Fourth of July weekend marked by dozens of US deaths from gun violence | US crime

The weekend celebrations of the United States’ half-centennial were marred by gun violence that left dozens dead and scores injured.

The injured included a woman and a child among four people shot during a gathering of Mexican football fans in Los Angeles following their elimination from the World Cup on Sunday night.

According to the Gun Violence Archive, which tallies firearm-related incidents, deaths and injuries, at least 43 people He was killed in repeated shootings in several cities and neighborhoods in the early hours of Saturday, the 250th anniversary of the United States’ declaration of independence from Britain.

As of Monday morning, the database recorded 6,604 deaths due to gun violence since the beginning of the year. The database listed at least 224 incidents of mass shootings and considers them to be incidents in which at least four people, including the shooter, were killed or injured.

In one of the weekend’s most notable incidents, four people were shot in an east Los Angeles neighborhood where soccer fans had gathered during Mexico’s World Cup defeat against England.

The Los Angeles police department said a suspect pulled out a gun and began shooting during an argument around 9:30 p.m. local time (after the game ended in a 3-2 knockout defeat to Mexico). reported By news channel KTLA.

The department said the shots hit the two intended victims and two bystanders, a woman and a boy who left the scene to seek help.

The report stated that all four victims were treated at local hospitals for non-life-threatening injuries.

No other details about the victims or the minor’s age were released.

Elsewhere, two people were killed in a shooting attack on a large crowd in Batesburg-Leesville, South Carolina, on Sunday, authorities said.

Upon gunshots, officers located three people shot, including Ronald Cleveland Brown, 39; and Devante Elliott, 34; Both were later pronounced dead, according to local ABC news channel WJBF.

In Austin, Texas, a man and a woman in their teens or early 20s were shot and killed in a nightclub parking lot early Sunday, CBS Austin reported. reported.

Kristen Dark, a spokeswoman for the local Travis County Sheriff’s Office, told the press that the shooting occurred after a fight around 4 a.m.

“I can’t say for sure that it was because of the nightclub,” he said. “The incident took place in the car park of the nightclub, but at this time we do not know what led to the fight.”

Investigators were already working on a separate shooting death in the city; The death of a man in a sports bar parking lot late Saturday. one shot Another man was also injured.

Three people died in separate incidents in Compton, California Independence Day block parties on Saturday, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office said. A woman and a man were killed in the first attack. In the second case, the victim was a man.

In Wilkinson County, Mississippi, the Centerville police department is investigating a mass shooting in which two adult males were killed and at least nine others were injured early Saturday, WLBT News reports. reported.

Persistently high rates of gun violence in the United States have led many to call on Congress to impose more comprehensive federal firearms control. But Congress has been unable to enforce such restrictions for years.

Findings of at least one study to recommend Gun violence may be more likely to occur in U.S. communities during major holidays than at other times.