At least eight people were killed in shootings around the Fourth of July, including a 10-year-old girl in Cleveland. Meanwhile, police were investigating other gun violence across the country that left nearly three dozen people injured.
According to police, no arrests have been made in connection with the shooting.
The Fourth of July is historically one of the deadliest days of the year in the country. flood of shootings around July 4th a year ago there were more than a dozen dead and more than 60 injured. And a year before that, a mass shooting during a 4th of July parade in which seven people died near Chicago.
Violence and mass shootings often increase in the summer monthswith more people gathering for social events, teenagers out of school and higher temperatures.
A 19-year-old man was killed and six others were injured in a drive-by shooting in Philadelphia, police said.
Around 11:30 p.m. Thursday, officers in Philadelphia on routine patrol saw someone lying in the street and realized they had been shot. More officers soon arrived and found more victims.
According to police, the victims were gathered when a man in a passing car fired several shots at the group. It is not yet known what prompted the shooting.
The injured victims – three men, three underage boys and one underage girl, ranging in age from 14 to 23 – were treated at hospitals for various injuries that were not considered life-threatening, and all were in stable condition.
A 10-year-old girl was fatally shot in a Cleveland neighborhood, police said.
Officers responding to reports of shots fired on the city’s West Side found the girl around 7:10 p.m. Thursday. She was taken to a hospital but was pronounced dead a short time later. Her name has not been released. It is not yet known what led to the shooting or whether the girl was targeted. No other injuries have been reported.
Three shootings in the Boston area following July 4 celebrations left one man dead and four others wounded.
The deadly shooting happened around 1:30 a.m. Friday in a park near Boston’s South End neighborhood. The man’s name was not immediately released. At about the same time, three other people were wounded in a shooting in the city’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood. A third shooting at a gas station later left one victim with life-threatening injuries.
Another shooting occurred around 9 p.m. Thursday evening, leaving a 17-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the abdomen in the parking lot of an apartment complex in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts.
A day after a July 4 shooting in Chicago left two women and an 8-year-old boy dead, police are investigating two other mass shootings that injured 14 people Friday morning.
Chicago police said eight people were shot in the city’s Little Italy neighborhood shortly after midnight during a shootout between two people who fled the scene. All of the shooting victims — five women and three men ranging in age from 18 to 74 — were reported in good or fair condition.
About 90 minutes later, a shooting in Chicago’s Austin neighborhood left six people injured: three men and two women, ages 18 to 25, and a 15-year-old boy, police said. All six were in good to fair condition. Police said preliminary findings suggest the shooting also involved a gunfight between two people who ran from the scene.
Friday’s shooting followed a shooting Thursday morning at a home on Chicago’s South Side that left two women, ages 45 and 24, dead and three boys, ages 8, 7 and 5, wounded. The 8-year-old boy died from his injuries later Thursday, police said.
Deputy Chief Don Jerome said two vehicles pulled up and several people got out and fired shots into the home. Multiple shell casings from both a rifle and a handgun were found at the scene, he said.
Police are still investigating the three shootings and have not yet made any arrests.
Police in Albany, New York, said six teenagers were being treated at a hospital for injuries that were not considered life-threatening after a shooting at a large gathering at a home. The victims were males between the ages of 16 and 19.
Police responded to reports of a shooting at the home around 12:15 a.m. Friday. None of the victims were found at the scene, but police said they found evidence of gunfire in the yard behind the home and in the street.
A teenager who had been shot confronted officers on the street shortly afterward, police said.
Four people were injured in an early morning shooting Friday outside a Tampa adult nightclub following an altercation between the club’s security guard and two men, police said.
In an email, Tampa police said the two men involved in the altercation drove their car to the front of the Pink Pussycat Lounge and one of them shot the security guard with a gun. The security guard underwent surgery at a hospital and was listed in stable condition, police said. Three other men who were not involved in the altercation suffered minor injuries. Police said both suspects were arrested and charged with various crimes.
Earlier Thursday, a police officer executed an arrest warrant in Cleveland and an armed individual made threats in Yellowstone National Park were among those killed in other shootings.