Delaware courthouse shooting: Suspect taken out after killing 'wife', wounding others

Published time: February 11, 2013 14:24
Edited time: May 13, 2013 14:38
Reuters / Lucas Jackson

At least two people have been killed and another two wounded after a gunman opened fire in a courthouse in Delaware, USA. The male suspect has been shot dead by police after allegedly killing his wife.

The shooting happened at about 8am Monday local time at the New Castle County Courthouse building, when the gunman entered the lobby shooting. Witnesses said they heard at least five shots.

"I can confirm a shooting at 8 am. Two civilians, females, were killed, two capital officers were shot. The gunman is dead inside the lobby," a police spokesman said at a news conference.

The Mayor of Wilmington Dennis Williams has confirmed that the shooter, said to be in his 20s, has been killed by Capitol Police officers. 

The shooter is said to have a criminal record, being earlier accused and convicted of kidnapping his three children, and allegedly taking them outside the US.  He served time in 2009 for bank fraud.

According to the police the victims are two women and a man, AP reports. Transported to Christiana Hospital, the exact conditions of the victims are not clear.

At least one of the victims has been identified as a security official at the courthouse. One of the women is thought to be the wife of the suspected shooter. Police said he first killed the woman and injured another two people before being killed by officers.

Dozens of police cars rushed to the area, and streets were cordoned off for several blocks around the courthouse.

Comments (10)

Ayatollah JJ (unregistered) 11.02.2013 22:48

   Now I was going to say something like "Welcome to another average day
in the USA:" and that would be true.  The so called "Liberals" like Obama who
really is a puppet of the New World Order all that, love to use this as an excuse
to take your guns, cause they know when the economy collapses cause the
Politicians stole all the money, it's going to be "Open Hunting Season" on
the Politicians that stole all the money.
   But let me say something Intelligent here (something I really try to avoid doing)
The problem is not guns, the problem is Americans eat the worst processed
food, where everything good is stripped out of it in production, or they eat
fast food. 
    If you put Coca Cola in your cars gas tank would it run?  If you don't
give your brain the right food, it doesn't work right.  But the government lets
the big companies sell this junk, including lately GMO Crops, GMO Monstato Corn is in most EVERYTHING, even used as feed for most
animals, farm raised fish you name it.
    And the great part is all this stuff makes Americans really sickly, so
guess what ?  Now the Hospitals and Doctors get rich, the Drug Companies
(who don't cure anything usually they just treat the symptons !)
    Yeah so that's why Americans are so mentlaly ill.  OK  Guns, I've never
seen one that shoots on it's own, unless you drop it. 
    But Americans love to blame everything except the one that's really guilty,
the one that they see when they look in the mirror.

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Ed Ward, MD (unregistered) 11.02.2013 19:29

Of course the problem is guns, certainly not a fascist government making one parent a visitor in a yellow fringed nazi court where there are NO constitutional rights let a lone a jury of peers, just a fascist government judge denying children equal rights to both parents and a paren'ts right to children or child.  'It takes a village of nazi treasonous scum to raise a child'.  Hitlary Cliton 

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dph (unregistered) 11.02.2013 19:20

So this article is accompanied by tweets of lawyer, Jennifer Lubinski?  On her website, she has many photographs of weeping parents at Sandy Hook, and she is very vocal in her belief that guns should be limited.  I find it kind of odd that she is singled out here.  A little too convenient.

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