Barack Obama On Teen Killing

The teenage gunman who killed a classmate at an Oregon high school on Tuesday was armed with a military-style rifle and a semiautomatic pistol obtained from his home and lacked any known connection to his victim, police said on Wednesday.

President Barack Obama spoke in unusually personal terms Friday about the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager in Florida, a case that has roiled civil rights activists and a suburban Orlando community.

President Barack Obama on Friday called for national "soul-searching" over the killing of an unarmed black teenager by a white volunteer guard, as new tensions flare over the divisive issue of race.

The teenage gunman who killed a classmate at an Oregon high school on Tuesday was armed with a military-style rifle and a semiautomatic pistol obtained from his home and lacked any known connection to his victim, police said on Wednesday.

President Barack Obama spoke in unusually personal terms Friday about the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager in Florida, a case that has roiled civil rights activists and a suburban Orlando community.

President Barack Obama on Friday called for national "soul-searching" over the killing of an unarmed black teenager by a white volunteer guard, as new tensions flare over the divisive issue of race.