Old Man Trench

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6 hours ago

Pierce County Teen Who Built 3D-Printed Gun Arsenal Gets Time Served I’ve been following this story out of Pierce County, Washington, for months now, and somehow it keeps getting worse while everyone involved keeps pretending it’s getting better. Back in early Septe…

#PierceCounty Teen Who Built #3DPrintedGun Arsenal Gets Time Served

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Old Man Trench

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1 day ago

America’s Cancer Spreads: Two School Shootings in Turkey in Two Days I wasn’t going to originally write about what happened in Turkey (or Türkiye) because I don’t know much about Turkey, and, Jesus, does America give me more than enough school shooting news to deal …

America’s Cancer Spreads: Two #SchoolShootings in #Turkey in Two Days

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Old Man Trench

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2 days ago

41 Guns Seized in NY Middle School Shooting Plot This past Monday, three middle schoolers were arrested after authorities say they were planning a mass shooting at Clinton Middle School in Oneida County, New York. The suspects are two girls and a…

41 #Guns Seized in NY Middle School Shooting Plot

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Old Man Trench

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2 days ago

DOJ Charges Man Shot in the Face by ICE with Assault I originally posted about the shooting of 36-year-old Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez by federal agents here. But to recap, a week ago, in Patterson, California, ICE agents carried out what they call…

#DOJ Charges Man Shot in the Face by #ICE with Assault

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Old Man Trench

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3 days ago

Prosecutors Say Natomas High School Shooting Was Self-Defense This story just took a turn I don’t think anyone saw coming. When the shooting first happened at Natomas High School, in Sacramento, California, it looked like another entry in the same grim patter…

Prosecutors Say #NatomasHigh #SchoolShooting Was Self-Defense

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3 days ago

Teen Shoots Own Dad in School Drop-Off Line Earlier today, another school morning turned into chaos in Hammond, Louisiana, and it doesn’t even come close to following the usual script. It started in the car line at Tangipahoa Alternative Sch…

Teen Shoots Own Dad in School Drop-Off Line

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Old Man Trench

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3 days ago

Suspect Detained in Natomas High School Shooting When this first happened, the details were scattered and incomplete. What we knew was that a teenager had been shot and killed just after dismissal near Natomas High School, in Sacramento, Californ…

Suspect Detained in #NatomasHigh #SchoolShooting

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Old Man Trench

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4 days ago

I Write Crime Presents: Worst Crimes Ever Ep. 4: Sewn Shut Visit the post for more.

I Write Crime Presents: Worst Crimes Ever Ep. 4: Sewn Shut

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Old Man Trench

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4 days ago

The ICE Ambush That Never Happened Back in January, in Minneapolis, right in the middle of that infamous and widely unwanted immigration crackdown known as Operation Metro Surge, this shooting got rolled out like a finished story be…

The #ICE #Ambush That Never Happened

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Old Man Trench

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4 days ago

Texas School Shooter Told Everyone, Or Did He? After the shooting at Hill Country College Preparatory High School near Bulverde, Texas, more details are starting to come out, but none of them really change the core of what happened. A 15-year-o…

#Texas #SchoolShooter Told Everyone, Or Did He?

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Old Man Trench

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5 days ago

Man on His Way to Work Shot in the Face by ICE I’ll be honest, I hadn’t heard a thing about this shooting until recently. No headline or the kind of wall-to-wall coverage we’ve come to expect when someone gets shot by law enforcement. That alon…

Man on His Way to Work Shot in the Face by #ICE

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6 days ago

Roles Reversed in Sacramento School Shooting The most dangerous part of the school day isn’t always during class. It can also be when the bell rings and everyone is walking out the door. That’s what happened yesterday at Natomas High Sc…

Roles Reversed in #Sacramento #SchoolShooting

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1 week ago

Noblesville School Shooter Released from Juvenile Detention The kid from the 2018 Noblesville West Middle School shooting in Indiana is now turning 21 and walking out from under court supervision, not because everyone suddenly feels comfortable about it, bu…

#Noblesville #SchoolShooter Released from Juvenile Detention

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Old Man Trench

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1 week ago

Family of FSU Shooting Victim Sues ChatGPT Back on April 17th, 2025, 20-year-old Florida State University student Phoenix Ikner pulled up near the student union just before noon and opened fire. By the time it was over, two men were dead, s…

Family of #FSU #Shooting Victim Sues #ChatGPT

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Old Man Trench

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1 week ago

Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One: School Shooter Stole Dad’s Guns to Create Another Columbine As I mentioned in my previous post, yesterday, 20-year-old former student Victor Hawkins walked into Pauls Valley High School in Oklahoma in the middle of the school day with two loaded pistols he …

Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One: #SchoolShooter Stole Dad’s #Guns to Create Another #Columbine

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1 week ago

Another School Shooting Happened Where “It Can’t Happen Here” Yesterday, a 20-year-old former student walked into Pauls Valley High School in Oklahoma in the middle of the school day armed with a gun. According to investigators, Victor Hawkins entered the sch…

Another #SchoolShooting Happened Where “It Can’t Happen Here”

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1 week ago

Idaho Pastor Sentenced for Being an AI Kik Kreeper A former church pastor out of Nampa, Idaho, has now been sentenced after pleading guilty to multiple felony charges involving CSAM. 53-year-old Matthew Masiewicz cut a deal with prosecutors that br…

#Idaho #Pastor Sentenced for Being an #AI #Kik Kreeper

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1 week ago

When an ICE Traffic Stop Looks Like an Insurance Scam It was described, at least at first, as something that should never happen in any kind of legitimate law enforcement operation. A man driving to work in Baltimore finds himself suddenly trapped in …

When an #ICE Traffic Stop Looks Like an Insurance #Scam

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Old Man Trench

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1 week ago

Albuquerque Pediatric Nurse Charged with Being a Kik Kreeper There are some arrests that people can file away as distant, something that happens somewhere else to someone else. Then there are cases like this one that refuse to stay in that comfortable box. 2…

#Albuquerque Pediatric #Nurse Charged with Being a #Kik Kreeper

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Old Man Trench

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1 week ago

Jeffco Study Raises Doubts About Metal Detectors in Schools Jeffco Public Schools in Colorado are once again talking about metal detectors in the wake of last year’s shooting at Evergreen High School, where a student shot two classmates before turning the g…

#Jeffco Study Raises Doubts About #MetalDetectors in Schools

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Old Man Trench

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1 week ago

CBP Leaves Man to Die at Buffalo Donut Shop Nurul Amin Shah Alam survived what should have killed him long before he ever set foot in the United States. He was a Rohingya Muslim from Myanmar, part of a people widely considered among the most…

#CBP Leaves Man to Die at #Buffalo #Donut Shop

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Old Man Trench

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2 weeks ago

Get more from Trench Reynolds on Patreon Real crime content

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I know more than most that money is tight these days. But if you want to support my work, all I ask is that you throw in a buck, and you'll get a disturbing little podcast

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Old Man Trench

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2 weeks ago

Grampa’s Gun Used in Texas Teacher Shooting As most of you may already know, on March 30, a 15-year-old student walked into Hill Country College Preparatory High School near Bulverde, Texas, carrying a .357 revolver. He went to a second-floo…

Grampa’s #Gun Used in #Texas #Teacher #Shooting

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2 weeks ago

Two Stories of a Teen Who Died in ICE Custody There are two ways to tell the story of Royer Perez-Jimenez, and which one you read says more about the narrator than the facts themselves. The version reported by the BBC is almost disarmingly sim…

Two Stories of a Teen Who Died in #ICE Custody

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2 weeks ago

Texas Teen Shoots Teacher, Self with Gun from Home Hill Country College Preparatory High School near Bulverde, Texas, is now part of a list that continues to grow, no matter how often people insist it shouldn’t. This past Monday morning, a 15-year-…

#Texas Teen Shoots #Teacher, Self with #Gun from Home

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2 weeks ago

Did ICE Torture a Nashville Journalist? Earlier this month in Nashville, something happened that should worry anyone who still believes in a free press and due process. Estefany Rodríguez Florez, a journalist working for Nashville Notici…

Did #ICE Torture a #Nashville #Journalist?

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Old Man Trench

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2 weeks ago

NC Teen Called Killers Saints While Brandishing AK-47 If you’ve been following my work for a while, the names Solomon Henderson and Natalie Rupnow should ring a bell. I wrote about Henderson back in January 2025, after he walked into Antioch Hig…

NC Teen Called Killers Saints While Brandishing AK-47

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2 weeks ago

CBP Officer Caught Harboring Illegal Girlfriend/Niece RIP Jerry Ironically enough, this story first broke around Valentine’s Day this year, but I was otherwise occupied, so you’re getting it now. Anyway, a 52-year-old U.S. Customs and Bord…

#CBP Officer Caught Harboring Illegal Girlfriend/Niece

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2 weeks ago

After Evergreen High Shooting, Colorado Blames Social Media and Ignores the Gun If you’ve already forgotten about the Evergreen High School shooting, I’m not surprised. It happened on September 10th, 2025, the same day Charlie Kirk was shot, and the news cycle made…

After #EvergreenHigh Shooting, #Colorado Blames #SocialMedia and Ignores the #Gun

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2 weeks ago

Irish Grandmother Detained by DHS Over $75 in Bounced Checks Last summer, Donna Hughes-Brown’s flight back from Ireland was approaching Chicago’s O’Hare Airport. She was returning from her aunt’s funeral and looking to get back to her…

#Irish Grandmother Detained by #DHS Over $75 in Bounced Checks

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