Shooting in grocery store in Florida, two killed, including one child
Florida shootout
Twopeopleincludingachildwere shot dead in a grocery store inFloridaon Thursday, the latest in a series of shootings in the southern US state.
Theshooting-- in which the gunman alsokilledhimself -- occurred in a Publix grocery store in Royal Palm Beach, 80 miles (130 kilometers) north of Miami, police said.
"Upon arrival deputies located three individuals deceased from gunshot wounds, one adult male, one adult female, and onechild," the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said. "The shooter is one of the deceased."
The shooter turned his gun on himself, Teri Barbera, spokeswoman for the sheriff's office, told AFP.
This was the latestshootingin southFloridain recent days.
On Sunday, three people werekilledand five wounded at a graduation party in Miami.
Twopeople werekilledand at least 20 wounded a week earlier when three shooters fired "indiscriminately" into a crowd outside a concert in the Miami area, police said.
Mass shootings have taken place across the United States this year in a surge of violence that President Joe Biden has branded an "epidemic."