At least six people died and more than 20 were injured. in two shootings in the United States. The massacres occurred almost simultaneously: there were deaths in Tennessee and Pennsylvania. At this time there are no detainees.
Three people died and more than ten were injured following being unleashed on Saturday night a series of shots at a nightclub in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The fact was aggravated by the desperate escape of some bowling alley attendees, who escaped at full speed and ran over several pedestrians. “We can confirm 14 shooting victims and three others who were struck by vehicles trying to flee the scene. Three deaths have been confirmed, two of which are related to gunshot wounds and one to injuries sustained following being hit by a vehicle,” Chattanooga Police Chief Celeste Murphy told reporters.
The official pointed out that “definitely there was more than one shooter” involved in the incident, which took place in downtown Chattanooga, a city of 180,000 people.
Philadelphia
The incident occurred just hours following another mass shooting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, will leave three dead and 11 injured.
According to the police report, Gunmen opened fire on a crowded Philadelphia street. “We know that 14 people were shot and taken to hospitals,” said Philadelphia Police Inspector DF Pace.
“Three of those people, Two men and one woman were pronounced dead following arriving at hospitals with multiple gunshot wounds.“, he added.
Pace said officers at the scene “observed multiple active shooters opening fire on people” in the South Street area of Philadelphia. An officer fired at one of the shooters, who dropped his weapon and fled, although it was unclear if he was hit.
Two semi-automatic weapons and a high-capacity magazine were found at the scene.
Until this noon no one had been arrested for either case.
alarming figures
From the shooting at a school in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24, which left 21 dead, more than two dozen mass-casualty attacks were recorded in the United Statesdepending on the center Gun Violence Archive.
In the United States, 393 million guns – more than the population – were in circulation in 2020.
President Joe Biden on Thursday called on Congress to find a way to prohibit the sale of assault rifles to individuals or at least raise the age to buy them from 18 to 21 years.
He considered the Republicans’ reluctance to limit the sale of weapons “inconceivable” when many places such as schools or hospitals “have become death camps, battlefields.”
“Over the past two decades, more school-age children have died from firearms than active military and police officers combined. Think regarding it,” Biden said in a speech from the White House.
