A longtime North Carolina resident and former professor at East Carolina University was reportedly responsible for a mass shooting on the campus of the University of Nevada at Las Vegas this week. According to the story, the man graduated from a Duke University graduate program in 1991 and taught at East Carolina University in Greenville, NC from 2001 to 2017. He was killed by campus police after allegedly taking the lives of three faculty members and wounding a fourth. He also apparently had a hit list that included ECU employees. Read on for more criminal law news. Virginia Home Explosion. A home was leveled by a massive explosion in Arlington, Virginia on Monday. According to CNN, law enforcement responded to the home after reports that the man inside had fired over 30 shots from a flare gun from the house. After a standoff where the man is alleged to have fired a gun at officers, police obtained a search warrant to enter the home. Before the warrant could be executed, the house exploded, collapsing in the process. The suspect is believed to be deceased. No other people were harmed by the blast. Deepfake Porn Crime? Bloomberg reports on the rise of deepfake AI-generated pornography. This is when an artificial intelligence system takes images of real people and mimics them to create faked pornography of the person. The report claims that many states lack legal protections for victims in these circumstances. These issues were on display in the state at least in [...]
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