1. Weâre poorer than our parents were at our age. Few people have been through as many economic ups and downs as the members of Generation X. Born between 1965 and 1980, any entered the workforce during the boom years of the Clinton administrationâbut then along came 9/11 and, a few years later, the Great Recession.
The shooter, Charles Whitman, was a student at the University of Texas. A former Marine who grew up with an abusive father, he admitted to killing his mother and his wife in a suicide note. The next day, Whitman began shooting people from the top of the Texas Tower with a sniper rifle.
GBI special agent in charge J.T. Ricketson explains how two Byron police officers were shot serving a warrant early on Dec. 12, 2016. The shooter, who has not been identified, is deceased inside the residence on Ga. 42 Near Walton Road in Crawford County, Liz Fabian The Telegraph.