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Boy, 13, 'made horror movie kill list before gunning down eight kids' in Serbia school attack

© AFPThe suspect was arrested by cops at the scene

A TEENAGER made a horror "kill list" before gunning down eight kids at his school after getting a bad grade, police said.

The straight A student, 13, allegedly went armed with two guns, four petrol bombs and a "hit-list" of pupils he wanted to kill in the bloody rampage in Belgrade, Serbia.

Seven girls and one boy - aged between 11 and 14 - died in the attack, as well as a security guard, while six more kids and a teacher were injured and rushed to hospital.

Police identified the shooter as Kosta Kecmanovic, a student at the Vladislav Ribnikar school.

The 13-year-old, who was reportedly considered one of the most talented children in the school, is the son of a well-known radiologist.

The student was reportedly furious that his history teacher had marked his test paper too low for him to pass.

Police said the 13-year-old suspect was armed with four Molotov cocktails and used his dad's gun in the horror rampage in Belgrade.

The suspect's father and mother have been detained.

Serbia's minister of interior Bratislav Gasic said the gun used in the attack was legal, but the father claims in was locked in a safe that his son knew the code to.

Kecmanovic was arrested in the school yard, cops said.

The 13-year-old was reportedly calm when arrested, telling police: "I am a psychopath."

He can't face criminal charges because he is under 14, the Belgrade prosecutor's office said.

The student had been planning the attack for a month and took a chilling hand-written "hit-list" with him, which contained details about how to enter each classroom and and which children to "liquidate", police said.

Chief of Belgrade police Veselin Milic said the plans looked "like a video game or a horror movie".

Authorities said they received a call about the shooting in the Vladislav Ribnikar primary school around 8.40am local time (7.40am GMT).

One student from the school, who has not been named, told Serbian media that the 13-year-old got a poor mark in History and "then he went crazy."

They added: "He shot the history teacher (T. S.) in the office, and then also his friends."

The student said that he always had top marks, adding that "we all call him a nerd."

It is understood the shooter killed a security guard and three girls before breaking into a history class and gunning down five more youngsters, reports Telegraf Serbia.

Local media footage from the scene showed commotion outside the school as police removed the suspect, whose head was covered as officers led him to a car parked in the street.

According to local news outlet Alo, a backpack with three Molotov cocktails and another firearm were found in classroom following the attack.

The victims included a girl with French citizenship, French Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Anne-Claire Legendre said.

She provided no other details.

Milan Milosevic, who said his daughter was in a history class when the shooting took place, told N1 television that he rushed out when he heard what had happened.

He said: "I asked where is my child but no one could tell me anything at first.

"Then she called and we found out she was out."

Milosevic said his daughter told him how the shooter first fired at the teacher, then the children who frantically ducked under their desks.

She said he was a quiet boy and a good student.

Unlike in the United States, mass shootings in Serbia and in the wider Balkan region are extremely rare; none were reported at schools in recent years.

In the last mass shooting, a Balkan war veteran in 2013 killed 13 people in a central Serbian village.

Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic, who addressed the nation, said: "Today is one of the toughest days in Serbia's modern history.

"Unfortunately, Serbia is united in grief."

One person killed and at least four injured in shooting in midtown Atlanta

© Alex Slitz/APPolice at the scene in midtown Atlanta on Wednesday afternoon.

One person was fatally shot and at least four injured on Wednesday in a shooting in a midtown Atlanta building, police said.

Atlanta police, who were still searching for the suspect on Wednesday afternoon, said there had been no additional shots fired since the initial shooting unfolded just after 12.30pm in a waiting room on the 11th floor of the Northside Hospital in midtown Atlanta, a commercial area with office buildings and high-rise apartments.

According to Atlanta police chief Darin Schierbaum, all five individuals who were shot were women, CNN reports.

Police have identified the suspect as 24-year old Deion Patterson, who was visiting the hospital for an appointment and was accompanied by his mother. His mother was not injured in the shooting, police said. Patterson's family is currently cooperating with authorities, they said.

Schierbaum told reporters that police believe that Patterson carjacked a vehicle a "short distance" from the shooting scene and was able to flee the area as "police were descending on this area".

"We believe he has left the area ... [and] may not still be in that vehicle," Schierbuam said, adding that police are still looking for the gun that was used in the shooting.

In a statement reported by CNN on Thursday, the US Coast Guard said that Patterson was a former member of the organization. Patterson "entered the Coast Guard in July 2018 and last served as an Electrician's Mate Second Class".

He was discharged from active duty in January 2023, the agency said, adding that it is closely working with authorities in the investigation.

A shelter-in-place advisory put in place earlier by police has been lifted, although residents have still been advised to remain out of the area. A $10,000 award for information leading to Patterson's arrest and indictment has been put out by Crime Stoppers, according to Atlanta police, CNN reports.

Earlier today, dozens of police and fire vehicles had gathered along West Peachtree Street, as officers with assault-style rifles, helmets and vests arrived on scene.

About an hour after the gunfire, a Swat team gathered near the High Art Museum, about three quarters of a mile from the shooting scene, according to video posted by a local CBS affiliate.

Atlanta public schools said several schools in the area would operate on external lockdown for the rest of the day, "out of an abundance of caution."

In an impassioned address on Thursday, the Democratic Georgia senator Raphael Warnock told his senate colleagues his own children were on lockdown earlier this afternoon.

"This is knocking on all of our doors, and I feel it this afternoon in a very real sense. I feel it in my bones because my own two children were on lockdown this afternoon," said Warnock.

"I rise today in shock and sorrow and in grief for my home state and, if I am honest, I rise really with a deep sense of anger about what is happening in our country in the area of gun violence and death," he added.

Cities around the US have been racked by gun violence and mass shootings.

The Gun Violence Archive, a non-profit, defines a mass shooting as any shooting with "a minimum of four victims shot, either injured or killed, not including any shooter".

On Wednesday, the GVA said there had been 189 mass shootings in the US this year.

In a statement, Kris Brown, president of Brady, a national gun violence prevention group, said: "Banks, supermarkets, schools, homes and now medical facilities. People in this country are being gunned down in every public and private location imaginable.

"Unfortunately, no place in America will be safe from gun violence unless we ... enact commonsense legislation that keeps firearms out of the hands of people who wish to commit harm.

"Our hearts go out to the victims and families of yet another senseless, preventable mass shooting."

Michigan Upper Peninsula winter storm smashing snowfall records

National Weather Service station in Marquette.

Snow in May is rare. The state of Michigan took that as a challenge, apparently.

The National Weather Service post in state's upper peninsula recorded an "historic snowstorm" this week after more than 26 inches fell on May 1 and 2.

"This historic snowstorm is finally coming to an end after setting impressive daily and monthly snowfall records at the Marquette National Weather Service Office where records date back to 1959," read a tweet from the NWS Marquette post.

Among the records broken include:

Snowfall totals for May 1 - 19.8 inches

Snowfall totals over a two-day period in May - 26.2 inches

Snowiest May on record - 26.2 inches

Greatest May snow depth - 20 inches as of 8 a.m. on May 2

A climatologist that was following along the snowstorm said that weather station in Herman, which is in the west side of the U.P., recorded 27 inches of snow. It's the greatest single-day May snowfall to happen in the eastern half of the continental U.S.

Some of the hardest hit parts of the peninsula include inland portions just west of Marquette and south of the Keweenaw peninsula. Ontonagon County also experienced heavy snowfall.

With the snow came some brutally cold wind gusts reaching 45 mph and power outage conditions.

The massive pile of snow that got dumped on the U.P. has to go somewhere, which means a grand snowmelt may be upon northern Michigan residents this week. Temperatures are expected to rise into the 40s and 50s, along with rain chances.

The heavy accumulation could mean flooding concerns are next on the weather service's radar. Much of the U.P. will be under a Flood Watch this week.

Shocked reactions are pouring in across social media on the abrupt departure of Tucker Carlson from Fox News, with the network announcing that the prominent far-right television host is leaving the channel.

Many were surprised by the announcement given the popularity that Carlson enjoyed at Fox as well as the highest-rated host on cable television.

"Wow," tweeted the New York Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who accused Carlson and other Fox pundits of inciting violence during an MSNBC interview that aired on Sunday.

Some remained skeptical that Carlson's departure from Fox would be the end of his career despite critics who called out his show as racist and inaccurate.

"I'd like to think Tucker Carlson's departure is the end of an era, but I'm quite certain it's the beginning of his political career," the founder of gun control advocacy group Moms Demand Action, Shannon Watts, tweeted.

Fox News Media and its top-rated host Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways, less than a week after the Fox Corp (FOXA.O) media company settled for $787.5 million a defamation lawsuit in which Carlson played a starring role.

The outspoken Carlson embraced conservative issues and delivered his views with a style that made his prime-time show, "Tucker Carlson Tonight," the highest-rated cable news program in the key 25-to-54 age demographic on the most-watched U.S. cable news network. Shares of Fox fell 3.4% on the news, which the company announced on Monday.

Dominion alleged in its lawsuit that Carlson allowed debunked election-fraud claims about the voting-technology firm to air on his show, while casting doubts on the plausibility of those claims in private messages that emerged in legal filings.

Carlson's next move and the reason for his departure are unclear.

Carlson is also key to additional legal battles facing Fox, including a lawsuit filed by his former head of booking Abby Grossberg, who said Fox coerced her testimony in the Dominion case.

Grossberg last month accused network lawyers of pressuring her to provide misleading testimony and said Fox exposed her and others to rampant sexism and misogyny. Fox fired Grossberg, saying her legal claims were "riddled with false allegations against Fox and our employees."

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is weighing in on the bombshell announcement that Tucker Carlson has left Fox News, claiming on Twitter that the exit came because of the right wing personality's "breathtakingly courageous" monologue about pharmaceutical companies.

Kennedy, who just last week launched his 2024 campaign for the Democratic nomination for president, claimed that Carlson had been "fired" by Fox News, despite the network saying in a statement the two parties had "agreed to part ways."

"Fox fires @tuckercarlson five days after he crosses the red line by acknowledging that the TV networks pushed a deadly and ineffective vaccine to please their Pharma advertisers," the 69-year-old nephew of late President John F. Kennedy and son of late U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy wrote on Twitter. "Carlson's breathtakingly courageous April 19 monologue broke TV's two biggest rules: Tucker told the truth about how greedy Pharma advertisers controlled TV news content and he lambasted obsequious newscasters for promoting jabs they knew to be lethal and worthless."