Washington: In another incident of mass shooting in the United States, local media reports claimed that a gunman opened fire in a southeast suburb of Washington.
According to Rawalerts, at least seven people have been confirmed shot in different places. According to reports, authorities are searching for a possible armed suspect, a young Indian man who is linked to a black Honda car and wearing a hoodie.
More than a dozen killed in a week in mass shootings
Notably, it came about five days after a teenager shot several children at a birthday party in Dadeville, Alabama, in the United States, resulting in the deaths of at least four, including a high school football player. During this, more than two dozen were injured.
According to police, the football player was celebrating his sister’s 16th birthday. The shooting happened Saturday night at a dance studio in downtown Dadeville.
Then, two days later, at least four people were fatally shot in a home in Maine, United States, shortly before three others were wounded on a busy highway, in what was linked to Were in a pair of crimes committed.
The shooting is one of a string of recent mass killings that have rocked communities both large and small, including a Christian elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee; A bank in Louisville, Kentucky and a Sweet 16 party in a small town in Alabama.
Mass shootings have increased in the US over the past few years
Notably, the country has seen a rise in mass killings over the years. According to reports, the US is setting a record pace for mass killings in 2023, replaying the horror on a loop once a week so far this year. The massacre claimed 88 lives in 17 mass killings over 111 days. Each time the killers used firearms. Only in 2009 the same period was marked by so many such tragedies.
Gruesome records have been set within the past decade. The data shows 45 mass murders in 2019 and 230 deaths in such tragedies in 2017. That year, 60 people were killed when a gunman opened fire on an outdoor country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip. The massacre still accounts for the most deaths from mass shootings in modern America.
(with inputs from agencies)
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