It’s a stark and alarming trend: mass shooters engraving bullet casings with cryptic messages, leading officials to speculate about their motives and, more recently, their political affiliations. It ...

In September 2025, days after the conservative commentator Charlie Kirk died after he was shot during a speaking event at a Utah university, a claim (archived) circulated that investigators foun d ...

Scrawled messages on bullet casings and weapons left behind have popped up at several high-profile shootings over the past year. The seemingly unusual practice is actually reminiscent of a ...