KANSAS CITY, Mo. — One person is dead after an apartment complex security guard in Kansas City, Mo., shot him early Tuesday morning.The security guard told police the suspect was a male in his 20s. The security guard also told officers that the suspect pointed a gun at him. The security guard says he feared for his life and fired at least one time and hit the man.
Police say a security guard shot a man outside of a Kansas City apartment complex in self defense early Tuesday morning. The man died in the parking lot of Canyon Creek Apartments near 93rd Street and Bales Avenue. The security guard working at the …
KANSAS CITY, MO. —A security guard at a south Kansas City apartment complex shot and killed a man early Tuesday, Kansas City police said. Related. Police say missing 22-year-old man… Defendants argue self-defense in… Man stabbed near 35th, …
“The security guard is not injured thankfully,” Darin Snapp with Kansas City police said. “We don’t know what this guy’s issue was as far as why he’s going to point a gun at security guard, but unfortunately he’s death so that’s what we’re dealing with …
A man was shot and killed early Tuesday after a confrontation with a security guard in the 9300 block of Bales. A security guard at an apartment complex told police that he was approached by a man who pointed a gun at him. The guard said he feared for …
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say a security guard has fatally shot a man in a Kansas City parking lot. The guard told police that the shooting happened early Tuesday after a man approached him and pointed a gun. The man who was shot was dead …
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AUSTIN – Police have charged Daniel Magee in connection to a shooting of a security guard at the Sigma Chi fraternity house on West Campus early Sunday.
The first call to police came around 3 a.m. Sunday from the fraternity house near the corner of 27th Street and Nueces. According to the affidavit, Daniel Magee, 18, had been removed from a party at the house after the UT football game. The security guard who was wounded in the shooting told police Magee made threats to return to the party with an AK-47 and shoot up the place.
The affidavit stated Magee and two other men returned 45 minutes to an hour later. Witnesses told police that one of the men displayed a gun and fired a round toward the security guard, striking him in the foot. The witnesses also told police that Magee had inquired about joining Sigma Chi before the shooting, and provided them with his name and telephone number. Officers located Magee’s driver’s license in the Department of Public Safety database, and the affidavit showed the security guard identified Magee in a photographic lineup.
AUSTIN, Texas – A security guard was injured in a shooting early Sunday at a fraternity house near the University of Texas at Austin after a person who was asked to leave a party there returned and an altercation ensued, officials said. The security…
Officials say the security guard was shot early Sunday at the Sigma Chi house, located off-campus. Austin police said the security guard was taken to the hospital with injuries weren’t life-threatening. Police say the suspect or suspects weren’t at the …
AUSTIN – Police have charged a man in connection to a shooting of a security guard at the Sigma Chi fraternity house on West Campus early Sunday. The first call to police came around 3 a.m. Sunday from the fraternity house near the corner of 27th …
A security guard who was working a party at the fraternity was struck by gunfire after an individual who had been kicked out returned to the scene and started an altercation. The guard was taken to University Medical Center Brackenridge with injuries …
A security guard is shot in a frat house fracas at the University of Texas. Officials say the security guard was shot early Sunday at the Sigma Chi house, located off-campus. It happened after a person who was asked to leave a party returned and a …
The security guard who was shot told officers that Magee had threatened to “return to the party with an AK-47 and shoot up the place.” Around 45 minutes later, police say Magee returned with two other men. Witnesses say they saw one of the men pull out …
A shot was fired, and a security guard was struck by the bullet. Police are looking for three suspects in connection with the incident. One man is described as Hispanic, wearing a red jersey and khaki pants with yellow trim. Another suspect has light …
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Austin police say an 18-year-old man has been arrested after a security guardwas injured in a shooting at a University of Texas fraternity house. Police said Monday that Daniel Hamilton Magee, who isn’t a UT student, was charged …
11: a.m. update: Austin police say the man shot at a West Campus fraternity house overnight Sunday was a security guard. His name has not been released, and no information was available about where he worked. Police did say his injuries are not …
According to an arrest affidavit, Daniel Magee, was partying at the Sigma Chi fraternity house when a witness said he had to be removed by the security guard because he was “causing problems.” The on-site security guard, a 44-year-old who works for …
University police say that’s when three suspects starting firing, hitting a security guard. The victim was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The suspects have not been arrested at this time. Police say the three suspects are all …
The teen accused of shooting a security guard Sunday at a fraternity house near the University of Texas at Austin had asked to join the organization, court records show. Daniel Hamilton Magee, 18, faces a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
AUSTIN, Texas — Austin police have arrested an 18-year-old accused of shooting a security guardafter being kicked out of the Sigma Chi fraternity house near the University of Texas campus on Sunday. According to an arrest affidavit, Daniel Hamilton …
AUSTIN, TX — A suspect in in custody Monday morning after a fraternity house shooting just off the University of Texas campus the previous day that left a security guard injured. Daniel Hamilton Magee, 18, was booked into the Travis County Jail and …
A shooting early this morning at the Sigma Chi house has left one person injured. APD responded to gunshots at 27th and Nueces streets around 3 a.m. in the morning. There was a party at the time and the man shot was asecurity guard at the fraternity …
… September 11 at 2701 Neches. They say a person was asked to leave a party that was going on. That person returned after leaving which led to an altercation and a security guard being shot. The guard was taken to the hospital and is expected to be okay.
In a statement, Austin police said the altercation took place when an individual who was asked to leave a party returned to the location. A security guard was shot and sustained non-life threatening injuries. Police said there is no further threat to …
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The man who committed the worst mass shooting in U.S. history had an online bride from Uzbekistan who said he beat her, co-workers who feared he had terrorist leanings and a father who hosted a cable show in which he claimed to be president of Afghanistan. Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old security guard from Fort Pierce, had been on the FBI’s radar since at least 2013, when acquaintances — at least one of them a former law enforcement officer — warned authorities that he was prone to violence, made unspecified threats and seemed to have radical Islamic ideas. Read more about this story here.
LUCIE COUNTY — Accused Orlando shooter Omar Mateen, who was employed by G4S, worked as a security guard at PGA Village at least two days before the massacre. Some on Tuesday questioned how the man charged with protecting them potentially …
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Marta Winter is from Wayzata and lives part-time at PGA Village in Port St. Lucie, Fla., the gated community where Orlando shooter Omar Mateen was a security guard. “I would see him every day,” Winter told WCCO’s Jordana …
PORT ST. LUCIE, Florida — For years Omar Mateen was a welcomed fixture at PGA Village, the tony residential expanse that includes one of America’s premier golf clubs and resorts. He worked as a security guard at the front gate, a trusted position …
Omar Mateen, the man who law enforcement officials killed after he terrorized Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, was trusted to keep others safe as a security guard for G4S Security Solutions. Daniel Gilroy claims to be a former coworker of Mateen’s at G4S …
FORT PIERCE, Fla. — He was a body builder and a security guard, a religious man who attended the local mosque and wanted to become a police officer. Early Sunday, 29-year-old Omar Mateen opened fire at a gay nightclub in Orlando, killing 49 people …
Despite those incidents, Mateen never lost his position as a private security guard with one of the world’s largest security contractors, nor his license to carry a gun. Now his deadly attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando has raised questions about how …
Private security firms not only recruit and train guards for small-scale protection, but also providesecurity (and cybersecurity) infrastructure, investigative services, and military manpower for governments and large industries. Their employees work …
For nearly eight years before he embarked on a murderous rampage that claimed the lives of 49 people, Omar Mateen was employed as an armed guard by one of the world’s biggest privatesecurity companies, G4S. By some estimates, it’s the third-largest …
Civilian nuclear power plants in the U.S., many which employ G4S security guards, are required to meet security requirements set by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which also conducts inspections. Security guards are re-evaluated every three years …
About a decade before Omar Mateen opened fire on an Orlando nightclub, killing more than 50 people, he worked for a global security firm that was one of the biggest contractors for the federal government after the Sept. 11 attacks. Mateen began working …
In the United States alone, G4S security guards stand watch over airports, water and power plants, nuclear facilities, immigration transportation and even, as in the case of Mateen, gated communities. Since 2008, G4S Secure Solutions — the company’s …
Omar Mateen, 29, was a bodybuilder and a security guard, a religious man who attended the local mosque and wanted to become a police officer. However, early on Sunday, he opened fire at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in an attack that left 50 …
G4S’s largest recent Alabama contract was awarded in 2014, when the company received $2.6 million from the Department of Homeland Security to provide services at the Center for Domestic Preparedness, the Anniston-based facility that trains first …
The firm has confirmed Mateen had worked for the company since 2007, and was most recently assigned as an armed security guard at a gated retirement community in South Florida. Mateen passed two G4S security checks, one when he was hired in 2007 …
Mateen was assigned to guard the PGA Village golf club in Port St. Lucie, Florida, according to local newspaper TC Palm. Mr Daniel Kime, a security guard employed along with Mateen by the security firm G4S in the Fort Pierce area, said he met Mateen …
… more than 3,000 British military personnel were drafted in after G4S failed to provide enough security personnel for the London 2012 Olympics. In January, a BBC investigation claimed G4S guards allegedly assaulted teenagers at a detention center in …
The man who shot over 100 people and killed 49 in an Orlando nightclub Saturday worked at a retirement home as a security guard for G4S – a giant, often controversial global contracting corporation that provides mercenary forces, prison guards and …
But eventually he found some form of stability with a job as a security guard in South Florida, where he was still working when he stormed a gay nightclub early Sunday in Orlando, resulting in the deaths of 49 people and the wounding of 53 more. He …
NBC News has learned that the security firm that employed Orlando shooter Omar Mateen concluded that allegations about his inflammatory comments while an armed guard in 2013 were serious enough to transfer him to an unarmed position and to conduct …
G4S is a mammoth among security agencies. With more than 600,000 workers, it’s one of the world’s largest private employers. By the company’s own estimate, it runs security for 90 percent of the United States’ nuclear power plants. It also employed …
Shares in the security company G4S fell after it was revealed Omar Mateen had worked for the firm. The Canadian arm of the company says its Canadian guards are not armed while working – a move made following the 2012 killing of three people by a G4S …
British security firm G4S said that Omar Mateen – the man suspected of killing 49 people and wounding 53 in a mass shooting at a gay Orlando nightclub, the worst mass shooting in US history – had worked as a security guard for the company. Read more.
FORT PIERCE — Mass murderer Omar Mateen worked as a security guard for London-based G4S at the main St. Lucie County courthouse for less than a year during 2013, a county official said Monday. But the Clerk of the Circuit Court’s office doesn’t have …
Mateen is still licensed as a weapons eligible security guard through the Jupiter, Fla headquartered US subsidiary of G4S plc, a multinational British corporation that is the largest security provider in the world, according to the Palm Beach Post.
The security company that employed Orlando gunman Omar Mateen, G4S, only psychologically evaluated him once, at the start of his nine-year employment with the company and not again after the company was made aware he had been interviewed by the …
The ex-wife of the shooter who killed 50 people at a Florida gay club has described how he repeatedly beat her during their marriage. The woman – who wishes to remain anonymous – wed 29-year-old security guard Omar Mateen in Port St Lucie seven years …
G4S also held a contract reportedly worth $355 million to provide security for the 2012 London Olympics. But less than a month before the opening ceremony, it said was not able to provide the number of guards required. At the time, chief executive Nick …
Before he was a security guard, before he secured a state license to carry guns to work, Omar Mateen bounced through a series of retail jobs: A Palm Bay Publix in 2002, when he was still in high school; a now-defunct Circuit City the following year …
Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old security guard from Fort Pierce, had been on the FBI’s radar since at least 2013, when acquaintances — at least one of them a former law enforcement officer — warned authorities that he was prone to violence, made …
Three years ago Omar Mateen was under active investigation by the FBI for pledging his support to terrorist organizations. For ten months in 2013, the FBI questioned his co-workers and questioned him; searched his electronic footprint and even deployed …
Omar Mateen has worked for the past nine years as a security guard for the company G4S, which has millions of dollars in state and local contracts and has been the topic of multiple I-Team investigations. In the past three years, we’ve uncovered that …
Incidentally, G4S is the company that trained Mateen to work as an armed security guard, which licensed him to carry and use weapons. And although his coworkers told supervisors that Mateen “frequently made homophobic and racial comments,” the …
At least one former G4S employee, Daniel Gilroy, says he raised numerous concerns with supervisors about Mateen’s hateful and potentially dangerous behavior. Gilroy told Fox News that he and Mateen had worked as security guards at the same South …
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An attempted armed robbery prompted a bridge closure and landed the suspect in the hospital early Monday morning. Around 4:30 a.m., police were dispatched to the Restaurant Depot near 15000 West 12th Street upon reports of an armed robbery. According to police, a security guard at Restaurant Depot fired shots at the suspect. The suspect took off and attempted to run up the 12th Street Bridge, where police later found him. The suspect was taken to the hospital and is listed in critical condition.
The security guard shot the robber as two men attempted to holdup the Restaurant Depot along 12th Street. Police said the guard shot one of the robbers at about 4:30 a.m. The robber who was shot was taken to an area hospital for treatment of his injuries.
According to police, a security guard at Restaurant Depot fired shots at the suspect. The suspect took off and attempted to run up the 12th Street Bridge, where police later found him. The suspect was taken to the hospital and is listed in critical …
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About one million Americans work as security guards, twice the number of those serving as police officers. While the data does not include the number of guards who carry arms, Shoshana Walter, public safety reporter at the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR), says that the security guard industry is a parallel universe where the expected norms of policing simply don’t apply.
About one million Americans work as security guards, twice the number of those serving as police officers. While the data does not include the number of guards who carry arms, Shoshana Walter, public safety reporter at the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR), says that the security guard industry is a parallel universe where the expected norms of policing simply don’t apply.
“The security industry is very different from the law enforcement profession,” says Walters. “They have limited powers, they don’t have the same ability to detain or arrest, or as it relates to search and seizures. But they’re often taking on the same types of roles as law enforcement officers.”
Walters says that guards often have a small fraction of the training that police officers usually get. In the state of California, for example, a police officer is required to get a minimum of 600 hours of training—an armed guard gets about 54 hours.
“The difference there is huge,” she says.
In addition to training, regulations regarding background checks for armed guards also vary widely by state.
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