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US records at least 14 mass shootings in one weekend

A series of mass shootings across the US over the weekend left at least 13 people dead and another 78 injured in one of America’s deadliest three days.

Candace SuttonCandace Sutton
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May 27, 2021 - 6:06AM
Eight dead after horror shooting rampage in the US

A series of mass shootings across the US last weekend left at least 13 people dead and another 78 injured in one of America’s deadliest three days.

There were at least 14 mass shootings between Friday afternoon and Sunday, according to CNN and data from the Gun Violence Archive (GVA)

The shootings took place across ten states — New York, Delaware, New Jersey, Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, South Carolina, Virginia, Texas and Minnesota.

CNN defines a mass shooting as an incident with four or more people killed or wounded by gunfire, the number excluding what happens to the shooter.

Last weekend, two of the mass shootings happened at private parties, including a celebration at which a 16-year-old girl, Olivia Kurtz, was shot dead and four people aged 15 to 19 years old were injured.

Two unrelated fatal shootings last Friday by different gunmen took place in the same city within four hours and just a few block of each other.

Shot dead at a private party in Columbus, Ohio last weekend, Olivia Kurtz, 16, was one of 13 people killed in a deadly weekend of gun violence across the US.
Shot dead at a private party in Columbus, Ohio last weekend, Olivia Kurtz, 16, was one of 13 people killed in a deadly weekend of gun violence across the US.
Police on site in Albany, New York after the first of two shootings in the city within hours kicked off a deadly weekend across America. Picture: Twitter.
Police on site in Albany, New York after the first of two shootings in the city within hours kicked off a deadly weekend across America. Picture: Twitter.

One shooting which injured four people went largely unreported because it took place in a city neighbourhood where gun violence is a regular occurrence.

So far this year, the United States has clocked up 264 mass shootings and more than 7500 people have died from gun violence across the country, the GVA stated.

This represented an increase of 23 per cent in the number of fatalities compared to this time last year.

Friday afternoon, Albany, New York: Two separate shootings, two dead

The horror weekend began with two shootings, both fatal, in Albany, the capital of New York State, at separate locations and four hours apart

The first started mid-Friday afternoon, around 2.30pm, when a man opened fire, shooting one man in the back and five people in the torso, legs, buttocks, foot and hand.

Sharf Addalim, 35, later died in hospital, although police say he was not the intended victim of the alleged shooter, 21-year-old Jhajuan Sabb.

Around 6.30pm, and a two-minute drive away, Lashon Turner, 39 died after being shot in the torso.

Police arrested Natural Wise Joseph, 33, and charged him with second-degree murder, possession of a weapon and possession of cocaine.

Friday, 11pm, Jersey City: two dead, four injured

Two gunman opened fire into a car at a New Jersey street corner just before 11pm on Friday, according to the Jersey City Police Department.

Two men were killed and four people were wounded, including three men aged 25 to 35 and a 20-year-old woman, police said.

The deceased men were identified as Randolph Black Jr, 25, and Jason Crutcher, 26,

Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said.

Ms Suarez’s statement said the four injured were all in a stable condition and the

homicide unit was investigating the shooting but had no suspects.

After midnight, Saturday, an apartment complex, Fort Wayne, Indiana: one dead, three injured

When police arrived at an apartment complex in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in response to reports, gunfire was still going off.

It was around 12.45am on Sunday, and when officers checked apartments that had reported being were hit, they found three people with life-threatening injuries and one with non-life threatening injuries.

Police said some sort of disturbance between multiple shooters had taken place in the apartment block’s car park, where the shooting victims were hit by stray bullets.

Taken to hospital, one was later pronounced dead and another remained in a life-threatening condition.

Two others had non life-threatening injures, said police, who did not release the victims’ identities.

Early Saturday, nightclub in downtown Minneapolis: three killed, eight wounded

After midnight, early on Saturday morning, two people were standing in a crowded area on North First Ave in downtown Minneapolis outside the Monarch nightclub.

The men argued, pulled out guns and began shooting at each other.

Officers working the “evening bar close” shift heard the gunshots and ran toward the gunfire, police said.

When they arrived, to an “exceptionally chaotic scene”, two men had already died from their injuries.

A further nine had gunshot wounds, and one of those victims would later die from his injuries.

Police reported the bloody encounter occurred after an easing of COVID-19 restrictions and Spring weather had drawn crowds back to the city’s entertainment quarter.

Police later arrested Jawan Contrail Carroll, 23, on probable cause of murder in Bloomington, Minnesota, 15km north of the shooting scene.

He is currently in Hennepin County Adult Corrections Facility awaiting a hearing.

Police believe the second shooter was among those killed.

Jawan Contrail Carroll, 23, (above) allegedly murdered others during a nightclub shootout after virus restrictions were eased in downtown Minneapolis.
Jawan Contrail Carroll, 23, (above) allegedly murdered others during a nightclub shootout after virus restrictions were eased in downtown Minneapolis.

Saturday afternoon, Wilmington, Delaware: four injured

Four people – two men and two women – were being treated for injuries after being shot in Wilmington on Saturday afternoon.

The shooting, which occurred about 1.20pm in the 800 block of North Pine Street, raised little media coverage due to the area’s notoriety for frequent gun violence.

Officers arriving at the scene found a critically wounded 23-year-old man and a woman, 42, with gunshot wounds.

The aftermath of a hooting in Wilmington Delaware back in 2017, which holds the record of 32 homicide fatalities in a city of just 12,000 people.
The aftermath of a hooting in Wilmington Delaware back in 2017, which holds the record of 32 homicide fatalities in a city of just 12,000 people.

A 39-year-old woman and a man, 30, later arrived at the hospital and were in a stable condition, police said.

TheDelaware Online/The News Journal database reported the shooting brought the gun violence toll this calendar year so far, to 48 people shot, 11 fatally.

This was the most number of people shot by late May in any year since 2017, which holds the city’s record year for shootings which resulted in 32 homicides.

9pm, softball game, San Angelo, Texas: 5-year-old boy among four injured

A five-year-old boy was one of four people injured in a shooting at a Texas sports complex in San Angelo, 350km southwest of Forth Worth last Saturday evening.

Just before 9pm, multiple 911 calls regarding shots fired at the Texas Bank Sports Complex were phoned in.

A friendly game of softball turned violent when the pitcher’s wife felt “disrespected” and her husband allegedly pulled out a gun and fired into the ground.

Three adult males and the boy were hit by ricochet rounds and police arrested 23-year-old Eliseo Rivera Jr and charged him with four counts of Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon.

Eliseo Rivera Jr was charged with four counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in Texas.
Eliseo Rivera Jr was charged with four counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in Texas.

10.30pm, Saturday, concert at North Charleston, South Carolina: 14-year-old girl dead, 13 injured

Police responded to reports of a shooting around 10.30pm last Saturday after a fight broke out at an “unannounced and unauthorised concert event” in North Charleston, in South Carolina.

At a pop-up Tiki Bar at the corner of Piggly Wiggly and West Jimtown, a fight broke out near the stage and multiple shooters pulled out pistols.

In the ensuing melee, a 14-year-old girl was shot dead and 13 others were wounded.

Officers responding to the shooting found numerous victims with gunshot wounds, North Charleston Police Deputy Chief Scott Deckard said.

Police said no suspects had been identified and the motive was not known.

A 14-year-old girl was shot dead on the corner of Piggly Wiggly and West Jimtown drives (above) after multiple shooters began firing at an unauthorised concert.
A 14-year-old girl was shot dead on the corner of Piggly Wiggly and West Jimtown drives (above) after multiple shooters began firing at an unauthorised concert.

11.50pm house party, Fairfield Township, New Jersey: three dead, 12 injured

Hundreds of guests packed into a house party in Fairfield Township, in southern New Jersey, about 80km southwest of Philadelphia late last Saturday when gunfire erupted.

Cumberland County sheriffs say a man and a woman were killed, and least 12 people were shot and injured in the incident which broke out about 11.50pm, one of those later dying.

Police arrested Darrell Dawkins, 30, and charged him with unlawful possession of a handgun and Kevin Dawkins, 36, was charged with several firearms offences.

No arrests for murder have yet have been made.

Police said Braylin Holmes, 19, had succumbed to her injuries and was pronounced dead on Tuesday.

Braylin Holmes was pronounced dead on Tuesday after succumbing to her injuries in a New Jersey house party shooting.
Braylin Holmes was pronounced dead on Tuesday after succumbing to her injuries in a New Jersey house party shooting.

Midnight, private ‘pop-up’ party, Bicentennial Park, Columbus, Ohio: 16-year-old girl dead, four aged under 20 injured

Shortly before midnight, Columbus police received reports of a shooting with “numerous victims” at Bicentennial Park in the Ohio capital.

The event had been a “pop-up party” with a DJ and a large crowd, although it had not been sanctioned by the Columbus Recreation and Parks Department.

Shots were fired into the crowd at the party, which was held in a popular downtown precinct.

Olivia Kurtz, 16, was taken to Grant Medical Centre for gunshot wounds but was pronounced dead just after 1am.

Also shot, police said, were a 15-year-old girl, a boy aged 16, and a woman and a man, both aged 19, who are all expected to survive.

Police said Kurtz’s death was the 77th homicide in Columbus so far in 2021.

Olivia Kurtz, a tenth grader and honours student, was remembered after her murder as having a love for Japanese language and for being inducted into a national honour society for Japanese studies.

Olivia Kurtz (above), murdered in the Columbus shooting, had a love for the Japanese language and was a tenth grade honours student.
Olivia Kurtz (above), murdered in the Columbus shooting, had a love for the Japanese language and was a tenth grade honours student.

Early Sunday morning, downtown bar, Youngstown, Ohio: three dead, three injured

Three people were killed and at least three others were injured in a shooting near the Torch Club Bar & Grille in Youngstown, southwest of Cleveland, Ohio.

Reports of the shooting had started coming in around 2am, and police from multiple divisions had arrived soon afterwards to find a number of dead and injured among a large crowd of onlookers.

Two of the fatalities were identified as 19-year-old Mikquan Stevens and 23-year-old Rayshaun Clay.

No details were released on any possible suspects, and police asked for anyone who had video of the scene to come forward.

Mikquan Stevens was shot and killed in Youngstown, Ohio.
Mikquan Stevens was shot and killed in Youngstown, Ohio.

1am Sunday, private theatre event, Park Forest, Illinois: four injured, one critical

Violence erupted at a private celebration at a theatre, early on Sunday morning, in Park Forest, Illinois just 50km south of Chicago.

Police believe a fight broke out inside the theatre and shortly after the shooting began outside the venue.

Park Forest Police Officers were on foot patrol when they heard gunfire and arrived at the location to find four males aged 29, 30, 31 and 33 had been shot.

The oldest victim was struck multiple times to his body, and another suffered serious injuries and was in a critical condition but none of victims were believed to have life-threatening injuries.

Police did not have a suspect but believed more than one firearm was involved in the shootings.

Chicago police said at least eight people were killed and more than 40 injured in various incidents across the city over the weekend.

Early Sunday morning, two shootings, Paterson, New Jersey: one dead, eight injured

A 35-year-old local woman was shot and killed in Paterson, New Jersey early on Sunday morning minutes before seven other people were wounded.

The woman was found dead in an alley off Butler Street, near the Wrigley Park baseball stadium in Paterson, having suffered multiple gunshot wounds around 1.30am.

A 35-year-old man was also shot, but survived.

Around ten minutes later, a gunman opened fire at a large gathering on a corner abut a five-minute drive from the first incident.

Police found three people injured, including a woman, 33, and a man, 36, who were taken to hospital and another woman with them, 28, who refused medical attention.

Two other men, both 26, sought treatment at hospital for injuries sustained in the same incident.

One of those men was in critical condition and the other victims sustained non-fatal gunshot wounds, according to the Passaic County police.

3am Sunday, private home, Norfolk, Virginia: four injured

Police officers in Norfolk, Virginia responded to a shooting early on Sunday morning and four adults were taken to the hospital with gunshot wounds.

The shooting occurred around 3am in the morning in the Grandy Village suburb of the waterfront city in the state’s southeast.

Saturday evening, Sunday afternoon, two separate drive-by shootings, West Side expressway, Chicago: one dead, three injured

Shots were fired from one vehicle at another which was travelling on the Eisenhower Expressway on Chicago’s West Side early on Sunday afternoon, according to Illinois State Police.

The 27-year-old driver was fatally struck around 12.07am and several bullet holes were found in the side of the vehicle.

A 29-year-old male passenger in the vehicle was transported to the hospital with minor injuries and a 19-year-old male passenger was not injured, according to officials.

In a separate shooting, two men aged between 20 and 40 were struck in another expressway shooting on Saturday evening.

Detectives are investigating with no suspects are in custody.

candace.sutton@news.com.au

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