A new shooting bleeds in the United States on Saturday: three people were killed and eleven others were injured when several people shot at people on a crowded street in Philadelphia last night, police said.
The country was marked by an outbreak of violence by guns, most notably the murder at a school in Uvalde, Texas on May 24 (21 dead including 19 children and two teachers). Since then, more than twenty shootings with several victims have occurred, according to the association Archive of Gun Violence.
In Philadelphia, fourteen people, to our knowledge, were hit by the gunfire and hospitalizedPolice Inspector DF Pace told reporters. Three of those people, two men and a woman, died after arriving at hospitals with multiple gunshot wounds..
Inspector Pace told local media that police went to the scene observed some active shooters firing at people on the busy side of South Street of Philadelphia.
You can imagine there were hundreds of people enjoying South Street like every weekend when this hunt broke out.said the inspector.
According to him, police fired at one of the shooters who dropped the weapon and fled, but did not know if he was hit.
Local media reported that no arrests were made.
According to Inspector Pace, two semi-automatic weapons were found at the scene, one with a high-capacity magazine. Police will check photos of surveillance cameras of surrounding businesses, closed Saturday night, he explained.
A witness to the shooting, Joe Smith, 23, told the newspaper The Philadelphia Inquirer having been plagued with reminiscences of recent hunts in the United States from the first shots heard.
To begin with, I didn’t expect it to endhe said. There were hoarse criesHe added, I just heard screams.
Another witness, Eric Walsh, is described in Philadelphia Inquirer people fled the hunt there were blood splatters on white sneakers and scratched knees, scratched elbows.
According to the newspaper, another man was shot and killed near the shooting range nearly two hours later, but police said the two incidents had no established connection.
Millions of guns in circulation
In the United States, where 393 million guns – more than the population – are circulating by 2020, violence is likely to rise when the weather is warmer, researchers have discovered. Additionally, several states have relaxed restrictions in recent years.
U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday called on Congress to find a way to curb the sale of assault rifles and lashed out at Republican lawmakers who oppose it, which it regrets. too many everyday places [soient] become places of killing, battlefields.
In the past 20 years, more students have died from guns than the total number of police officers and soldiers killed on duty.he said. Think about it.
A group of Democratic and Republican senators met Thursday to discuss gun control measures, but Republicans have historically opposed such measures.
Aside from the hunt in Uvalde, a series of deadly hunts have taken place recently. On May 14, a white man identified himself as racist at anti-Semitickilled ten black people at a supermarket in Buffalo, on the border between the United States and Canada.
On May 16, a man, provoked by anger in Taiwan and its people according to police, killed one person and injured five others at a church in California frequented by the Taiwanese-American community.
Last Thursday, a shooting at a cemetery in Wisconsin, in Racine on the shores of Lake Michigan, left five injured during the funeral of a man killed in late May by police.
And the other day, four people were killed in a shooting at a Tulsa hospital. The shooter targeted the doctor who operated on his back and held him responsible for his pain, according to police.
Source: Radio-Canada
