A man, identified as a former Coast Guard, opened fire in the waiting room of an Atlanta hospital. The suspect has been apprehended.
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Shorror supper in an Atlanta hospital. In this large city in the south of the United States, a person opened fire on Wednesday May 3 in a hospital, killing one and injuring four. The man fled but was arrested after a few hours. The suspect was identified by Atlanta police as Deion Patterson, a former Coast Guard officer. The shots took place around noon (4:00 p.m. GMT) in a waiting room of a hospital in the city.
« Deion Patterson was apprehended », Atlanta police said in a short statement on their Facebook page in the evening. The victims are between 25 and 71 years old, police said during a press conference earlier. All of the victims were women, Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens said.
Return of the gun debate?
Deion Patterson was accompanied by his mother, who was not injured, said the police chief, noting that it is too early to know if one or more victims were specifically targeted. His family is cooperating with the investigation.
The United States pays a very heavy price for the dissemination of firearms on its territory and the ease with which Americans have access to them. The country has more individual weapons than inhabitants: one in three adults owns at least one weapon and almost one in two adults lives in a home where there is a weapon. The consequence of this proliferation is the very high rate of death by firearm in the United States, without comparison with that of other developed countries.
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