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YUMA, Ariz. (KYMA, KECY/CNN) - At least three people were killed and two were injured in a shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin, early Sunday, continuing the long string of similar incidents that preceded it.
Since March 16, when eight people were killed and one wounded at three Atlanta-area spas, the United States has had at least 50 mass shootings, according to CNN reporting and an analysis of data from the Gun Violence Archive (GVA), local media and police reports.
The United States has seen at least 150 mass shootings in 2021, according to data from the GVA, a non-profit based in Washington.
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The former employee who shot and killed eight people at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis legally bought the two rifles used in the attack despite red flag laws designed to prevent such purchases, police said.
A trace of the two guns found by investigators at the scene revealed that suspect Brandon Scott Hole, 19, of Indianapolis, legally bought the rifles last July and September, officials with the Indianapolis police said Saturday.
The police did not say where Hole bought what they described as “assault rifles,” citing the ongoing investigation, but said he was seen using both rifles during the shooting.
Brandon Hole, the 19-year-old man who the police say fatally shot eight people at a FedEx facility on Thursday night, legally purchased two semiautomatic rifles he used in the attack just a few months after the police seized a shotgun from him, the chief of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department said on Saturday.
In March 2020, the police seized a shotgun from Hole after his mother raised concerns about his mental state, records show. But, chief Randal Taylor said, the fact that Hole was legally able to make the more recent gun purchases indicated that despite his mother’s warning and the police seizure of a gun the authorities had not deemed him subject to Indiana’s so-called red flag law, which bars people from possessing a firearm if they are found by a judge to present a dangerous risk.
The Indianapolis community is once again left to navigate tragedy after the city s third mass shooting in as many months.
This time, eight people were killed and several more were injured when a gunman opened fire on workers at the FedEx Ground Plainfield Operations Center on the southwest side of Indianapolis Thursday night.
Police identified the shooter as a 19-year-old from Indianapolis and said the suspect killed himself inside the FedEx facility before police arrived shortly after the 11 p.m. rampage. No motive has been released in the shooting.
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