At least two people were killed in a shooting on the night of Saturday July 1 to Sunday July 2, in Baltimore, on the east coast of the United States. According to the local police, 28 injured are also to be deplored. Police said they received numerous calls around midnight, the latter reporting that shots had been fired in the Brooklyn neighborhood, Police Chief Rich Worley said at a press conference.
“Upon arriving at the scene, the police found many people with bullet wounds,” he added, adding that an 18-year-old woman and a 20-year-old man had been killed, and that nine other people were seriously injured. 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. The authorities are trying to understand what happened, identify a suspect and understand his motivations. “This is a tragedy that should never have happened,” city mayor Brandon Scott said 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 be able to obtain them,” he said. added. “We will never stop finding those 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 Gun Violence Archive (GVA). Not to mention 24,000 suicides.
The Baltimore shooting is the 337th mass shooting in the United States so far this year, according to GVA, which defines mass shootings as firearm attacks in which at least four people are injured or killed. .
