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Alaa Elassar

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🇵🇸🇪🇬 Journalist for @CNN Digital. Master's grad @ColumbiaJourn. Ex CNN International, Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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Georgia school shooter Colt Gray wanted infamy and school shooter’s attention, messages show

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By Eric Levenson Verified, Isabel Rosales Verified, Sarah Hutter, Andy Rose, devon sayers, Alaa Elassar Verified
| On The Mic with Yahoo Singapore
Colt Gray, the teenager who killed four people at his Georgia high school in September 2024, wrote in messages before the attack about his desire for infamy and his obsession with Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz. "(I) wanna make history to put it short," he wrote on the messaging platform Discord more than a year before the shooting.
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Toronto police investigate after Jewish-owned bakery chain hit by gunfire and vandalism

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By Max Saltman, Alaa Elassar Verified
| KRDO-TV (Colorado Springs, CO) Verified
By Max Saltman, Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — Two Jewish-owned bagel shops in Toronto were damaged Sunday in incidents now under investigation by the Toronto Police Service’s Hate Crime Unit. Two locations of Kiva’s, a bakery specializing in bagels, were attacked in the morning, with one shop’s window damaged by gunfire, police said in a post on X. The second location in the city also had a window damaged, but investigators found no evidence of gunshots there.
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Georgia school shooter Colt Gray back in court as he awaits sentencing

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By Alaa Elassar Verified, Eric Levenson Verified
| WISC-TV (Madison, WI) Verified
Winder, Georgia (CNN) — The teenager who killed four people at his Georgia high school in 2024 returned to court Monday as prosecutors and defense attorneys debated whether he can ever be rehabilitated. Colt Gray, 16, pleaded guilty Friday to 55 charges, including four counts of murder, in connection with the mass shooting at Apalachee High School in September 2024.
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