Shooter

The Macon County Sheriff's Office in North Carolina held school shooter training with a target of an Arab man holding an AK-style rifle.

[fake mosques](https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7vgy3/canada-fake-mosque-on-military-base) or “enemies” [dressed in clothing common in the Middle East. The images were discovered while a group of Boy Scouts were touring the Farmington Hills Police Department. Shooters that target places of worship tend to be white men in their 40s, often motivated by hate. The target appears to show a man wearing a Palestinian keffiyeh (checkered headscarf) and holding an AK-style rifle. Conversely, the data showed that 11 of 13 K-12 shooters were white, and three out of nine college or university shooters were white. [VICE News](https://www.vice.com/en/article/a35mya/nearly-all-mass-shooters-since-1966-have-had-four-things-in-common) previously reported, the Violence Project’s research shows that K-12 mass shooters are often white males with a history of trauma while college and university mass shooters tend to be non-white males who are current students and have a history of trauma.