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In most cases, the rules were written against the backdrop of the school shootings around the country in recent years.

The campaign was inspired, officials said, in part by the spate of school shootings around the nation in recent months.

Hunt's death was one of three fatal police shootings around the state of Utah in three days.

36-year-old Lamar Pondexter and 34-year-old James Lipford were killed in separate shootings around Pittsburgh, Pa., early Sunday.

And, he said, state legislation adopted in the wake of campus shootings around the country requires strict security measures, including close monitoring of all visitors.

The indictments in the Brown case prompted renewed pleas by civic groups for further investigations into other shootings around that period.

The shootings began around 5 45 p.m. in Garland, when the driver of a pickup truck pulled up alongside a Nissan and opened fire, said a spokesman for the Police Department there.

The coroner for Athens-Clarke County, Sonny Wilson, said the shootings occurred around 12 30 p.m. Police officers responding to a call at the Athens Community Theatre, near downtown, said they had found three adults killed by gunfire.

A lot of the shootings were around the kneecap but did not destroy the kneecap.

The shootings occurred around the time police arrived, about 2 30 a.m., but the initial details were sketchy.

The shootings happened around 6 10 p.m. at 1370 Virginia Avenue in Parkchester, said Detective Joseph Pentangelo, a police spokesman.