1 killed, 4 wounded in Hartford mass shooting — as gunmen attack events across US in bloody weekend
At least one person was killed and four were wounded in a mass shooting in Connecticut early Sunday — the latest in a bloody weekend of attacks that left dozens wounded in Chicago, Virginia and Kentucky.
Cops were called to the SoulBaila nightclub in in Hartford at around 1:40 a.m. to reports of a shooting and discovered a crowd of around 100 people and an unresponsive person, local outlet WTNH reported.
The victim was pronounced dead at the scene and had yet to be identified.
A man in his 30s was in a critical but stable condition. Two men, one in his 20s and one in his 30s, and an adult woman, were all in a stable condition.
Cops believe one gun was used in the shooting.
Hartford Police Major Crimes and Crime Scene divisions were investigating.
It came just hours after one person was killed and four were wounded in a shooting in Lexington, Kentucky, on Saturday evening.
At least 13 shots were fired close to a packed downtown bar at around 6:45 p.m. local time sending crowds running for cover.
A 4-year-old, a 14-year-old, and two adults were shot, with all four taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, according to police.
The victim was declared dead at the hospital and the incident remains under investigation, with no arrests made.
Also on Saturday evening, Chicago was hit by a drive-by mass shooting, wounding four people, two critically, WLS reported.
At around 7:15 p.m., a car pulled up alongside a group walking along the sidewalk in the Gresham neighborhood of the city’s South Side before multiple occupants fired shots out of the windows and driving off.
The victims, a 32-year-old woman, a 34-year-old man, a 43-year-old man, and a third man of unknown age, were all injured,
No arrests have been made.
On Saturday evening, police in Virginia arrested a suspect over a shooting early that morning at Virginia State University that injured five, including a student.
Suspect Camron Harris is not a VSU student, and nor were four of the victims, according to Chesterfield County Police who made the arrest.
The school previously said that the shooting involved “multiple suspects,” in a statement.
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