Multiple shootings rock cities in US
MILWAUKEE: Multiple shooting incidents were reported from the US cities of Milwaukee, Houston, California and Chicago, on Sunday.
This comes after a white gunman killed 10 people and wounded three others - most of them Black - in a “racially motivated violent extremist” shooting in Buffalo city in the New York state on Saturday.
Three shot and killed in Milwaukee
Milwaukee police on Sunday were investigating three separate overnight shootings in which a 17-year-old boy and two men in their 20s died.
The shootings came a night after a night of violence in which 21 people were shot and wounded in three other attacks near the Fiserv Forum in downtown Milwaukee.
2 dead, 3 hospitalised in Houston shooting
Two people were killed and three more were taken to a hospital with injuries after a shooting on Sunday at a bustling Houston flea market, authorities said.
The shooting at the open-air market arose from an “altercation” that involved at least two guns and all five of the people, according to Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez. He said no “innocent bystanders” were injured.
Investigators believe one of the people hospitalised was among those who opened fire and two more suspected shooters were detained at the scene, a sheriff’s deputy told KTRK-TV.
One dead, four injured in Calif church shooting
One person was dead and four others in critical condition after a shooting at a church near Los Angeles, law enforcement said on Sunday.
Shortly before 1.30pm local time, parishioners were attending a banquet following a morning service at Geneva Presbyterian Church when the gunman began his rampage, authorities said. There were 30 to 40 people inside the building in Laguna Woods, about 70 kilometres southeast of Los Angeles.
The churchgoers detained the shooter and “hogtied his legs with an extension cord and confiscated at least two weapons” before officers arrived at the scene to apprehend and arrest him, Orange County Undersheriff Jeff Hallock told a press conference.
Teen charged in fatal shooting in Chicago
A 17-year-old boy has been charged with second-degree murder after a 16-year-old boy was fatally shot near “The Bean” sculpture in downtown Chicago’s Millennium Park, which is among the city’s most popular tourist attractions.