Gun deaths continue in the United States. After the massacre in California in which 11 people died, a new shooting killed two students at a school in Des Moines, Iowa.
Police have arrested three people suspected of opening fire at Starts Right Here, the institute that helps young people who live in conditions of particular hardship
“It wasn’t a causal act, it was a direct action”, Des Moines Police said so. The investigation is ongoing and the police have arrested three suspects in a car not far from the school.
The shots killed two students and injured a teacher, whose condition is serious
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynold said yes “shocked and saddened” for filming in schools that help at-risk youth aged 9-18
The institute was founded by Will Holmes, rapper known as Will Keeps who came to Des Moines 20 years ago from Chicago where he lived in a world of gangs before finding support and help in music
The school seeks encourage disadvantaged young people use art, music and other programs to thrive
“We are saddened by yet another act of gun violence. We await further details, but our thoughts are with the families and friends of the victims,” the Des Moines school district said.
Already 11 people have been killed in the shooting during the celebrations for the Chinese New Year
The death toll in Saturday’s Monterey Park (California) shooting rose to 11 after one of the four hospitalized wounded died on Monday, authorities said at a news conference.
In a statement gathered by local media, the medical center where the injured man was hospitalized, LAC+USC, confirmed the death and added that there is another patient in serious condition and two convalescents.
according to the newspaper The New York Times, the victims are between the ages of 50 and 70.
The investigation remains open and the authorities are working to do so find out why a 72-year-old Asian man decided to open fire Saturday night in a dance hall in Monterey Park (15 kilometers east of Los Angeles).
In those moments, thousands of people had gathered a few meters from the premises for the celebration of the Chinese New Yearas Monterey Park has an Asian community which makes up over 65% of its official census.
The attacker, who used a stolen semi-automatic pistol, was the same person who 20 minutes later attempted to attack another nightclub in the nearby town of Alhambra, 5 kilometers from Monterey Park, but was disarmed there and fled.
The body of the alleged perpetrator was found Sunday inside a white vanafter taking his own life from a shot, when he was intercepted in a chase that lasted hours and ended up in the parking lot of a shopping center located in Torrance, a municipality southwest of Los Angeles.
The Monterey Park shooting came the same week that another attack in a central California city left six dead, including a 17-year-old mother and her 6-month-old baby.
Source: Clarin
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