[Breaking] Fifteen Dead in Chakva 5 Shooting

Fifteen Dead in Chakva 5 Shooting

Fifteen people were killed and more than twice that number injured during a tragic shooting at the Chavka 5 restaurant earlier this week, a massacre that some are calling one of the worst public shootings on Zakera Ward in recent memory. According to geth construction platforms working on repairing the restaurant, the structure was ‘severely compromised’ after a series of munition detonations presumably triggered by the culprit. While there have been no official damage estimations, Chakva 5 representatives have indicated they are not planning to invest in reopening at the building again.

Some say things could have been much worse - according to eyewitness reports, a number of bystanders took action against the shooter while first response units made their way to the scene of the crime. Reports are conflicted over who exactly had intervened, with a few others further mixed regarding the involvement of a turian, but they have since been credited with directly saving at least a dozen lives. An official C-SEC’s statement declined to cite these individuals by name (citing concern over privacy), but strongly commended them as ‘true heroes.’ Neither were available for comment at the time of publication.

The shooter, reported as a “middle-aged human male,” has since been apprehended by station authorities. According to reports, the shooter may possibly be anagent of the extremist cult known only as “Sovereign Nation.” Others disagree, though. Where some see the work of a single madman, others see yet another symptom of a growing organized crime wave on the Citadel.

C-SEC officials declined to comment on the matter, but many Zakera citizens are growing anxious over the implications of the severity of this tragedy. Local ward assemblyman Albrus Purae took the opportunity to make a speech at the site of the incident.

“We’ve all heard about organized crime on Tayseri, and it’s clear that it’s virulent,” he declared to a crowd of seventy other concerned citizens. “We need to take to take steps against this menace before this it grows out of control. We need to flush out corruption. We need more stringent weapon control. We need action.”

That is, generously, the best-case scenario. "Within the week" is a terrible time-frame for an article like this.

I think I saw that news earlier this week, maybe the presslink missed it and our elusive administrator added it himself?

Considering how many military-grade weapons got "lost" when the Citadel was hijacked and how many people have mental issues from the war...really surprised this does not happen more often. :/

Yes. Some guy shot up a place. Therefore, let us remove the ability for your average sane citizen to protect themselves.

Gun control -does not work- we have been debating this for centuries now. If someone wants a gun they are gonna get one.

Yeaaah, as someone mentioned we're all horrified when this happens on the Citadel, but it's not a big surprise when it happens on Omega. Why? Gun control. Maybe as a weapon-trained person you think it's awesome to have your weaponry on yourself at all time, but for a normal citizen like me who would shoot herself in the foot in a life or death situation, gun regulation is GREAT.

They might also have delayed the stories release if there was an ongoing investigation that the release of information could have compromised.

Anyway, here is a sympathy card for the victims that's open for anyone to sign if anyone wants to.

Are you an idiot? No wait, don't answer that. I almost forgot who you are.

Make sure you read this real slow, average citizens can't carry on the Citadel already.

Oh are we playing the nonrepresentative example game again? I'm rather fond of that one, here allow me to try:

You're an exile and a quarian. Therefore all quarians are ludicrously cyberized, nymphomaniac, mass murderers with poor impulse control.

How's that?

(And yes, in all seriousness, SteelUnifier is completely correct. Speaking from experience the paperwork to get just a pistol licensed and approved is absolute hell plus C-Sec generally does a superb job of cracking down on unregistered and unsanctioned firearms.)

Also, the perpetrator was subdued without a single shot fired... And it was the mech with him that was the largest issue.

Firearms wouldn't have helped anyway, considering that said perpetrator was carrying a goddamn krysae.

The answer is not increasing gun control, nor decreasing gun control, but to get sick people like these treatment. Dangerous individuals must be isolated from the general populace, and we must work to improve our methods in detecting the warning signs.

Yes... and no.

The main issue is that sometimes these so-called sick people display absolutely no warning signs, and unless you want something all-pervasive which forces you to give up your freedoms, it would be impossible to catch all of the warning signs.

In this particular case, the perpetrator seemed to be in full control of his faculties; he knew what he was doing and he knew it was wrong, yet he did it anyway. Prevention can only be taken so far.

This truly is a tragedy and i feel sorry for those effect by this but im feel more worried about the massive amount of bureaucratic red tape that going to come down on the wards merchants and citizens. ah yes i feel there a big political S#$% storm on the horizon.

You're correct, and perhaps I was a bit ethnocentric with my opinions. In the Hierarchy, every individual is medically checked and cleared prior to their conscription, then annually afterwards while on active duty. This way the government has at least some idea about the ailments and illnesses affecting the populace, in exchange for each individual spending an hour or two of their time each year.

Seems like a fair exchange, and not very pervasive.

Perhaps humans would view it differently.