sBooing around the Fourth of July killed at least eight people, including a 10-year-old girl in Cleveland, as police investigated other cases of gun violence across the country that injured nearly three dozen people.
No arrests have been made in either shooting, police said.
The 4th of July is historically one of the deadliest days of the year in the country. A barrage of shootings around July 4 a year ago, it left more than a dozen people dead and more than 60 injured. And a year before that, a mass shooting at a 4th of July parade left seven people dead near Chicago.
Violence and mass shootings frequently increase in summer monthswith more people gathering for social events, teens out of school and warmer temperatures.
Philadelphia shooting
A 19-year-old man was killed and six others were injured in a shooting in Philadelphia, police said.
Around 11:30 pm on Thursday, Philadelphia police officers on routine patrol saw someone lying in the street and realized he had been shot. Additional officers soon arrived and found more victims.
Police said the victims were gathered together when a man in a passing car fired several shots at the group. It is not yet known what motivated the shooting.
The injured victims – three men, three young males and one young female, aged between 14 and 23 – were being treated in hospitals for various injuries that were not considered life-threatening, and all were under stable conditions.
10-year-old girl dies in Cleveland shooting
A 10-year-old girl was shot to death in a Cleveland neighborhood, police said.
Officers responding to reports of shots fired in the west of the city found the girl around 7:10 p.m. on Thursday. She was taken to a hospital but was pronounced dead a short time later. Her name was not released. It is not yet known what motivated the shooting or whether the girl was the target. No other injuries were reported.
Shootings in Boston area leave one dead, four others injured
One man was killed and four other people were injured in three shootings in the Boston area following the city’s Fourth of July celebrations.
The fatal shooting occurred around 1:30 a.m. Friday in a park near Boston’s South End neighborhood. The man’s name was not immediately released. Around the same time, three other people were injured in a shooting in the city’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood. Later, a third shooting at a gas station left one victim with serious injuries.
Another shooting around 9 p.m. Thursday left a 17-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the stomach in the parking lot of an apartment complex in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts.
Separate gun incidents in Chicago injured 14
A day after a July 4 shooting killed two women and an 8-year-old boy in Chicago, police were investigating two other mass shootings that injured 14 people in the city on Friday morning.
Chicago police said eight people were shot in the city’s Little Italy neighborhood shortly after midnight during an exchange of gunfire between two people who fled the scene. All of the shooting victims — five women and three men between the ages of 18 and 74 — were considered to be in good or fair condition.
About 90 minutes later, a shooting in Chicago’s Austin neighborhood injured six people — three men and two women between the ages of 18 and 25 and a 15-year-old boy, police said. All six were reported to be in good and fair condition. Police said preliminary findings suggest the shooting also involved an exchange of gunfire between two people who fled the scene.
Friday’s shooting followed a Thursday morning shooting at a home on Chicago’s South Side that killed two women, ages 45 and 24, and injured three boys, ages 8, 7 and 5. said the police.
Deputy Chief Don Jerome said two vehicles stopped and several people got out and fired shots at the house. Several cartridges from a rifle and a pistol were found at the scene, he said.
Police continue to investigate the three shootings and have not announced any arrests.
Six teenagers injured at home in Albany, New York
Police in Albany, New York, said six teenagers were being treated at a hospital for injuries that were not considered life-threatening following a shooting into a large crowd at a home. The victims were men aged between 16 and 19.
Police responded to reports of a shooting at the home around 12:15 a.m. Friday. None of the victims were found at the scene, but police said they located evidence consistent with gunshots in the yard behind the residence and in the street.
A teenager who was shot flagged down officers along a street a short time later, police said.
4 shooting injuries at Tampa nightclub
Four people were injured in a Friday morning shooting outside a Tampa adult nightclub following a fight between the club’s security guard and two men, police said.
In an email, Tampa police said the two men involved in the fight drove their car to the front of the Pink Pussycat Lounge and one of them shot the security guard with a gun. The security guard underwent surgery at a hospital and police said his condition is stable. Three other men who were not involved in the altercation suffered unspecified minor injuries. Police said both suspects were arrested and charged with multiple crimes.
Earlier Thursday, a police officer serving a warrant in Cleveland and an armed person making threats in Yellowstone National Park were among those killed in other shootings.
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