By Dennis Romero
The first weekend of June saw a higher number of mass shooting deaths in the United States than the previous three-day weekend, which ended with Memorial Day.
The weekend violence tally through Sunday night was at least 12 dead and at least 38 injured in mass shootings, defined by the Gun Violence Archive as an incident in which “four or more people are shot or dead, not including the shooter.”
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Over the holiday weekend, nine people were killed and more than 60 injured in attacks that fit that definition.
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The most notable acts of violence this weekend took place in Philadelphia, where three people died and 12 others were injured, and in Chattanooga, Tennessee, which saw its second consecutive weekend of mass shooting violence, this time with two dead and 12 others wounded.
A third person died after being hit by a car.
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The rest of the attacks happened in the following places:
In Clarendon County, South Carolina, a graduation party held outside a residence late Saturday was interrupted by a shooting that may have involved two vehicles, the sheriff's office said.
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A 32-year-old woman struck by gunfire died Sunday morning.
Seven other people, including children ages 12 to 17 and a 36-year-old person, were injured, according to authorities.
The violence may have been gang-related, the Clarendon County Sheriff's Office said in a statement.
“There were at least 60 to 70 shots fired in this incident.
It is unclear, at this time, if any of these rounds may have been return fire from some of the subjects at the party."
In Saginaw, Michigan, early Sunday, a shooting killed three people, including two men who were at the scene and a woman who was hospitalized but did not survive, according to Saginaw station WEYI. , affiliated with our sister network NBC News.
Two men injured in the attack were hospitalized, according to the radio.
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In Mesa, Arizona, two people were killed and two others wounded in a shooting at a nightclub early Sunday, Phoenix's NBC affiliate KPNX reported.
Officers chased three suspects who allegedly sped off in a vehicle and were arrested in connection with the attack, according to the police station.
Philadelphia police officers work at the scene of a fatal overnight shooting on South Street, Sunday, June 5, 2022. Michael Perez / AP
Two men were pronounced dead at the scene.
The injured, who were also at the scene, were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries, authorities told KPNX.
In Bibb County, Georgia, sheriff's deputies responded to reports of shots fired at an abandoned home Saturday night and found four people shot, including 19-year-old Cleveland Raines of Macon, who later died. at a hospital, according to the county sheriff's office.
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Three other victims, named as Ralph Hughes, 19, Jarvis Devon Hill, 23, and Alizya Sinclair, 22, were in stable condition in medical facilities, the Bibb County office said in a statement.
The origins of the attack are being investigated.
Shannon Watts, founder of the group Moms Demand Action, which seeks to curb gun violence, noted on Twitter that the violence is not going down.
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"Last month it was New York, Texas and California," he said.
"This weekend it's Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Tennessee."
In an address to the nation on Thursday, President Joe Biden called on Congress to act on proposals to curb sales of semi-automatic rifles like the AR-15, developed for the Army.
Although this weapon has been used in some of the worst mass shootings in the country, authorities did not point to this style of weapon as a culprit in the weekend attacks.
The president's request came after 19 children and two teachers were shot dead at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24.
On May 14, a young man allegedly motivated by racism and hate killed 10 people at a grocery store in the heart of the black community in Buffalo, New York.
Friday was recognized by several nonprofit organizations committed to reducing shootings as National Gun Violence Awareness Day.