At least four people were killed and two wounded Monday in a shooting in Philadelphia, in the northeastern United States, police said.
Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw told a news conference that all of the deaths and injuries were to men.
The security forces responded to an alert issued at 8:30 p.m. this Monday (1:30 p.m. today in Lisbon) and upon arriving at the scene they found several people wounded by shots.
Outlaw said Philadelphia Police Department officers detained a suspect in an alley without incident and that the man was wearing a bulletproof vest, several bullet casings, an assault rifle and a handgun.
“At this point, all we know is that this person decided to come out of his house and attack people,” Outlaw said.
Another police spokeswoman, Jasmine Reilly, told CNN television that six injured had been taken to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center and two to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
The attack came a day after a shooting at a weekend party in Baltimore, about 100 miles southwest of Philadelphia, that killed two people and injured 28.
The Gun Violence Archive recorded 339 mass shootings in the first half of the year in the United States, classified as such by the portal when they cause at least four deaths or injuries. This is the highest value in history.
Experts have tried to explain the increase in homicides and other types of violence in recent years, accentuated during the Covid-19 pandemic, by the prevalence of weapons in the United States or by less aggressive police tactics.
Source: TSF
