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<\/div>\nThree people are in critical condition, police said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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At least two people were killed and 28 wounded in a mass shooting early Sunday in the US city of Baltimore, police said.<\/p>\n
Police received multiple calls about a shooting just after 12:30 am Sunday (04:30 GMT) at a street party in the city’s Brooklyn neighborhood in Maryland state, Acting Police Commissioner Rich Worley said during a press conference.<\/p>\n
“Upon officers’ arrival we located multiple victims suffering from gunshot wounds,” Worley said.<\/p>\n
One 18-year-old woman was found dead at the scene, with a 20-year-old male victim also confirmed to have been killed, a police statement said.<\/p>\n
The wounded victims were being treated at area hospitals, he added, with three of them in critical condition.<\/p>\n
Worley said authorities were working to identify a suspect and determine a motive for the shooting.<\/p>\n
“This is an extensive crime scene, our detectives are going to be here quite a while,” he said.<\/p>\n
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott, speaking to reporters at the crime scene, condemned the shooting.<\/p>\n
“This is an absolute tragedy that did not have to happen,” he said.<\/p>\n
“It again highlights the impacts and the need to deal with the over-proliferation of illegal guns on our streets and the ability for those who should not have them to get their hands on them,” Scott said.<\/p>\n
“We will not stop until we find those cowards who decided to just shoot dozens of people, causing two people to lose their lives,” he said.<\/p>\n
With more firearms than inhabitants, the United States has the highest rate of gun deaths of any developed country — at least 44,357 in 2022, including 24,090 suicides, according to the Gun Violence Archive (GVA).<\/p>\n
Sunday’s mass shooting was at least the 337th to occur this year, according to the GVA, which defines a “mass shooting” as a gun-related incident in which four or more people are wounded or killed.<\/p>\n
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