at least 4 people have been killed and more than 30 injured in shootings in Chicago, St. Louis and Washington state On a deadly night of gun violence, which is increasingly common in the United States.
Two people were killed and three wounded In a shootout near state camp Washington which included people who were attending a nearby music festival on Saturday night, according to police.
The Grant County Sheriff’s Office said Saturday that it had received a report of A Filming shortly before 8:30 p.m. In the campground near the small town of George, 149 miles (239 kilometers) east of Seattle. Officers pursued the suspect, who was later arrested.
The names and circumstances of the victims were not immediately available.
organizers Electronic Music Festival Beyond Wonderland On social media, Sunday’s events at the Gorge Amphitheater have been cancelled. The sheriff’s office said the shooting occurred in campgrounds adjacent to the concert venues. The event organizers described the venue as a “full campground”.
KREM-TV reported that The shooter was among the three wounded. That was according to Kyle Foreman, public information officer for the Grant County Sheriff’s Office.
within In Chicago, at least 20 people were shot, one fatally, early Sunday morning The authorities said during a meeting in a parking lot on the outskirts of the city.
Television news video showed the mall littered with rubble and the police bar in Willowbrook, about 20 miles (32.1 kilometers) southwest of Chicago.
There were at least 20 people who were shot dead. victim has diedsaid Eric Swanson, deputy chief of the DuPage County Sheriff’s Office. The motive for this incident is not clear. … We removed several victims from the scene. Others just went to district hospitals.”
Swanson told reporters that the conditions of the injured were not immediately available.
“It was supposed to be like a June celebration. We started hearing gunshots and we went down until they stopped,” witness Markisia Avery told WLS-TV.
Another witness, Craig Lutsey, said: “everyone ran and it was chaos”.
The night ended with a late-night shooting at a building in downtown St. Louis that left a minor dead and nine others wounded.According to a press report.
The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department reports that the shooting occurred around 1:45 a.m. Sunday, KMOV-TV reported.
Witnesses told KMOV that The shooting took place inside a building.
The names of the victims and the circumstances of those injured in the shooting were not immediately available.
St. Louis police did not immediately respond to an email from the Associated Press requesting additional information.
(with information from the AP)
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