[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.”

It's good to read that some citizens took action like that! I suppose after the reaper war even the most banal civilian can be a hardened veteran that you don't want to piss off.

...maybe I shouldn't have quit.

Fifteen dead people?
Jesus christ. That's horrific!

It was not a fun day.

That fucking dog.

So, I'm just curious, but is that Sovereign Nation group going to get thrown out with every killing nowadays? I mean, I think they're as stupid as anyone, but come on...

Yeesh.

Oh good. I'm glad to know that All Crimes are now "allegedly performed by Sovereign Nation." It makes the shock of learning that they were performed by an ordinary wacko with access to high-powered weaponry all the more shocking.

I swear, this place has gone to shrell since we got moved next to this cesspit by the evil mechanical godsquid.

This sort of thing is exactly why we need to focus on security and defence, you know? It's just not safe to walk the wards any more; now people are being shot dead in restaurants! I know the system's still in chaos, but this is the Citadel. It's got to be more secure. If they can't keep the Citadel running right how can they organize the rest of the galaxy?

What if I get shot while I'm out getting my groceries or something? You can't tell me it won't happen. Someone needs to get something done!

To be perfectly fair to the reporter in question, the perpetrator was wearing something that identified him as a member of Sovereign Nation.

I should note that I'm not speaking in an official capacity here, but this is something you could probably hear from any of the witnesses should they choose to come forward.

Officially, we're not commenting on the allegations because there's still work to be done for the investigation.

Mrgh. On one hand, Denakot's a nice place to live. On the other hand, I'm a ward mayor, not a warlord, and I can't push my control into other people's jurisdictions--I don't have the beingpower for it and I don't have the legal mandate to do it.

Our thoughts are with the families.

I thought there were tons of scanning checkpoints and only authorized military, law enforcement, and militia personnel were allowed to carry on the Citadel? This may support the Sovereign Nation angle, or may just mean that gun control doesn't count for shit, either-or I think an argument can be made here to cooperate with the more reasonable C-Space syndicates. A criminal can see reason, a terrorist can't.

How awful. I can't even imagine what sort of person you'd have to be to do something as terrible as this.

There's also at least one thriving smuggling ring that specializes in getting weapons past Citadel security.

Like I've said before, it's always super-sad when this happens on the Citadel, but on Omega, it's just another day.

Hey. If the mainstream news networks ever did a story about Omega not about Mercs Satan would ice skate to work.

....okay, so someone that breaks the law for self-gain is reformable, but someone who breaks the law because it clashes with their conscience, is a lost cause?

Probably cause they generally don't, can't, and won't ever admit that maybe they're fucking wrong.

Exhibit Fucking A:

Sundowner bitch above me

Why so slow with the times? You would think a "tragic shooting" would have been reported much more quickly.

Do not provide me with bullshit about broken relays; information travels as swiftly as it is created.

Maybe the editors took their time making sure they didn't mention anything particular about the case? Though if that's the case, that is a really inefficient editing process. :/

It's probably a self editing article (they change the wording for when it occurred and add more information that arrives), and the Newsbot for this site only just picked it up.