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Trench Reynolds
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Independent crime news and opinion writer since the year 2000 at http://realcrime.net.

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Would-Be #Indiana #SchoolShooter Locked Up After Being Denied Help

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Would-Be Indiana School Shooter Locked Up After Being Denied Help
I owe you an apology. In my previous post, I repeated faulty reporting that Trinity Shockley was transgender. She is not. She testified in court that she posed online as an 18-year-old trans man na…
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November 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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One #School Week, Too Many #Guns

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One School Week, Too Many Guns
Every time a student brings a gun to school, it chips away at the idea that campuses are safe spaces. What makes this stretch of incidents even more concerning is that they all happened within a si…
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November 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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More #Guns at HS #Football Games, But Nothing to See Here

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November 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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No Charges Filed After Alleged #RightWing #ShootingThreat at #Buffalo #Campus

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No Charges Filed After Alleged Right-Wing Shooting Threat at Buffalo Campus
Campus police at the University at Buffalo (UB) spent this past Wednesday night dealing with something no campus ever wants to see on its incident log. Students reported a classmate in Baldy Hall w…
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November 24, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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#UVA Shooter Sentenced to Five Life Terms

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UVA Shooter Sentenced to Five Life Terms
The University of Virginia (UVA) shooter has finally received his sentence, closing the book on a case that has dragged on for three long years. Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., now 26, will spend th…
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November 23, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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I used to live in Concord. No matter where you live in the US, never say, "It can't happen here."

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4 injured in shooting near Christmas tree lighting ceremony in North Carolina
Police in Concord, North Carolina, say four people were injured when gunfire erupted in a crowd during an annual tree lighting ceremony Friday evening.
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November 23, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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SRO Has ‘Accidental Discharge’ in Elementary School

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SRO Has ‘Accidental Discharge’ in Elementary School
Corsicana, Texas, had one of those mornings where the news release tries very hard to make something sound routine. Around 9:20 a.m. this past Wednesday, inside Bowie Elementary, a Corsicana ISD po…
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November 23, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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#NeoNazi #Cult Leader Who Inspired #SchoolShooting Pleads Guilty

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Neo-Nazi Cult Leader Who Inspired School Shooting Pleads Guilty
Michail Chkhikvishvili isn’t exactly a household name, but he’s been busy trying to change that in the worst ways possible. The 22-year-old Georgian national, better known online as “Commander Butc…
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November 22, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Another #School Employee Leaves #Gun in School #Bathroom

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Another School Employee Leaves Gun in School Bathroom
A cafeteria worker at a South Carolina middle school managed to pull off one of the more baffling ‘oops’ moments in recent memory. They showed up to work with a loaded handgun and then …
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November 22, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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#Florida #Schools Buy #Drones, Ignore the #Guns

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Florida Schools Buy Drones, Ignore the Guns
Florida has officially joined the drone-as-school-safety circus, and if you squint hard enough, it still doesn’t look like progress. Three school districts, Broward, Leon, and Volusia, are no…
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November 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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#Arming #Teachers Isn’t #Safety, It’s Political Theater

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Arming Teachers Isn’t Safety, It’s Political Theater
The Humble (TX) Independent School District is gearing up to arm school employees under Texas’ School Marshal Program, a plan lawmakers rolled out years ago when they ran out of actual ideas. On No…
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November 20, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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#GhostGuns Used in #SchoolShooting No One Heard About

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Ghost Guns Used in School Shooting No One Heard About
Oakland, California’s Skyline High School went through the kind of week that should dominate national headlines. A student shot in a school bathroom, two other students arrested, both armed w…
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November 20, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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#Kik Kreeper #Teacher: “Look Right at Me and Tell Me You Love Me”

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Kik Kreeper Teacher: “Look Right at Me and Tell Me You Love Me”
A Gloucester County, New Jersey, grand jury has indicted James M. Adams from Washington Township. Adams is a 50-year-old third-grade teacher from Dr. William Mennies Elementary School in Vineland. …
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November 19, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Trump Lobbyist Accused of Being #Kik Kreeper

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Trump Lobbyist Accused of Being Kik Kreeper
Federal prosecutors say a Mooresville, North Carolina, lobbyist with ties to Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign spent weeks distributing CSAM through Kik, a messaging platform long known as a magnet for …
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November 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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#Omnilert’s Latest Screw-Up Isn’t Even Surprising Anymore

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Omnilert’s Latest Screw-Up Isn’t Even Surprising Anymore
Recently, Baltimore County had its second Omnilert-triggered police response in under a month, this time at Parkville High School. The AI claimed it detected a possible gun. Students were relocated…
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November 17, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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When #YouTube #Vigilantes Play Cop and Innocent People Pay the Price

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When YouTube Vigilantes Play Cop and Innocent People Pay the Price
Earlier this year in Brush, Colorado, an elderly man answered a knock at his door and stepped into the type of nightmare that’s becoming far too common in the era of YouTube heroes. A stranger wear…
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November 16, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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As someone who has written about online predators for 20 years (at realcrime.net), you'd be surprised how many people actually believe this.

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November 14, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Another #HighSchoolFootball Game Marred by Gunfire, This Time in #Michigan

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Another High School Game Marred by Gunfire, This Time in Michigan
A shooting last Friday at a high school football playoff game in Harper Woods, Michigan, left a 17-year-old boy injured and a community once again pretending this kind of violence is unpredictable.…
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November 14, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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#Texas Wants #Drones, Not Solutions to #SchoolShootings

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Texas Wants Drones, Not Solutions to School Shootings
A Houston parent committee is now trying to raise half a million dollars to bring drone-based “school shooter response systems” to two Spring Branch ISD campuses. It sounds cutting-edge. It sounds …
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November 14, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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Autistic Student Held at Gunpoint by SRO Over Nintendo Switch

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Autistic Student Held at Gunpoint by SRO Over Nintendo Switch
It’s the kind of story that makes your stomach twist because it could have gone so wrong, so fast. At Fort Dorchester High School in North Charleston, South Carolina, police say a school resource o…
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November 13, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Best #AEWDynamite of the year. I thought two #BloodAndGuts matches might be too much, but I was wrong.
November 13, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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After #Election Wins, #Senate #Democrats Cave on #Shutdown Deal

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Democrats Blink: Schumer’s Caucus Folds After Shutdown Gains
In the wake of election victories for the Democratic Party, when the party appeared well-positioned to assert leverage, the decision by a faction of Senate Democrats to side with Republicans and vote…
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November 11, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Someone at the DOD, I mean, 'The Department of War,' was checking out my site today, and they were using Teams.

Pete Hegseth, is that you?
November 6, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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#Firefighter Accused of Using Firehouse Wifi for #Kik CSAM

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Firefighter Accused of Using Firehouse Wifi for Kik CSAM
A firefighter in Prince George’s County, Maryland, is behind bars after investigators say he used his firehouse’s internet connection to distribute CSAM, including imagery allegedly involving his o…
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November 6, 2025 at 2:00 AM