The Crime Report (https://thecrimereport.org/category/shootings/)
Separate firearms incidents in Texas and South Carolina left six people dead, including one of the shooters. The incidents, one of which involved former professional football player Phillip Adams, follow other mass shootings this month and have left the motives unexplained.
Details of a Maryland shooting that left two wounded and the gunman dead are being revealed by a team of investigators including the FBI and local authorities.
With violence against Asian-Americans on the rise, officials raise concerns that the attacks may have been racially motivated.
A U.S. Army special forces sergeant based in Florida has been charged in an apparently random shooting at a Rockford, Il., bowling alley that left three people dead and three wounded.
Alluding to a man who filmed the encounter in which jogger Amaud Arbery was killed, “the footage clearly documents that [William] Bryan used his truck to block Ahmaud from escaping,” said Ben Crump, an attorney representing Arbery’s family.
Under one in six of this year’s nearly 1,900 shootings has led to a suspect in custody. That staggering number of unsolved cases is nearly 40 percent higher than in all of 2015, says the Philadelphia Inquirer.
The attack at a Sacramento mall appeared to be targeted. Gun assaults and homicides have increased in the California capital during the pandemic.
The suspect was described as a 15-year-old Hispanic. Four innocent bystanders were among those who received non-life-threatening injuries during the shooting.
The two people who died were 2019 high school graduates who were innocent bystanders at a house party that grew out of control.
Jake Gardner, the white Omaha bar owner who shot and killed a 22-year-old Black man during a May protest, was indicted five days ago. His attorney said the shooting was “a clear case of self-defense.”