Democratic candidates for statewide office in Michigan say they are taking additional precautions but won’t back down amid an “escalating pattern of political violence.”
As crews continue to assess the aftermath of Sunday’s deadly shooting at a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints meeting place in Grand Blanc, Michigan, officials from across the state mourned the victims of the attack that killed four people.
An ex-Marine smashed a pickup into a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints church in Michigan, opened fire and set the building ablaze during a crowded Sunday service and then was fatally shot by police.
Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist and close ally of President Donald Trump, was shot and killed Wednesday at a Utah college event in an act that drew renewed attention to the threat of political violence across the United States.
The city of Lansing invested in a program that reaches the people most likely to pick up a gun. It worked. But now Trump’s Department of Justice is abruptly pulling its support.
The first U.S. parent to be held criminally responsible for a mass school shooting committed by a child asked a Michigan judge to throw out her conviction on Jan. 31, arguing that her trial was spoiled by the prosecutor’s failure to disclose key details about two major witnesses.
Time is running out on a handful of gun safety bills in the Michigan legislature as the session nears its end this month.
Parents of the victims of the Oxford High School shooting gathered Monday for a news conference to call on the state to open an independent investigation into the events that led to the shooting.
In party-line votes Wednesday, Michigan House Democrats concurred with the Senate on the final versions of two bills banning firearms from polling places.
The largest gun violence prevention organization in the country is urging Michiganders to elect Kyra Harris Bolden and Kimberly Ann Thomas to the state Supreme Court.
