Global Courant
On the last Sunday of the meteorological spring, according to reports from the authorities, shootings broke out across the country, both in the countryside and in the city.
According to a statement from the Shoshone County Sheriff’s Office, four people were shot dead in Kellogg, Idaho. A suspect was apprehended in the 7:30 p.m. attack, it said.
A motive and circumstances were not immediately available and the case was investigated by state and local authorities.
In Chicago, five people were injured in a shooting on the south side of the city, police said. The exact time of the attack was not clear, but police started tweeting about it at 7:24 p.m
There were no conditions for the injured.
The Metropolitan Police in Washington, D.C., reported that four people were shot in two shootings Sunday night.
The first occurred around 8:45 p.m., police said. One of the two teenage boys hit in that attack was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to the agency. The other victim survived, but an exact condition was not available, according to the police.
Just over an hour later, two people were struck by gunfire, with one victim, described as a boy, hospitalized in critical condition, the DC department said.
The other victim was described as a man who survived. The exact condition of that victim was not available.
In San Francisco, two people were injured in a Saturday night shooting near Fisherman’s Wharf and the Embarcadero, two of the city’s most popular attractions for visitors, police said.
Conditions for the victims were not available. Two vehicles may have been involved in the attack, police said in a statement.
Officers responding to a 6:48 p.m. report of a shooting near the wharf located both victims and rendered assistance, according to the statement from the San Francisco Police Department.
They were rushed to medical facilities, police said.
“At the crime scene, officers learned that two vehicles may have been involved in the shooting,” the department said.
No other suspicious information was available.
The violence followed a night of mass shootings on Saturday that killed at least four people and injured more than two dozen others in shootings across Illinois, Missouri and Washington state.
It was the last weekend of spring, with Monday being a day off for many Americans as a federal holiday in honor of Juneteenth.
Wednesday is the longest day of the year, the summer solstice and the meteorological first day of summer.
Josh Cradduck contributed.
