Tag Archives: motive
Four injured after German man rams car into crowd; racist motive suspected
A 50-year-old German man clearly intended to kill foreigners when he rammed his silver Mercedes into a crowd of people in the northwestern German town of Bottrop in the early hours of New Year’s Day, injuring four, a senior government official said. “A German man deliberately drove into crowds of people … that were largely made up of foreigners. There was a clear intention by this man to kill foreigners,” Herbert Reul, interior minister of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, where Bottrop is located, told reporters on Tuesday.
California authorities seek motive in triple slaying
ORCUTT, Calif. (AP) — California authorities are trying to determine why a Central Coast man stabbed and beat his sister, mother and a third person to death in their home.
New Jersey mansion murders: Motive is believed to be financial, prosecutor says
Police: Motive unknown in Wisconsin office shooting
MIDDLETON, Wis. (AP) — Authorities said they still don't know why an employee at a Wisconsin software company went to his office with a pistol and extra ammunition and began firing on his colleagues, seriously injuring several, before he was fatally shot by police.
The Latest: Terror studied as possible motive for stabbings
AMSTERDAM (AP) — The Latest on stabbings at Amsterdam's main train station (all times local):
Amsterdam stabbing suspect had 'terrorist' motive, officials say
David Katz: Police tight-lipped over motive after gamer 'kills two and turns gun on himself' at Florida tournament
FBI seeks motive after U.S. airline worker stole plane and crashed it
A Horizon Air ground service agent got into a Bombardier Q400 turboprop aircraft on Friday night in a maintenance area at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and took off, Horizon sister carrier Alaska Airlines said. “There were some maneuvers that were done that were incredible maneuvers with the aircraft,” Beck said. In partial recordings of the employee’s conversations with air traffic controllers that were published online by Broadcastify.com, the man said he was sorry to disappoint people who cared about him and described himself as a “broken guy.” “Got a few screws loose, I guess,” he is heard saying in the recording.
FBI seeks motive after U.S. airline worker steals plane, crashes it
A Horizon Air ground service agent got into a Bombardier Q400 turboprop aircraft on Friday night in a maintenance area at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and took off, Horizon sister carrier Alaska Airlines said. Relatives and co-workers identified the man as Richard Russell of Sumner, Washington, who also went by the name Beebo. “He was a faithful husband, a loving son, and a good friend,” the Russell family said in a statement.
FBI seeks motive after U.S. airline worker stole plane and crashed it
A Horizon Air ground service agent got into a Bombardier Q400 turboprop aircraft on Friday night in a maintenance area at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and took off, Horizon sister carrier Alaska Airline said.
