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Over the course of the long holiday weekend from Friday evening through to Wednesday morning, the US endured at least 16 mass shootings, Rachel Sharp reports America marks July 4 – with a string ...
Over the July Fourth holiday weekend, the nation was shaken by three separate mass shooting incidents, all occurring within a harrowing 24-hour timeframe. In Baltimore, two people were killed and ...
At least 17 mass shootings were recorded across the country over the Fourth of July holiday weekend, including a string of deadly incidents that left as many as 18 people dead, data published by ...
Death of William Chapman occurred on April 22, 2015, in Portsmouth, Virginia, when Chapman was shot and killed by police. Murders of Alison Parker and Adam Ward: they were fatally shot on August 26, 2015, near Smith Mountain Lake in Moneta, Virginia, by Vester Lee Flanagan II, a.k.a. Bryce Williams. [8] FreightCar America shooting, October 25 ...
July 2–4, 1999: Shootings 2 (+1) 9 / Illinois and Indiana: 1999 Independence Day weekend shootings: Neo-Nazi World Church of the Creator/Creativity member Benjamin Nathaniel Smith goes on a two-state shooting spree in Indiana and Illinois. Starting on July 2, Smith wounds nine Orthodox Jews in drive-by shootings in Chicago.
[1] [4] [7] An alert was sent out by Virginia Commonwealth University at 5:15 pm. [7] A member of the Richmond City School Board who was in attendance, said that the shooting began shortly after they were exiting the building and they had heard about 20 shots in quick succession.
The holiday has accounted for the most mass shootings of any other days of the year in nearly a decade, according to a CNN analysis of the Gun Violence Archive’s mass shooting data since 2014.
During the weekend of July 4, 1999, white supremacist Benjamin Smith targeted Orthodox Jews and members of racial and ethnic minorities in a three-day drive-by shooting rampage in the U.S. states of Illinois and Indiana, after which he committed suicide. Smith was member of the neo-Nazi World Church of the Creator.