Two dead and 30 injured in shooting in Baltimore
Two deaths and 28 injuries are to be deplored after an attack carried out in the night from Saturday to Sunday in a southern district of the city, during Brooklyn Day.
PostedJuly 2, 2023, 12:09 PM
Hundreds of people had gathered in the 800 block of Gretna Court for the Brooklyn Day event.
Baltimore Police
Blood has flowed again in the United States. At least two people were killed and 28 others injured, police said, in a shootout overnight from Saturday to Sunday in Baltimore, on the east coast of the United States. Police said they received numerous calls shortly after midnight (0400 GMT Sunday) reporting that people were being shot at in the Brooklyn neighborhood, Police Chief Rich Worley said at a press conference. “When they arrived on the spot, the police found many people hit by bullets”, he added, specifying that an 18-year-old woman and a 20-year-old man had been killed, and that nine other people, seriously injured, were transported to the nearest hospitals. Three of the injured are in critical condition. The other injured were sent to more distant hospitals, he added.
Authorities are trying to figure out what happened, identify a suspect and understand his motivation.
“It’s a tragedy that should never have happened”
Brandon Scott, the city’s mayor, at a press conference.
“This again highlights the consequences and the need to combat the proliferation of illegal firearms on our streets and the possibility for those who should not have them to succeed in obtaining them”, added the mayor of the city. “We will never stop finding these cowards who decided to shoot dozens of people just like that, killing two,” he promised.
With more guns than people, the United States has the highest gun death rate of any developed country. Some 20,200 people were killed by firearms in 2022, according to the association Gun Violence Archive (GVA). Not to mention 24,000 suicides. The Baltimore shooting is the 337th mass shooting in the United States since the start of the year, according to GVA, which defines mass shootings as firearm attacks in which at least four people are injured or killed.
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2023-07-02 10:09:35
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