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Car gunman kills one, injures 12 in Arizona

2021-06-21T16:45:58.977Z


One person was killed and twelve others were injured in a series of shootings by a man driving a car in Arizona, in ...


One person was killed and twelve others were injured in a series of shootings by a man driving in Arizona, police said Thursday (June 17) after arresting the suspected shooter.

The man had opened fire, apparently at random, at at least eight separate locations on the outskirts of Phoenix, violence that spanned an hour and a half.

A total of four people were shot and wounded, including one fatally, while the other nine victims sustained minor injuries, some of them from shards of glass.

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"We don't know what the motives were, we have no idea what this person was thinking when they went to do these things

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Peoria Police spokesman Brandon Sheffert said.

"Obviously we want to elucidate that, because a lot of people are afraid, a lot of people have been affected"

, he added during a press conference, organized inside because of the scorching temperatures (48 ° C). ) who reigned Thursday afternoon in the Phoenix area.

The suspect could be apprehended after firefighters identified a vehicle that matched the description given by several witnesses to the shootings.

The man behind the wheel did not resist when he was arrested and the police discovered a weapon in his vehicle.

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The event follows other recent shootings in the western United States, such as in California where a disgruntled employee executed nine of his colleagues last month, or in Colorado where ten people were gunned down in a supermarket. in March. A total of 279 people have been killed since the start of the year in mass shootings in the United States (in which at least four people are killed or injured) according to statistics from the organization Gun Violence Archive. At the same time, gun victims have increased across the country: more than 20,200 people, including suicides.

Source: lefigaro

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