A suspect behind a shooting at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, which killed three and injured two others, is in custody and has been charged with second-degree murder and using a handgun to commit a felony.
UVA football players D\'Sean Perry, Lavel Davis Jr., and Devin Chandler were fatally shot by Christopher Darnell Jones Jr. as their bus pulled into a campus parking garage late Sunday night. Two other players are being treated for gunshot wounds. The students were returning from a class field trip to Washington, DC. The gunman was a running back for the football team in 2018, though he never played in a game.
The suspect was previously investigated by the campus threat assessment team in September after boasting about his weapon and was involved in a 2021 concealed weapon incident.
Separately, four students were killed near campus at the University of Idaho over the weekend in an apparent homicide. |
Turkish police yesterday arrested a Syrian woman who they say confessed to the weekend blast on a busy street in Istanbul that left six dead and more than 80 injured. Officials allege the suspect is connected to Kurdish militants. Both the Kurdistan Workers\' Party and the militia group, the People’s Defense Units, have denied involvement in the attack.
Istanbul police viewed footage from 1,200 security cameras and carried out raids in 21 locations. The suspect was captured on camera departing the scene of the blast after leaving TNT-type explosives on the pedestrian street. At least 46 others were also questioned. See our previous write-up on the attack here.
The Kurdistan Workers\' Party, which seeks an independent Kurdish state within Turkey, has been in conflict with Turkey for more than four decades. The group is recognized as a terrorist organization by the US, the EU, and Turkey. See a visual explainer of the conflict here. |
World Population Milestone |
Earth\'s population will reach 8 billion people today, according to projections from the United Nations. The number is three times the population in 1950 and eight times that of the early 1800s.
The 200 years since the Industrial Revolution began (watch overview) have seen a massive population explosion due to a reduction in child mortality and an increase in life expectancy. Improvements in food production, sanitation, and medicine—as well as widespread access to household items like refrigerators and ammonia—have drastically reduced hunger and disease globally.
Annual population growth peaked at just over 2% in the early 1960s and has since declined to under 1% amid a decrease in fertility rates. By the end of this century, total annual deaths are expected to surpass births, likely resulting in a decline in population (learn why).
Overall, demographers estimate almost 120 billion people have lived on Earth. |
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