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Police arrest 15-year-old boy in Tallahassee mass shooting that left 11 injured

📍 Florida, US·🕐 4h ago·15 outlets

The Tallahassee Police Department arrested a 15-year-old boy in connection with the Oct. 24 mass shooting that left 11 people injured outside Bragg Stadium after Florida A&M University's homecoming football game. Anthony Rivers III was arrested Sunday, Oct. 25 in the mass shooting, which was one of the worst in Tallahassee history. Rivers was arrested on 11 counts of attempted homicide and one count of possession of a firearm by a delinquent, said Alicia Hill, a TPD spokeswoman. The Tallahassee Democrat names minors when they are charged with violent offenses. "Our investigation indicates…

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[Claude] Both reports describe the same Florida A&M-area mass shooting; Report 3's figure of 11 injured is consistent with Report 1's 12 injured, since counts vary across reports and Report 1 notes all but one

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Also reported by wfsu.org (found in GDELT's list of news articles)

4h ago
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[Claude, second read] Rates it MEDIUM, not HIGH. Arrest in a shooting that injured 11 people, which meets the 10-or-more-injured threshold for medium. Lowered from HIGH to MEDIUM.

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