Servando Gómez Martínez Mexican security forces arrest drug lord Servando Gómez Martínez in Morelia, Michoacán.
Shoots and kills An elderly man shoots and kills three people and then himself in the South Korean city of Hwaseong.
Assassination of Boris Nemtsov In Moscow, an unidentified attacker assassinates leading Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, the former Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation and current member of regional parliament of Yaroslavl Oblast.
A series of shootings A gunman kills seven people then himself in a series of shootings in Tyrone, Missouri.
Avijit Roy Avijit Roy, an American writer and blogger from Bangladesh, is hacked to death by unknown attackers in Dhaka.