Shooting nationwide: New Year in the US begins with massacres

2019 was full of violence with the use of firearms, and the beginning of the new year was no different. Writes about it USA Today.

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Within a few hours of the new decade, many people died, including two underage boys.

Several fights have occurred in nightclubs and bars.

Two people were fatally injured when a man opened fire while celebrating a 2020 meeting at a club in Orlando, Florida.

At a nightclub in Lubbock, Texas, a shooter killed two men, 17 and 24 years old.

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In Huntington, West Virginia, at least seven people were injured in a bar firing at the start of a new year. More than a dozen cartridges were found outside the bar and in a parking lot across the street.

Three people in St. Louis were shot dead early on January 1. Three were found dead in one place, and a fourth was shot in the leg, but he survived.

According to police, a boy was mortally wounded in Des Moines (Iowa), two men were killed in Philadelphia.

A wave of gunfire across the country ended the year in which more massacres occurred than in any other, at least since the 1970s.

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In 2019, more than 210 people died as a result of mass killings. Note that killing 4 or more people is considered mass shooting. In total, 41 mass shooting was carried out, including 33 mass shootings in places such as El Paso и Odessa (Texas), Dayton (Ohio), Virginia Beach (Virginia) и Jersey City (New Jersey).

According to the nonprofit archive of gun violence, which defines mass shooting as the killing of four or more people shot or killed, not counting the shooter, in 2019 there were 417 mass shootings and 15 deaths due to violence.

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