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The Garlic Festival, 2018. The Gilroy Garlic Festival was an annual three-day event held at Christmas Hill Park. [7] One of the nation's best-known food festivals, centered on garlic, it drew 80,000 [8] to 100,000 [9] visitors from around the country and was described as a family event. [10]
On 13 April 2024, a 40-year-old man, Joel Cauchi, stabbed and killed six people and injured a further twelve in the Westfield Bondi Junction shopping centre in the eastern suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Five women and one man died, while the injured included a nine-month-old girl. Cauchi was fatally shot by a police inspector.
Jim Matthews was the overnight anchor at Metro Detroit's WWJ-AM known as "Newsradio 950". He had held that position for seven years. He was 57 years old at the time of his death. [1] "Matthews" was the name he used professionally; his legal surname was "Nicolai". [2] He was a graduate of Lutheran High School in Harper Woods, Michigan. [3]
On October 25, 2023, 40-year-old Robert Card carried out a spree shooting in Lewiston, Maine, United States, killing 18 people and wounding 13 others. [9] [10] [11] The initial attack occurred at the Just-in-Time Recreation bowling alley during a youth league event, followed shortly by a second shooting at the Schemengees Bar & Grille Restaurant. [12]
Early Muslim communities in Detroit "navigated turbulent periods of xenophobia, racism (anti-black and anti-Asian), Orientalist stereotyping, anti-Muslim prejudice, economic depression, and war." [2] By the mid-20th century, however, Muslims in Detroit were seen as an upwardly-mobile, modern group on "easy terms with American patriotism."
Kenyel William Brown (July 3, 1979 – February 28, 2020) [1] [2] was an American criminal and prime suspect in a series of murders which occurred in three cities in Wayne County, Michigan, between December 7, 2019, and February 22, 2020. [3]
The shooter killed one person and wounded five others. [2] [3] A suspect, 68-year-old David Chou of Las Vegas, was arrested at the scene. Authorities allege that the crime was committed out of political hatred of those who consider Taiwan as their national identity.
The shootings began in a residential area near the Neuse River Trail greenway area shortly after 5:00 p.m. on October 13, 2022. [1] According to police, a gunman, armed with a shotgun, handgun, and hunting knife, first killed his brother at home, then went out into the street, where he fatally shot a woman on her porch and critically wounded another woman on the driveway of the same house.