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Hospital employee kills co-worker inside Philadelphia hospital, wounds two police officer

Law enforcement in Philadelphia report a hospital employee shot and killed a co-worker, and wounded two police officers in a wild...

Two New Mexico students charged with plotting a school shooting

New Mexico authorities announce that two 15-year-old students of Farmington High School have been arrested and charged with planning a...

Houston school principal shot by former student: The assault on our nation's schools continue

Yesterday, a former student armed with a rifle shot his way into the YES Prep Southwest Charter School in Houston. He then shot the...

Schools in neighboring town where Autumn Pasquale was murdered closed due to school shooting threats

Autumn Leigh Pasquale, 12, a student at New Jersey's Clayton Middle School was brutally strangled to death on October 20, 2012 by a...

Teen charged with pushing a gun into a Sheriff's Deputy bullet-proof vest, head-butting her

Law enforcement officials have historically been at greater risk of workplace violence that virtually any other occupational category. A...

OSHA and Workplace Violence Prevention

Were you aware that the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) began addressing workplace violence and workplace...

Police: TN supermarket shooter had been asked to leave work before opening fire

Law enforcement investigating last Thursday afternoon's mass shooting at the Colliervile Kroger's supermarket announced that the...

The 2016 workplace murder of Ryan Birse and Thursday's workplace mass shooting in Collierville, TN

The following WVPI post from September 25, 2016 is self-explanatory: RYAN'S STORY The WVPI believes "Ryan's Story" is particularly...

Mass shootings in 2021 ahead of 2019 statistics

Yesterday's tragedy at the Kroger market in Collierville marks the 517th mass shooting thus far in the United States. Approximately 44...

Subcontractor kills 1, wounds 12 at Tennessee Supermarket; Trend of Supermarket Shootings Continue

A man reported as a subcontractor who performed work at a Collierville, Tennessee Kroger supermarket opened fire yesterday afternoon...

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