Between Sunday and early Wednesday, there were at least eight shootings in which four or more people were wounded or killed in major cities, including Baltimore, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Boston and Fort Worth, Texas.
July 5, 2023, 6:02 PMPolice is on the scene of a mass shooting incident at 800 block of Gretna Court in the Southern District, in Baltimore, on July 2, 2023.Amid celebrations and fireworks over the long Fourth of July holiday weekend, cities across the country were left reeling from the scourge ofMore than 80 people were shot, at least 13 fatally, in a string of mass shootings across the country, according to law enforcement officials.
"While typically we look at mass shootings from the perspective of whether it was ideologically motivated or motivated by some perceived grievance fueled by underlying behavioral health challenges, what we have also seen in this current threat environment is an increase of mass casualty violence as a reaction to disputes or disagreements with others," Cohen, an ABC News contributor, said.
"This country needs to examine its conscience and find out how to get guns out of dangerous people's hands," Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney said. "A person walking down the street with an AR-style rifle and shooting randomly at people while wearing a bulletproof vest with multiple magazines is disgraceful, but an all too common situation in America."At least nine people were shot and wounded in Washington D.C.
Based on different caliber shell casings collected at the scene, investigators believe multiple people fired weapons, officials said.
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