At least 15 mass shootings have taken place across the United States since May 24, from California to Arizona to Tennessee, with at least 12 taking place over the Memorial Day weekend alone, reports the Washington Post.
At least eight people have been killed and 55 injured in the mass shootings over the holiday weekend. Since the Uvalde shooting last Tuesday, at least 11 people have been killed and 67 injured in mass shootings.
On Saturday evening, six teenagers were injured by gunfire in Chattanooga, Tenn., in what Mayor Tim Kelly said was probably “an altercation between other teenagers.”
The Chattanooga shooting was one of at least five mass shootings that took place on Saturday alone. Meanwhile, the Chicago Sun-Times reports that Chicago experienced its most violent Memorial Day weekend in five years, with 10 killed and 42 wounded despite stepped up police patrols and a focus on neighborhood programs that city officials hoped would provide peaceful alternatives.
About half of those shot were on the city’s West Side, most of them in a single police district, the 11th, where there were two mass shootings on Sunday. On the South Side, at least 14 people were shot. And downtown, where there has been a spike in shootings all year, four people were hit by gunfire.