Ex-Fiancée Slain in Double Murder-Suicide After She Escapes Into Woods with Killer
Heaven Glison Pictured Left and Daylon Bradford Pictured Right, were shot on Sunday by Donald Bryant, the father of Glison's months-old child

A woman and a man were killed in what authorities say was a shooting rampage carried out by her ex-fiancée, who then died by suicide.

Heavan Glison, 24, and Daylon Bradford, 33, were found shot in separate but nearby locations in Independence, Ky. on Sunday, Sept. 21, the Independence Police Department tells in a statement.

(Glison's name is spelled as "Heaven Glisson" on Facebook and by FOX 19. Other outlets identify her Heavan Glison, as seen in the police's statement).

Police also found Glison's ex-fiancée Donald Bryant, 34, dead alongside her in the woods.

The former couple were pronounced dead at the scene, and Bradford died Tuesday early morning, Independence police said.

Glison and Bryant were previously engaged and share a child who is just a few months old, her relative Kristina Cochran told FOX 19.

Cochran is the grandmother of Glison's oldest child.

The investigation began late Sunday evening when officers responded to a report of a shooting at an apartment complex, Independence police said in their statement.

They initially found Bradford in critical condition

FOX 19 reports officers were then told Bryan and Glison fled into the woods,

Officials established a perimeter and a search began with canines and drones in the area. At one point, police heard several gunshots from the woods, prompting response from the SWAT team, per Independence police's statement.

Canines then found Bryant and Glison's bodies in the woods at around 3 a.m.

Police determined Bryant carried out the murder-suicide, resulting in the killings of Glison and Bradford.

Cochran told FOX 19 that Glison had confided in her about Bryant's abuse. After breaking off the engagement, Cochran said, Glison had moved to the apartment complex to get away from him.

While police have yet to determine how Bradford was connected to the former couple, they claim he lived in the same apartment complex as Glison, where the shooting took place, the outlet reported.

The investigation is still ongoing.

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April 16th, 2007
Virginia Tech shooting leaves 32 dead.

On April 16, 2007, 32 people died after being gunned down on the campus of Virginia Tech by Seung-Hui Cho, a student at the college who later died by suicide.

The Virginia Tech shooting began around 7:15 a.m., when Cho, a 23-year-old senior and English major at Blacksburg-based Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, shot a female freshman and a male resident assistant in a campus dormitory before fleeing the building.

Police were soon on the scene; unaware of the gunman’s identity, they initially pursued the female victim’s boyfriend as a suspect in what they believed to be an isolated domestic-violence incident.

However, at around 9:40 a.m., Cho, armed with a 9-millimeter handgun, a 22-caliber handgun and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, entered a classroom building, chained and locked several main doors and went from room to room shooting people. Approximately 10 minutes after the rampage began, he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

The attack left 32 people dead and more than a dozen wounded. In all, 27 students and five faculty members died in the massacre.

Two days later, on April 18, NBC News received a package of materials from Cho with a timestamp indicating he had mailed it from a Virginia post office between the first and second shooting attacks. Contained in the package were photos of a gun-wielding Cho, along with a rambling video diatribe in which he ranted about wealthy “brats,” among other topics.

In the aftermath of the Virginia Tech shooting, authorities found no evidence that Cho, who was born in South Korea and moved to America with his family in 1992, had specifically targeted any of his victims. The public soon learned that Cho, described by students as a loner who rarely spoke to anyone, had a history of mental health problems.

It was also revealed that angry, violent writings Cho made for certain class assignments had raised concern among some of his professors and fellow students well before the events of April 16. In 2011, Virginia Tech was fined by the U.S. Department of Education for failing to issue a prompt campus-wide warning after Cho shot his first two victims.
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1998, A school shooting in Jonesboro, Arkansas, kills five.

Mitchell Johnson, 13, and Andrew Golden, 11, shoot their classmates and teachers in Jonesboro, Arkansas on March 24, 1998. Golden, the younger of the two boys, asked to be excused from his class, pulled a fire alarm and then ran to join Johnson in a wooded area 100 yards away from the school’s gym. As the students streamed out of the building, Johnson and Golden opened fire and killed four students and a teacher. Ten other children were wounded.

The two boys were caught soon afterward. In their possession were thirteen fully loaded firearms, including three semi-automatic rifles, and 200 rounds of ammunition. Their stolen van had a stockpile of supplies as well as a crossbow and several hunting knives. All of the weapons were taken from the Golden family’s personal arsenal. Both of the boys had been raised around guns. Andrew Golden belonged to a local gun club and sometimes competed in shooting contests.

Because Johnson and Golden were thirteen and eleven, they could not be charged as adults in Arkansas. They were both adjudicated as delinquent and sent to reform institutes. They were to be released when they turned 18, as they could legally no longer be housed with minors, but Arkansas bought a facility in 1999 that enabled the state to keep the boys in custody until their 21st birthdays. Johnson was freed in 2005, but later returned to prison for other charges; Golden was released in 2007 and died in 2019. Arkansas changed its laws following the Jonesboro tragedy so that child murderers can be imprisoned past age 21.
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What is it with the increase in mass shootings in the States?