Memorial Day Weekend: Numerous People Were Injured In Mass Shooting On The Boardwalk At Hollywood Beach, Florida
The victims, whose ages range from 2 to 77, were reportedly shot in at least eight different states between Friday, May 26, and Monday, May 29, 2023.
According to NBC News, the gun violence happened among other places at motorcycle rallies, high schools, and beaches.
In Chicago, there were at least nine fatalities and 47 injuries. According to CBS News, the shootings started on Friday night when a man was shot in the 6300 block of West Montrose Avenue in the Portage Park area.
In Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood on Sunday night, a 2-year-old girl inadvertently shot herself and sustained injuries. The girl found a firearm, the Chicago Police Department said, and unintentionally discharged it, shooting herself in the hand.
Among those killed in the city's crimes were a 59-year-old man, a 57-year-old woman, and a 77-year-old guy.
Nine additional people were hurt in the shooting, which occurred on Monday night in Hollywood, Florida's Hollywood Beach neighborhood as Christmas revelers gathered along the Atlantic coast north of Miami, according to NBC news.
The violence, according to police, was the result of an encounter between two groups. Nine people were hospitalized in uncertain conditions, and it's possible that some of the injured were youngsters.
Five individuals were hurt in Baltimore on Friday at 3:30 p.m. after two males got into a fight that turned into gunfire, authorities told NBC News.
According to a news statement from the police, Iren Byers, 20, was arrested in Mesa, Arizona, in connection with many shootings that occurred from late Friday afternoon until early Saturday. Byers is charged with the murder of four persons and the injury of one.
Police were called to Seattle's Roxbury Lanes Casino on Saturday after hearing reports of gunfire. Three people were hurt, according to KOMO-TV.
Three individuals were killed and five more injured at a motorcycle event on Saturday night in Red River, New Mexico, leading to the arrest of a suspect.
On Saturday night at Hot Restaurant and Lounge in Garden Grove, California, three people were hurt, two of them critically. According to Garden Grove Police Sgt. Nick Jensen, the shooter got into a fight before he started shooting, according to NBC Los Angeles.
A shooting during "an unauthorized gathering" at Benjamin E. Mays High School in Atlanta early on Sunday resulted in the deaths of one kid and the injury of another, according to a statement from Atlanta Public Schools.
Around 2:30 a.m. ET on Sunday, police were called to the high school, where they found a 16-year-old male and a 16-year-old girl who had both been shot. Later, the girl did. The youngster was transported to a local hospital, where he was kept safe.
A person was killed in a shooting aboard a Green Line train at the Navy Yard stop in Washington, D.C., later on Sunday at 11:45 a.m. ET. Police for Metro Transit tweeted.
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