At least 38 people shot, including two fatally, at weekend in US
At least 38 people were shot – including two fatally – in three different mass shootings reported Saturday and Sunday in separate parts of the US, according to officials.
One minor was killed and nine others were wounded in a shooting in a building in downtown St Louis, Missouri, about 1.45am Sunday, the local television station KMOV reported. The name of the slain victim wasn’t immediately available, and information on the conditions of the wounded wasn’t released right away either.
Meanwhile, at about 12.30am Sunday in Willowbrook, Illinois, 20 people were shot, including one who was killed, the local station WGN reported, citing officials. The slain victim in Willowbrook wasn’t immediately identified either.
Ambulance crews took half of the victims in that shooting to local hospitals while others took their own rides to be treated, authorities added.
CNN reported that the Willowbrook
shooting occurred at a gathering to celebrate Juneteenth, the holiday which celebrates the emancipation of enslaved Black people at the end of the
US civil war and which falls on Monday this year. Yet details about a possible motive weren’t immediately available.
The shootings in St Louis and
Willowbrook came after eight people were wounded in a shooting at a home in southern California early Saturday.
KABC reported that the shooting occurred shortly after midnight at a pool party in Carson, which is south of Los Angeles. Those victimized were between the ages of 16 and 24, including five who had wounds to the head, back as well as upper and lower body areas, the Los Angeles county sheriff’s department said.
A car crashed into a nearby wall around the time of the Carson shooting, investigators said. Police at the site of the crash found a 16-year-old with a bullet wound.
There have been more than 305 mass shootings in the US so far this year as of Sunday morning, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which defines a mass shooting as one in which four or more victims are wounded or killed.
The high number of mass shootings across the US have prompted many in the country to call for substantial federal gun control measures, though Congress has been unable to enact such legislation.