2024 Northfield shooting

On November 2, 2024, a mass shooting occurred at Malachite Court Motel in Northfield, West Valley County, Kionne, Robloxia. The perpetrator, 41-year old Sam Arnold entered into the Malachite Court Motel during the late evening hours at approximately 8:50 p.m. RST (UTC-4:00). He walked upstairs and started shooting at random individuals, then entering into other people's rooms and shooting there, before getting killed by several police officers. Thirteen people were fatally shot, including the perpetrator, while sixteen others were wounded.

Sam Arnold had threatened to carry out a shooting before the shooting on a website connected to the Malachite Court Motel and to other persons. Following the shooting, Builderman commanded the creation and passage of more firearms regulations. It is the deadliest-mass shooting to occur in Northfield.

Background
Malachite Court Motel is a large-scale hotel that was first established in December 1974 and is owned by the Northfield Local Motel Property Group. It is situated at least two miles outside of Northfield in West Valley County. Prospero Parker designed the hotel in the early 1970s, and construction on the building commenced in June 1973. Approximately 100 individuals had been staying inside the hotel at the time of the shooting incident, the majority of them were guests and tourists from other cities; some of the residents were outside of their rooms, eating meals from a nearby restaurant located inside the hotel.

Shooting
The shooting happened at around 8:50 p.m. RST when the shooter entered the Malachite Court Motel and opened fire directly at the glass doors, shattering both of them into the ground. The majority of guests were by this time asleep in their rooms, but a few were outdoors, still within the hotel, and they were dining on the second level, where the restaurant was. Sam Arnold then entered the first room in the main lobby on the right side and started firing, generating smoke, but no one was in the room. When Sam realized this, he returned to the main lobby and walked upstairs. He then opened the entrance on the second floor, where numerous people were wandering around, and fired at a glass that was within a model of the hotel. After then, the shooter immediately began shooting again at random people, injuring six individuals and killing two of them.

One of the victims remembered running for cover beneath a chair and seeing "a few people collapse to the floor" covered in blood. She also remembered being shot in the arm and said, "That is the worst pain I felt in my life." After firing, Sam turned around and started breaking into one of the rooms, where a family was spending a few days. After a minute of unsuccessful attempts, the door finally opened by force, allowing Sam to enter the space before closing behind him and resuming his direct fire on the people. All of the family members were said to have screamed before Sam, who was now covered in blood on his clothes, exited the room and fled to another one, killing five in total. Sam was also successful in entering the room and shooting additional bullets before leaving and attempting to enter an elevator that was near to the rooms. After some time, Sam entered the elevator and proceeded all the way to the hotel's fourth level. A 9-1-1 call was placed at 9:01 p.m., and within minutes, many police officers had began to go to the gunshot site. Sam exited the elevator, turned around, and fired a few more rounds, which caused some glass to fracture before hurriedly hitting the elevator's button for the first level and exiting to the lobby.

Sam then turned toward the ceiling and started firing at it, which led to pieces of debris falling on top of him. But when he heard police sirens, Sam became terrified and attempted to break into a different room, but this time he was unsuccessful. He started firing at the door immediately out of anger, making a hole and injuring one person in the process. Many police officers were moving upstairs while moving downstairs, and the majority of them were speaking to the injured. One of the injured said that the gunman had only taken the elevator and didn't know what floor he was on. Sam sprang back up and hurried to the stairs, this time heading for the hotel's fifth level. The fire alarm sounded at that point as a result of the smoke. Sam moved between a large plant and waited for additional individuals since he saw this as a method to kill more people. Four persons were murdered and one was injured when a group of woke individuals mistakenly believed there was a fire and rushed outdoors only to be shot by Sam. He then chuckled before fleeing into another room, which he managed to enter, and firing additional rounds, one of which was killed and two others were injured. When one of the family members saw the gun, she shouted so loudly that Sam had to return outside and shoot her dead. In an attempt to seize him, a 53-year-old male coworker was going to get his gun when the gunman saw him and mortally injured him.

However, one of the police officers was on the floor where Sam was when the shooter approached. The officer said, "Drop your gun," but the shooter ignored him and continued to fire. Luckily, the policeman was able to move aside and make a backup call. Sam noticed an open elevator and hurried there because the stairs was blocked by police. While a police officer was attempting to apprehend the gunman by peering into the elevator, the elevator abruptly closed. When he realized this, he turned around and raced back to a door where more than seven members were hiding. All of them tried to flee and scream for aid as Sam started firing at them. After nearly being shot, the cop fled, but when he returned, he was joined by a number of others, who all opened fire on the assailant, killing him instantly and putting a stop to the shooting at 9:29 p.m.

Victims
The shooting resulted in thirteen people getting fatally killed, including the perpetrator and an additional sixteen severely wounded, but ended up surviving. Children and teens between the ages of 5 and 13—the youngest victim was only 4 years old—were also among those killed. Ten individuals were killed at the site, and three others later passed away on November 3, November 4 and November 7, respectively, at Oak Crest Community Hospital. Later in the month, Royal Department Of Defense Intelligence identified the victims as: Dracula Rodriguez, 25, Peter Campbell, 54, Chelsea Wood, 21, Smith Davis, 36, Amy Willis, 6, Henry Washington, 13, Ailin Ramirez, 31, Matthew Morales, 4, Nabila Morrison, 69, Che Allen, 10, Magister Wagner, 46, Carsten Alexander, 18, Mustafa Jackson, 20.

The sixteen injured patients were treated at Grand Garden General Hospital, Morningside Hospital, and Pearl River Medical Center. Four of the injured, according to Morningside, were in extremely serious condition and required emergency medical attention; all of them survived, and subsequently it was discovered that two more were in stable condition. The hospital identified these patients as Harry Barnes, 53, and Dragger Arnold, 32. One of the patients who had been shot in the leg had recovered and been released by the first week of December, according to Pearl River. On January 29, over three months after the massacre, the final victim, who had been shot many times, was released from Grand Garden.

Perpetrator
The perpetrator of the shooting was identified as Sam Arnold.