Police later learned of three additional victims who walked into area hospitals with non-life-threatening gunshot wounds. Medics took them to area hospitals for treatment. and found three men with numerous gunshot wounds.
Officers heard gunshots in the north of the city just before 9 p.m.
Six people were injured in a Friday night shooting in Baltimore. The victims range in age from 16 to 24, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said.
Here’s a look at some of the shootings this weekend:Ī shooting at a pool party at a Southern California home left eight people wounded, authorities said Saturday.Īuthorities were dispatched shortly after midnight in Carson, California, south of Los Angeles, KABC-TV reported. However, the number of injured in most of the weekend cases matches the widely accepted definition for mass shootings. Only the Idaho killings fit the definition of a mass killing in which four or more people die, not including the shooter. Theories include the possibility that violence is driven by the prevalence of guns in America, or by less aggressive police tactics or a decline in prosecutions for misdemeanor weapon offenses, Nagin said. “Some of these cases seem to be just disputes, often among adolescents, and those disputes are played out with firearms, not with fists.” “There’s no question there’s been a spike in violence,” said Daniel Nagin, a professor of public policy and statistics at Carnegie Mellon University. Officers responded to mass shootings in Washington state, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Southern California, Milwaukee and Baltimore.
The shootings happened in cities and rural areas alike, following a surge in homicides and other violence over the past several years that accelerated during the coronavirus pandemic. Four people were found shot to death in a small Idaho town, a Pennsylvania state trooper was killed in an ambush, and bullets struck 11 teenagers, killing one, at a party in Missouri. The boys refused to leave and made people uncomfortable.Ĩ p.m.: A caller at a convenience store in the 800 block of 16th Street reported a man came in and said he had cocaine in a sugar bag.Ĩ:45 p.m.: A caller in the 2400 block of Balsam Avenue reported people were using pieces of the neighbor’s fence to make a big fire in the backyard.ġ1:30 p.m.: A caller in the 1000 block of 13th Avenue reported a man walking around the apartment complex with a shower rod and looking under vehicles.CHICAGO (AP) - Mass shootings and violence killed and wounded people across the United States this weekend, including at least 60 shot in the Chicago area alone.
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April 29ġ0:15 a.m.: A caller in the 5700 block of 10th Street reported the driver of a truck with a Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton sticker on it pulled a gun on another driver.ġ2:45 p.m.: A caller in the 1000 block of Cranford Place reported students blocked off the street with caution tape for a block party.Ĥ p.m.: A caller at a game store in the 4500 block of CenterPlace Drive reported a group of boys kept coming into the store and filming. 9:30 a.m.: A caller at a barbershop in the 800 block of 16th Street reported a man on the bench out front was shaking his fist at customers.ġ0:30 a.m.: A caller at a variety store in the 2600 block of 10th Street reported a man was yelling at and filming employees who were dumping items from the store due to a bed bug problem.ġ1 a.m.: A caller near 6th Avenue and 19th Street reported a man walking around with multiple guns.ġ2 p.m.: A caller in the 2100 block of 22nd Street Road reported someone in a red pickup truck drove across the yard.Ħ p.m.: A caller in the 300 block of 15th Street reported a man was doing drugs in the backyard shed.
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