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At least 140 people died in shootings across the US over Fourth of July weekend

Jul 6, 2021, 15:38 IST
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In this photo on Twitter released by the Fort Worth Police, Chief Neil Noakes holds a news briefing at the site of a shooting early Sunday, July 4, 2021, in Fort Worth, Texas. Multiple people were wounded early Sunday in a shooting near a Fort Worth car wash in which it appears multiple guns were used, police said. Fort Worth Police Department/AP
  • The Gun Violence Archive counted 375 shootings in the US over Fourth of July weekend.
  • At least 140 people died of gun-related violence from Saturday to Monday evening.
  • The GVA's tally included 18 shootings with four or more victims.
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The return of mass shootings in America was felt over the Fourth of July weekend, as cities from Chicago to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to Fort Worth, Texas, were gripped by gun violence.

The Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit that tracks shootings nationwide, recorded 375 shootings, including 18 mass shootings, in the US from Friday to Monday evening.

The spike was a dark reminder that as normal life resumes in the country, so too does gun violence.

The frequency of so-called mass shootings, which involve numerous injuries or fatalities, had briefly subsided in the 15 months since the coronavirus outbreak was declared a pandemic and offices, schools, and movie theaters closed their doors. Experts warn that the return of frequent mass shootings is imminent, so long as weapons designed to kill people quickly and in large numbers are widely available.

To be clear, gun violence was up last year through the pandemic, even though there were fewer mass shootings.

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On Sunday, a clothing-store owner in West Philadelphia was holding a cookout outside his store when one or more gunmen fired as many as 100 shots into the crowd, killing the 23-year-old store owner and another man. The shooting happened while fireworks were being set off, making it hard to know where the bullets were coming from, NBC Philadelphia reported.

At least 92 people were shot, 16 of them killed, in what was the deadliest and most violent weekend this year in Chicago, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. In the early hours Monday, a person driving past fired on a group hanging out in a park on the South Side, killing two and wounding two, including a 12-year-old girl and a 13-year-old boy.

The definition of a mass shooting differs by source, but the Gun Violence Archive defines it as an incident in which four or more people are shot (not counting the shooter) in roughly the same time and place.

By this definition, at least 18 people died and 71 were injured in 18 mass shootings over Independence Day weekend.

Last year's Fourth of July weekend was also marred by violence with 26 mass shootings, the nonprofit reported.

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Here are all the mass shootings recorded across the US by the Gun Violence Archive over the Fourth of July weekend:

DateLocationAddress# Killed# Injured
July 3Lancaster, PA50 block of W Orange St04
July 3Chadbourn, NCBroadway Rd31
July 3Swainsboro, GA229 S Main St13
July 3Hammond, IN5900 block of Wallace Rd22
July 3Chicago, IL1000 block of W 89th St04
July 4Thermal, CAJackson St and Airport Blvd04
July 4Omaha, NE2311 N 24th St14
July 4Danville, IL12 S College St04
July 4Fort Worth, TX3400 block of Horne St08
July 4Rantoul, IL400 block of S Maplewood Dr05
July 4North Las Vegas, NV1200 block of W Helen Ave27
July 4Dallas, TX3700 Dixon Ave05
July 4Dallas, TX8200 block of Towns St32
July 4Chicago, IL39 N Menard Ave13
July 5Santa Rosa, CA1500 block of Beachwood Dr13
July 5Cincinnati, OH166 W Mehring Way23
July 5Toledo, OHLawrence Ave and Wall St05
July 5Chicago, IL6108 S Wabash Ave24

Source: Gun Violence Archive

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