At least five people have died and a teenager has been seriously injured after a shooting in the city of North Las Vegas, in the state of Nevada (United States), and whose alleged author has committed suicide.
Police officers responded to a distress call Monday night, discovering two injured women between 40 and 50 years old, who later died, and a 13-year-old girl seriously injuredas published by the NBC News television network. In a nearby apartmentthe police found two other women and a man between 20 and 30 years old, all of them shot dead.
In the morning, the agents managed to locate the suspect, identified as Eric Adams, 47, who allegedly committed suicide when he discovered that the Police were in front of his residence. The authorities have already opened an investigation into the matter and so far there is no clear motive for the shooting.
More of 8,100 people have died in the United States in shootings so far in 2024according to the NGO Gun Violence Archive (GVA, for its acronym in English), which estimates that 252 the number of mass shootings in the same period. The GVA, created in 2013 and which periodically collects this type of data, defines a mass shooting as one in which at least four people are killed or injured, excluding the attacker.
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Source: Lasexta
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