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A gunman walked into a business school in downtown St. Louis on Tuesday and shot an administrator in the chest before shooting himself, police said.

A northern Indiana man who allegedly threatened to "kill as many people as he could" at an elementary school near his home was arrested by officers who later found 47 guns and ammunition hidden throughout his home.

The former nursing student who the authorities say fatally shot seven people and wounded three others at a religious college had lined his victims up before shooting them, Oakland’s police chief said Tuesday. “This was a calculated, cold-blooded execution in the classroom,” Howard Jordan, the police chief, told CNN.

A frantic 911 phone call captures the drama surrounding the fatal shooting by police of an eighth-grade student in Brownsville, Texas.

The man who authorities say killed a Virginia Tech police officer was described as a typical college student in many ways, making it difficult to understand why he would commit an armed robbery and then, apparently at random, target the patrolman before killing himself.

Police block off the tenth Street garage where a homicide took place at San Jose State University in San Jose, Calif. on Tuesday, May 10, 2011.

One person is in custody after two people were shot in the New Hampshire town of Pittsburg, authorities say. New Hampshire State Police say one suspect is in custody following the shootings, which occurred around 11 a.m. and left one person dead and two others wounded.

A biology professor charged with killing three faculty members at the University of Alabama in Huntsville also has been charged with wounding three others, police said.