Two persones died and eight others were injured Friday night in two shootings seemingly related to each other in Virginia Beach (Virginia, USA), At a time when the debate on the arms control in the United States.
Police in this southeastern coastal city of Virginia were patrolling the boardwalk at midnight when they heard “multiple shots” and found several injured, officers said in a statement Saturday morning.
Eight people were hospitalized with gunshot wounds, in some cases serious, while a police officer was hit by a vehicle and taken to hospital with “minor injuries,” police said.
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An adult woman died at the scene as a result of a shooting, while the other fatality was recorded in a second shooting “related” to the previous one, according to the official statement.
He is an adult man who was shot dead by a police officer, who as a result of the incident has been temporarily removed from his post while investigating what happened.
“It was a very chaotic night on the beach, with different crime scenes,” Virginia Beach Police Chief Paul Neudigate said at a news conference.
Authorities did not clarify whether the man killed by the officer was the perpetrator of the shooting that left one dead and eight injured and said they have no information about a possible suspect in this first incident and continue investigating-, so they asked for citizen collaboration.
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The incident came just as the debate over gun control in the United States has reopened, following Monday’s shootings at a Boulder supermarket (Colorado), where ten people died, and from last March 16 in several salons of asian massage in atlanta (Georgia), which left eight dead.
However, attempts by President Joe Biden and his party to reform gun control legislation are unlikely to succeed in the U.S. Senate, where the Republican minority has enough votes to prevent any change in that. sense.
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