In 2018, 11 people were fatally shot in an anti-Jewish attack on a synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The latest high-profile shooting in the United States happened on July Fourth, when a gunman opened fire on parade-goers in a Chicago suburb. To date, there have been 416 homicides in 2022, a 2 decrease from 2021.

In 2015, an avowed white supremacist killed nine people during Bible study at an historically Black church in Charleston, South Carolina. The Fourth of July bloodbath in Highland Park, Illinois, marked the 309th mass shooting in the United States this year, data shows. The US has also seen several attacks on places of worship in recent years, including an attack on Taiwanese parishioners at a church in southern California in May in which one man was fatally shot. There have been 268 mass shootings in the US so far in 2022, according to the Gun Violence Archive. Both attackers wielded semi-automatic assault rifles in those attacks. The attack follows a string of gun killings in the US, including in May the massacre of 19 children and two teachers at a primary school in Uvalde, Texas, and the killing of 10 people by a racist gunman in Buffalo, New York. “This should never happen – in a church, in a store, in the city or anywhere,” she wrote. An investigation is underway into a fatal shooting in downtown west Dearborn Thursday that tied police up in seven hours of negotiations with the gunman, who eventually surrendered. “There will be no program, simply eat and have time for fellowship,” the notice said.Īlabama Governor Kay Ivey issued a statement late on Thursday condemning what she called the shocking and tragic loss of life. The church’s website listed an event described as a “Boomers Potluck” during the time of the attack. The identity of the attacker and any possible motive were not immediately released. AP Paramedics took five gunshot victims and one burn victim to area hospitals. Ware said the gunman was arrested after police received an 18:20 ET (22:20 GMT) report of an active shooter at the scene, adding that there was no further threat to the community. The shooting happened blocks away from Loyola’s Water Tower campus near 10 E. The attack on Thursday night at Saint Stephen’s Episcopal Church in the Birmingham suburb of Vestavia Hills also left a third person wounded, according to Police Captain Shane Ware. A gunman fatally shot two people in a suburban church in the southern US state of Alabama, authorities have said, in the latest in a string of high-profile gun attacks in the country that have led to a renewed call for federal firearm controls. A brawl between teens set off a mass shooting in Chicago that left two people dead and seven others wounded, police said.

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