Five people hit by bullets in Wisconsin cemetery
A shooting took place Thursday in a cemetery in Wisconsin, during the burial of Da’Shontay King, killed at the end of May by the police.
The shooting left five injured, told local channel TMJ4. (illustrative image)
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Five people were injured Thursday in a shooting at a cemetery in Wisconsin, in the northern United States, where the burial of a man killed in late May by police was taking place, law enforcement said and a local channel.
Police in Racine, a town on the shores of Lake Michigan, said “several shots (had) been fired” in the cemetery at 2:26 p.m. local time (9:26 p.m. Swiss time). The shooting left five people injured and took place during the funeral of a man killed by police in May, his family, whose members were affected, told local channel TMJ4.
Da’Shontay King, a 37-year-old African-American, was shot dead by police on May 20 following a police stop as he was on the run and was seen with a gun in his hand . The obituary posted online by Da’Shontay King’s family confirms that his funeral was scheduled to take place at noon Thursday at the cemetery cited by police.
“Pass common sense laws”
Thursday’s shooting comes a day following another at a hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma (southeast), in which four people were killed, and less than ten days following the massacre of 19 children and two teachers at a school in Uvalde, Texas.
US President Joe Biden is due to speak at 7:30 p.m. (1:30 a.m. Friday, Swiss time) to speak on “the need for Congress to pass common sense laws to combat the epidemic of gun violence” , announced the White House. Since the Uvalde massacre, there have been more than twenty shootings with several victims in the United States, according to the association Gun violence archive.
Published today at 00:52
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