At least nine people were wounded in another mass shooting in Cleveland, Ohio, police said Sunday morning after an armed suspect opened fire on a group of people and fled the scene.
Cleveland Division police spokeswoman Jennifer Ciaccia said there were no reports of deaths.
“Preliminary information indicates that a suspect opened fire on a group of people and then fled the scene,” Ciaccia said in a statement.
The statement said officers responded to the scene as they were working a weekly detail at West 6th Street and Johnson Court at approximately 2:30 a.m. to reports of multiple people being shot.
Police “arrived quickly” and provided medical assistance to the injured at the scene.
“Investigators are in the process of reviewing the evidence and video, as well as interviewing the victims at MetroHealth Medical Center,” Ciaccia’s statement said. “No additional information was immediately available,” he added.
The shooting comes just days after a series of deadly shootings during Fourth of July celebrations in Shreveport, Louisiana, that left at least four people dead and several injured.
According to Shreveport Police Lt. Van Ree, two bodies were found when officers arrived and a third person died at the hospital.
Local Councilwoman Tabatha Taylor also told reporters about the Shreveport shooting that she was “outraged” and that the shooting was “devastating, at best”.
“Now we have been the victim of a mass shooting in our community because some people decided to come in and disturb people’s good times,” he said.
“A family event that has been going on in our community for years has been interrupted by gunfire because someone decided to do just that by pulling their guns. Why, why? My other choice of words cannot be expressed on camera “
No arrests have been made and the police have not yet identified the shooters.
Mass shooting incidents in America
A 14-year-old boy was killed and six others wounded in a separate shooting at a Salisbury block party, less than 24 hours after gun violence in Texas left at least three dead and several injured.
The shooting also happened around the same time as a drive-by shooting west of Salisbury that injured nine people, including a 9-year-old child.
At least 10 people were killed and 38 injured in three mass shooting incidents in Philadelphia, Baltimore and Fort Worth during the July 4 holiday, officials said, prompting US President Joe Biden to call for action to save innocent lives. Repeatedly urged lawmakers to act on firearms legislation.
There have been more than 340 mass shootings in the country so far in 2023, according to data collected by the Gun Violence Archive, which defines a mass shooting as an incident in which at least four people other than the shooter are shot. Is given.
Three people were killed and eight were injured in a shooting in Fort Worth on Tuesday following a local celebration marking the US Independence Day holiday, according to police.
Another shooting Monday evening in Philadelphia killed five people and wounded two, including a 2-year-old boy and a 13-year-old boy, both of whom were shot in the legs when a gunman wearing body armor fired an AR-15 was taking The local police said, a series of murders on strangers.
