Another violent weekend leaves U.S. on edge after shootings kill 8
Global News
The weekend's gun violence left more than a half-dozen in U.S. dead or wounded, including a 12-year-old, two 16-year-olds and an 18-year-old.
A man firing a rifle killed shoppers at an Indiana mall’s food court. A gunfight at a Houston home killed four people.
A stand-up act by the comedian Craig Robinson in North Carolina didn’t even begin before club-goers fled from a man with a gun.
In Las Vegas, the specter of gunfire at the MGM Grand sent the crowded casino into pandemonium, with gamblers flipping over poker tables to shield themselves over a panic that started with a shattered glass door.
Gun violence has gripped America.
“I am here trembling,” said Ignacio Molina in a video posted on Twitter, after relative calm returned to the Las Vegas casino.
It was a false alarm, but the weekend’s gun violence left more than a half-dozen dead or wounded, including a 12-year-old, two 16-year-olds and an 18-year-old.
Fear of shooters has left more people on edge and the shootings — or panic over the fear of them— were just the latest to hit America in 2022 after a school, church, grocery store and a July Fourth parade in Highland Park, Illinois, all become murder scenes in recent months.
In addition, authorities released a damning report that criticized all levels of law enforcement — including inaction by hundreds of federal, state and local officers — for a chaotic and feckless response on May 24 to a gunman who killed 19 students and two teachers inside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.
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