One more day, the United States has gone to sleep with the news of a shooting. This time two, one with two dead women – in addition to the shooter, who has committed suicide – in Iowa and a second with two seriously injured people in Wisconsin.
In the first of them, in Ames (Iowa), a man opened fire and killed two women in the parking lot of Cornerstone Church, a fundamentalist Christian church east of the city of just over 60,000 inhabitants.
A shooting in Iowa that took place shortly after President Joe Biden delivered a major speech on gun violence following mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, Uvalde, Texas, and Tulsa, Oklahoma, in recent weeks , to which Ames (Iowa) and Racine (Wisconsin) have joined this Thursday.
The Deputy Chief of the Story County Sheriff's Office, Nicholas Lennie, has explained that in the Ames shooting, when the police forces arrived at the scene of the crime, they already found the bodies of the three dead, the shooter and the two victims. attacked. For now, the relationship between them has not transcended. "It seems like an isolated incident of a single shooter," Lennie has simply pointed out.
For its part, in Racine (Wisconsin), a city of 80,000 inhabitants south of Milwaukee and on the shore of Lake Michigan, multiple shots have been recorded – between 20 and 30, according to some witnesses – against a crowd of people attending a funeral. at Graceland Cemetery, injuring two people, Racine Police Sgt. Kristi Wilcox said.
One of the two victims was treated at a local hospital and has since been released, while the other had to be airlifted to a Milwaukee hospital after sustaining more serious injuries. The police have indicated that so far they have not arrested any suspects.
The shooting took place during the funeral of Da'Shontay L. King Sr., who was fatally shot by Racine police two weeks ago, said King's sister, Natasha Mullen. "We were in the grave trying to get ready to bury him and bullets started flying everywhere," King's sister, Natasha Mullen, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
A Racine police officer fatally shot 37-year-old Da'Shontay King during a traffic stop on May 20. Police argued that he was carrying out a search warrant on a vehicle when King, who they said had a gun, ran from the car. Always according to the police, King ignored orders to drop the gun and Officer Zachary B. Brenner shot him. The Justice Department is investigating the shooting.
All this on the same day that Biden has urged Congress to ban assault weapons, expand background checks and implement other gun control measures to address mass shootings. "Enough, enough!", The president exhorted.
The United States has been rocked in recent weeks by mass shootings that have killed 10 residents in upstate New York, 19 children and two teachers in Texas, and two doctors, a receptionist and a patient in Oklahoma.
