At least 12 people were injured, including six children, amid a Saturday evening shooting in Tallahassee, near the campus of Florida A&M University, officials said.

Eleven of those who were injured had gunshot wounds, Tallahassee Chief of Police Lawrence Revell told reporters during a late-night press conference.

“Six are adults and six are juveniles,” he said. “We know our youngest victim is 11 years old. At least three of our victims have sustained serious injuries and one of those is in critical condition. Eight of those are reported to be in stable condition.”

The person who was injured but not from a gunshot was “a grandmother of one of the victims,” the chief said, adding that she “injured herself fleeing from the scene.”

In a Sunday morning update, the Tallahassee Police Department (TPD) said that six of the victims remain hospitalized, with one in critical condition. Five other victims have been released from the hospital, police said.

No arrests had been announced as of Sunday morning. Police said they are working to identify those responsible for the shooting and sought the public’s help, asking anyone with information about the shooting to contact investigators immediately. Police also asked that anyone with photos or video share them with investigators.

“We will determine what happened, identify those responsible, and get answers for all of the victims, their families and everyone impacted by this tragedy,” Revell said in a statement released on Sunday. “We know there are people who saw something, heard something or may have video that could help us piece together exactly what happened.”

“We need our community’s help. No detail is too small, and no piece of information should go unreported,” Revell added. “If you know something, please share it with our detectives. Your information could be the key to holding those responsible accountable.”

Police described the shooting as an “altercation [that] occurred between individuals” near the intersection of Perry and Manatee Streets, just outside Florida A&M University’s Bragg Memorial Stadium.

FAMU President Marva B. Johnson released a video statement Sunday afternoon, describing the shooting as an “evil act.”

Johnson said that while the shooting did not occur on her campus, the school is offering care and support to “members of our FAMU family who were injured in the tragic incident.”

She did not say if any students or faculty were among those injured.

“To our Rattler family and our surrounding Tallahassee community, I share your outrage and profound sadness at the senseless and despicable shooting that took place near our FAMU campus last night,” Johnson said in the statement.

She added that free counseling support will be offered to students, saying, “A horrific act of violence like this is traumatizing for our students, whether you were near the event or not.”

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One of the Cornell students who was named in a civil lawsuit by a former undergraduate student known as Jane Doe, has asked a judge to drop him from the suit.

The lawsuit claimed that during an alleged 2024 gang rape, Diego Sarabia approached Jane Doe, “grabbed her face and started kissing her, all without her consent,” before she pushed him away.

Doe’s lawsuit also alleged Sarabia was among the Chi Phi fraternity brothers who allegedly snorted ketamine off her body.

In a motion Friday to dismiss Jane Doe’s complaint, James Knox, Sarabia’s attorney, wrote that Doe did not allege in her suit that Sarabia “supplied her with drugs or alcohol, participated in any of the alleged sexual encounters described elsewhere in the complaint, or was even present for most of the conduct that forms the basis of plaintiff’s broader allegations.”

All seven frat brothers have denied wrongdoing and Sarabia argued he was not part of the most severe conduct alleged in the lawsuit.

“As far as defendant goes, this is essentially a lawsuit about an allegedly forced kiss,” Knox wrote in a Friday motion to dismiss Jane Doe’s complaint. 

The lawyer argued it is now too late for Jane Doe to bring a claim against Sarabia.

“Any intentional tort arising out of that alleged conduct is foreclosed by a strict one-year statute of limitations because plaintiff commenced this action nearly two years after the alleged events,” Knox wrote.

Doe’s attorney has not yet filed a response to the motion.

The motion came a week after a New York judge rejected a request by Sarabia’s attorney to impose a gag order.

Knox argued that a gag order would limit “possible juror prejudice” and prevent the potential release of sensitive information that could lead to ” threats, doxing, intimidation, and extrajudicial contact.”

Judge Phaedra Perry-Bond called the request a “side show” that’s “meant to muddy the waters and distract from the merits of the claims and defenses involved in this case.”

New York Attorney General Letitia James, who was appointed special prosecutor by Gov. Kathy Hochul, is conducting an investigation into the incident. Cornell, which said it fully supports the appointment of a special prosecutor, is also conducting an internal probe of its response to the allegations.

Cornell has said it takes allegations of allegations of sexual violence “extremely seriously” and that it “investigated and adjudicated the allegations consistent with university policies.”

At the same time, the university has said it is committed to taking additional steps to improve campus safety.

The case has rocked the university and started conversations about treatment of sexual assault allegations on college campuses across the country.

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Former NBA player Malik Beasley intends to plead guilty to federal charges that accused him and five others of taking part in a bribery and betting scheme, according to a court notice filed overnight Saturday.

Beasley, 29, had previously pleaded not guilty to four federal counts — bribery in sporting contests, wire fraud conspiracy, honest services wire fraud conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy — but the docket notice did not indicate what he would plead guilty to.

The judge overseeing Beasley’s case referred a “change of plea” to a federal magistrate in Brooklyn who will schedule a hearing at which Beasley will formally plead guilty.

His attorney couldn’t immediately be reached for comment.

Beasley, who played for six different NBA teams over a nine-year career, allegedly agreed to underperform his statistics during the 2023-2024 season when he played for the Milwaukee Bucks so gamblers could win their bets, according to prosecutors.

He had earned tens of millions of dollars during his career, but federal prosecutors accused Beasley of accumulating “multi-million dollar gambling losses” when he became part of the alleged scheme.

The indictment mentioned four games in which Beasley would allegedly fix his performance while playing for the Bucks: against the Cleveland Cavaliers on Jan. 26, 2024; against the Charlotte Hornets on Feb. 27, 2024; against the Los Angeles Clippers on March 10, 2024; and against the Brooklyn Nets on March 21, 2024.

According to the indictment, Beasley’s co-defendants allegedly selected games that would not be nationally televised and Beasley allegedly decided whether he would underperform or overperform his scoring and rebounding.

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A German teenager has been arrested on suspicion of murder in connection with the death of a 14-year-old girl in the United States, according to the FBI.

The 18-year-old is suspected of manipulating an Indiana teen over a social platform into harming herself and taking her own life, according to prosecutors in Germany.

The FBI said Friday it worked with local Indiana authorities to investigate the teenager’s death and shared evidence with German authorities. The suspect was arrested on Thursday, prosecutors in Hamburg said.

The girl was from Fort Wayne, according to the Fort Wayne Police Department, which investigated her death.

“After a thorough criminal investigation, the Homicide Unit identified a suspect who contributed to the juvenile’s death,” the police department said in a statement Friday. “Investigators identified him as an adult male residing in Germany and collaborated with federal partners at the Federal Bureau of Investigation and authorities in Germany.”

Officials have not publicly identified the girl or the suspect.

Hamburg prosecutors said the German national, who was 17 at the time of the alleged offenses, is suspected of manipulating “a psychologically vulnerable” American girl through the social platform Discord between September and October.

Prosecutors are investigating reports alleging the suspect demanded the girl to inflict severe self-harm and then to take her life on Oct. 2.

Whether the death was recorded on video “remains a subject of the ongoing investigation,” Hamburg prosecutors said.

The suspect allegedly tried to obtain footage of the death and “threatened the girl’s social circle, stating that he would otherwise publish her personal data as well as compromising images of her,” prosecutors said.

Prosecutors believe the suspect sought to use the footage to gain status within or to gain entry to the so-called “NMK” (Nefarious Maniac Kult), which they said is modeled on groups linked to the online “COM network” such as “764.”

A Discord spokesperson said in a statement to ABC News on Monday that the company “has been aggressively disrupting the 764 subculture and affiliated groups since 2021, when we first identified these actors.”

“We were among the first to share intelligence with law enforcement and alert other major online services, and have since removed thousands of servers, banned users, and filed numerous CyberTip reports with NCMEC [National Center for Missing & Exploited Children] related to 764 and other sadistic harm actors,” the statement continued. “We continue to work closely and proactively with law enforcement and industry partners to identify, disrupt and prevent these groups from causing harm.”

Last week, authorities in Fort Wayne warned the community about what they called the online extremist network 764 and “splinter groups” that they said target vulnerable teens through social media and gaming websites.

“The most concerning thing that we’re seeing is these groups are encouraging these young people that they’re targeting to commit self-harm, cutting, carving symbols and words into their bodies,” Fort Wayne Police Department Det. Brian Martin said at a news conference on Oct. 14.

“They’re encouraging our children to send explicit photos, nude photos of themselves. They’re encouraging our young people to commit self-mutilation. They are encouraging to harm family pets, to torture pets,” he continued.

He added, “They’re such predators that they want this to be video recorded or live streamed to them while they’re doing this.”

Previously, Discord has said that disrupting the 764 network and affiliate groups “has been among Discord’s highest priorities” and that it has taken steps to remove thousands of “servers” and invested in new ways to detect the groups.

ABC News’ Jason Volack contributed to this report.

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Six Flags administrators announced Saturday that they will institute new safety measures, including seatbelts, for the Goliath coaster at the company’s Georgia park, nearly two weeks after a rider was killed when he fell off the ride.

Administrators said that the hyper coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia will remain closed as they continue to inspect it and investigate Hassan Jihad Ibn Kariem’s death, but they are committed to making changes to the ride.

Kariem, 42, an IT manager, teacher and robotics coach at an Atlanta school, was “ejected from the ride and struck other patrons before falling beneath the attraction,” the Cobb County Police Department said in the wake of the Oct. 12 incident.

He was at the Six Flags park with several family members to celebrate his niece’s birthday and was sitting beside his niece when he was ejected from the roller coaster, a relative told ABC News.

In addition to installing the seat belts on Goliath, which Six Flags said had lap-bar restraints, the park said it has “engaged independent engineers and ride inspection specialists to comprehensively review current safety procedures across our entire portfolio of rides and attractions, across all of our parks.”

“We are committed to carefully evaluating their findings and taking appropriate action to further strengthen our standards and culture of safety,” Six Flags said in a statement.

The investigation by the park and police into the incident, where other people had said they were injured, is ongoing.

Six Flags Over Georgia is located in Austell, west of Atlanta. The Goliath roller coaster reaches an elevation of 200 feet and speeds up to 70 mph, according to the amusement park’s website. The ride first opened in 2006.

After the incident, Six Flags temporarily closed nine similar coasters including Nitro in Great Adventure in New Jersey, as a precaution.

One of the coasters, Goliath at Six Flags Magic Mountain, has since reopened, according to the park.

On Saturday, Six Flags said eight of those coasters remained closed and will have the seat belts or other restraints installed.

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The Trump administration has preemptively filed a lawsuit to block the certification of the Alaska Senate race if Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan loses the race, citing name confusion among the candidates.

Republicans have alleged that Alaska Senate candidate Dan J. Sullivan is running a sham campaign to purposefully confuse voters and draw votes away from incumbent Sen. Dan S. Sullivan based on their names being similar.

An earlier legal challenge to the candidacy was rejected by Alaska’s supreme court, which ordered that Dan J. Sullivan be included on the ballot. 

“Should Alaska certify any electoral results tainted by the inclusion on the ballot of Daniel J. Sullivan … the State and its officers will fail in its obligation to protect the integrity of its election,” the number-three ranking official at the Department of Justice, Stanley Woodward, wrote in the Thursday filing.

In bringing the case, the Justice Department says it’s guarding against the possibility that Sen. Dan S. Sullivan loses in a manner that suggests he would have won were it not for votes cast for Dan J. Sullivan. The incumbent senator is facing Democratic challenger Mary Peltola, as well as Dan J. Sullivan, who is appearing on the ballot without a party affiliation.

“To guard against this danger, it is vital that Defendants not certify any election result that may be impacted by voter confusion. An election result may be impacted by voter confusion if: (1) Senator Sullivan does not win the election; and (2) had all votes cast for Daniel J. Sullivan been cast instead for Senator Sullivan and Alaska’s rank-choice process played out accordingly, Senator Sullivan would have won the election,” Woodward wrote.

A Justice Department spokesperson said in a statement, “Alaska’s Division of Elections determined that Mr. Daniel J. Sullivan’s candidacy was intended to mislead voters and compromise the fairness of the ballot. Therefore, the Justice Department, consistent with the National Voter Registration Act enacted by Congress, is taking the necessary steps to ensure that this frivolous candidacy does not undermine the integrity of Alaska’s election or the will of its voters.”

The Alaska Secretary of State’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from ABC News. Campaign spokespeople for Peltola, Sen. Sullivan and Dan J. Sullivan did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump posted on social media that he was looking at “powerful legal options” to remove Dan. J Sullivan from the ballot.

Over the summer, Alaska’s election office said that Dan J. Sullivan would be removed from the ballot because the office determined his candidacy was not in good faith, but was meant, per an official, “to confuse or mislead and to thereby compromise the ballot’s fairness or neutrality.”

Dan. J Sullivan then sued the state over the decision, and a state judge ruled that he was eligible to be on Alaska’s Senate primary ballot. The Alaska Supreme Court upheld the ruling, after which the DOJ began investigating.

Fielding questions from reporters just hours before the lawsuit was filed, Attorney General Todd Blanche wouldn’t rule out the DOJ intervening in a state’s election process, but suggested only a “doomsday scenario” would warrant such action.

“I mean, is there any scenario? Yes, of course. There’s scenarios that we could all come up with hypothetically, you know, some doomsday scenario, for example, right?” Blanche said. “It is not DOJ’s intention to, and it’s never our intention to improperly interfere with elections or the state confirmation process or certification process.”

ABC News’ Devin Dwyer contributed to this report.

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