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Gun Violence
“My spleen was shattered. My stomach had two holes in it. And my diaphragm had two holes in it," 18-year-old Payton Washington said in a TV interview.
Two young boys fatally shot in a triple homicide at an eastern Pennsylvania home this week were playing with their kittens in the backyard when the shots rang out.
The shooting on a Charlotte, North Carolina, bus reportedly occurred after a passenger asked the driver to make an undesignated stop.
Iren Byers admitted to the killings during questioning, police said.
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The violence occurred between two retail stores and involved members of motorcycle gangs, said Red River Mayor Linda Calhoun.
Nineteen students and two teachers were killed at Robb Elementary School a year ago after police in the Texas city took more than an hour to respond.
Three people are dead and one person is in critical condition following a shooting at a Kansas City, Missouri, bar early Sunday.
The Republican governor has consistently expanded access to guns and called for prayer as a solution, even as the shootings got worse in his state.
The children’s father told local reporters that the child might have mistaken the gun, which belongs to a relative, for a toy.
The gunman who killed three people and wounded six others in New Mexico was identified as an 18-year-old high school student, authorities said Tuesday.
