CNN: NY gunman fired 98 shots in about a minute, police chief says

(CNN) -- The gunman who killed 13 people at an immigrant services center fired 98 shots in a minute or so, the police chief in Binghamton, New York, said Wednesday.

YAHOO/AP: Binghamton officials defend response to massacre

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. – Even if police officers had immediately entered the immigrant center where a gunman had just shot down 13 people, the victims' injuries were so severe that none would have survived, a county prosecutor said Sunday.

The shooting at the American Civic Association stopped shortly after the first 911 calls came in at 10:30 a.m. Friday, but police didn't enter the building until nearly 45 minutes later.

YAHOO/AP: Fight over urinating dog got police to Pa. ambush

PITTSBURGH – A 911 call that brought two police officers to a home where they were ambushed, and where a third was also later killed during a four-hour siege, was precipitated by a fight between the gunman and his mother over a dog urinating in the house.

The Saturday argument between Margaret and Richard Poplawski escalated to the point that she threatened to kick him out and she called police to do it, according to a 12-page criminal complaint and affidavit filed late Saturday.

CNN: Gunman barricaded back door before rampage, police say

(CNN) -- A gunman barricaded the back door of an immigration services center with a car and burst through the front door on a shooting rampage, killing 13 people and then, apparently, himself, police said.

YAHOO/AP: At least 12 killed at immigration center in NY

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. – A gunman opened fire on a room where immigrants were taking a citizenship exam in downtown Binghamton on Friday, killing as many as 13 people before committing suicide, officials said.

Gov. David Paterson said at a news conference that 12 or 13 people had been killed. The suspected gunman carried identification with the name of 42-year-old Jiverly Voong of nearby Johnson City, N.Y., a law enforcement official said.

WSFA: Ala. gunman killed his mother, grandparents and others

MONTGOMERY, AL (WSFA) - The Coffee County coroner said a suspect in Tuesday's deadly rampage started his day of bloodshed at his mother's house in Kinston, burning it to the ground. The mother's body was inside the house, but Coroner Robert Preachers said officials have not been able to enter the house to determine if she was shot. News of the mother's death brings the body count to at least eleven people, including the gunman. The man's shooting spree covered two counties (Coffee and Geneva) and targeted people in the town of Kinston and the cities of Samson and Geneva in extreme southeast Alabama.

AP: Illinois church gunman's motives a mystery

MARYVILLE, Ill. (AP) — Worshippers at the sprawling First Baptist Church in this St. Louis suburb initially weren't alarmed when a young man they didn't recognize walked up the church's center aisle during the early morning sermon. Until he opened fire.

The gunman, identified by authorities as a 27-year-old from Troy, strode toward the Rev. Fred Winters shortly after 8 a.m. Sunday, exchanged words with him, then fired a .45-caliber semiautomatic pistol until it jammed. Churchgoers then wrestled him to the ground as he brandished a knife, said Illinois State Police Director Larry Trent.

Winters later died of his injuries.

DETROIT NEWS: Trooper wins $500,000 in lawsuit against Detroit police

DETROIT -- A federal jury on Wednesday awarded a $500,000 verdict to a Michigan State Police trooper who brought a malicious prosecution lawsuit against Detroit police.

Trooper Jay Morningstar sued after he was charged and acquitted of second-degree murder in the shooting death of a homeless man while Morningstar was on duty in Detroit's Greektown area in April 2005.

Morningstar, who is white, testified in his lawsuit that he did not believe a black officer would have been charged in the shooting, given the same set of facts. The homeless man, Eric Williams, was black and unarmed.

DETROIT FREE PRESS: Teen held in Oak Park police officer slaying

Officer Mason Samborski, 28, of Howell died from a gunshot wound to his head during a struggle at an apartment complex about 12:30 a.m. Sunday, authorities said.

Samborski had taken 16-year-old Jonathan Belton of Detroit to the Rue Versailles apartment complex at 10 Mile and Greenfield roads to turn Belton over to an adult relative following the traffic stop, police said.

Several police departments joined Oak Park police in searching for Belton most of Sunday before Belton turned himself in, accompanied by his father and pastor, at a police station in northwest Detroit about 4 p.m. He was later taken to the Oak Park Public Safety offices.

Oak Park Public Safety Director John McNeilance said Belton could face murder charges as early as today.

CNN: Suspected Santa gunman takes life; 6 others dead

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Police said they recovered six bodies from a Los Angeles house where a man dressed as Santa Claus fired gunshots and started a fire Christmas Eve. Bruce Jeffery Pardo was sought for a Christmas party shooting before taking his own life, police said.

Police said the suspect, Bruce Jeffery Pardo, committed suicide after the attack. In addition to the six people killed, police said three others -- Pardo's mother-in-law, father-in-law and ex-wife -- are still unaccounted for.