<p>In a recent incident, Capitol Police made arrests after two men crashed a stolen vehicle into a barricade outside the Capitol. The suspects, Ricardo Glass and Onosetale Okojie&nbsp;(both 20), led officers on a foot chase before being arrested, reported ABC news. During the arrest, law enforcement recovered two handguns, one of which had been illegally modified into a machine gun.</p>

<p>Glass and Okojie were inside a stolen white Infiniti Q50, which was idling at a green light near Union Station, a prominent shopping and transit hub a short distance from the Capitol building.</p>

<p>When an officer suspected the driver might be impaired, an attempt was made to initiate a traffic stop. However, the driver sped away, resulting in a collision with a Capitol vehicle barricade near 1st and D streets in Northeast DC</p>

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<h2><strong>Foot chase followed by arrest</strong></h2>

<p>Following the crash, the two&nbsp;quickly exited the stolen vehicle and attempted to flee on foot.</p>

<p>Their escape route took them near the Capitol Police headquarters, where officers engaged in a pursuit and successfully arrested&nbsp;both suspects.</p>

<p>During the investigation, law enforcement discovered a Glock handgun within the stolen vehicle, equipped with a 22-round extended magazine.</p>

<p>Moreover, hidden in a nearby flowerbed, another Glock was found, which had been modified with a "giggle switch" to convert it into a machine gun.</p>

<p>Ricardo Glass and Onosetale Okojie are now facing multiple charges, including carrying a pistol without a license, unauthorised use of a vehicle, and unlawful possession of a machine gun.</p>

<p>The Capitol Police have confiscated more than 30 firearms over the course of the year.</p>

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<h2><strong>Mass shootings in the US&nbsp;</strong></h2>

<p>As per data from the <a href="https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/">Gun Violence archive</a>, there have been more than 560 mass shootings across the United States so far in 2023. The Gun Violence Archive defines a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more people are injured or killed.&nbsp;</p>

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In a recent incident, Capitol Police made arrests after two men crashed a stolen vehicle into a barricade outside the Capitol. The suspects, Ricardo Glass and Onosetale Okojie (both 20), led officers on a foot chase before being arrested, reported ABC news.

In a recent incident, Capitol Police made arrests after two men crashed a stolen vehicle into a barricade outside the Capitol. The suspects, Ricardo Glass and Onosetale Okojie (both 20), led officers on a foot chase before being arrested, reported ABC news. During the arrest, law enforcement recovered two handguns, one of which had been illegally modified into a machine gun. Glass and Okojie were inside a stolen white Infiniti Q50, which was idling at a green light near Union Station, a prominent shopping and transit hub a short distance from the Capitol building. When an officer suspected the driver might be impaired, an attempt was made to initiate a traffic stop. However, the driver sped away, resulting in a collision with a Capitol vehicle barricade near 1st and D streets in Northeast DC Also read | Data Lab | Alarming stats, in charts: US has more gun dealers than McDonald's, Starbucks outlets put together Foot chase followed by arrest Following the crash, the two quickly exited the stolen vehicle and attempted to flee on foot. Their escape route took them near the Capitol Police headquarters, where officers engaged in a pursuit and successfully arrested both suspects. During the investigation, law enforcement discovered a Glock handgun within the stolen vehicle, equipped with a 22-round extended magazine. Moreover, hidden in a nearby flowerbed, another Glock was found, which had been modified with a "giggle switch" to convert it into a machine gun. Ricardo Glass and Onosetale Okojie are now facing multiple charges, including carrying a pistol without a license, unauthorised use of a vehicle, and unlawful possession of a machine gun. The Capitol Police have confiscated more than 30 firearms over the course of the year. Also read | Data lab | Numbers speak volumes: America's unique struggle with gun violence Mass shootings in the US As per data from the Gun Violence archive, there have been more than 560 mass shootings across the United States so far in 2023. The Gun Violence Archive defines a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more people are injured or killed. (With inputs from agencies)

US: Capitol police seize 'giggle switch' gun after stolen car crashes into barricade

Mass shooting and gun violence has reared its ugly head repeatedly in the United States over the last few years - the Centre for Disease Control and prevention.

US: Number of deaths increase due to gun violence, 1.2 million guns sold in August

<p>A man suspected of fatally shooting two Swedish football fans in an attack in Brussels was shot dead&nbsp;by Belgian police on Tuesday (Oct 17).&nbsp;Interior Minister Annelies Verlinden said the&nbsp;weapon that was allegedly used by the man has also been recovered, reported the Associated Press.</p>

<p>Officials said the&nbsp;police opened fire at the attacker and shot him dead during the arrest. This was the&nbsp;result of an&nbsp;intensive overnight manhunt in the Belgian capital.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Early videos doing the rounds on social media of Monday’s attack showed a man in an orange fluorescent vest pulling up on a scooter, pulling out a&nbsp;large weapon and opening fire on passersby before chasing them into a building to shoot them all down. Apparently, he vowed allegiance to the Islamic State and was avenging the killing of a six-year-old boy in the US killed by his landlord because of his religion&nbsp;in the wake of the Hamas-Israel war.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Previously, Prime Minister Alexander de Croo said the suspect was of Tunisian origin and had been living in Brussels&nbsp;illegally.&nbsp;</p>

<p>"The terrorist attack that happened yesterday was committed with total cowardice, the attacker chose as a target two Swedish football fans," de Croo told a news conference.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Sweden expressed its condemnation over the shooting&nbsp;which took place just before a Belgium-Sweden football match on Monday evening (Oct 16), with hundreds of Swedish fans in attendance.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Sweden has been the focal point of a bitter controversy&nbsp;this year with Muslim countries after police authorised several protests at which copies of the Koran, Islam's holy book, were burned.</p>

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<p>"Devastated by the news of two Swedish football supporters murdered in&nbsp;Brussels&nbsp;tonight and a third person being seriously wounded. All my thoughts are with their families and loved ones," Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom said.</p>

<p>"Swedish authorities work closely with their Belgian partners to find the murderer," he added, in a social media post.</p>

<h2><strong>Football match abruptly called off</strong></h2>

<p>As news spread of the killings, the Group F European qualifier match between Belgium and Sweden was called off&nbsp;at half-time and some 35,000 fans were quickly evacuated from the King Baudouin stadium.&nbsp;</p>

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<p>Officers ensured extra protection for Swedish nationals at the game, escorting Sweden's national players directly to the airport,&nbsp;&nbsp;Belgium's football association CEO told the RTBF channel.</p>

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A man suspected of fatally shooting two Swedish football fans in an attack in Brussels was shot dead by Belgian police on Tuesday (Oct 17). Interior Minister Annelies Verlinden said the weapon that was allegedly used by the man has also been recovered, reported the Associated Press.

A man suspected of fatally shooting two Swedish football fans in an attack in Brussels was shot dead by Belgian police on Tuesday (Oct 17). Interior Minister Annelies Verlinden said the weapon that was allegedly used by the man has also been recovered, reported the Associated Press. Officials said the police opened fire at the attacker and shot him dead during the arrest. This was the result of an intensive overnight manhunt in the Belgian capital. Early videos doing the rounds on social media of Monday’s attack showed a man in an orange fluorescent vest pulling up on a scooter, pulling out a large weapon and opening fire on passersby before chasing them into a building to shoot them all down. Apparently, he vowed allegiance to the Islamic State and was avenging the killing of a six-year-old boy in the US killed by his landlord because of his religion in the wake of the Hamas-Israel war. Previously, Prime Minister Alexander de Croo said the suspect was of Tunisian origin and had been living in Brussels illegally. "The terrorist attack that happened yesterday was committed with total cowardice, the attacker chose as a target two Swedish football fans," de Croo told a news conference. Sweden expressed its condemnation over the shooting which took place just before a Belgium-Sweden football match on Monday evening (Oct 16), with hundreds of Swedish fans in attendance. Sweden has been the focal point of a bitter controversy this year with Muslim countries after police authorised several protests at which copies of the Koran, Islam's holy book, were burned. Also watch | Brussels shooting: Belgium-Sweden match abandoned after two Swedes shot dead "Devastated by the news of two Swedish football supporters murdered in Brussels tonight and a third person being seriously wounded. All my thoughts are with their families and loved ones," Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom said. "Swedish authorities work closely with their Belgian partners to find the murderer," he added, in a social media post. Football match abruptly called off As news spread of the killings, the Group F European qualifier match between Belgium and Sweden was called off at half-time and some 35,000 fans were quickly evacuated from the King Baudouin stadium. Also read | Video: Hamas releases chilling footage of 'hurt and scared' hostage Officers ensured extra protection for Swedish nationals at the game, escorting Sweden's national players directly to the airport, Belgium's football association CEO told the RTBF channel. (With inputs from agencies) WATCH WION LIVE HERE:

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<p>Two people, including a newborn, died, and three were injured after gun violence was reported in the US states of Massachusetts and Philadelphia.</p>

<p>The first incident took place in Massachusetts’ Holyok city where a pregnant bystander became a victim of an altercation between three men during which gunshots were fired.</p>

<p>On Wednesday afternoon, the woman while seated on a public bus was shot and taken to a hospital in critical condition, the Hampden District Attorney’s Office said.</p>

<h2><strong>Pregnant woman victim of altercation</strong></h2>

<p>“The infant, who was delivered, and needed life-saving medical services, tragically passed away,” it added.</p>

<p>All involved suspects were believed to have been identified, taken to hospitals, and are in custody, the District Attorney’s Office said.</p>

<p>The names of the woman and the people involved in the shooting have been withheld. No further information on the woman’s condition was provided.</p>

<p><a name="html-embed-module-e30000"></a>State police spokesperson Dave Procopio said earlier that the shooting stemmed from “an altercation among people on the street.”</p>

<p>Pioneer Valley Transit Authority spokesperson Brandy Pelletier confirmed that one of the agency’s buses was on its route when it was involved in a shooting incident but said there would be no further comment on the active investigation.</p>

<h2>Philadelphia&nbsp;shooting a case of d<strong>omestic violence&nbsp;</strong></h2>

<p>The second incident was reported on Wednesday night where three Philadelphia police officers were shot while responding to a 911 call about a shooting at a home.</p>

<p>Just after 7 pm (ET), officers got a 911 call regarding a person shot in a home as part of a domestic dispute, Philadelphia Interim Police Commissioner John Stanford Jr. said at a news conference on Wednesday evening.</p>

<p>Initially, an argument ensued between a teenager and his father when the uncle got involved. &nbsp;</p>

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<p>During the argument, the father shot the uncle, and the uncle and juvenile then called 911, the commissioner said.</p>

<p>When officers arrived at the home, the father, who was at the front of the house, began to fire at them.</p>

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<p>The man hit two officers in the leg and one sergeant in the finger, the police said.</p>

<p>The officers then retaliated, striking the suspect, the commissioner said.</p>

<p>The man was pronounced dead at the scene.</p>

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Two people, including a newborn, died, and three were injured after gun violence was reported in the US states of Massachusetts and Philadelphia. The first incident took place in Massachusetts’ Holyok city where a pregnant bystander became a victim of an altercation between three men during which gunshots were fired.

Two people, including a newborn, died, and three were injured after gun violence was reported in the US states of Massachusetts and Philadelphia. The first incident took place in Massachusetts’ Holyok city where a pregnant bystander became a victim of an altercation between three men during which gunshots were fired. On Wednesday afternoon, the woman while seated on a public bus was shot and taken to a hospital in critical condition, the Hampden District Attorney’s Office said. Pregnant woman victim of altercation “The infant, who was delivered, and needed life-saving medical services, tragically passed away,” it added. All involved suspects were believed to have been identified, taken to hospitals, and are in custody, the District Attorney’s Office said. The names of the woman and the people involved in the shooting have been withheld. No further information on the woman’s condition was provided. State police spokesperson Dave Procopio said earlier that the shooting stemmed from “an altercation among people on the street.” Pioneer Valley Transit Authority spokesperson Brandy Pelletier confirmed that one of the agency’s buses was on its route when it was involved in a shooting incident but said there would be no further comment on the active investigation. Philadelphia shooting a case of domestic violence The second incident was reported on Wednesday night where three Philadelphia police officers were shot while responding to a 911 call about a shooting at a home. Just after 7 pm (ET), officers got a 911 call regarding a person shot in a home as part of a domestic dispute, Philadelphia Interim Police Commissioner John Stanford Jr. said at a news conference on Wednesday evening. Initially, an argument ensued between a teenager and his father when the uncle got involved. Also read | Russia-Ukraine war: US sends seized Iranian ammunition to Kyiv During the argument, the father shot the uncle, and the uncle and juvenile then called 911, the commissioner said. When officers arrived at the home, the father, who was at the front of the house, began to fire at them. Also read | Fluorescence in mammals highly common but purpose still unknown: Study The man hit two officers in the leg and one sergeant in the finger, the police said. The officers then retaliated, striking the suspect, the commissioner said. The man was pronounced dead at the scene. (With inputs from agencies) WATCH WION LIVE HERE

Newborn among two dead, three injured in latest episode of gun violence in US

<p>US President Joe Biden on Friday (September 22) announced his administration was setting up a new office of gun violence prevention at the White House. The aim of the office is to provide&nbsp;coordination on the issue and implement existing laws while working with local authorities to pass gun safety legislation at the state level.&nbsp;</p>

<p>"I'm proud to announce the creation of the first-ever White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, the first office in our history. Created by executive order, I'm determined to send a clear message about how important this issue is to me and to the country," said Biden during the announcement ceremony at the White House.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Despite the new push, the White House does not have unilateral power to meaningfully limit gun use in the United States, such as by banning assault weapons. Additionally, the new office lacks any kind of enforceable power to tackle the menace of gun violence.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Biden reflected on the same and said the executive action alone was not going to solve the issue.&nbsp;</p>

<p>"To be clear, none of these steps alone is going to solve the entirety of the gun violence epidemic. None of them. But together, they will save lives and it's going to help...help rally the nation a sense of urgency and seriousness of purpose."</p>

<p>Notably,&nbsp;Vice President Kamala Harris will head the new office, which is likely to lend her more visibility ahead of her re-election bid for the 2024&nbsp;polls.&nbsp;</p>

<p>"We know true freedom is not possible if people are not safe," she said during the announcement.&nbsp;</p>

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<h2><strong>Biden's way of working around hurdles&nbsp;</strong></h2>

<p>If the Biden administration wants to achieve any breakthrough on the ground, it would have to come from Congress. However, with fierce anti-gun regulation Republicans controlling the House of Representatives, there is only so much that the current regime can do.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Experts argue that setting up the new office is perhaps Biden's way of working around the legislative requirements and imposing certain regulatory and administrative restrictions, despite their limited scope.&nbsp;</p>

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<p>Gun violence has long been a sensitive topic in the US, dividing the country into two factions.&nbsp;According to the Gun Violence Archive, a non-governmental organisation, 44,374&nbsp;people were killed by guns across the United States last year.</p>

<p>Despite gun deaths slowing down&nbsp;slightly this year, at 28,793 for the first eight months, the number remains far too big for the government to not implement any noticeable regulatory change.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

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US President Joe Biden on Friday (September 22) announced his administration was setting up a new office of gun violence prevention at the White House. The aim of the office is to provide coordination on the issue and implement existing laws while working with local authorities to pass gun safety legislation at the state level.

US President Joe Biden on Friday (September 22) announced his administration was setting up a new office of gun violence prevention at the White House. The aim of the office is to provide coordination on the issue and implement existing laws while working with local authorities to pass gun safety legislation at the state level. "I'm proud to announce the creation of the first-ever White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, the first office in our history. Created by executive order, I'm determined to send a clear message about how important this issue is to me and to the country," said Biden during the announcement ceremony at the White House. Despite the new push, the White House does not have unilateral power to meaningfully limit gun use in the United States, such as by banning assault weapons. Additionally, the new office lacks any kind of enforceable power to tackle the menace of gun violence. Biden reflected on the same and said the executive action alone was not going to solve the issue. "To be clear, none of these steps alone is going to solve the entirety of the gun violence epidemic. None of them. But together, they will save lives and it's going to help...help rally the nation a sense of urgency and seriousness of purpose." Notably, Vice President Kamala Harris will head the new office, which is likely to lend her more visibility ahead of her re-election bid for the 2024 polls. "We know true freedom is not possible if people are not safe," she said during the announcement. Watch | US gun violence crisis: How easy is it to buy guns? | WION Wideangle × Biden's way of working around hurdles If the Biden administration wants to achieve any breakthrough on the ground, it would have to come from Congress. However, with fierce anti-gun regulation Republicans controlling the House of Representatives, there is only so much that the current regime can do. Experts argue that setting up the new office is perhaps Biden's way of working around the legislative requirements and imposing certain regulatory and administrative restrictions, despite their limited scope. Also read | Data Lab | Alarming stats, in charts: US has more gun dealers than McDonald's, Starbucks outlets put together Gun violence has long been a sensitive topic in the US, dividing the country into two factions. According to the Gun Violence Archive, a non-governmental organisation, 44,374 people were killed by guns across the United States last year. Despite gun deaths slowing down slightly this year, at 28,793 for the first eight months, the number remains far too big for the government to not implement any noticeable regulatory change. (With inputs from agencies) WATCH WION LIVE HERE:

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United States was jolted by yet another incident of gun violence on the 23rd of August. A gunman shot dead three people and wounded several others at a bar in the US state of California. Quick-responding police officers shot dead the gunman, believed to be a former law enforcement official. More than 50 people are killed each day by a firearm in the United States. Surveys show 57% of Americans in favor of stricter gun laws and yet the Republicans in Congress have repeatedly opposed any such stricter gun control laws. Mohammed Saleh brings you this report.

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<p>The mother of a six-year-old boy, who shot his teacher at the Richneck Elementary School in Virginia, United States&nbsp;earlier this year, has pleaded guilty to felony child neglect on state charges&nbsp;on Tuesday (August 15), according to American media reports. This was part of a deal with prosecutors to resolve a state case related to the incident. &nbsp;</p>

<h2><strong>What is the plea deal?</strong></h2>

<p>Deja Taylor, a 26-year-old mother who owned a gun that her son used to shoot his first-grade teacher, Abigail Zwerner, has pleaded guilty to a charge of felony child neglect, as a part of her plea deal. In line with this, she had admitted that the weapon was stored in such a way that the boy could access it.&nbsp;</p>

<p>While the charge carries a maximum statutory sentence of five years in prison, due to her plea agreement, the prosecutors said they will not seek higher than six months. However, Judge Chris Papile has said that he reserves the right to sentence outside that recommendation at her sentencing, which is scheduled for October 27.&nbsp;</p>

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<p>Taylor’s attorney had previously said that they were not sure how the boy was able to get hold of the gun because it was stored with a trigger lock on the top shelf of a bedroom closet.</p>

<p>However, assistant Newport News Commonwealth’s Attorney, on Tuesday said that the boy had taken the gun from his mother’s purse, which was on top of a dresser. The weapon was not secured with a trigger lock, according to the prosecutors.&nbsp;</p>

<p>“I stole it because I needed to shoot my teacher,” the prosecutor said the boy told investigators. However, Newport News Commonwealth’s Attorney Howard Gwynn has said that the six-year-old will not be criminally charged.&nbsp;</p>

<h2><strong>About the incident</strong></h2>

<p>The incident occurred on January 6, earlier this year when the six-year-old took a gun to school in his backpack in the morning before pulling it out at the end of the day and firing it at his teacher, said the police.&nbsp;</p>

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<p>Last week, unsealed court documents also showed that the boy also boasted about the incident. Amy Kovac, a reading specialist at Richneck, speaking about the incident, during an interview, said that the six-year-old looked proud, and she was stunned by what he said.&nbsp;</p>

<p>“I did it.” Kovac said the boy told her, adding “I shot the b**** dead.”&nbsp;</p>

<p>The victim teacher,&nbsp;Zwerner, fortunately survived after being shot in the hand and upper chest. She had to undergo four surgeries and spent two weeks in the hospital.&nbsp;</p>

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<p>She has since filed a $40 million lawsuit against the school for gross negligence after accusing them of ignoring warning signs. The lawsuit, which was filed back in April, argues the defendants were aware of the child’s aggressive behaviour.&nbsp;</p>

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The mother of a six-year-old boy, who shot his teacher at the Richneck Elementary School in Virginia, United States earlier this year, has pleaded guilty to felony child neglect on state charges on Tuesday (August 15), according to American media reports.

The mother of a six-year-old boy, who shot his teacher at the Richneck Elementary School in Virginia, United States earlier this year, has pleaded guilty to felony child neglect on state charges on Tuesday (August 15), according to American media reports. This was part of a deal with prosecutors to resolve a state case related to the incident. What is the plea deal? Deja Taylor, a 26-year-old mother who owned a gun that her son used to shoot his first-grade teacher, Abigail Zwerner, has pleaded guilty to a charge of felony child neglect, as a part of her plea deal. In line with this, she had admitted that the weapon was stored in such a way that the boy could access it. While the charge carries a maximum statutory sentence of five years in prison, due to her plea agreement, the prosecutors said they will not seek higher than six months. However, Judge Chris Papile has said that he reserves the right to sentence outside that recommendation at her sentencing, which is scheduled for October 27. ALSO READ | US: Mother of six-year-old who shot teacher charged with child neglect Taylor’s attorney had previously said that they were not sure how the boy was able to get hold of the gun because it was stored with a trigger lock on the top shelf of a bedroom closet. However, assistant Newport News Commonwealth’s Attorney, on Tuesday said that the boy had taken the gun from his mother’s purse, which was on top of a dresser. The weapon was not secured with a trigger lock, according to the prosecutors. “I stole it because I needed to shoot my teacher,” the prosecutor said the boy told investigators. However, Newport News Commonwealth’s Attorney Howard Gwynn has said that the six-year-old will not be criminally charged. About the incident The incident occurred on January 6, earlier this year when the six-year-old took a gun to school in his backpack in the morning before pulling it out at the end of the day and firing it at his teacher, said the police. ALSO READ | Who is Abigail Zwerner? Virginia teacher shot by her six-year-old student- Know what happened next Last week, unsealed court documents also showed that the boy also boasted about the incident. Amy Kovac, a reading specialist at Richneck, speaking about the incident, during an interview, said that the six-year-old looked proud, and she was stunned by what he said. “I did it.” Kovac said the boy told her, adding “I shot the b**** dead.” The victim teacher, Zwerner, fortunately survived after being shot in the hand and upper chest. She had to undergo four surgeries and spent two weeks in the hospital. ALSO READ | US: 6-year-old kid who shot his teacher in Virginia boasted about the incident She has since filed a $40 million lawsuit against the school for gross negligence after accusing them of ignoring warning signs. The lawsuit, which was filed back in April, argues the defendants were aware of the child’s aggressive behaviour. (With inputs from agencies) WATCH WION LIVE HERE You can now write for wionews.com and be a part of the community. Share your stories and opinions with us here.

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<p>The six-year-old kid who shot his teacher in the US state of Virginia in January, earlier this year, boasted about the incident shortly after, according to unsealed court documents. The boy claimed, "I shot [her] dead."</p>

<p>After a fellow teacher rushed into the classroom and restrained the kid, he is said to have admitted "I did it", adding "I got my mom's gun last night".</p>

<p>The victim teacher, identified as&nbsp;Abigail "Abby" Zwerner, who fortunately survived the shooting, had filed a $40 million lawsuit earlier this year. She has accused the school of gross negligence for ignoring warning signs. Her lawyers have argued that the defendant knew about the child and that he had a history of random violence.&nbsp;</p>

<p>According to one of the student's mothers, Abby was reading and was about to leave the art class when the boy pulled out the gun from his bag, which she attempted to&nbsp;confiscate before getting shot.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Before he shot the 9mm handgun, she said, "What are you doing with that?"</p>

<h2><strong>Boy has not been charged</strong></h2>

<p>While the boy has not been charged, his mother Deja Taylor has been charged with felony child neglect and misdemeanour for recklessly leaving a loaded firearm to endanger a child. A couple of months ago, she was also charged with using a controlled substance unlawfully while in possession of a firearm and making a false statement.&nbsp;</p>

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<p>In an interview with the Washington Post, Amy Korvac, a reading specialist who rushed to the room to restrain the child, said she saw him standing with his arms crossed and the handgun lying on the floor.&nbsp;</p>

<p>"While I was holding him, he told me he had gotten his mom's gun the night before and put it in his backpack," Ms Kovac told the paper. "He also told me he only had time to load one bullet."</p>

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<p>According to reports, the first six months of 2023 have been the deadliest in terms of mass shootings since at least 2006.&nbsp;From January 1 to June 30, the US went through a tough stretch. There were 28 mass killings during this time, and almost all of them involved guns, according to an analysis undertaken by the Associated Press.</p>

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The six-year-old kid who shot his teacher in the US state of Virginia in January, earlier this year, boasted about the incident shortly after, according to unsealed court documents.

The six-year-old kid who shot his teacher in the US state of Virginia in January, earlier this year, boasted about the incident shortly after, according to unsealed court documents. The boy claimed, "I shot [her] dead." After a fellow teacher rushed into the classroom and restrained the kid, he is said to have admitted "I did it", adding "I got my mom's gun last night". The victim teacher, identified as Abigail "Abby" Zwerner, who fortunately survived the shooting, had filed a $40 million lawsuit earlier this year. She has accused the school of gross negligence for ignoring warning signs. Her lawyers have argued that the defendant knew about the child and that he had a history of random violence. According to one of the student's mothers, Abby was reading and was about to leave the art class when the boy pulled out the gun from his bag, which she attempted to confiscate before getting shot. Before he shot the 9mm handgun, she said, "What are you doing with that?" Boy has not been charged While the boy has not been charged, his mother Deja Taylor has been charged with felony child neglect and misdemeanour for recklessly leaving a loaded firearm to endanger a child. A couple of months ago, she was also charged with using a controlled substance unlawfully while in possession of a firearm and making a false statement. Watch | US gun violence crisis: How easy is it to buy guns? | WION Wideangle × In an interview with the Washington Post, Amy Korvac, a reading specialist who rushed to the room to restrain the child, said she saw him standing with his arms crossed and the handgun lying on the floor. "While I was holding him, he told me he had gotten his mom's gun the night before and put it in his backpack," Ms Kovac told the paper. "He also told me he only had time to load one bullet." Also read | US: Virginia teacher shot by her six-year-old student tried to confiscate gun, say reports According to reports, the first six months of 2023 have been the deadliest in terms of mass shootings since at least 2006. From January 1 to June 30, the US went through a tough stretch. There were 28 mass killings during this time, and almost all of them involved guns, according to an analysis undertaken by the Associated Press. (With inputs from agencies) WATCH WION LIVE HERE:

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Only a few years back, Sweden was a peaceful welfare state. Now it has become Europe's crime capital and a hotspot for gun homicides. How will Sweden solve its gun problem? Molly Gambhir tells you more.

Gravitas: Sweden becomes a hotspot for gun-homicides

The gun violence epidemic continues unabated in the United States. As per some reports, the United States is averaging two mass shootings a day, so far this year. We have heard members from either end of the political spectrum share their two cents on how to reign in the rampant gunviolence in the United States. In this episode of Untangled, WION's Hem Kaur Saroya talks about gun backbacks.

Gun buybacks: Do they work? | Untangled

A targeted shooting that left one man dead in Sydney's south-east overnight has raised worries that the city's gang war is getting worse and that retaliatory gun violence is out of control in some neighbourhoods. In reaction to the most recent murder and the ongoing strife in the city's southwest, which is thought to be tied to drug supply, the New South Wales police force established Taskforce Magnus.

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Gun violence in the United States of America is back in news. Five people were wounded in a shooting incident in Houston with deaths from firearms rising in Texas is among the worst hit American states.

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Americans are purchasing more firearms amid the rising number of mass shootings in the U.S. What can a gun do to a person's psyche? Why are people buying more guns? Priyanka Shrma brings you the details.

Gravitas: Americans go on a shopping spree for firearms

<p>To understand why the United States is caught in a vicious circle of violence, it helps to look at a number of “only in America” statistics and explain the easy, legal way to get a gun in the country that accounts for less than five per cent of the world’s population and 46 per cent of global civilian gun ownership.</p>

<p>First, a little-known but startling statistic: There are around 78,000 federally licensed gun dealers in the country. That is more than all McDonald’s, Burger King, Subway and Wendy’s locations combined, according to a recent count by Every Town for Gun Safety, an advocacy network founded a decade ago by former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.</p>

<p>Since the beginning of the year, those dealers sold an estimated average of 42,000 guns a day and the rush for guns shows no signs of abating. That number is extrapolated from the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) which was created in the wake of an unsuccessful 1981 attempt to assassinate then-President Ronald Reagan. His press secretary, James Brady, was permanently disabled by a gunshot wound in the attack.</p>

<p>Brady died in 1974. His wife, Sarah, founded the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence which keeps track of firearms sales on the basis of NICS Firearms Transaction Records, a short form prospective gun buyers need to complete to buy a firearm. The form is emailed by the dealer to the FBI which responds within minutes, reflecting the “instant” in NICS.</p>

<p>The Brady campaign filters out categories on the forms that are not directly related to sales and its estimates tend to be more conservative than those of other groups that equate NICS checks with sales. But there is consensus that over the years, the number of firearms in civilian hands has grown relentlessly and now far exceeds the population of 333.2 million.</p>

<p>While the American arsenal grew by millions in the first six months of the year, the death toll from firearms ran around 125 a day, roughly the average over the past few years. There were more suicides than murders. Mass shootings, defined by the Gun Violence Archive as at least four people killed or wounded, totalled 333 halfway through the year.</p>

<p>Worth noting: The astonishing numbers estimated on the basis of NICS minimise the huge size of the arsenal. A private citizen selling a firearm to another private citizen does not need to file a transaction record. How many such private deals are made is not known, which is why groups advocating for better controls have been calling for “universal background checks” for decades.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.wionews.com/opinions-blogs/only-in-america-an-epidemic-of-gun-violence-without-a-cure-556046"><strong>ALSO READ|&nbsp;Only in America: An epidemic of gun violence without a cure</strong></a><br />
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Polls show overwhelming public support for such checks but a string of attempts to translate that into law has failed over the years thanks largely to vigorous and well-funded efforts by lobbyists for the gun industry, most prominently the National Rifle Association (NRA). It portrays itself as the key defender of the right to own guns enshrined in the Second Amendment of the US&nbsp;constitution.</p>

<p>To the uncountable number of privately-sold weapons, add a relatively new phenomenon –“ghost guns.” These are firearms assembled from kits sold online and have, in the words of Every Town for Gun Safety, become “a weapon of choice for violent criminals, including white supremacists.” Unlike guns produced by manufacturers, ghost guns carry no serial numbers and thus cannot be traced.</p>

<p>Ghost guns were a niche product for do-it-yourself enthusiasts for years but sales took off around 2009 when California state law banned the sale of semi-automatic rifles, like the AR-15. Since then, sales have risen steadily and several ghost guns have been linked to mass shootings, including one at Santa Monica College which killed six students.</p>

<p>By 2019, there were so many in circulation that authorities reported having recovered around 10,000 following shooting incidents around the country. In Washington, plagued by a series of carjackings by armed teenagers in the past few months, ghost guns were used in many of the incidents.</p>

<p>With so many guns in circulation, legally bought or home-made, who makes up the client base for more?</p>

<p>Recent research indicates that the demographic of gun ownership has been changing, a development experts link to the outbreak of the Covid pandemic and the uncertainties it injected into daily life. The National Shooting Sports Federation, the firearms industry’s trade association, found that gun ownership among Black Americans jumped 56 per cent from 2019 to 2020, the first full year of the pandemic.</p>

<p>According to a recent preliminary study by Harvard University, a 14 per cent increase in gun purchases by women brought female gun ownership in the country to 42 per cent.</p>

<p>This is no longer the stereotypical demographic then presidential candidate Barack Obama apparently had in mind when, on the campaign trail in 2008, he referred to jobless working-class Americans in industrial towns as bitter people who “cling to guns and religion.”</p>

<p>The majority of gun owners are still white men but now, statistics indicate, of diverse backgrounds. Your friendly neighbourhood office commuter is just as likely to carry a gun as your car mechanic. You wouldn’t know because it would be tucked out of sight.</p>

<p>All 50 states allow citizens over 21 to carry a concealed handgun. In 27 states, no permit for “concealed carry” is required. In others, obtaining a permit is obligatory and can be difficult. Allowing citizens to carry their guns concealed without a permit has been a top priority of the firearms industry. Its leaders argue that there should be no bureaucratic hurdles to the constitutional right to guns.</p>

<p>One side-effect of greater numbers of women arming up is the growth of a fashion industry which designs clothes that make it easy to hide their guns and stay fashionable. Last year’s NRA convention featured a “concealed carry fashion show” where models displayed guns tucked into their underwear.</p>

<p>One website for the fashionable gunwoman shows a model wearing a floor-length evening dress over a gun held in an ankle holster. Another site offers a loose blouse with a large decorative front knot covering a gun. Purses with special compartments are also in demand.</p>

<p>Mass shootings have been almost exclusively the preserve of men and overall, men are more trigger-happy than women. But this may be changing if a recent shooting in the Texas city of El Paso serves as an indicator.</p>

<p>In mid-June, Phoebe Copas, a visitor from Kentucky, booked an Uber ride to take her to a casino in the city. El Paso adjoins the Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez and the two are divided by the Rio Grande. When Copas saw a road sign to one of the border crossing points to Mexico, she told police, she thought she was being kidnapped.</p>

<p>Whereupon she took a gun out of her handbag and shot the Uber driver in the back of the head. The driver died. The shooter faces murder charges.<br />
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To understand why the United States is caught in a vicious circle of violence, it helps to look at a number of “only in America” statistics and explain the easy, legal way to get a gun in the country that accounts for less than five per cent of the world’s population and 46 per cent of global civilian gun ownership.

To understand why the United States is caught in a vicious circle of violence, it helps to look at a number of “only in America” statistics and explain the easy, legal way to get a gun in the country that accounts for less than five per cent of the world’s population and 46 per cent of global civilian gun ownership. First, a little-known but startling statistic: There are around 78,000 federally licensed gun dealers in the country. That is more than all McDonald’s, Burger King, Subway and Wendy’s locations combined, according to a recent count by Every Town for Gun Safety, an advocacy network founded a decade ago by former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Since the beginning of the year, those dealers sold an estimated average of 42,000 guns a day and the rush for guns shows no signs of abating. That number is extrapolated from the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) which was created in the wake of an unsuccessful 1981 attempt to assassinate then-President Ronald Reagan. His press secretary, James Brady, was permanently disabled by a gunshot wound in the attack. Brady died in 1974. His wife, Sarah, founded the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence which keeps track of firearms sales on the basis of NICS Firearms Transaction Records, a short form prospective gun buyers need to complete to buy a firearm. The form is emailed by the dealer to the FBI which responds within minutes, reflecting the “instant” in NICS. The Brady campaign filters out categories on the forms that are not directly related to sales and its estimates tend to be more conservative than those of other groups that equate NICS checks with sales. But there is consensus that over the years, the number of firearms in civilian hands has grown relentlessly and now far exceeds the population of 333.2 million. While the American arsenal grew by millions in the first six months of the year, the death toll from firearms ran around 125 a day, roughly the average over the past few years. There were more suicides than murders. Mass shootings, defined by the Gun Violence Archive as at least four people killed or wounded, totalled 333 halfway through the year. Worth noting: The astonishing numbers estimated on the basis of NICS minimise the huge size of the arsenal. A private citizen selling a firearm to another private citizen does not need to file a transaction record. How many such private deals are made is not known, which is why groups advocating for better controls have been calling for “universal background checks” for decades. ALSO READ| Only in America: An epidemic of gun violence without a cure Polls show overwhelming public support for such checks but a string of attempts to translate that into law has failed over the years thanks largely to vigorous and well-funded efforts by lobbyists for the gun industry, most prominently the National Rifle Association (NRA). It portrays itself as the key defender of the right to own guns enshrined in the Second Amendment of the US constitution. To the uncountable number of privately-sold weapons, add a relatively new phenomenon –“ghost guns.” These are firearms assembled from kits sold online and have, in the words of Every Town for Gun Safety, become “a weapon of choice for violent criminals, including white supremacists.” Unlike guns produced by manufacturers, ghost guns carry no serial numbers and thus cannot be traced. Ghost guns were a niche product for do-it-yourself enthusiasts for years but sales took off around 2009 when California state law banned the sale of semi-automatic rifles, like the AR-15. Since then, sales have risen steadily and several ghost guns have been linked to mass shootings, including one at Santa Monica College which killed six students. By 2019, there were so many in circulation that authorities reported having recovered around 10,000 following shooting incidents around the country. In Washington, plagued by a series of carjackings by armed teenagers in the past few months, ghost guns were used in many of the incidents. With so many guns in circulation, legally bought or home-made, who makes up the client base for more? Recent research indicates that the demographic of gun ownership has been changing, a development experts link to the outbreak of the Covid pandemic and the uncertainties it injected into daily life. The National Shooting Sports Federation, the firearms industry’s trade association, found that gun ownership among Black Americans jumped 56 per cent from 2019 to 2020, the first full year of the pandemic. According to a recent preliminary study by Harvard University, a 14 per cent increase in gun purchases by women brought female gun ownership in the country to 42 per cent. This is no longer the stereotypical demographic then presidential candidate Barack Obama apparently had in mind when, on the campaign trail in 2008, he referred to jobless working-class Americans in industrial towns as bitter people who “cling to guns and religion.” The majority of gun owners are still white men but now, statistics indicate, of diverse backgrounds. Your friendly neighbourhood office commuter is just as likely to carry a gun as your car mechanic. You wouldn’t know because it would be tucked out of sight. All 50 states allow citizens over 21 to carry a concealed handgun. In 27 states, no permit for “concealed carry” is required. In others, obtaining a permit is obligatory and can be difficult. Allowing citizens to carry their guns concealed without a permit has been a top priority of the firearms industry. Its leaders argue that there should be no bureaucratic hurdles to the constitutional right to guns. One side-effect of greater numbers of women arming up is the growth of a fashion industry which designs clothes that make it easy to hide their guns and stay fashionable. Last year’s NRA convention featured a “concealed carry fashion show” where models displayed guns tucked into their underwear. One website for the fashionable gunwoman shows a model wearing a floor-length evening dress over a gun held in an ankle holster. Another site offers a loose blouse with a large decorative front knot covering a gun. Purses with special compartments are also in demand. Mass shootings have been almost exclusively the preserve of men and overall, men are more trigger-happy than women. But this may be changing if a recent shooting in the Texas city of El Paso serves as an indicator. In mid-June, Phoebe Copas, a visitor from Kentucky, booked an Uber ride to take her to a casino in the city. El Paso adjoins the Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez and the two are divided by the Rio Grande. When Copas saw a road sign to one of the border crossing points to Mexico, she told police, she thought she was being kidnapped. Whereupon she took a gun out of her handbag and shot the Uber driver in the back of the head. The driver died. The shooter faces murder charges. (Disclaimer: The views of the writer do not represent the views of WION or ZMCL. Nor does WION or ZMCL endorse the views of the writer.) WATCH WION LIVE HERE

Americans respond to epidemic of gun violence by buying more guns

<p><meta charset="utf-8" />Gun violence took centre&nbsp;stage as the prevailing theme of the year in the United States from the very beginning of 2023. Six months in, and the country has reached a sombre milestone that nobody ever aspired for—the deadliest six months of mass killings recorded since at least 2006.</p>

<p>From January 1 to June 30, the US went through a tough stretch. There were 28 mass killings during this time, and almost all of them involved guns, according to an analysis undertaken by the Associated Press.&nbsp;It seemed like every week the death toll went up, and it was a cycle of violence and sorrow.&nbsp;</p>

<p>The milestone of 2023 has gone above and beyond, surpassing the previous record of 27 mass killings set in the second half of 2022.</p>

<p><strong>WION Data Lab </strong>brings you some staggering statistics&nbsp;on America's unique struggle with gun violence.&nbsp;</p>

<h2><strong><meta charset="utf-8" />American gun ownership rates are the highest in the world</strong></h2>

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<p>A 2018 report by the Geneva-based Small Arms Survey discovered that US gun owners had 393.3 million firearms, which is more than the nation's current population of approximately 340&nbsp;million.</p>

<p>In a study by the&nbsp;<em>Annals of Internal Medicine</em>, it was discovered that between January 2019 and April 2021, 7.5 million Americans&nbsp;or slightly under three per cent of the population, became first-time gun owners.</p>

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<h2><strong>Disturbing Surge: Gun Deaths Among US Kids Soar by 50% Between 2019 and 2021</strong></h2>

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<p><em><strong>Note: This is an interactive data chart. Hover/click on the squares to get the figures.&nbsp;</strong></em></p>

<p>Between 2019 and 2021, there was a distressing 50 per cent&nbsp;surge in the number of <a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/us-3-year-old-accidentally-kills-1-year-old-sibling-with-a-gun-in-a-bizarre-incident-616992">children</a> and teens fatally impacted by gunfire in the United States. This data comes from a comprehensive analysis by the Pew Research Center, which examined the latest annual mortality statistics reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).</p>

<p>In 2019, a time before the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, the number of gun-related deaths among children and teenagers below the age of 18 in the United States stood at 1,732. However, by 2021, that figure had surged to an alarming&nbsp;2,590.&nbsp;</p>

<h2><strong>Gun deaths outpace car accidents as a greater threat to children's lives</strong></h2>

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<p>In 2021, firearms were responsible for approximately 19 per cent of all childhood deaths (ages 1-18), as revealed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Wonder database. Shockingly, nearly 3,600 children lost their lives in gun-related incidents that year. To put it into perspective, that's roughly five children lost for every 100,000 children in the United States.&nbsp;</p>

<h2><strong>Firearm frenzy: Outnumbering giants such as McDonald's, Starbucks in the US</strong></h2>

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<p>The chart above demonstrates the remarkable accessibility of lethal weapons in the United States. Comparing the gun trade with the number of McDonald's, Starbucks, and Subway outlets, it becomes evident that the trading of firearms surpasses even the ubiquity of selling burgers or coffee. To put it into perspective, there were a staggering 52,799 federal firearm dealers scattered across the US in 2020.</p>

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Gun violence took centre stage as the prevailing theme of the year in the United States from the very beginning of 2023. Six months in, and the country has reached a sombre milestone that nobody ever aspired for—the deadliest six months of mass killings recorded since at least 2006.

Gun violence took centre stage as the prevailing theme of the year in the United States from the very beginning of 2023. Six months in, and the country has reached a sombre milestone that nobody ever aspired for—the deadliest six months of mass killings recorded since at least 2006. From January 1 to June 30, the US went through a tough stretch. There were 28 mass killings during this time, and almost all of them involved guns, according to an analysis undertaken by the Associated Press. It seemed like every week the death toll went up, and it was a cycle of violence and sorrow. The milestone of 2023 has gone above and beyond, surpassing the previous record of 27 mass killings set in the second half of 2022. WION Data Lab brings you some staggering statistics on America's unique struggle with gun violence. American gun ownership rates are the highest in the world × A 2018 report by the Geneva-based Small Arms Survey discovered that US gun owners had 393.3 million firearms, which is more than the nation's current population of approximately 340 million. In a study by the Annals of Internal Medicine, it was discovered that between January 2019 and April 2021, 7.5 million Americans or slightly under three per cent of the population, became first-time gun owners. Also read | Americans respond to epidemic of gun violence by buying more guns Disturbing Surge: Gun Deaths Among US Kids Soar by 50% Between 2019 and 2021 × Note: This is an interactive data chart. Hover/click on the squares to get the figures. Between 2019 and 2021, there was a distressing 50 per cent surge in the number of children and teens fatally impacted by gunfire in the United States. This data comes from a comprehensive analysis by the Pew Research Center, which examined the latest annual mortality statistics reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In 2019, a time before the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, the number of gun-related deaths among children and teenagers below the age of 18 in the United States stood at 1,732. However, by 2021, that figure had surged to an alarming 2,590. Gun deaths outpace car accidents as a greater threat to children's lives × Note: This is an interactive data chart. Hover/click on the points to get the figures. In 2021, firearms were responsible for approximately 19 per cent of all childhood deaths (ages 1-18), as revealed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Wonder database. Shockingly, nearly 3,600 children lost their lives in gun-related incidents that year. To put it into perspective, that's roughly five children lost for every 100,000 children in the United States. Firearm frenzy: Outnumbering giants such as McDonald's, Starbucks in the US The chart above demonstrates the remarkable accessibility of lethal weapons in the United States. Comparing the gun trade with the number of McDonald's, Starbucks, and Subway outlets, it becomes evident that the trading of firearms surpasses even the ubiquity of selling burgers or coffee. To put it into perspective, there were a staggering 52,799 federal firearm dealers scattered across the US in 2020. WATCH WION LIVE HERE:

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<p>A manhunt was launched in the state of Georgia in the United States after an unidentified male shooter shot down four people. So far no known motive is known for the shooting incident.&nbsp;</p>

<h2><strong>Georgia shooting incident: What happened?</strong></h2>

<p>The shooting incident occurred in a&nbsp;residential neighbourhood in Hampton, Georgia, located about 35 miles south of Atlanta.</p>

<p>Police Chief James Turner addressed the media and identified the deceased. Turner informed&nbsp;that three men and one woman had lost their lives in the shooting incident.</p>

<p>The precise identities of the victims were withheld as their bereaved relatives were still being notified.</p>

<h2><strong>Georgia shooting incident: Suspect identified</strong></h2>

<p>Authorities issued four arrest warrants for a resident of Hampton, Andre Longmore, aged 40.</p>

<p>It remained uncertain whether Longmore had any prior connection to the victims.</p>

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<p>News of the shooting rapidly spread, prompting law enforcement agencies throughout the Atlanta metropolitan area to join the search for Longmore.</p>

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<p>He was last seen driving a black GMC Acadia SUV, although the vehicle reportedly did not belong to him.</p>

<p>Meanwhile, Henry County Sheriff Reginald Scandrett vowed to relentlessly pursue Longmore and ensure his capture.</p>

<p>The sheriff's office offered a substantial $10,000 reward for any information leading to Longmore's arrest and subsequent prosecution.</p>

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A manhunt was launched in the state of Georgia in the United States after an unidentified male shooter shot down four people. So far no known motive is known for the shooting incident.

A manhunt was launched in the state of Georgia in the United States after an unidentified male shooter shot down four people. So far no known motive is known for the shooting incident. Georgia shooting incident: What happened? The shooting incident occurred in a residential neighbourhood in Hampton, Georgia, located about 35 miles south of Atlanta. Police Chief James Turner addressed the media and identified the deceased. Turner informed that three men and one woman had lost their lives in the shooting incident. The precise identities of the victims were withheld as their bereaved relatives were still being notified. Georgia shooting incident: Suspect identified Authorities issued four arrest warrants for a resident of Hampton, Andre Longmore, aged 40. It remained uncertain whether Longmore had any prior connection to the victims. Also read | US gun violence: Indian-origin man shot dead in Georgia, two juveniles arrested News of the shooting rapidly spread, prompting law enforcement agencies throughout the Atlanta metropolitan area to join the search for Longmore. Also watch | United States: 3 men found guilty for murdering a black man in Georgia × He was last seen driving a black GMC Acadia SUV, although the vehicle reportedly did not belong to him. Meanwhile, Henry County Sheriff Reginald Scandrett vowed to relentlessly pursue Longmore and ensure his capture. The sheriff's office offered a substantial $10,000 reward for any information leading to Longmore's arrest and subsequent prosecution. Hampton's Mayor, Ann Tarpley, asked people to direct their thoughts and prayers towards the affected families and victims. WATCH WION LIVE HERE You can now write for wionews.com and be a part of the community. Share your stories and opinions with us here.

US gun violence: Georgia shooter still at large; authorities announce reward towards suspect's capture

<p>An Indian-origin store clerk, 36, was shot dead during what is being cited as an armed robbery in the US state of Georgia, Press Trust of India reported while citing local media reports.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Two juveniles have been arrested in connection with the murder.</p>

<h2><strong>Where did the incident occur?</strong></h2>

<p>The incident occurred in the city of Wrens, Georgia, about 130 miles southeast of Atlanta where Mandeep Singh worked as a clerk at a convenience store.</p>

<p>Last week, the Augusta Chronicle newspaper reported that Singh was struck twice by gunfire on June 28 and was pronounced dead at the scene.</p>

<p>The assailants were identified as two 15-year-olds.</p>

<h2><strong>Who was Mandeep Singh?</strong></h2>

<p>According to PTI, Singh was a resident of Augusta city. He was employed at the store for less than a month, as confirmed by Wrens Police Chief John Maynard.</p>

<p>The police chief said&nbsp;in an official statement that the incident initially appeared to be an armed robbery, and during the course of the incident, shots were fired resulting in the death of the clerk.</p>

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<p>The juveniles involved in the crime were not wearing masks nor attempting to conceal their identities, which subsequently resulted in&nbsp;their identification and consequent arrest.</p>

<p>Singh's body was transported to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation crime lab after being confirmed by the Jefferson County Coroner's Office.</p>

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<p>Chief Maynard said that they are pursuing other leads to determine the motive behind the crime.</p>

<h2><strong>What about Mandeep Singh's family?</strong></h2>

<p>Mandeep Singh was the sole breadwinner of his family. A GoFundMe fundraiser has been established to support Singh's family. The fundraiser&nbsp;appeals for donations to assist the family with ongoing living costs.</p>

<p>According to the Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence, nearly 1,700 Georgians died by gun violence in 2019, an average of more than four people every day. Suicides were 56 per cent of the gun deaths and homicides were 41 per cent.</p>

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An Indian-origin store clerk, 36, was shot dead during what is being cited as an armed robbery in the US state of Georgia, Press Trust of India reported while citing local media reports.

An Indian-origin store clerk, 36, was shot dead during what is being cited as an armed robbery in the US state of Georgia, Press Trust of India reported while citing local media reports. Two juveniles have been arrested in connection with the murder. Where did the incident occur? The incident occurred in the city of Wrens, Georgia, about 130 miles southeast of Atlanta where Mandeep Singh worked as a clerk at a convenience store. Last week, the Augusta Chronicle newspaper reported that Singh was struck twice by gunfire on June 28 and was pronounced dead at the scene. The assailants were identified as two 15-year-olds. Who was Mandeep Singh? According to PTI, Singh was a resident of Augusta city. He was employed at the store for less than a month, as confirmed by Wrens Police Chief John Maynard. The police chief said in an official statement that the incident initially appeared to be an armed robbery, and during the course of the incident, shots were fired resulting in the death of the clerk. Also read | Three months into 2023 and 9,800 killed in gun violence in US The juveniles involved in the crime were not wearing masks nor attempting to conceal their identities, which subsequently resulted in their identification and consequent arrest. Singh's body was transported to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation crime lab after being confirmed by the Jefferson County Coroner's Office. Also watch | Gun violence: A common occurrence in US × Chief Maynard said that they are pursuing other leads to determine the motive behind the crime. What about Mandeep Singh's family? Mandeep Singh was the sole breadwinner of his family. A GoFundMe fundraiser has been established to support Singh's family. The fundraiser appeals for donations to assist the family with ongoing living costs. According to the Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence, nearly 1,700 Georgians died by gun violence in 2019, an average of more than four people every day. Suicides were 56 per cent of the gun deaths and homicides were 41 per cent. WATCH WION LIVE HERE You can now write for wionews.com and be a part of the community. Share your stories and opinions with us here.

US gun violence: Indian-origin man shot dead in Georgia, two juveniles arrested

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Social media platforms, like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, have been called out for allowing users to advertise gun modifiers. What are gun modifiers? Why are they illegal? Molly Gambhir tells you more.

Social media users are advertising and selling illegal gun modifier

Mass shootings, murders, suicides, and gun-related violence have been on the rise, especially since the pandemic. Easy access to firearms whether legal or illegal is one of the main reasons for gun violence. Even though governments have found a way to regulate the same, people have found other ways to sell and purchase these weapons which is done easily via social media! Keep watching to know how.

Gun DIY kit, also known as ghost gun, bought online fuel epidemic of violence

<p>A two-year-old boy in the United States accidentally shot his pregnant mother on Friday, killing her as well as her unborn baby, said police.</p>

<p>According to the Norwalk Police Department as well as local media reports, police received a call at around 1:11 pm&nbsp;that day from a residence in Norwalk, Ohio. The woman, who was later identified as 31-year-old Laura Ilg, informed the dispatchers that she was shot in her back accidentally by her toddler after he got hold of the gun, as reported by Cleveland 19 News.</p>

<h2><strong>Woman called police after being shot</strong></h2>

<p>The police officers immediately rushed the woman to nearby Fisher-Titus Medical Center where she had to go through an emergency C-section.&nbsp;However, the doctors failed to save the 33-week unborn baby, Police Chief Dave Smith informed the local media outlets on Tuesday. He added that the baby boy, if alive, would have been the second child of Ilg, adding that she also succumbed to her injuries three hours later at around 5 pm on Friday.</p>

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<p>After the gun was accidentally fired, Ilg first dialled her husband who was at work when the incident occurred, before calling the police, said Smith. &nbsp;</p>

<p>He said that when the police officers reached the house, they broke down the door to enter and discovered the mother and child in a bedroom located upstairs. The local media was informed by the police chief that a SIG Sauer micro 9 mm handgun was seized by the police officers from the scene.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Smith stated that Ilg was "uncomfortable and in shock," however, she had maintained enough calm to provide details of the accident to the police.&nbsp;</p>

<h2><strong>Bedroom door, baby gates accidentally left open</strong></h2>

<p>Speaking to the 19 News, the police chief said that the house was "full of safety features," and numerous protections were in place, which included baby gates.</p>

<p>However, he said the investigators later learned that various baby gates and a bedroom door, which are usually kept closed, were left open accidentally on the day when the shooting took place. Smith said that the family members had callously left the gun, which was used in the incident, on a bedroom nightstand and added that normally the toddler had no access to the bedroom because the room was kept locked.&nbsp;</p>

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<p>The police were told by Ilg that she believed her son entered the room while she was busy doing laundry and he began playing with the gun during which it accidentally fired into her back, Smith said to the local media. Ilg said that she had no idea her child would be able to hold the gun, let alone pull the trigger. Ilg's husband informed the police the gun belongs to him, the police chief stated. Currently, the 2-year-old boy is in the custody of his father, said Smith.</p>

<p>The police chief stated that the incident is being looked at as an accidental shooting. The gun's functionality and how the trigger was pulled by a 2-year-old are being investigated by the police.&nbsp;</p>

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A two-year-old boy in the United States accidentally shot his pregnant mother on Friday, killing her as well as her unborn baby, said police. According to the Norwalk Police Department as well as local media reports, police received a call at around 1:11 pm that day from a residence in Norwalk, Ohio.

A two-year-old boy in the United States accidentally shot his pregnant mother on Friday, killing her as well as her unborn baby, said police. According to the Norwalk Police Department as well as local media reports, police received a call at around 1:11 pm that day from a residence in Norwalk, Ohio. The woman, who was later identified as 31-year-old Laura Ilg, informed the dispatchers that she was shot in her back accidentally by her toddler after he got hold of the gun, as reported by Cleveland 19 News. Woman called police after being shot The police officers immediately rushed the woman to nearby Fisher-Titus Medical Center where she had to go through an emergency C-section. However, the doctors failed to save the 33-week unborn baby, Police Chief Dave Smith informed the local media outlets on Tuesday. He added that the baby boy, if alive, would have been the second child of Ilg, adding that she also succumbed to her injuries three hours later at around 5 pm on Friday. ALSO READ | Tennessee horrific murder-suicide: Man, possessing '50 to 60' guns, kills estranged wife, four kids After the gun was accidentally fired, Ilg first dialled her husband who was at work when the incident occurred, before calling the police, said Smith. He said that when the police officers reached the house, they broke down the door to enter and discovered the mother and child in a bedroom located upstairs. The local media was informed by the police chief that a SIG Sauer micro 9 mm handgun was seized by the police officers from the scene. Smith stated that Ilg was "uncomfortable and in shock," however, she had maintained enough calm to provide details of the accident to the police. Bedroom door, baby gates accidentally left open Speaking to the 19 News, the police chief said that the house was "full of safety features," and numerous protections were in place, which included baby gates. However, he said the investigators later learned that various baby gates and a bedroom door, which are usually kept closed, were left open accidentally on the day when the shooting took place. Smith said that the family members had callously left the gun, which was used in the incident, on a bedroom nightstand and added that normally the toddler had no access to the bedroom because the room was kept locked. WATCH | US gun violence crisis: How easy is it to buy guns? | WION Wideangle The police were told by Ilg that she believed her son entered the room while she was busy doing laundry and he began playing with the gun during which it accidentally fired into her back, Smith said to the local media. Ilg said that she had no idea her child would be able to hold the gun, let alone pull the trigger. Ilg's husband informed the police the gun belongs to him, the police chief stated. Currently, the 2-year-old boy is in the custody of his father, said Smith. The police chief stated that the incident is being looked at as an accidental shooting. The gun's functionality and how the trigger was pulled by a 2-year-old are being investigated by the police. You can now write for wionews.com and be a part of the community. Share your stories and opinions with us here. WATCH WION LIVE HERE

Pregnant mother, unborn child shot dead by 2-year-old son in Ohio

Another American shooting tragedy, this time in the state of Illinois. Celebrations for Juneteenth took a fatal turn late Saturday night when news of a brutal shooting occurred among a large Rush. One person is killed and 20 others have bullet wounds. The incident took place in a Chicago suburb.

US: Juneteenth celebrations in Illinois take an ugly turn

<p>A man, went on a violent shooting rampage, killing his estranged wife, her daughter and three other kids, days after the woman had warned a court about him possessing “50 to 60 guns” and was afraid he would “get drunk and shoot me.”<br />
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Tennessee Bureau of Investigation's officials, speaking to TV station Local 3, said that 48-year-old Gary Barnett, who was the owner of the house in Marion County where the shooting took place, was among the three adults who were rescued from the home that was on fire.<br />
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Sheriff Bo Burnett said that Barnett, who was working in the machine tool industry, had shot and killed his wife Regina along with her daughter Britney and two of her grandchildren. Then, the man turned the gun on himself.</p>

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<h2><strong>'He will get drunk and shoot me'</strong></h2>

<p>Regina, who was working at the Seymour handle factory, had earlier filed for a restraining order against her estranged husband around a month ago, as per the court records.<br />
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In the documents submitted to the court, Regina had written, “My soon to be (ex) husband threatened to shoot me and he verbally abuses me every day. He also threatened to shoot my dog.”<br />
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He added, “He also has anywhere from 50 to 60 guns in his room. I am afraid he will get drunk and shoot me.”</p>

<h2><strong>House set alight amid shooting</strong></h2>

<p>Another adult, who remains unnamed, was found inside the home which was set on fire at some point of time during the shooting, also suffered injuries and was flown to a local hospital.</p>

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<p>Local reports stated that the surviving adult, who was not identified, suffered many gunshot wounds, stated the local reports. The names and ages of the three children were not revealed by the police.<br />
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Sheriff Burnett confirmed that the two of the minors who were killed were Regina’s grandchildren.<br />
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“It’s a domestic situation, evidently that has been ongoing for a pretty good while,” said Sheriff Burnett, while speaking to WTVC NewsChannel 9.<br />
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Initially, the deputies reached the residence after they were informed of a possible shooting, but on reaching the scene, they found the house fully engulfed in flames.<br />
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A “no contact order” was approved by a judge against Barnett, in which he was asked to stay away from his wife. The order was still in effect when the shooting occurred.<br />
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The authorities are making autopsy reports on all the victims and Barnett in Nashville.&nbsp;<br />
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A man, went on a violent shooting rampage, killing his estranged wife, her daughter and three other kids, days after the woman had warned a court about him possessing “50 to 60 guns” and was afraid he would “get drunk and shoot me.

A man, went on a violent shooting rampage, killing his estranged wife, her daughter and three other kids, days after the woman had warned a court about him possessing “50 to 60 guns” and was afraid he would “get drunk and shoot me.” Tennessee Bureau of Investigation's officials, speaking to TV station Local 3, said that 48-year-old Gary Barnett, who was the owner of the house in Marion County where the shooting took place, was among the three adults who were rescued from the home that was on fire. Sheriff Bo Burnett said that Barnett, who was working in the machine tool industry, had shot and killed his wife Regina along with her daughter Britney and two of her grandchildren. Then, the man turned the gun on himself. ALSO READ | Teacher injured after school shooting in Bosnia, child arrested 'He will get drunk and shoot me' Regina, who was working at the Seymour handle factory, had earlier filed for a restraining order against her estranged husband around a month ago, as per the court records. In the documents submitted to the court, Regina had written, “My soon to be (ex) husband threatened to shoot me and he verbally abuses me every day. He also threatened to shoot my dog.” He added, “He also has anywhere from 50 to 60 guns in his room. I am afraid he will get drunk and shoot me.” House set alight amid shooting Another adult, who remains unnamed, was found inside the home which was set on fire at some point of time during the shooting, also suffered injuries and was flown to a local hospital. WATCH | Serbia: 8 dead, 13 injured in second mass shooting in two days | World News | WION Local reports stated that the surviving adult, who was not identified, suffered many gunshot wounds, stated the local reports. The names and ages of the three children were not revealed by the police. Sheriff Burnett confirmed that the two of the minors who were killed were Regina’s grandchildren. “It’s a domestic situation, evidently that has been ongoing for a pretty good while,” said Sheriff Burnett, while speaking to WTVC NewsChannel 9. Initially, the deputies reached the residence after they were informed of a possible shooting, but on reaching the scene, they found the house fully engulfed in flames. A “no contact order” was approved by a judge against Barnett, in which he was asked to stay away from his wife. The order was still in effect when the shooting occurred. The authorities are making autopsy reports on all the victims and Barnett in Nashville. You can now write for wionews.com and be a part of the community. Share your stories and opinions with us here. WATCH WION LIVE HERE

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<p><meta charset="utf-8" />A man in Illinois is facing firearms charges in a&nbsp;freak case after he accidentally shot himself in the leg while in sleep. He reportedly was dreaming about a burglary that led to the episode, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/illinois-man-charged-shooting-dream-police-say-rcna89176">NBC News </a>reported.</p>

<p dir="ltr">The incident took place on April 10, when deputies said they responded to a report of a Lake Barrington resident with a gunshot wound. When deputies arrived at the site, they found 62-year-old Mark Dicara with a gunshot wound on his leg, <a href="https://www.lakecountyil.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=3572">the Lake County Sheriff's Office said in a release.</a></p>

<p dir="ltr">A tourniquet was immediately applied to Dicara's leg, as there was significant amount of blood loss.&nbsp;</p>

<p dir="ltr">When cops interrogated him, they found that Dicara had a dream about someone breaking into his house. In the dream, he shoots at the burglar&nbsp;with his .357 Magnum revolver.</p>

<p dir="ltr">But, what unfolded was bizarre. Dicara shot himself instead reportedly and woke up in pain, the release stated. He was later rushed to a local hospital for treatment.&nbsp;</p>

<p dir="ltr">''The round discharged from the firearm went through Dicara's leg and lodged itself into the bedding. Fortunately, the round did not travel through a shared wall with Dicara's neighbours,'' the release said.</p>

<p dir="ltr">The police also confirmed during the interrogation that an attempted burglary did not take place at Dicara's residence, and there was no intruder in his property.</p>

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<p dir="ltr">Dicara was arrested on a warrant on Monday&nbsp; (June 12), and was released after signing $150,000 bond, the sheriff's office said. He was additionally charged with possessing a firearm with a revoked Firearm Owners Identification, and reckless discharge of a firearm, the sheriff's office said in a statement.</p>

<p>The state of Illinois mandates <a href="https://isp.illinois.gov/Foid/Foid">gun owners to have a Firearm Owners Identification</a> card to legally keep firearms or ammunition, according to state police. He is expected to appear in court on June 29 next.</p>

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<h2><strong>US gun killings compared with other countries</strong></h2>

<p>Data from the CDC shows that homicides accounted for 19,384 deaths in 2020 or 43 per cent&nbsp;of all deaths. The statistic indicates a 75 per cent rise over the previous ten years and a 34 per cent increase from 2019.&nbsp;The statistics show that in the US, a firearm claims&nbsp;close to 53 lives&nbsp;per day. The research also reveals that 79 per cent&nbsp;of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wionews.com/india-news/celebratory-gunshots-gone-wrong-man-dies-of-heart-attack-after-shooting-guest-548770">homicides</a>&nbsp;were committed using firearms.</p>

<h2><strong>Rise in mass shootings in the US</strong></h2>

<p>Data from Washington-based&nbsp;<em>Gun Violence Archive</em>&nbsp;shows that&nbsp;there were more than 600 mass shootings in the United States in 2022 alone, more than twice the 336 mass shootings that were reported four years prior. As defined broadly, a mass shooting is any occurrence in which four or more people—excluding the shooter—are shot or killed.</p>

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A man in Illinois is facing firearms charges in a freak case after he accidentally shot himself in the leg while in sleep. He reportedly was dreaming about a burglary that led to the episode, NBC News reported.

A man in Illinois is facing firearms charges in a freak case after he accidentally shot himself in the leg while in sleep. He reportedly was dreaming about a burglary that led to the episode, NBC News reported. The incident took place on April 10, when deputies said they responded to a report of a Lake Barrington resident with a gunshot wound. When deputies arrived at the site, they found 62-year-old Mark Dicara with a gunshot wound on his leg, the Lake County Sheriff's Office said in a release. A tourniquet was immediately applied to Dicara's leg, as there was significant amount of blood loss. When cops interrogated him, they found that Dicara had a dream about someone breaking into his house. In the dream, he shoots at the burglar with his .357 Magnum revolver. But, what unfolded was bizarre. Dicara shot himself instead reportedly and woke up in pain, the release stated. He was later rushed to a local hospital for treatment. ''The round discharged from the firearm went through Dicara's leg and lodged itself into the bedding. Fortunately, the round did not travel through a shared wall with Dicara's neighbours,'' the release said. The police also confirmed during the interrogation that an attempted burglary did not take place at Dicara's residence, and there was no intruder in his property. Also read | Japanese soldier opens fire at colleagues at military base, two dead Dicara was arrested on a warrant on Monday (June 12), and was released after signing $150,000 bond, the sheriff's office said. He was additionally charged with possessing a firearm with a revoked Firearm Owners Identification, and reckless discharge of a firearm, the sheriff's office said in a statement. The state of Illinois mandates gun owners to have a Firearm Owners Identification card to legally keep firearms or ammunition, according to state police. He is expected to appear in court on June 29 next. Also watch | Denver shooting incident: Gun violence continues to polarise the US US gun killings compared with other countries Data from the CDC shows that homicides accounted for 19,384 deaths in 2020 or 43 per cent of all deaths. The statistic indicates a 75 per cent rise over the previous ten years and a 34 per cent increase from 2019. The statistics show that in the US, a firearm claims close to 53 lives per day. The research also reveals that 79 per cent of homicides were committed using firearms. Rise in mass shootings in the US Data from Washington-based Gun Violence Archive shows that there were more than 600 mass shootings in the United States in 2022 alone, more than twice the 336 mass shootings that were reported four years prior. As defined broadly, a mass shooting is any occurrence in which four or more people—excluding the shooter—are shot or killed. WATCH WION LIVE HERE:

Freak case: US man accidentally shoots himself in sleep while dreaming about burglary, charged

<p>The mother of a six-year-old boy who has been accused of shooting and critically injuring his first-grade teacher in Virginia earlier this year is now facing two new federal counts, according to court records filed on Monday (June 5).</p>

<p>Deja Taylor is accused of making a false statement while purchasing a handgun and of taking a controlled substance illegally while in possession of a gun. Taylor was previously charged with child abuse and endangerment in April on felony counts, reported CBS News.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Taylor "knowingly made a false and fictitious written statement to Winfree Firearms," a gun shop in Grafton, Va., from which she purchased a 9mm semiautomatic handgun, court documents filed with the US&nbsp;District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia allege.&nbsp;</p>

<p>The documents also indicate that Taylor misrepresented her marijuana use on application forms submitted to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.</p>

<p>On January 6, when she was seated at a reading table in her classroom, Abby Zwerner, a 25-year-old teacher at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia, was shot in the hand and the chest by a student. &nbsp;Since the incident, she has undergone four surgeries and spent over two weeks in the hospital.</p>

<p>The boy was not prosecuted in relation to the shooting, but his mother was, according to an indictment handed by a grand jury, charged with "felony child neglect and misdemeanour recklessly leaving a loaded firearm so as to endanger a child," Newport News Commonwealth's Attorney Howard Gwynn stated in April. According to WTVR, a CBS station, Taylor will go back to court in August to provide evidence for these allegations.</p>

<p>Police said that the youngster used his mother's lawfully acquired gun.</p>

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<p>The gun, according to family members, was locked up. They also mentioned that the six-year-old child had an acute disability.</p>

<p>Zwerner filed a $40 million lawsuit against the school in April, charging administrators with willful disregard for repeated warnings that the student was armed and in a "violent mood"</p>

<h2><strong>America's perennial gun problem</strong></h2>

<p>In just the first few months of the year,&nbsp;shootings have frequently grabbed headlines.&nbsp;According to the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/">Gun Violence Archive</a>, at least 13,959 people have died in the United States from gun violence as of May 1, 2023&nbsp;- or around 115 people each day on average.</p>

<p>The vast majority of deaths from gun violence this year have been suicides. In 2023, there were 66 suicide fatalities on average each day.&nbsp;</p>

<p>There have been 184 mass shootings in 2023 so far, which is defined by the Gun Violence Archive as an incident in which four or more victims are shot or killed. These mass shootings have led to 248 deaths and 744 injuries.</p>

<p>The majority of these deaths have taken place&nbsp;in Texas, California, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Illinois and Louisiana.</p>

<p>Alabama became the most recent state in the United States to eliminate the requirement for a state permit that includes a background check to carry a concealed handgun.&nbsp;In simple terms, a person no longer needs a license to legally carry a concealed handgun in public as per this law.</p>

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<p>With this move, half of the 50 states in the US now let anyone carry handguns without a permit—a provision that was restricted to Vermont and Alaska 13 years ago.&nbsp;</p>

<p>As per&nbsp;Centers for Disease Control and Prevention firearm fatality data for 2020,&nbsp;the total number of deaths from firearm-related incidents in the US rose to 45,222 in 2020, the most the CDC has ever documented since it started keeping track of such deaths in 1968.&nbsp;This roughly translates to 124 individuals on average dying from gun violence each day.</p>

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The mother of a six-year-old boy who has been accused of shooting and critically injuring his first-grade teacher in Virginia earlier this year is now facing two new federal counts, according to court records filed on Monday (June 5).

The mother of a six-year-old boy who has been accused of shooting and critically injuring his first-grade teacher in Virginia earlier this year is now facing two new federal counts, according to court records filed on Monday (June 5). Deja Taylor is accused of making a false statement while purchasing a handgun and of taking a controlled substance illegally while in possession of a gun. Taylor was previously charged with child abuse and endangerment in April on felony counts, reported CBS News. Taylor "knowingly made a false and fictitious written statement to Winfree Firearms," a gun shop in Grafton, Va., from which she purchased a 9mm semiautomatic handgun, court documents filed with the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia allege. The documents also indicate that Taylor misrepresented her marijuana use on application forms submitted to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. On January 6, when she was seated at a reading table in her classroom, Abby Zwerner, a 25-year-old teacher at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia, was shot in the hand and the chest by a student. Since the incident, she has undergone four surgeries and spent over two weeks in the hospital. The boy was not prosecuted in relation to the shooting, but his mother was, according to an indictment handed by a grand jury, charged with "felony child neglect and misdemeanour recklessly leaving a loaded firearm so as to endanger a child," Newport News Commonwealth's Attorney Howard Gwynn stated in April. According to WTVR, a CBS station, Taylor will go back to court in August to provide evidence for these allegations. Police said that the youngster used his mother's lawfully acquired gun. Also read | Only in America: An epidemic of gun violence without a cure The gun, according to family members, was locked up. They also mentioned that the six-year-old child had an acute disability. Zwerner filed a $40 million lawsuit against the school in April, charging administrators with willful disregard for repeated warnings that the student was armed and in a "violent mood" America's perennial gun problem In just the first few months of the year, shootings have frequently grabbed headlines. According to the Gun Violence Archive, at least 13,959 people have died in the United States from gun violence as of May 1, 2023 - or around 115 people each day on average. The vast majority of deaths from gun violence this year have been suicides. In 2023, there were 66 suicide fatalities on average each day. There have been 184 mass shootings in 2023 so far, which is defined by the Gun Violence Archive as an incident in which four or more victims are shot or killed. These mass shootings have led to 248 deaths and 744 injuries. The majority of these deaths have taken place in Texas, California, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Illinois and Louisiana. Alabama became the most recent state in the United States to eliminate the requirement for a state permit that includes a background check to carry a concealed handgun. In simple terms, a person no longer needs a license to legally carry a concealed handgun in public as per this law. Also watch | US gun violence crisis: How easy is it to buy guns? With this move, half of the 50 states in the US now let anyone carry handguns without a permit—a provision that was restricted to Vermont and Alaska 13 years ago. As per Centers for Disease Control and Prevention firearm fatality data for 2020, the total number of deaths from firearm-related incidents in the US rose to 45,222 in 2020, the most the CDC has ever documented since it started keeping track of such deaths in 1968. This roughly translates to 124 individuals on average dying from gun violence each day. WATCH WION LIVE HERE:

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<p>A 21-year-old Indian-origin&nbsp;youth&nbsp;was shot dead by unknown assailants in Philadelphia, United States on Sunday. The deceased has been identified as Jude Chacko and he was shot while returning from work.&nbsp;</p>

<p>The victim's parents migrated to the US almost three decades ago from the Kollam district of&nbsp;south&nbsp;India's Kerala.&nbsp;Chacko was reportedly ambushed by two men who shot him when the robbery attempt went wrong.&nbsp;</p>

<h2><strong>Philadelphia - an urban hellhole</strong></h2>

<p>Major parts of&nbsp;Philadelphia have become an urban living hellhole - giving rise to gun crimes.&nbsp;The scale of ‘tranq’ epidemic infesting the streets of Philadelphia was revealed through horrific footage of drug addicts that went viral on social media platforms the last week.&nbsp;</p>

<p>The clips showed the Kensington neighbourhood — regarded as the ‘ground zero’ for the city’s drug crisis —purportedly filled with zombie-like addicts, who can be seen passed out on the streets. The clip was first shared by a user on TokTok, and then on Twitter.</p>

<p>In a statement last month, Philadelphia health officials said that the city has been massively impacted by the epidemic.</p>

<p>“Xylazine has hit Philadelphia particularly hard, causing increased overdose deaths as well as severe wounds that can lead to sepsis and amputation,” the Philadelphia Department of Health and Board of Health said, according to New York Post outlet.</p>

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<h2><strong>Other Indians killed in gun violence&nbsp;</strong></h2>

<p>This is not the first instance when an Indian-origin person has been shot by assailants in the US.&nbsp;In April, a 24-year-old student from Andhra Pradesh was also shot dead at a fuel station. The victim, Saiesh Veera had been working at the petrol station when the unknown assailants shot him.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Earlier in January,&nbsp;23-year-old&nbsp;Devsish Nandepu was killed after&nbsp;armed robbers shot him&nbsp;at Princeton Park in Chicago.&nbsp;Nandepu, alongside his friend, was taking a stroll in the park in the evening&nbsp;when a dark-coloured vehicle approached them. The armed robbers first asked them to surrender their valuables, and then both were shot at.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.wionews.com/trending/gun-violence-rocks-chicago-23-year-old-indian-dies-after-armed-robbers-shot-him-in-the-chest-555842"><strong>ALSO READ |&nbsp;Gun violence rocks Chicago: 23-year-old Indian dies after armed robbers shot him in the chest</strong></a></p>

<p>Chacko's death came on the same day as when a mass shooting incident transpired along the beach boardwalk in&nbsp;Hollywood, Florida. The incident left&nbsp;nine&nbsp;people&nbsp;injured and several others scrambling for cover.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Preliminary investigation suggests that a confrontation between two groups resulted in firing. One suspect has been arrested, while another is still on the large.</p>

<p>The United States has witnessed over 200 mass shootings so far this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive. The statistic becomes all the more damning when one realises there have been more mass shootings than days in 2023. The archive tracked more than 647 mass shootings in 2022 while the number stood at 690 in 2021.&nbsp;</p>

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A 21-year-old Indian-origin youth was shot dead by unknown assailants in Philadelphia, United States on Sunday. The deceased has been identified as Jude Chacko and he was shot while returning from work.

A 21-year-old Indian-origin youth was shot dead by unknown assailants in Philadelphia, United States on Sunday. The deceased has been identified as Jude Chacko and he was shot while returning from work. The victim's parents migrated to the US almost three decades ago from the Kollam district of south India's Kerala. Chacko was reportedly ambushed by two men who shot him when the robbery attempt went wrong. Philadelphia - an urban hellhole Major parts of Philadelphia have become an urban living hellhole - giving rise to gun crimes. The scale of ‘tranq’ epidemic infesting the streets of Philadelphia was revealed through horrific footage of drug addicts that went viral on social media platforms the last week. The clips showed the Kensington neighbourhood — regarded as the ‘ground zero’ for the city’s drug crisis —purportedly filled with zombie-like addicts, who can be seen passed out on the streets. The clip was first shared by a user on TokTok, and then on Twitter. In a statement last month, Philadelphia health officials said that the city has been massively impacted by the epidemic. “Xylazine has hit Philadelphia particularly hard, causing increased overdose deaths as well as severe wounds that can lead to sepsis and amputation,” the Philadelphia Department of Health and Board of Health said, according to New York Post outlet. WATCH | Nashville Shooting: 28-year-old fatally shoots three in Nashville school | WION Speed News × Other Indians killed in gun violence This is not the first instance when an Indian-origin person has been shot by assailants in the US. In April, a 24-year-old student from Andhra Pradesh was also shot dead at a fuel station. The victim, Saiesh Veera had been working at the petrol station when the unknown assailants shot him. Earlier in January, 23-year-old Devsish Nandepu was killed after armed robbers shot him at Princeton Park in Chicago. Nandepu, alongside his friend, was taking a stroll in the park in the evening when a dark-coloured vehicle approached them. The armed robbers first asked them to surrender their valuables, and then both were shot at. ALSO READ | Gun violence rocks Chicago: 23-year-old Indian dies after armed robbers shot him in the chest Chacko's death came on the same day as when a mass shooting incident transpired along the beach boardwalk in Hollywood, Florida. The incident left nine people injured and several others scrambling for cover. Preliminary investigation suggests that a confrontation between two groups resulted in firing. One suspect has been arrested, while another is still on the large. The United States has witnessed over 200 mass shootings so far this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive. The statistic becomes all the more damning when one realises there have been more mass shootings than days in 2023. The archive tracked more than 647 mass shootings in 2022 while the number stood at 690 in 2021. (With inputs from agencies) WATCH WION LIVE HERE:

USA: 21-year-old Indian-origin youth shot dead in Philadelphia

<p>In yet another shooting in the United States, six people were shot, one fatally. The latest shooting incident took place in Charleston County, South Carolina, just as the Memorial Day weekend drew to a close on Monday night. A CBS News report quoting the sheriff's office reports that no arrests have been made at the moment.</p>

<p>The shooting happened around 9:50 pm local time near a nightclub. As per the Sherrif office spokesperson, Andrew Knapp, deputies found one person slumped inside a vehicle at the scene. The person was pronounced dead at the scene.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Five other people were injured and have been taken to nearby hospitals for treatment. As per Knapp, their condition is stable and their condition is not believed to be life-threatening.</p>

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<p>No further details of the shooting are available at the moment.&nbsp;</p>

<p>This is not an isolated incident of shooting. During the Memorial Day weekend, the United States witnessed multiple shootings across the country.</p>

<h2><strong>Memorial day shootings</strong></h2>

<p>More than a dozen people, 16 to be exact, were gunned down in a spate of shootings across the nation. Additionally, dozens were injured in the gun violence incidents.</p>

<p>The shootings happened in eight states across America. Among the affected states are Chicago, Atlanta, Washington, DC, and New Mexico.</p>

<h2><strong>Biker rally "rolling shootout"</strong></h2>

<p>In Red River, New Mexico, three individuals died, while five others, according to local media reports, were injured. The shooting, as per the news agency AFP, occurred at around 5 pm during an annual Memorial Day motorcycle rally that drew approximately 20,000 bikers to the small town near Taos, a popular skiing destination.</p>

<p>Apart from the said biker rally, as per a NBC News report beaches, and high schools were the places specifically targeted by the gunmen. The dead include victims of various ages, ranging from teenagers to those in their 60s.</p>

<h2><strong>Baltimore scuffle turns deadly</strong></h2>

<p>In Baltimore, Maryland, an argument between two men led to gunfire, which injured five people, around 3:30 pm (local time) on Friday, officials told NBC News.</p>

<p>The victims, who haven’t been identified, suffered non-threatening injuries, and the police said that they are searching for the suspected gunman.</p>

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<p>Three people were injured, two seriously, in Garden Grove, California, on Saturday evening, in a shooting at Hot Restaurant and Lounge. Garden Grove Police Sgt. Nick Jensen said the gunman got into an argument before opening fire.</p>

<h2><strong>America's gun violence epidemic</strong></h2>

<p>The long weekend violence is just a small example of the growing gun menace threatening American society.</p>

<p>In the last three years, there have been more than 600 mass shootings each, almost two a day on average, according to the Gun Violence Archive.</p>

<p>This year alone, there have been more than 200 mass shootings across the US. The figures include shootings that happen in homes and in public places.</p>

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In yet another shooting in the United States, six people were shot, one fatally. The latest shooting incident took place in Charleston County, South Carolina, just as the Memorial Day weekend drew to a close on Monday night.

In yet another shooting in the United States, six people were shot, one fatally. The latest shooting incident took place in Charleston County, South Carolina, just as the Memorial Day weekend drew to a close on Monday night. A CBS News report quoting the sheriff's office reports that no arrests have been made at the moment. The shooting happened around 9:50 pm local time near a nightclub. As per the Sherrif office spokesperson, Andrew Knapp, deputies found one person slumped inside a vehicle at the scene. The person was pronounced dead at the scene. Five other people were injured and have been taken to nearby hospitals for treatment. As per Knapp, their condition is stable and their condition is not believed to be life-threatening. Also read | Over 16 people killed, dozens injured during Memorial Day weekend shootings across US No further details of the shooting are available at the moment. This is not an isolated incident of shooting. During the Memorial Day weekend, the United States witnessed multiple shootings across the country. Memorial day shootings More than a dozen people, 16 to be exact, were gunned down in a spate of shootings across the nation. Additionally, dozens were injured in the gun violence incidents. The shootings happened in eight states across America. Among the affected states are Chicago, Atlanta, Washington, DC, and New Mexico. Biker rally "rolling shootout" In Red River, New Mexico, three individuals died, while five others, according to local media reports, were injured. The shooting, as per the news agency AFP, occurred at around 5 pm during an annual Memorial Day motorcycle rally that drew approximately 20,000 bikers to the small town near Taos, a popular skiing destination. Apart from the said biker rally, as per a NBC News report beaches, and high schools were the places specifically targeted by the gunmen. The dead include victims of various ages, ranging from teenagers to those in their 60s. Baltimore scuffle turns deadly In Baltimore, Maryland, an argument between two men led to gunfire, which injured five people, around 3:30 pm (local time) on Friday, officials told NBC News. The victims, who haven’t been identified, suffered non-threatening injuries, and the police said that they are searching for the suspected gunman. Also read | 'Rolling shootout' at biker rally in New Mexico kills three, injures five Three people were injured, two seriously, in Garden Grove, California, on Saturday evening, in a shooting at Hot Restaurant and Lounge. Garden Grove Police Sgt. Nick Jensen said the gunman got into an argument before opening fire. America's gun violence epidemic The long weekend violence is just a small example of the growing gun menace threatening American society. In the last three years, there have been more than 600 mass shootings each, almost two a day on average, according to the Gun Violence Archive. This year alone, there have been more than 200 mass shootings across the US. The figures include shootings that happen in homes and in public places. (With inputs from agencies) WATCH WION LIVE HERE You can now write for wionews.com and be a part of the community. Share your stories and opinions with us here.

Yet another shooting in US claims one life; Memorial Day weekend death toll rises to 17

<p>A shooting episode along a beach boardwalk in Hollywood, Florida,&nbsp;left nine&nbsp;people&nbsp;injured and several others scrambling for cover on Memorial Day.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Many&nbsp;of those injured were transferred to a children's hospital, according to Deanna Bettineschi, a police spokesman who spoke to the Associated Press. However, police are&nbsp;yet to announce the victims' ages or any information about their current condition.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Preliminary investigation suggests that a confrontation between two groups resulted in firing. One suspect has been arrested, while another is still underway.</p>

<p>On Monday evening, videos released on Twitter showed emergency care staff responding to and treating many people with injuries.&nbsp;</p>

<p>The inquiry will be heavily staffed, according to police. Officials were also preparing an area for family members to reunite.</p>

<p>Hollywood Beach is a popular beach area located 11 miles (17 kilometres) south of Fort Lauderdale and 20 miles (32 km) north of Miami. With the Memorial Day vacation, the beach was expecting more people than normal.</p>

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<h2><strong>America's unique struggle with gun violence</strong></h2>

<p>According to the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/">Gun Violence Archive</a>, at least 13,959 people have died in the United States from gun violence as of May 1, 2023&nbsp;- or around 115 people each day on average.</p>

<p>There have been 184 mass shootings in 2023 so far, which is defined by the Gun Violence Archive as an incident in which four or more victims are shot or killed. These mass shootings have led to 248 deaths and 744 injuries.</p>

<p>The majority of these deaths have taken place&nbsp;in Texas, California, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Illinois and Louisiana.</p>

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<p>Alabama became the most recent state in the United States to eliminate the requirement for a state permit that includes a background check to carry a concealed handgun.&nbsp;In simple terms, a person no longer needs a license to legally carry a concealed handgun in public as per this law.</p>

<p>With this move, half of the 50 states in the US now let anyone carry handguns without a permit—a provision that was restricted to Vermont and Alaska 13 years ago.&nbsp;</p>

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<p>As per&nbsp;Centers for Disease Control and Prevention firearm fatality data for 2020,&nbsp;the total number of deaths from firearm-related incidents in the US rose to 45,222 in 2020, the most the CDC has ever documented since it started keeping track of such deaths in 1968.&nbsp;This roughly translates to 124 individuals on an average dying from gun violence each day.</p>

<h2><strong>Rise in mass shootings in the US</strong></h2>

<p>Data from the Washington-based Gun Violence Archive shows that&nbsp;there were&nbsp;more than 600 mass shootings in the United States in 2022 alone, more than double the 336 mass shootings documented four years prior. A mass shooting is defined roughly as any incident in which four or more individuals, excluding the perpetrator, are shot or killed.</p>

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A shooting episode along a beach boardwalk in Hollywood, Florida, left nine people injured and several others scrambling for cover on Memorial Day. Many of those injured were transferred to a children's hospital, according to Deanna Bettineschi, a police spokesman who spoke to the Associated Press.

A shooting episode along a beach boardwalk in Hollywood, Florida, left nine people injured and several others scrambling for cover on Memorial Day. Many of those injured were transferred to a children's hospital, according to Deanna Bettineschi, a police spokesman who spoke to the Associated Press. However, police are yet to announce the victims' ages or any information about their current condition. Preliminary investigation suggests that a confrontation between two groups resulted in firing. One suspect has been arrested, while another is still underway. On Monday evening, videos released on Twitter showed emergency care staff responding to and treating many people with injuries. The inquiry will be heavily staffed, according to police. Officials were also preparing an area for family members to reunite. Hollywood Beach is a popular beach area located 11 miles (17 kilometres) south of Fort Lauderdale and 20 miles (32 km) north of Miami. With the Memorial Day vacation, the beach was expecting more people than normal. BREAKING: There are reports of a mass shooting on Hollywood Beach in Florida. According to CBS, at least seven people were shot and some of the victims are young children. Permitless carry became law in the state in April. pic.twitter.com/C8P7iGhxaR — Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) May 30, 2023 × America's unique struggle with gun violence According to the Gun Violence Archive, at least 13,959 people have died in the United States from gun violence as of May 1, 2023 - or around 115 people each day on average. There have been 184 mass shootings in 2023 so far, which is defined by the Gun Violence Archive as an incident in which four or more victims are shot or killed. These mass shootings have led to 248 deaths and 744 injuries. The majority of these deaths have taken place in Texas, California, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Illinois and Louisiana. ALSO WATCH | Have mass shootings made the United States the most dangerous country to live in? Alabama became the most recent state in the United States to eliminate the requirement for a state permit that includes a background check to carry a concealed handgun. In simple terms, a person no longer needs a license to legally carry a concealed handgun in public as per this law. With this move, half of the 50 states in the US now let anyone carry handguns without a permit—a provision that was restricted to Vermont and Alaska 13 years ago. ALSO READ | Bus driver and passenger open fire at each other on moving bus As per Centers for Disease Control and Prevention firearm fatality data for 2020, the total number of deaths from firearm-related incidents in the US rose to 45,222 in 2020, the most the CDC has ever documented since it started keeping track of such deaths in 1968. This roughly translates to 124 individuals on an average dying from gun violence each day. Rise in mass shootings in the US Data from the Washington-based Gun Violence Archive shows that there were more than 600 mass shootings in the United States in 2022 alone, more than double the 336 mass shootings documented four years prior. A mass shooting is defined roughly as any incident in which four or more individuals, excluding the perpetrator, are shot or killed. (With inputs from agencies) WATCH WION LIVE HERE:

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<p>More than 16 people were gunned down and dozens injured in a spate of shootings reported across the United States during Memorial Day weekend.</p>

<p>Chicago, Atlanta, Washington, D.C., and New Mexico were among the eight cities where gun violence and other incidents were reported.</p>

<p>Beaches, high schools and motorcycle rallies, were the place specifically targeted by the gunmen, with victims ranging from teenagers to those in their 60s, NBC News reported.</p>

<p>Chicago was the first site where the shooting was recorded on Friday afternoon. CCTV cameras caught a confrontation between two groups of people on Chicago's North Avenue Beach. The skirmish led to gunshots but no injuries.</p>

<p>Though there were no casualties during Friday’s shooting, more than eight people were killed and at least 32 others wounded as of Sunday in multiple unrelated incidents, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.</p>

<p>In Baltimore, Maryland, an argument between two men led to gunfire, which injured five people, around 3.30 pm (local time) on Friday, officials told NBC News.</p>

<p>The victims, who haven’t been identified, suffered non-threatening injuries, and the police said that they are searching for the suspected gunman.</p>

<h2>Gun violence in eight cities</h2>

<p>Elsewhere, three people were killed and five more were injured in a shooting at a Memorial Day motorcycle rally in Red River, New Mexico, on Saturday. The shooting broke out between motorcyclists at about 5 pm.</p>

<p>By the end of the day, the New Mexico State Police arrested all the involved and secured the incident site, It also declared that there was no ongoing threat to the public.</p>

<p>Mayor Linda Calhoun said that all of those involved were members of biker gangs.</p>

<h2><strong>Gun violence in US: At least 160 shooting incidents in 2023 as mass shootings on rise</strong></h2>

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<p>In Mesa, Arizona, 20-year-old Iren Byers was arrested in connection with multiple shootings that happened between Friday afternoon and early Saturday morning, according to a Mesa Police Department press release.</p>

<p>Byers is accused of killing four people and injuring one person. It was not immediately clear if Byers had retained an attorney for comment, NBC News reported.</p>

<p>In Seattle, Washington, police were called to Roxbury Lanes Casino after receiving reports that shots had been fired. Three people were injured, but the severity of the injuries was not immediately clear. Police had yet to arrest a suspect as of Monday morning.</p>

<p>Three people were injured, two seriously, in Garden Grove, California, on Saturday evening, in a shooting at Hot Restaurant and Lounge. Garden Grove Police Sgt. Nick Jensen said the gunman got into an argument before opening fire.</p>

<p>The long weekend violence is just a small example growing gun menace threatening the American society.</p>

<p>In the last three years, there have been more than 600 mass shootings each, almost two a day on average, according to the Gun Violence Archive.</p>

<p>This year alone, there have been more than 200 mass shootings across the US. The figures include shootings that happen in homes and in public places.</p>

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More than 16 people were gunned down and dozens injured in a spate of shootings reported across the United States during Memorial Day weekend. Chicago, Atlanta, Washington, D.

More than 16 people were gunned down and dozens injured in a spate of shootings reported across the United States during Memorial Day weekend. Chicago, Atlanta, Washington, D.C., and New Mexico were among the eight cities where gun violence and other incidents were reported. Beaches, high schools and motorcycle rallies, were the place specifically targeted by the gunmen, with victims ranging from teenagers to those in their 60s, NBC News reported. Chicago was the first site where the shooting was recorded on Friday afternoon. CCTV cameras caught a confrontation between two groups of people on Chicago's North Avenue Beach. The skirmish led to gunshots but no injuries. Though there were no casualties during Friday’s shooting, more than eight people were killed and at least 32 others wounded as of Sunday in multiple unrelated incidents, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. In Baltimore, Maryland, an argument between two men led to gunfire, which injured five people, around 3.30 pm (local time) on Friday, officials told NBC News. The victims, who haven’t been identified, suffered non-threatening injuries, and the police said that they are searching for the suspected gunman. Gun violence in eight cities Elsewhere, three people were killed and five more were injured in a shooting at a Memorial Day motorcycle rally in Red River, New Mexico, on Saturday. The shooting broke out between motorcyclists at about 5 pm. By the end of the day, the New Mexico State Police arrested all the involved and secured the incident site, It also declared that there was no ongoing threat to the public. Mayor Linda Calhoun said that all of those involved were members of biker gangs. Gun violence in US: At least 160 shooting incidents in 2023 as mass shootings on rise In Mesa, Arizona, 20-year-old Iren Byers was arrested in connection with multiple shootings that happened between Friday afternoon and early Saturday morning, according to a Mesa Police Department press release. Byers is accused of killing four people and injuring one person. It was not immediately clear if Byers had retained an attorney for comment, NBC News reported. In Seattle, Washington, police were called to Roxbury Lanes Casino after receiving reports that shots had been fired. Three people were injured, but the severity of the injuries was not immediately clear. Police had yet to arrest a suspect as of Monday morning. Three people were injured, two seriously, in Garden Grove, California, on Saturday evening, in a shooting at Hot Restaurant and Lounge. Garden Grove Police Sgt. Nick Jensen said the gunman got into an argument before opening fire. The long weekend violence is just a small example growing gun menace threatening the American society. In the last three years, there have been more than 600 mass shootings each, almost two a day on average, according to the Gun Violence Archive. This year alone, there have been more than 200 mass shootings across the US. The figures include shootings that happen in homes and in public places. (With inputs from agencies) WATCH WION LIVE HERE

Over 16 people killed, dozens injured during Memorial Day weekend shootings across US

<p>At least five people were shot at out of which two people were killed at the scene while a third victim succumbed to their injuries following a shooting at a bar in Kansas City, Missouri, United States, early Sunday (May 21), said the police, as per The Associated Press. The names of the victims or identities were not immediately available.&nbsp;</p>

<p>In a statement emailed by Kansas City Police Department Officer Donna Drake, said two other victims who were injured had been taken to the hospital, out of which one was in critical condition and another was in a stable condition. The shooting took place at Klymax Lounge on Indiana Avenue at 1:25 am (local time), said the media report.&nbsp;</p>

<p>According to reports, multiple officers responded, and the KCPD official said that all victims were adults. Additionally, one victim was killed at the scene, inside the bar, while the second person was outside the building, said Drake.&nbsp;</p>

<p>The police also said that homicide detectives and crime scene investigators were at the scene early Sunday. However, the details about the perpetrator or a possible suspect were not immediately available.&nbsp;</p>

<p>While the names of the victims in the Kansas City shooting were not released by the authorities, a report by The Guardian said friends of&nbsp;Jason McConnell identified him as one of the victims.</p>

<p>McConnell’s stepdaughter, Honystye Chancellor, told The Guardian&nbsp;that her stepfather was a caring person and was well-loved in the community and that "almost everyone in Kansas City knew him".&nbsp;<br />
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There was also a&nbsp;separate shooting incident around the same time in Birmingham, Alabama, which also took place outside a bar and left at least four people injured.&nbsp;According to Birmingham Police Lt. Ron Harless, there was an exchange of gunfire, and three men and one woman were shot outside Tin Roof, located in the city's Lakeview District.&nbsp;<br />
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At least five people were shot at out of which two people were killed at the scene while a third victim succumbed to their injuries following a shooting at a bar in Kansas City, Missouri, United States, early Sunday (May 21), said the police, as per The Associated Press.

At least five people were shot at out of which two people were killed at the scene while a third victim succumbed to their injuries following a shooting at a bar in Kansas City, Missouri, United States, early Sunday (May 21), said the police, as per The Associated Press. The names of the victims or identities were not immediately available. In a statement emailed by Kansas City Police Department Officer Donna Drake, said two other victims who were injured had been taken to the hospital, out of which one was in critical condition and another was in a stable condition. The shooting took place at Klymax Lounge on Indiana Avenue at 1:25 am (local time), said the media report. According to reports, multiple officers responded, and the KCPD official said that all victims were adults. Additionally, one victim was killed at the scene, inside the bar, while the second person was outside the building, said Drake. The police also said that homicide detectives and crime scene investigators were at the scene early Sunday. However, the details about the perpetrator or a possible suspect were not immediately available. While the names of the victims in the Kansas City shooting were not released by the authorities, a report by The Guardian said friends of Jason McConnell identified him as one of the victims. McConnell’s stepdaughter, Honystye Chancellor, told The Guardian that her stepfather was a caring person and was well-loved in the community and that "almost everyone in Kansas City knew him". There was also a separate shooting incident around the same time in Birmingham, Alabama, which also took place outside a bar and left at least four people injured. According to Birmingham Police Lt. Ron Harless, there was an exchange of gunfire, and three men and one woman were shot outside Tin Roof, located in the city's Lakeview District. The shooting was reported around 12:45 am (local time) by an off-duty Birmingham police officer present at the location. WATCH WION LIVE HERE You can now write for wionews.com and be a part of the community. Share your stories and opinions with us here.

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