Fifteen. This is the age of the shooter accused of killing five people Thursday in a city in the southeastern United States, local authorities announced on Friday, adding that he was hospitalized and in critical condition. The victims of the shootings that broke out in Raleigh, the state capital of North Carolina, are aged between 16 and 52, said the city’s police chief, Estella Patterson. Among them is a policeman who was not on duty.
The 15-year-old, alleged shooter, also injured two other people, “a police officer (…) who was treated and released from hospital” and another 59-year-old “still in a state criticism,” she added at a press conference.
The shooter opened fire, for an as yet unexplained reason, shortly after 5 p.m. (8 p.m. in France) on a walking path in this city of nearly 500,000 inhabitants. A large contingent of security forces was then deployed to find the perpetrator of the shooting. No explanation was given as to how he obtained his weapon.
Around 49,000 people died from gunshot wounds in the United States in 2021, compared to 45,000 in 2020, which was already a record year. This represents more than 130 deaths per day, more than half of which are suicides.
Source: 20minutes
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