2023-04-16 12:36:40
Shooting at a teenager’s birthday party injured at least 20 on Saturday night in a small town in Alabama, southern United States, according to local media citing law enforcement .
The shooting occurred around 10:30 p.m. (03:30 GMT Sunday), in a building in the city center. A teenager – whose gender was not specified – was celebrating his sixteenth birthday, according to local channel WRBL.
Authorities have not said whether a suspect is in custody.
The motive also remains to be clarified, but the investigators believe that an altercation led to this tragedy, according to WRBL.
The United States pays a very heavy price for the spread of firearms in its territory and the ease with which Americans have access to them.
The country has more individual weapons than inhabitants: one in three adults owns at least one weapon and nearly one in two adults lives in a home where there is a weapon.
The consequence of this proliferation is the very high rate of firearm deaths in the United States, unmatched by that of other developed countries.
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