Allen G. Breed, Author at Daily Hampshire Gazette

FILE - An ambulance believed to be carrying a shooting suspect arrives at Wake Medical Center Emergency Room in Raleigh, N.C., Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022, surrounded by police. North Carolina Democratic legislators pleaded with the General Assembly's Republican majority on Tuesday, Oct. 18 to consider gun safety and mental health measures, citing last week's shootings in Raleigh that left five people dead. (AP Photo/Karl DeBlaker, File)

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Parents of accused North Carolina shooter express sorrow

by Jonathan Drew Associated Press, and Allen G. Breed Associated PressOctober 19, 2022

RALEIGH, N.C. — The parents of a 15-year-old boy accused of killing five people in a North Carolina shooting rampage released a statement saying they are “overcome with grief” and saw no warning signs before the killings.The statement Tuesday by Alan…

In this image taken from video, Quentin Jackson, regional director for the National Black Caucus of Local Elected Officials, addresses protesters blocking Business U.S. 17 in Elizabeth City, N.C., on Thursday, April 22, 2021. The crowd was demanding that authorities release body camera footage showing the fatal officer-involved shooting of Andrew Brown Jr. the day before. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)

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7 deputies on leave after fatal shooting of Black man

by Allen G. Breed Associated PressApril 23, 2021

In this March 27, 2019, photo, Kacey Ruegsegger Johnson poses for a portrait at her home in Cary, N.C. Ruegsegger Johnson, now a mother of four, survived a shotgun blast during the 1999 shootings at Colorado's Columbine High School that left 12 students, one teacher, and both gunmen dead. The emotional toll of the shooting, joined by fears about their own kids’ safety, spikes each time yet another shooter enters another school. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)

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Survivors send kids to schools altered by Columbine attack

by Kathleen Foody Associated Press, Allen G. Breed Associated Press, and P. Solomon Banda Associated PressApril 17, 2019

This courtroom sketch depicts Robert Gregory Bowers, who was wounded in a gun battle with police as he appeared in a wheelchair at federal court on Monday, Oct. 29, 2018, in Pittsburgh. Bowers, accused in the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre, appeared briefly in federal court in a wheelchair and handcuffs Monday to face charges he killed 11 people. (Dave Klug via AP)

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Trump visit to Pittsburgh doesn’t sit well with some

by Allen G. Breed Associated Press, Mark Scolforo Associated Press, and Maryclaire Dale Associated PressOctober 30, 2018

People gather for a vigil on Murray and Forbes Avenues, blocks from where an active shooter shot multiple people at Tree of Life Congregation synagogue on Saturday, Oct. 27, 2018, in the Squirrel Hill section of Pittsburgh. (Stephanie Strasburg/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)

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Gunman: ‘I just want to kill Jews’

by Maryclaire Dale Associated Press, Claudia Lauer Associated Press, and Allen G. Breed Associated PressOctober 29, 2018

Six crosses are placed at a makeshift memorial on the Florida International University campus in Miami on Saturday, March 17, 2018, near the scene of a pedestrian bridge collapse that killed at least six people on March 15.

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Bridge victim’s grieving uncle lashes out at ‘incompetence’

by Jennifer Kay Associated Press, and Allen G. Breed Associated PressMarch 18, 2018

In this Friday, July 21, 2017, a hog house is reflected in an adjacent waste pond at Everette Murphrey Farm in Farmville, N.C. Civil trials over swine waste management begin April 2018 against a subsidiary of the world's largest pork producer, and people are watching to see whether things will change and impact places such as the Everette Murphrey Farm in the country's No. 2 hog state.

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Industrial farming: Neighbors fight back against swine waste

by Allen G. Breed Associated Press, and Michael Biesecker Associated PressMarch 5, 2018

FILE - In this Feb. 15, 2018 file photo, Alana Koer, 41, of Parkland, Fla., shows text messages she received from her son the day of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Koer's son Kai Koer, 17, survived the attack by Nikolas Cruz, a former student who was charged with several counts of premeditated murder. The school shooting that left several people dead appears to be the first major tragedy of its kind in which students were sharing horrific images in near-real time...

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School shooting videos may scar kids — or galvanize them

by Jason Dearen Associated Press, Allen G. Breed Associated Press, and Tamara Lush Associated PressFebruary 20, 2018

Pall bearers carry the casket of Scott Beigel after his funeral in Boca Raton, Fla., Sunday, Feb. 18, 2018. Beigel was a teacher at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, who was killed along with 16 others in a mass shooting at the school on Wednesday. Nikolas Cruz, a former student, was charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder.

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Florida students blast Trump, urge action on guns

by Jason Dearen Associated Press, Terry Spencer Associated Press, and Allen G. Breed Associated PressFebruary 19, 2018

An early morning fog rises where 17 memorial crosses were placed, for the 17 deceased students and faculty from the Wednesday shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, Fla., Saturday, Feb. 17, 2018. As families began burying their dead, authorities questioned whether they could have prevented the attack at the high school where a gunman, Nikolas Cruz, took several lives.

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Calls for gun control grow louder after Florida shooting

by Jason Dearen Associated Press, Allen G. Breed Associated Press, and Tamara Lush Associated PressFebruary 18, 2018