The Shooting Gallery: A man armed with a rifle and a handgun killed four people in a medical office building in Tulsa, Oklahoma yesterday afternoon before taking his own life. The Tulsa police said the attack was not random but did not give any further explanation.

  “This wasn’t an individual who just decided he wanted to go find a hospital full of random people,”   Capt. Richard Meulenberg of the Tulsa Police  told The NY Times. “He deliberately made a choice to come here and his actions were deliberate.” 

  The Tulsa shooting is the 20^th mass shooting in the US in which four or more people were hit since the massacre in the Uvalde, Texas elementary school. It came just eight days after 19 students and two teachers were killed Texas, and 18 days after 10 people were killed at a supermarket in Buffalo.

  Tulsa Mayor GT Bynum made the usual political dodge of the gun issue. He said, “If we want to have a policy discussion, that is something to be had in the future, but not tonight. Not tonight.”

The Ever Changing Story: Four days after the elementary school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, authorities have changed their story that the gunman got into the school through a door propped open by a teacher. 

  The Texas Department of Public Safety now says  the teacher shut the door behind her, but it “did not lock as it should.” They are investigating why that happened.

  This is yet another alteration and revision of prior statements and details that have been amended or withdrawn entirely by investigating authorities.

  In a confrontation with CNN, Pete Arrendondo, the chief of the local school police, refused to answer questions about his decision to hold back for an hour during the massacre. He said, “We’re not going to release anything. We have people in our community being buried. We’re going to be respectful.”

The War Zone: Russia claims the US is “pouring gasoline on the fire” by giving Ukraine more sophisticated weapons. “The US is clearly pursuing a policy to fight Russia until the last Ukrainian,” Kremlin spokesman Vasily Peskov said, adding that “these sorts of supplies are unlikely to make the Ukrainian leadership willing to resume peace talks.” 

  What he’s saying is that this makes it less likely Ukraine will surrender. 

  Battles have raged in the streets of the eastern Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk as Russian forces pushed into the city’s center.  Russia is believed to control about 70 percent of the city.

  Taking Sievierodonetsk would give Russia the last major city in the Luhansk province putting Vladimir Putin closer to the goal of controlling Ukraine’s east. But the Russians are destroying what they’re stealing. Most of the city’s buildings have been reduced to rubble and the vast majority of the city’s prewar population of 100,000 have left.

  Heavy fighting continues in other areas as well. The Institute for the Study of war says that instead of destroying the Ukrainian army, Putin has chosen  instead “to concentrate all the forces and resources that can be scraped together in a desperate and bloody push to seize areas of eastern Ukraine that will give him largely symbolic gains”  

  In further support from the west, Germany promised Ukraine an advanced air-defense system, a day after the US said it would send more powerful artillery and multiple rocket launchers.

  In efforts to punish Russians for atrocities, Ukraine continues criminal prosecutions.  A court in central Ukraine sentenced two Russian soldiers to 11 and a half years in prison for shelling a town in the country’s northeast. 

Soap Opera Digest: After the long soap opera of the Amber Heard/Johnny Depp defamation trial,  a Virginia jury found that Heard had defamed Depp in a published op-ed when she described him as a “public figure representing domestic abuse.” But the jury also found that she in turn had been defamed by one of Depp’s lawyers. 

  The jury awarded Depp $15 million in compensatory and punitive damages, capped by legal limits resulting in a total of $10.35 million. The jury awarded Heard $2 million in damages.

  Depp said in a statement that “the jury gave me my life back.”

  The case made theirs sound like the marriage from hell. In dramatic and tearful testimony presented with theatrical drama, Heard accused Depp of abuse that included punching, head-butting, dragging her by the hair, as well as sexual assault. The jury didn’t buy it.

  But the jury also found that Heard had been defamed by one of Depp’s lawyers who called those accusations “a hoax.”

  Heard said in a statement that the decision “sets back the clock to a time when a woman who spoke up and spoke out could be publicly shamed and humiliated. It sets back the idea that violence against women is to be taken seriously.”

Econ 101: As many as 11.4million jobs are open in the US, demonstrating that the labor market continues to be tight.  

  About 4.4million Americans quit or changed jobs in April, using their leverage in the tight market, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Job openings continue to outnumber job seekers by close to two-to-one.

  Layoffs, meanwhile, fell to an all-time low of 1.2 million. 

The Spin Rack: Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Meta, formerly Facebook,  and the longtime number two to founder, Mark Zuckerberg, announced that she’s leaving the company after 14 years. Meta owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Sandberg has been one of the most prominent female executives in the world. — A Florida man who made money by retrieving discs lost in a lake from a disc golf course was killed by an alligator. The 47-year-old man who frequently  swam for discs in the lake was found with an arm torn off.  

Thank You Very Much: The company that owns the rights to Elvis Presley’s image has ordered Las Vegas wedding chapels to stop performing Elvis-themed weddings.

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