NEW YORK — Amid celebrations and fireworks over the long Fourth of July holiday weekend, cities across the country were left reeling from the scourge of gun violence in America as shootings occurred at block parties and other festive gatherings.
More than 80 people were shot, at least 13 fatally, in a string of mass shootings across the country, according to law enforcement officials. Between Sunday and early Wednesday, there were at least eight shootings in which four or more people were wounded or killed in major cities, including Baltimore, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Boston and Fort Worth, Texas."This is a societal problem that we're dealing with, a mass shooting where a disagreement turns into 28 people shot.
Police identified those killed in the incident as Lashyd Merritt, 20; Dymir Stanton, 29; Ralph Moralis, 59; Daujan Brown, 15; and Joseph Wamah, Jr., 31. The mass shooting unfolded around 12:30 a.m. ET in the Brooklyn Homes neighborhood in the southern district of the city. Baltimore Acting Police Commissioner Richard Worley said officers rushed to the scene when numerous 911 callers reported shots being fired.
At least four people were shot on a street in Lansing, Michigan, early Wednesday, according to police.
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