Newsman: over the weekend from Friday afternoon to Sunday at least nine mass shootings left at least eight people dead and more than 60 others hurt as the nation grapples with a rise in gun violence and crime. The pictures of the largest-scale US mass shooting unfolded in more than two years according to the Gun Violence Archive reported describes a mass shooting at a car show in Dumas, Arkansas, killed one person and at least 28 injured.
A drive-by shooting Friday night in New Iberia, Louisiana, injured five people, among them a 7-month-old, according to the local police department.
Two people were killed and three others wounded in a shooting early Saturday in downtown Norfolk, Virginia, police said.
A shooting Saturday in Madison Heights, Virginia, claimed the life of a 21-year-old mother of twin boys and wounded four others.
Four teenagers were shot — one fatally — after a fight broke out Saturday night in a parking lot outside a 16th birthday party in Texas’ most populous city.
Four people were shot Saturday night in downtown Austin, Texas, during the final weekend of the SXSW festival in an incident stemming from “a disturbance between two groups of people” that is not believed to have been a random act, the Austin Police Department said.
At least 10 people were wounded, one of them critically, in a shooting Saturday night in Dallas, according to Dallas Police Department spokesperson Brian Martinez.
Four people were shot in Milwaukee early Sunday when a suspect or suspects “fired several shots during an argument” at a party, according to the Milwaukee Police Department.
The scenario is most people wounded in a mass shooting event in the US , a shooter in 2019 targeted shopping centers in Odessa and Midland, Texas, just weeks after a massacre at a Walmart.
Five injured including an infant b in New Iberia, Louisiana
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Police officers responded around 9:30 p.m. (10:30 p.m. ET) to a shooting in the 200 block of C V Jackson Drive, the department said in a statement. Three people suffered non-life-threatening injuries, while two others, including the infant and an adult, were hospitalized in critical condition.
The infant was in stable condition Monday and scheduled to have surgery, police said. The adult lost her left eye as a result of the shooting and had been released from the hospital.The shooting remains under investigation.
Two killed, 3 wounded outside restaurant in Norfolk, Virginia
Two people were killed and three others wounded in a shooting early Saturday in downtown Norfolk, Virginia, police said.
Virginian-Pilot newspaper reporter and former CNN news assistant Sierra Jenkins, 25, was among those fatally shot, police said. She was leaving a downtown restaurant, Chicho’s Pizza Backstage, when an argument started outside, followed by gunfire.
Officers responded around 2 a.m. ET and found Jenkins and two men with life-threatening gunshot wounds. One of them, 25-year-old Devon M. Harris, was pronounced dead at the scene, and the other man was taken to a hospital, police said in a news release.
Jenkins was also taken to the hospital, where she died, police said. Two more men found by police at the scene with non-life-threatening gunshot wounds were taken to the hospital, according to police.
One killed, 4 wounded in Madison Heights, Virginia
A shooting Saturday in Madison Heights, Virginia, claimed the life of a 21-year-old mother of twin boys and wounded four others, Amherst County Sheriff E.W. Viar Jr. told CNN.
Killed was T’Khira Monique Browley of Lynchburg, which sits just across the James River from Madison Heights, Viar said.
Other victims include a 16-year-old boy shot in the arm, a 28-year-old man shot in the leg, a 30-year-old man shot in the hand and an 18-year-old woman shot in the back, Viar said. She is still in the hospital and on Sunday was in critical but stable condition, he added.
No arrests have been made. Anyone with information is asked to contact authorities.
One killed, 28 injured at car show in Dumas, Arkansas
One person was killed and 28 hurt Saturday when “gunfire swept across a crowd attending a local car show” in Dumas, about 80 miles southeast of Little Rock, the Arkansas State Police said.
At least six children were among the injured, according to Arkansas Children’s Hospital. The children suffered non-life-threatening injuries and most had been released from the hospital following treatment Sunday.
The Dumas Police Department was searching for two more suspects in connection with the shooting and had one person in custody on unrelated charges, Col. Bill Bryant of the state police said.
The shots were fired just after 7 p.m. (8 p.m. ET) at the car show, which was hosted by the Hood-Nic Foundation and Delta Neighborhood Empowerment Organization, a group providing educational programs and support for Dumas-area youth, according to its website.
One teenager killed, 3 wounded outside birthday party in Houston:
Four teenagers were shot — one fatally — after a fight broke out Saturday night in a parking lot outside a 16th birthday party in Texas.
Police responded to a Houston production studio around midnight after people were involved in a dispute that escalated into gunfire, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez tweeted.
“A large number of spent shell casings were discovered in multiple areas of the parking lot,” the Harris County Sheriff’s Office said in a Sunday news release.
A 17-year-old male was pronounced dead at an area hospital, according to Gonzalez.
Two other 17-year-olds were taken to the hospital, including one by LifeFlight to Texas Children’s Hospital, according to the sheriff’s office. The other was treated and released, then taken into custody on an unrelated warrant, the sheriff’s office said.
A 14-year-old girl was treated for non-life-threatening injuries at a hospital, the sheriff’s office said.
No suspects have been identified and the cause of the fight that led to the gunfire is unknown, according to Gonzalez.
Thee killed, 3 wounded at hotel in Fayetteville, North Carolina:
Three people were killed and three others wounded Saturday in a shooting at a Fayetteville, North Carolina, hotel.
The incident took place just before 9 p.m. ET at the Baymont Ramada, the Fayetteville Police Department said on Facebook. The hotel is about 10 miles south of Fort Bragg.
William Franklin Davis, 42, died at the scene, and two others — Keith Allan Dickey, 37, and Donald Dillenbeck, 49 — died at the hospital, police said. Three others were still being treated for gunshot wounds.
“Detectives have determined the shooting is not random,” the police department said, urging anyone with information to come forward.
Ten wounded in Dallas
At least 10 people were wounded, one of them critically, in a shooting Saturday night in Dallas, according to Dallas Police Department spokesperson Brian Martinez.
Police responded to reports of a shooting in the 5200 block of Botham Jean Boulevard around midnight, Martinez told CNN in an email Sunday.
An undetermined number of others were injured trying to get away from the shooting scene, Martinez said.
Police cautioned information is limited and the investigation is ongoing.
Four shot near SXSW festival in Austin, Texas
Four people were shot Saturday night in downtown Austin, Texas, during the final weekend of the SXSW festival in an incident stemming from “a disturbance between two groups of people” that is not believed to have been a random act, the Austin Police Department said.
Police described the injuries as “minor,” according to Twitter. The shooting erupted near Neches and 6th streets, in the capital’s entertainment district, Austin-Travis County EMS tweeted early Sunday.
Police were on patrol near East 6th Street’s Toulouse Bar when they heard “several gunshots coming from that area,” according to a series of tweets on the police department’s verified Twitter account.
A suspect was in custody by midmorning Sunday, the police department tweeted. Neither the suspect’s name nor a motive were released, with police citing “the ongoing investigation.”
Four shot at party in Milwaukee
Four people were shot in Milwaukee early Sunday when a suspect or suspects “fired several shots during an argument” at a party, according to the Milwaukee Police Department.
The victims were taken to hospitals for treatment, police said in a statement. A 24-year-old man, “sustained life-threatening injuries” and was in critical condition Sunday. The others — a 28-year-old woman, a 28-year-old man and a 23-year-old man — suffered nonfatal injuries, police said.
Police are still looking for “unknown suspects,” the statement said.
