Mass shooting kills 10 in US
Mass shootings that killed 10 people in Philadelphia, Baltimore and Fort Worth ahead of the Fourth of July holiday are a stark example of the United States’ decades-long failure to prevent gun violence, officials said.
Three people were killed and eight were injured in a mass shooting following a local festival, police in Fort Worth, Texas, said Tuesday. In a separate shooting incident Monday evening in Philadelphia, five people were killed and two were wounded when a suspect wearing a bullet-proof vest opened fire. According to local police, shots were fired at apparent strangers.
The injured include a child and a teenager. Monday night’s shooting comes a day after two people were shot dead and 28 others wounded in a shooting at an outdoor neighborhood block party in Baltimore, Maryland. The motives for the three shootings were not immediately clear.
Mass shooting kills 10 in US, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Daniel Outlaw said his force had arrested a suspect, identified as a 40-year-old man, in a late night news conference that “we have absolutely no idea why this happened.” Police in Fort Worth said no arrests had been made. “We don’t know if it’s domestic-related, whether it’s gang-related. It’s too early to tell at this point,” said Sean Murray, a senior police officer. Police have said they are looking for multiple suspects in the Baltimore shooting.
The latest shootings come around the anniversary of the Highland Park mass shooting near Chicago last year, where seven people were shot dead and 48 others injured on Independence Day. the parade. A 22-year-old man remains in custody after pleading guilty to 117 felony charges for genocide.
The United States is grappling with a large number of mass shootings and incidents of gun violence. There have been more than 340 mass shootings in the country so far in 2023, according to data collected by the Gun Violence Archive, which defines a mass shooting as an incident in which at least four people other than the shooter are shot. Is given.
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