net as they try to piece together what happened that night.

They are exploring a possible connection to a Saudi national and are trying to find a boxy, two-door car as well as a female speed walker.

The speed walker, thought to be between the ages of 35 and 50, may have been in the neighborhood at the time of the shooting.

The woman, who is not being considered a person of interest, may have made “some observations that could be valuable” to investigators, said El Paso County Sheriff's Department spokesman Lt. Jeff Kramer.

Departments of Corrections director Tom Clements was founded dead in his Monument, Colo., home on Tuesday night, apparently shot dead by an unknown gunmen after answering his front door.

Among the possibilities being explored by investigators is that the top prison official’s death could be connected to the 2006 case of Homaidan al-Turki. Last week, Clements turned down his transfer back to Saudi Arabia.

Al-Turki, a Saudi national, was convicted and sentenced to 28 years in prison for unlawful sexual contact. A judge later reduced his sentence to eight years to life. Prosecutors said he kept a housekeeper in his Aurora home and sexually assaulted her.

Investigators are aware of the recent decision, Kramer said. “We also remain open minded to all of the other possibilities as well, because we don’t want to follow one particular trail and find ourselves perhaps missing something along the way,” Kramer said.

A federal official told NBC News on Wednesday that no federal agents have been involved in the investigation. The FBI offered assistance but so far state authorities have said they have the resources they need and declined federal help.

Gov. John Hickenlooper said at a press conference on Wednesday that there was no reason to suspect that Clements’ shooting should be seen as a threat against other high-level state officials. Capt. Jeff Goodwin of the Colorado Bureau of Investigations told the Denver Post that security around the governor’s mansion and state Capitol had been tightened.

“We have a responsibility to protect the governor and his family,” Goodwin said, according to the Denver Post. “Other people at the Capitol benefit from that increased security, as well.”

"Because of the fact that Mr. Clements served in the position that he did as the executive director of the Colorado Department of Corrections, we're sensitive to the fact that there could be any number of people who could have a motive for wanting to target him," Kramer said.   

Clements oversaw more than 20,000 inmates and a budget of $737 million in his corrections department post.

Clements had written about the hazards faced by corrections officers in a message that was posted on the Department of Corrections website -- including the death of one officer in the line of duty last year.

“Corrections is an inherently dangerous career,” Alison Morgan, a spokesperson for the Department of Corrections, said on Wednesday.

“He was an inspirational leader,” Morgan said. “He had a vision for the department and was exceptional at sharing that vision with staff and inspiring the 6,000 employees of the department.”

NBC News’ Pete Williams and Andrew Rafferty contributed to this report.

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A wheelchair-dependent double amputee has been charged with shooting and critically wounding an Alaska Wal-Mart manager over a disagreement about a service dog.

Daniel Pirtle, 45, was caught while attempting to flee the Anchorage store on his motorized wheelchair, according to police reports about the Saturday incident.

He was charged with first-degree assault and weapons misconduct, and on Tuesday declined a public defender, telling the judge that he preferred to represent himself. "I know how to do that," he said at the pre-indictment hearing.

The shooting left Jason Mahi, 33, in critical condition at a local hospital, a family member said.

The dispute was over a service dog used by Pirtle, according to police reports. Mahi was shot in the abdomen after he asked Pirtle to leash the dog. An off-duty police officer shopping at the store detained Pirtle, according to police reports.

Pirtle had two pistols with him at the store and later admitted to detectives that he had shot Mahi, according to an information report filed by the local district attorney.

Mahi's brother, Brandon Mahi, said the victim remained unconscious on Tuesday. "We're just praying every day," Brandon Mahi said after Pirtle's brief court appearance.

He said the family is upset that Wal-Mart continued to do business after the shooting. "They just kept running like nothing even happened," he said.

Dianna Gee, a spokeswoman at Wal-Mart's headquarters in Bentonville, Ark., said that, "considering the circumstances," store employees "did an amazing job at handling a very difficult situation."

"Their focus was on tending to the medical-emergency needs, getting help to the scene and making sure there was no immediate threat to the customers," Gee told Reuters, adding that the company had been providing support to Mahi's family since the shooting.

Although police secured the shooting scene on Saturday, the store did not close after the incident, said Anita Shell, a spokeswoman for the Anchorage Police Department.

If Mahi dies, murder charges will be added, said Anita Shell, a spokeswoman for the Anchorage Police Department.