U.S. Rocked by Three Mass Shootings During Easter Weekend; Two Dead

档案 - 执法人员在2022年4月16日枪击事件发生后。至少有9人受伤。这是该州第二次大规模枪击事件。(美联社照片/肖恩·雷福德)

南卡罗来纳州汉普顿(AP) - 南卡罗来纳州的当局说,他们正在调查周日早些时候在汉普顿县的一家夜总会枪击事件,这至少有9人受伤。这是复活节假期周末的第二次大规模枪击事件,也是全美第三次枪击。

The South Carolina shootings and one in Pittsburgh that left two minors dead early Sunday at least 31 people injured.

South Carolina’s State Law Enforcement Division is investigating the early Sunday shooting at Cara’s Lounge in Hampton County. The agency said in an email there were no reported fatalities. No information was immediately available on the severity of the injuries. Hampton County is roughly 80 miles (about 129 kilometers) west of Charleston. A phone call to the nightclub was not answered.

In Pittsburgh, meanwhile,两名未成年人被杀d at least eight people were injured during a shooting at a house party. The shooting, which followed an altercation, happened around 12:30 a.m. during a party at a short-term rental property where hundreds of people had gathered — the “vast majority” of them underage, Chief Scott Schubert of the Pittsburgh police department told reporters.

周日的枪击事件发生在一天之后的第二天,在南卡罗来纳州首都哥伦比亚的一个繁忙的购物中心爆发枪击,在周日的夜总会枪击事件北约90英里处。有9人被枪杀,五人受伤,试图逃离哥伦比亚警察局长W.H.哥伦比亚省中心现场。“跳过”霍尔布鲁克周六说。受害者的年龄从15岁到73岁。

“We don’t believe this was random,” Holbrook said. “We believe they knew each other and something led to the gunfire.”

哥伦比亚警察局宣布逮捕了22岁的Jewayne M. Price,他是最初被执法人员拘留的三人之一,作为购物中心枪击事件的感兴趣。哥伦比亚警方在Twitter上表示,法官周日同意让普莱斯以25,000美元的保证金离开监狱。警方说,他将与脚踝监视器一起被捕。截至周日下午,对他列出的指控是非法携带手枪的。他是迄今为止在购物中心枪击事件中被捕的唯一人,在线监狱记录没有列出可以代表他讲话的律师。

Police said the judge will allow Price to travel from home to work during certain hours each day. Price is forbidden from contacting the victims and anyone else involved in the shooting incident.

南卡罗来纳州21岁或以上的南卡罗来纳州居民可以获得武器许可证,截至去年,他们可以公开或隐藏武器。他们必须进行八个小时的枪支训练,并通过包括指纹识别的背景检查。

The three Easter weekend mass shootings are in addition to other shootings in recent days. Last week, a gunman opened fire in a New York subway car, injuring 10 people.A suspectwas arrested the next day. Earlier this month, police said six people were killed and 12 others wounded in Sacramento, California, during agunfight between rival gangsas bars closed in a busy area near the Downtown Commons shopping mall and the state Capitol.

One week ago, a shooting inside acrowded nightclubin Cedar Rapids, Iowa, left a man and a woman dead and 10 people wounded, authorities said. And last month, 10 people were shot at aspring breakparty in Dallas and several others were injured as they tried to escape the gunfire, police said.

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