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Gunman shoots seven, including daughter, before taking his own life

The shooting took place in the town of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Rodrick Shonte Dantzler killed five adults and two children, and took three more people hostage.

A GUNMAN IN Grand Rapids, Michigan has taken his own life after he shot seven people dead, including his own daughter.

The discovery of seven bodies – four in one home and three in other house on the other side of Grand Rapids – escalated into a high speed chase through the town involving police cars and a helicopter, reports Detroit Free Press. The man, who has been named as 34-year-old Rodrick Shonte Dantzler, took three hostages in a home and held them there for hours.

He let one of the hostages – a woman – go after his demand for cigarettes and Gatorade was met reports the New York Times (subscription may be required) and then took his own life by shooting himself in the head.

Earlier he had killed five adults and two children, including his own daughter, while two of the women he shot are believed to have been former girlfriends. Police Chief Kevin Belk has said that the killings appear to have been as a result of a domestic dispute.

Dantzler made a call to his mother at around 3pm yesterday afternoon, and told her that he had killed his wife. Police then found two women and a ten-year-old girl dead at a house, and four more people dead in the basement of another house. One of the four was a child.

Following the police chase which saw Dantzler driving the wrong way on the highway with several cars in pursuit, he jumped out of the vehicle he was driving and ran into a home, where he took his three hostages.

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    Mute Get Ta France
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    Jul 11th 2011, 6:14 PM

    Roll on 2moro!!!!!! Can’t wait!!

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    Mute Feargal Garvin
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    Jul 11th 2011, 6:28 PM

    I hope he means ‘metaphorically’ and not ‘literally’.

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    Mute Paul Driscoll
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    Jul 11th 2011, 7:31 PM

    Would be a lot more useful if these idiots tackled countries such as China, Iran and Burma that restrict free access to the Internet. Suppose it’s not newsworthy though.

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    Mute Collie Woods
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    Jul 11th 2011, 8:40 PM

    They have recently. Iran was hit by op anti sec. Government departments.

    So there.

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    Mute Collie Woods
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    Jul 11th 2011, 8:42 PM

    You won’t here about it with mainstream media. Try arstechnica.com or wired.com

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    Mute gareth byrne
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    Jul 11th 2011, 9:35 PM

    can they transfare funds into ecb to bail out italy.since the rest of europ is broke.

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    Mute Richard Keogh
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    Jul 11th 2011, 10:45 PM

    I’d prefer if they transferred out of the ECB into Ireland seeing as they’ve screwed us over for the last few years.

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    Mute John Mack
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    Jul 11th 2011, 10:56 PM

    and all across the land IT staff plugged out their modems at home just in case, the work ones can wait till after coffee.

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    Mute Nigel Kenny
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    Jul 11th 2011, 7:22 PM

    Non starter. No-one in Anonymous has any skill beyond SQL injection and DDoS attacks.

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    Mute Mike Reid
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    Jul 12th 2011, 10:25 AM

    They do this to show that big fancy businesses can’t even protect from basic attacks such sql injection or ddos attacks and we’re supposed to trust them with our details.

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    Mute Gis Bayertz
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    Jul 11th 2011, 8:04 PM

    Just criminals

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    Mute Trevor Nolan
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    Jul 11th 2011, 11:42 PM

    …as opposed to unjust criminals? I agree!

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    Mute mr g
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    Jul 12th 2011, 1:06 AM

    Can’t wait to see what they do! Fair play to them exposing the flaws in Internet security. It’s the ones that sneak in and say nothing you need to worry about

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    Jul 11th 2011, 11:21 PM

    It’s just someone with an agenda
    Spoilists if such a term exists.
    Brilliant brilliant minds used for mediocre purposes.
    Why don’t you try famine, disease, dictatorships etc etc
    Attack them, if you win ……. the world wins
    God bless you and help you to make the right decision

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    Mute fizi_water
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    Jul 12th 2011, 8:22 AM

    Because they don’t have Internet? :-) To be serious, all this hacking is not directed at “who”, it is way more often directed at “viable of doing or not?”. Of course there is extra pride and hype amongst hacker groups if they manage hit something big. But reality is they always look for weak targets and easy points first and then just narrow down more and more to select something attractive. In other words, they hack what they can, not necessarily what they would like to.

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    Jul 15th 2011, 12:04 PM

    Guys… anyone know what a false-flag attack is ?? …9/11 … the government / powers that be are gearing up to shut down the web as we know it… and reboot with a new COMPLETELY CONTROLED & CENSORED Web.. …using security fears / blaming hackers for there actions…
    Must Watch >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDwsslGcC4w

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