Multiple bullets were fired at individuals attending a funeral in Wisconsin on Thursday, injuring at least two individuals, Reuters informs citing authorities’ reports.
The Wisconsin funeral shooting follows a string of massacres in a New York supermarket, a Texas primary school, and an Oklahoma hospital.
At an afternoon burial service at Graceland Cemetery in Racine, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee, many bullets were fired into a gathering of grieving attendees, according to Racine police Sergeant Kristi Wilcox.
One of the victims, a young female, was treated and discharged from a local hospital, while the second victim, who appeared to have suffered more serious injuries, was transferred to a Milwaukee hospital by helicopter, according to Wilcox.
She said that no suspects had been apprehended and that police were requesting anybody with information or video evidence that may help detectives to come forward. When asked if there were additional shooters, Wilcox claimed she was “not at liberty to disclose.” She also stated that she was unable to validate early allegations that the incident was caused by an automobile.
Mayor Cory Mason said in a statement that he had instructed police to impose an 11 p.m. curfew for anybody under the age of 18 over the weekend.
Five relatives of the individual whose funeral was being held at the time were hit by gunshot, according to Milwaukee TV station TMJ4 News, confirming family members’ statements who were present at the burial. Their health condition was not made clear.
The Wisconsin funeral shooting was witnessed by Rey Brantley, a man residing across the street from the gravesite, who informed Milwaukee’s TMJ4 News that he was collecting his daughter from school when he heard gunshots and that his son, who was playing basketball near the place of incident, came dangerously close to getting shot.
“Who in their right mind would go and shoot up a funeral in broad daylight,” Brantley said in an on-camera interview, as cited by Reuters. “Those people were attending a funeral.”
The massacre occurred only one day after a shooter opened fire at a medical institution in Tulsa, Oklahoma, killing four people including himself.
A total of nineteen students and two instructors were murdered on May 24 during a siege at a primary school in Uvalde, Texas, that concluded when the 18-year-old perpetrator was killed by police.
In a racially motivated incident on May 14, an 18-year-old professed white supremacist, also equipped with a semiautomatic rifle, killed ten people, the most of whom were Black, at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York.
In a grand jury indictment issued on Thursday, the suspect detained in the Buffalo shooting pleaded not guilty to 25 counts.
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