After a series of deadly mass shootings at a supermarket in New York, a Texas primary school and a hospital in Oklahoma, another outbreak of violence occurred on Thursday, leaving many people injured in a Wisconsin cemetery.
A police station in Racine, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee, said on Twitter that many shots had been fired at Graceland Cemetery, leaving an unspecified number of victims, but little further details were given.
Milwaukee TV station TMJ4 News, citing family members attending the funeral service, said five relatives of the man who was buried at the time were injured in the shooting, although their condition is unknown immediately.
A man living across the street from the cemetery, Ray Brantley, told television he was picking up his daughter from school when he heard gunfire and his son was playing basketball nearby and was close to the shooting.
“Who in their right mind would go to film a funeral in broad daylight,” Brantley said in a camera interview. “These people attended the funeral.”
His son, Trey Brantley, said he heard “bullets whistling past us” and ran to hide with others.
TMJ4 reported that the nearby hospital was guarded and that the high school expelled its students about 10 minutes later than usual after law enforcement officials assured school officials it was safe to do so.
There was no information on whether any suspects had been identified. Police called on the public to help investigators by coming up with any videos they may have from the incident.
The shooting came a day after a gunman killed four people and himself at a medical center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. One of the victims was an orthopedic surgeon who treated the suspect.
Nineteen students and two teachers were shot dead on May 24 during a siege of a primary school in Uwalde, Texas, which ended when police killed the 18-year-old attacker.
And an 18-year-old staunch supporter of white supremacy, also armed with a semi-automatic weapon, killed 10 people, most of them Black, at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, on May 14 in a racially motivated attack.
The Buffalo shooting suspect, who turned himself in to police, pleaded not guilty Thursday to 25 counts in an indictment returned by the grand jury.
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