A new shooting USA has left “multiple” dead this Thursday during a funeral at Graceland Cemetery in Racine, regarding 48 kilometers south of Milwaukee, the largest city in the state of Wisconsin. This was reported by local authorities.
“At 2:26 p.m. (local time) there have been multiple shots fired at Graceland Cemetery. There are victims but it is unknown how many at this time. The scene is still active and is being investigated,” Racine Police said in their account. Twitter.
The Police have asked the public to avoid the area and have launched an investigation to clarify the facts. the cemetery of USA borders on Osborne and Ohio to the east and west.
The shooting occurred at the funeral of Da’Shontay L. King Sr., who was fatally shot by Racine police on May 20, said King’s sister, Natasha Mullen. “We were in the grave trying to get ready to bury him and bullets started flying everywhere,” she told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Ascension All Saints Hospital, which is next to the cemetery, said it is treating an undisclosed number of victims of the Racine shooting on Thursday.
Residents of the cemetery area said they had heard between 20 and 30 shots, the Racine Journal Times reported. Three young men who were playing basketball in Lockwood Park, immediately west of the cemetery, said they heard gunshots and the fence behind them was hit repeatedly.
This event has occurred one day following a Gunman Killed His Surgeon and Three Others at Saint Francis Hospital in Tulsain the state of Oklahoma.
On May 24, another shooting left at least 21 people dead, 19 of them children and two adults, at the Robb Elementary School in the city of Uvalde, in the state of Texasin the southern United States.
Incidents continue in the United States
A student at a school in Brownsville, Texas, was arrested Thursday following a weapon and ammunition were found in his vehicle, school authorities reported. who are under alert following the shooting from Uvalde.
The student was detained at Veterans Memorial Early College High School, following a routine search of the young man’s vehicle in which a weapon and several boxes of ammunition were found on Thursday morning.
School authorities have been conducting routine searches of students and their vehicles, and that led to the finding, the Brownsville Independent School District said in a statement.
(With information from Europa Press and AFP)
