A gunman opened fire following a high school graduation ceremony in Richmond, Virginia, killing 18-year-old Shawn Jackson and his 36-year-old stepfather. A suspect is in custody. NBC News’ Aaron Gilchrist reports.
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#NBCNews #Virginia #Shooting
HANDS UP IF YOU ARE BORED OF AMERICANS SHOOTING EACH OTHER.
AI solutions to US school shootings resulted in 8 obvious reasons with NO solution other than emigration.
Gun accessibility, school safety deterrents, social media, political rhetoric, mental health, bullying, victimization and copycats.
Daily mass shootings only happen in the US, so it is obvious that the main reason is Americans themsel
Cool story, keep crying
@Vegan Gains Father I live in Aotearoa New Zealand and glad I’m not part of having to live in that nightmare day after day after day.
@DJ Pomare Good for you…. so you come on here to gloat or you just looking for admiration? In my 40 years I have never seen or been in a shooting, nor have my family, friends or coworkers, and I have lived in every US time zone minus Hawaii. But you’ve been brainwashed by mainstream media so keep believing what you want
Sad. Just doesn’t fit the narrative of the President that wh1te suprem1st gangs are the threat to citizens.
So many lives shattered for no reason. My heart shatters for each family.
@Tyler Harris apparently not you. Be well.
@Tyler Harris you cared enough to post
@Bill Souza aka Yarn Crafts For Lefties Juneteenth too
@silent majority I just troll
@Bill Souza aka Yarn Crafts For Lefties people die every day
Republicans all of you GFYS.. RIP Jackson
Yet those that ID with the DNC did the shooting
@Rolando 90 Yes, absolutely no Dems support the 2A…. in fact there is no such thing as a liberal gun owner
Your post makes zero sense
BIGBLUE, The last governor was a Democrat…now remind me, was he the one in the picture wearing blackface or the kkk hood ?
@Bagrilla Jenkins That and something tells me that no republicans were involved in any of this .
The truth is, nothing of value was lost
Oh My?😢
@James Elliott to suggest a human life lost is of no value is evil. To wish evil onto others is evil. To express hate towards others is evil. Like I said to @MM I pray that you NEVER experience anything like this. It may be just a comment section but there needs to be more decency in these replies regarding people shot and hurt at a graduation ceremony
@James Elliott you argue like a woman 😂
@SparklyGals More evil than 13% of our population doing 55% of all USA murders?
Do you think your life has no value? If so, why?
im willing to bet the black folks winning in mass shooting
Way to ruin graduation dude
and Juneteenth
That’s not til the 19th
@Aubrey Passey Its sarcasm They are MLK ing the system
Now we’re having cross-generational weekly slaughters. Thank you GOP and NRA for putting guns into the hands of every malcontent, sociopath and psycho who wants one.
How terrible to lose this young lives our society has been getting a lot more violent. We need to find a solution and put a stop to all these senceless murders.
@Robert B Bless you
@BB the kid who killed these people didn’t go to the store to buy his gun. He got it from a brotha on the streets. Unless you Democrats want to clamp down on actual criminals and not support black violence these acts will continue.
@BB The 19 year old possessed that handgun illegally. He was breaking the law just by possessing the gun.
How would you make it “more illegal?”
@Robert B Did your word-salad make you feel moral for a moment?
The 19 year old possessed that handgun illegally. He was breaking the law just by possessing the gun.
How would you make it “more illegal?”
@BB it’s illegal for someone under age to legally purchase a weapon
Black on black shooting. This will be forgotten by tmrw…. but rest assured we’ll be hearing about the white woman that shot through her door and killed her black neighbor for the next several weeks
@Warren Goss Take your racism, and go burn your cross somewhere else!
@Warren Goss Exactly! She didn’t do nothing wrong, which means she did do something wrong. I love how you speak like the people you hate. 🤣🤣🤣
@LizardGulps I don’t hate anyone
I ain’t got no money. So you have money? 😂
@LizardGulps Hating crime and those using race as a shield
That is why you don’t mess with anybody. They could be a small nerd, and he could be crazy. Cause maybe he got teased all this life. Could be big dude, who could be having ROID Rage.
Why diversity not a strength
Well, Your point applies if you’re messing around with the 13%. Otherwise, you’re fine.
Because you never know when 2A Strikes again.😭
@Jay Alba it’s a little too late, because people like you have been messing with the 13% for too long…😐
@Clark Kent This was a 13th amendment shooter
My hearts go out to people in Virginia please control your soul’s desire for freedom.
Tyrell: What did you get for graduation?
Laquisha: A gunshot would
Worthless Richmond public school diplomas
Typical
Please let’s bring back the death penalty, also he should be charged first degree murder not second.
I agree.
Are you afraid to say we need sensible gun control?
@Jamal Jamal no, it’s not. It was abolished
@BB What is “sensible gun control”? Please explain .
@Jamal Jamal Where do you get your information?
Blame Republicans governor
Blame blk gangs
The last governor was a Democrat…now remind me, was he the one in the picture wearing blackface or the kkk hood ?
Because blaming the actual person who pulled the trigger is ridiculous 🙄
@Bagrilla Jenkins nope
@Nomen Clature stupid wrong answer
Was step father killed in the Virginia tech shooting or the Virginia walmart shooting
Both suspects the same color as this victim
Just saying
Dang no wonder blacks can’t out number whites lol
And I thought it was cuz of racism guess nit
You can calmly surrender, but not calmly walk away before shooting?? make it make sense
The devil abandons you and you come down to reality after the deed is done
@ab 😂 not true, the devil is just siting back on the sideline laughing at people useing their free will to murder and hurt…
@ab This was Ebonic possession 🤣🤣
The usual B on B crime. You won’t hear influential B people talk about it since it’s cool and “gangsta”…
We need to stop these 🐝 on 🐝 crimes! BLM! #BeeLivesMatter
2A Strikes again!!!
Yes, because the 2A states we have the right to murder people. Good witty comment there dunderhead
Where is Al Sharpton with his fake outrage?
No MONEY to be made here “Reverend” Al ?
A monster, evil and wicked.
Notice how they don’t call it mass shootings when black men do it. Same with when that guy in Oklahoma killed 3 doctors and a paitent before himself. The media is playing a race card on shootings
More black killing black where is Black lives matter they don’t care
Where is Blm, opps it’s black on black, never mind.
In foreclosure court.
Can’t make dat munny when the shooter is black.
(2 Timothy 3:1) Perilous times in the last days
lol People been quoting that for a thousand years.
Need the death penalty period
Afraid to say we need sensible gun control
@BB What is “sensible gun control” ? Please explain .
why didnt they try dodging it
@ajax6470
Yeah like that movie with Jim Carrey The Mask how he dodged bullets while being fired at.
😂😂😂
Matrix
I hate to say it maybe it takes for these leaders to witness this senseless violence first hand for them to actually do something!
Like what, making murder illegal? Creating “Gun Free Zones”. By making it even HARDER for *_LAW ABIDING CITIZENS_* to protect themselves from the EVIL that is among us by telling them they can’t have a gun AT ALL?
You tell me what policy or law would have stopped this, and I’ll tell you what laws and policies made it EASY for this to happen.
People like this DON’T OBEY THE LAW. People like this aren’t AFRAID of police. It’s TIME they were afraid of US!!
Black on black crime
any comment?
This is not a ‘mass’ shooting. By the reporters own words. The two individuals exchanged words and then the victim was targeted. He was not targeting random people.
As terrible as this is, at least everyone else was safe. It’s still terrible though, because bullets don’t have names on them.
@BB It was a Black on Black murder. A street killing between thugs. Only the venue made it different this time.
A mass shooting is 4 or more shot at the same time and place
Motive not the issue
nobody has to die
More than one shooter can be involved
What you are really saying is a shooting over race or gender worse than black on black murder
You are saying these lives did not matter hence to statues murals or rioting
The truth is the only BLM are ones shot by police during the commission of a crime
@LunarLarry More like Libs changing meanings to suit their PC ideas
EXAMPLE Phobic comes from a Greek word meaning fear/terror Hence Arachnophobia
So when you say Homophobia you are saying we fear them
Libs are trying to say Phobia means hate
@Nomen Clature but still a mass shooting if 4 were shot
🙏
Blacks are some deadly people i am literally afraid to go out in public amongst them because i know what could happen at any given moment. This is just getting out of control i wish we could bring back segregation.
Prayers to the families 🙏🏽🙌🏽 gosh evil 😈 everywhere
another black on black shooting
I’m so sorry for their loss. This is awful. He was just starting his life. Over words. So two men dead, others injured and the shooter ended his life too.
Black on black crime
yet if you ask anybody they will say racism is their greatest threat
@Mule Threw what away? A life of crime and illegitimate kids
@Rara D. You mean like this being black on black crime? No statues murals or riots? CRICKETS
@silent majorityman why can’t people like you take their place
@IWuvPies Gaming Why?
I contribute
I have paid taxes longer than you have been alive
Obeyed laws raised two college grads
Support charities school volunteer
Foster parent
How about you As
wipe?
Black people activities.
Black culture is so rich and interesting. 😅
gun violence is american culture
My condolences to the families put the guns down. God help us.
Happy Juneteenth
USA society has lot of Pyscho. Each day USA witness new mass shooting but no-one points finger liar corrupt Democratic or Republic politicians who encourage such pyscho
Tragedy beyond belief. Lock the shooter up and throw away the key. Condolences to the family. He had a whole life ahead of him. Sending prayers.
Call BLM
I’m surprised NBC even showed a picture of the shooter since it doesn’t fit the narrative.
You see, it’s NOT the gun that kills, but the PERSON.
(We KNOW this because you didn’t MENTION what KIND of gun he brought.)
It’s a *_>>SICK<< PERSON_* with no soul, that KILLS for no reason. I HOPE you charge him with bringing a gun into a GUN FREE ZONE, otherwise those signs are USELESS. They are ANYWAY, since CRIMINALS DON'T FOLLOW THE LAW... But go ahead, we *_KNOW YOU WILL,_* use this as just ANOTHER EXCUSE to push for stronger gun laws that will ONLY be followed by those that went there WITHOUT ONE, the *_LAW ABIDING_* VICTIMS!!
Little tip for you normies…blacks do this kite frequently than whites
😂
Just another weekend in Chicago… oh wait…😅
Its not a mass shooting. The reporters even said so. Fslse title
when your Republican governor encourages students to Bring their guns to graduation…
Too bad they didn’t listen, eh? They could have stopped this!!
John Wick = LIAR.
Hey John, The last governor was a Democrat…now remind me, was he the one in the picture wearing blackface or the kkk hood ?
This is completely unacceptable 😤 My deepest prayers and condolences to all the families!!! 🤬🙏💔😥💔🙏🤬
Are you from normal,Illinois
Despite only being as little as 13%, take away the women and its as little as 3%……..anyone wanna finish it off?
Who cares nothing matters in the end
Probably gang related
This mf better get the death penalty! Those kids spent 12+ years of their life in school just for a mf to ruin their happy ending..
The victim was a thug. This didn’t happen to the good kids at the graduation.
@Nomen Clature exactly . It’s always the single moms who raise thier son to be a demon on “demon time “ running a muck in out streets”
@Nomen Clature Your weird asf get a life🤨
Oh my God! Why Lord why?!!! Black people stop the madness!!!
This is seamless, never ending , there is no hope for anyone now a days 😢 Why guns are still in existence in these days on this planet …..☹️😞😣 there are truly no words
what 😂
@rusty shackleford did nothing I say make any sense ? Most ppl on this planet are effed…. the shootings/killings are never effing ending , is my point .
😢😢😢
You can’t go any where that has crowds. Otherwise, you run the risk of getting killed. This happens so often that its the norm.
This is sickening. God bless all families involved. Keep voting blue. Cause the demon crats don’t care about US CITIZENS. NO MATTER YOUR RACE. THEY WANT ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT/ OPENED BORDERS AT EVERYONE EXPENSE.
Shooting someone for saying something that “you” didn’t like is worse than shooting someone for not paying a debt. It just shows that society has a long way of becoming civilized.
Don’t understand how ignorant this shooter is, he’s injured so many people, killed two and runs I Ned so many lives, including his own. Total ignorance.
Says the illiterate
Sad very sad,2 lifes just endining like that,really got no words,may The Lord be with their family.
…how does he get to plead not guilty, having given himself up for the shooting…a coward, who should have been summarily eliminated. America needs to figure out how to deter this.
People are supposed to learn as children that feeling angry doesn’t justify violent actions, what’s with our modern cultural amnesia about this fundamental legal and moral truth?
I don’t care if people “manage” their anger, but they MUST control their actions!!!!!
Security personnel are very comfortable 😂
Africans
Most people are mentally ill and don’t even know it.
I am sick of hearing in the news about more murders against AMERICANS. This is going to have to stop. The polititians are the ones that can change it. But as soon as they are elected they forget who elected them.
not really surprising if you live in the area,teenagers in the south have been at war with the east end all year.
he disrespected him so what else could he do?
So Words Hurt Oh My Have People Heard The Sayin Sticks & Stones May Break My Bones Names Will Never Hurt
Any time they gather, there is a shooting. Avoid them if possible, like Scott Adams says
Moral of story : don’t argue or curse other …
Moral of the story Lincoln was wrong
The 19 year old shooter planned on killing then staying alive by surrendering with free room & food and have a chance of coming out in some years. He accomplished his mission. I think they called each other the N word. Btw, prisons is so updated that they allow inmates to have tablets. Unbelievable.
Gun culture,….. Guns guns everywhere.☹️
Breaks my heart to hear this.💔
This was the best and most accurate coverage of this story
Left out the part where the south lost
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100% Freer, more democratic, stronger faster for all Vietnamese people. the wheel of history missed the race… tragically.
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“Calmly surrenders” (with the smoking gun in his hand), yet pleads not guilty?…our justice system is a JOKE! Fire all Liberal DA’s and Judges that reduce punishments, and bring back the DEATH penalty…it’s the only way to become a civilized society again. So sad
The Huxtables are outa control.
Mass shooting is out of control in USA.
Black again
Lol 😂
How tf is this so funny
@Nialah Simmons it is funny because it happens in daily and USA is doing nothing but preaching the world on human rights and right to live
So sad
this is what i’m afraid of… all those people in one area and a psycho with a gun. graduation is supposed to be a celebration not a mournful day. may the victims rest in peace.
Black on black shocker the fact that he just peacefully surrendered is the most disturbing part… no suicide by cop, he doesn’t shoot himself, he just surrendered as if he didn’t just take another persons life… what is wrong with these people ?
Have the remaining family just shoot him as a returned favor and call it a day! It wont bring his son or father but it will be and eye for and eye
竹竹水土尸尸尸山
The sad thing is that, it’s a memory that the family is gonna remember forever and this was a special moment for the family -RIP
It feels like a mass shooting happens every week.
Yall doesn’t think it’s odd they’re calling this a mass shooting yet it was a targeted murder?
Seems like they’re trying to skew the number of mass shootings by race.
He had a target and everyone else was just a bystanders.
The los Vegas mass shooter was just trying to rack up the the number that’s a mass shooting
HAIL SATAN 666
Its just a cultural greeting in the hood, i know thats a dark joke.
Man! But where are those black lives matter protestors!!!0r was that a democrat planned thing back in 19-20!?