在7月4日长假周末的庆祝活动和焰火中，美国各地的城市都受到了枪支暴力因为街区聚会和其他节日集会上发生了大规模枪击事件。
据报道，美国东部时间周五下午5点至周三早上5点，全国各地爆发了22起大规模枪击事件，造成20人死亡，126人受伤枪支暴力档案，一个追踪全国枪击案的网站。该网站将大规模枪击事件定义为四名或四名以上受害者受伤或死亡的单一事件，报道称假日大规模枪击事件发生在17个州和华盛顿特区
受到大规模枪击事件影响的主要城市包括巴尔的摩、费城、波士顿、芝加哥和得克萨斯州的沃思堡。
枪击受害者包括一名15岁的男孩，伤者中有许多儿童。
“这是我们正在处理的一个社会问题，一场大规模枪击事件，一场分歧变成了28人被枪杀。这是疯狂的，”马里兰州参议院主席比尔·弗格森在周日巴尔的摩街区聚会发生大规模枪击事件后情绪激动地说。“这不可能是我们应该生活的社会。我们必须做得更好。”
前美国国土安全部负责情报的代理副部长约翰·科恩(John Cohen)表示，假日枪击事件凸显了执法官员面临的挑战，越来越多的人携带枪支，并利用枪支解决争端，而不管无辜的人是否陷入交火中。
美国广播公司新闻撰稿人科恩说:“虽然我们通常从意识形态的角度看待大规模枪击事件，或者从潜在的行为健康挑战引发的一些感知的不满的角度看待大规模枪击事件，但我们在当前的威胁环境中也看到了大规模伤亡暴力的增加，这是对与他人争端或分歧的反应。”
科恩说，看来这两种类型的枪手都参与了假日大屠杀。
科恩说:“天气很热，人们很愤怒，人们回到了拥挤的公共活动中，更多的人认为使用暴力来应对争端是合理的。”“因此，当争端或争论升级为暴力时——而不是拳头打架——他们看到的是大规模伤亡的枪击事件。”
费城枪击案造成5人死亡，儿童受伤
其中一个最致命的枪击事件据警方称，该事件发生在费城的假日周末，当时一名男子手持AR-15式步枪、手枪、备用弹夹，身穿防弹背心，戴着滑雪面罩，据称他横冲直撞，似乎向受害者随机开了至少50枪。
警方称，包括一名15岁男孩在内的五人在费城金辛社区于美国东部时间周一晚上8点30分左右爆发的大屠杀中丧生。费城ABC电视台WPVI获得的监控视频显示，枪手在附近的十字路口向车辆开枪。一名33岁的母亲和她的一个两岁的双胞胎被玻璃击伤，她的另一个双胞胎腿部有四处枪伤。
警方称，一名13岁的儿童也在事件中受伤。
嫌疑人是费城40岁的金布雷迪·卡里克(Kimbrady Carriker)，他被逮捕并于周三出庭受审，罪名是谋杀和谋杀未遂，以及严重袭击、鲁莽危害、无照携带枪支和其他指控。卡里克不得保释，初步听证会定于7月24日举行。
警方确认在事件中丧生的人是20岁的拉什德·梅里特;戴米尔·斯坦顿，29岁;拉尔夫·道德利斯，59岁;道扬·布朗，15岁;和31岁的小约瑟夫·瓦马。
费城市长吉姆·肯尼(Jim Kenney)说:“这个国家需要审视自己的良心，找出如何让枪支脱离危险人物的手中。”“一个人穿着装有多个弹夹的防弹背心，拿着AR式步枪走在街上，随意向人开枪是不光彩的，但这在美国太常见了。”
9在国家首都拍摄
据警方称，这一系列大规模枪击事件包括发生在美国首都的一起枪击事件，周三早些时候，至少有九人在一起驾车枪击事件中受伤。
枪击事件发生在东部时间凌晨1点之前，地点在该市东北部的米德街。华盛顿特区大都会警察局的助理局长莱斯利·帕森斯告诉美国广播公司新闻，一辆深色SUV正驶过该地区，当时车内有人开始向“外面一些正在庆祝7月4日的居民的方向开枪。”
没有立即宣布逮捕。
芝加哥独立日集会2人死亡，4人被枪杀
警方称，周三早些时候，芝加哥7月4日集会上发生枪击事件，一名男子死亡，五人受伤。
根据警方的事件报告，一名枪手在凌晨4点47分左右向一群人开枪，当时他们正站在该市恩格尔伍德社区的一处住宅外。警方称，一名35岁的男子胸部中枪，在芝加哥大学医疗中心被宣布死亡。
据警方称，一名20岁的男子在事件中头部中弹并遭到毒打，在斯特罗格医院被宣布死亡。警方称，一名女子和三名男子因枪伤住院。
没有宣布逮捕任何人，警方说事件的情况正在调查中。
波士顿五人受伤
至少有五个人在波士顿中弹受伤警方称，周三早些时候，至少一名枪手向一群显然在燃放烟花的人开火。
警方说，枪击事件发生在波士顿马特潘附近的美国东部时间凌晨2点左右。据警方称，所有受害者都因无生命危险的伤势住院治疗。
波士顿警方称犯罪现场有几个街区长。
据警方称，两名男子和一名女子因与枪击案有关的指控被捕。嫌疑人的姓名没有立即公布。
巴尔的摩街区聚会枪击案造成2人死亡，28人受伤
据信多名枪手在一个大的巴尔的摩的街区派对警方称，周日早些时候，造成两人死亡，28人受伤。
大规模枪击事件发生在美国东部时间上午12点30分左右，位于该市南区的布鲁克林住宅区。巴尔的摩代理警察局长理查德·沃利说，当许多911报警电话报告有人开枪时，警察赶到了现场。
据警方称，在枪击事件中丧生的是18岁的艾莉雅·冈萨雷斯和20岁的凯利斯·法格贝米。
沃利说，在被枪击中受伤的人中，有15名受害者年龄在13至17岁之间。
官员们说，根据现场收集的不同口径的弹壳，调查人员认为有多人开枪。
尚未宣布逮捕任何人。现悬赏28，000美元征集逮捕和起诉袭击者的信息。
路易斯安那街区聚会，11枪，4枪致命
路易斯安那州什里夫波特的一年一度的街区聚会在周二晚些时候变得致命，当时一些武装人员发出一连串的炮火在一年一度的7月4日街区聚会上，警察说。
什里夫波特女议员塔巴莎·泰勒说，枪击事件发生在周二午夜前的一个假日街区聚会和生日活动上。泰勒说，枪手出现在聚会上，没有警告就开枪了。
遇难者的姓名没有立即公布。
尚未宣布逮捕任何人。
4在密歇根州兰辛拍摄
据警方称，周三早些时候，至少有四人在密歇根州兰辛市的一条街上遭到枪击。
据警方称，枪击发生在兰辛市中心附近的南华盛顿广场附近。受害者都受到了无生命危险的伤害。
警方没有透露枪击事件的细节。
没有宣布逮捕任何人。
沃斯堡枪击事件中受伤的儿童
至少三人死亡，八人受伤，其中包括一名儿童枪击打破了警方称，周一晚间在德克萨斯州沃思堡市的一个停车场。
警方表示，沃斯堡警方在美国中部时间周一晚上11点40分左右回应了沃斯堡科莫区的枪声，几个小时前，一年一度的7月4日庆祝活动科莫节(ComoFest)刚刚结束。据警方称，到达后，警察在停车场发现了多名枪击受害者。
沃斯堡市长玛蒂·帕克称枪击事件对这座城市来说是“令人心碎的”，尤其是发生在附近的街区。
帕克说:“这个社区如此努力，不仅仅是为了举办精彩的庆祝活动来庆祝独立日，这也是为了他们的社区。”
警方称枪击事件中受伤的人中有一名儿童。
警方在一份声明中说，当几名男子出现并“开始不分青红皂白地向人群开枪”时，枪击事件发生了。
没有宣布逮捕任何人。
堪萨斯夜总会枪击案10人受伤
八个人被枪杀，两个人被踩踏涉及多名顾客的枪战据警方称，周日早些时候在堪萨斯州威奇托的一家夜总会内爆发，引发了混乱的出口门踩踏事件。
威奇托警察局执行官员亚伦·摩西(Aaron Moses)中尉在新闻发布会上说，美国东部时间周日凌晨12点58分，威奇托老城区的City Nightz夜总会内爆发了激烈的枪战，至少有四支枪开火。其中一名枪手已被拘留，调查人员正在努力辨认其他人。
周一，警方确认枪手嫌疑人是密苏里州弗洛里桑特的31岁的布兰登·杨。警方称，杨因涉嫌夜总会枪击案中的两起严重殴打罪而被捕。
警方预计会逮捕更多人。
威奇托警察局长乔·沙利文周一宣布，发生枪击事件的夜总会已暂停营业30天。在新闻发布会上，沙利文说，如果夜总会对进入该行业的顾客进行检查，枪击事件可能会避免。
根据威奇托警察局(Wichita Police Department)警探克里斯·默丘(Chris Merceau)的说法，过去一年里，警方已经对12起与城市之夜有关的事件做出了回应，包括调查严重殴打案件和5月21日的驾车枪击案。
“我们需要对发生的事情采取强硬的态度，因为据我估计，我相信这是完全可以预防的，”沙利文谈到夜总会的停业时说。
'Insanity': 4th of July mass shootings leave 20 dead, 126 injured
Amid celebrations and fireworks over the long Fourth of July holiday weekend, cities across America were left reeling from the scourge ofgun violenceas mass shootings occurred at block parties and other festive gatherings.
Twenty people were killed and 126 were injured in 22 mass shootings that erupted across the country between 5 p.m. ET Friday and 5 a.m. ET Wednesday, according to theGun Violence Archive, a website that tracks shootings nationwide. The website, which defines a mass shooting as a single event with four or more victims either injured or killed, reported that the holiday mass shootings happened in 17 states and Washington D.C.
Among the major cities rocked by mass shooters were Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago and Fort Worth, Texas.
The shooting victims included a 15-year-old boy, and many children were among the wounded.
"This is a societal problem that we're dealing with, a mass shooting where a disagreement turns into 28 people shot. This is insanity," an emotional Bill Ferguson, president of the Maryland State Senate, said following a mass shooting that occurred at a Baltimore block party on Sunday. "This cannot be the society that we are expected to live in. We have to do better."
John Cohen, a former U.S. Department of Homeland Security acting undersecretary for intelligence, said the holiday shootings highlighted the challenges law enforcement officials face with more and more people carrying firearms and using them to settle disputes regardless of innocent people getting caught in the crossfire.
"While typically we look at mass shootings from the perspective of whether it was ideologically motivated or motivated by some perceived grievance fueled by underlying behavioral health challenges, what we have also seen in this current threat environment is an increase of mass casualty violence as a reaction to disputes or disagreements with others," Cohen, an ABC News contributor, said.
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Cohen said it appears that both types of shooters were involved in the holiday mayhem.
"It's hot, people are angry, there is a return to people attending crowded public events and more people believe it is justified to use violence in response to a dispute," Cohen said. "So, when a dispute or argument escalates into violence -- instead of a fist fight -- they are seeing mass casualty shootings."
Philly shooting leaves 5 dead, children injured
One of thedeadliest shootingsunfolded over the holiday weekend in Philadelphia, when a man armed with an AR-15 style rifle, a pistol, extra magazines and wearing a bulletproof vest and a ski mask, allegedly went on a rampage, seemingly firing at least 50 shots randomly at victims, according to police.
Five people, including a 15-year-old boy, were killed in the massacre that broke out around 8:30 p.m. ET Monday in the Kingsessing neighborhood of Philadelphia, police said. Surveillance video obtained by Philadelphia ABC station WPVI appeared to show the gunman shooting at vehicles at a nearby intersection. A 33-year-old mother and one of her 2-year-old twins were injured by glass, as her other twin was suffering from four gunshot wounds to the legs.
Police said a 13-year-old child was also wounded in the incident.
The suspect, 40-year-old Kimbrady Carriker of Philadelphia, was arrested and appeared in court Wednesday for an arraignment on charges of murder and attempted murder, as well as aggravated assault, reckless endangerment, carrying a firearm without a license and other charges. Carriker is being held without bail, and a preliminary hearing has been scheduled for July 24.
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.
"This country needs to examine its conscience and find out how to get guns out of dangerous people's hands," Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney said. "A person walking down the street with an AR-style rifle and shooting randomly at people while wearing a bulletproof vest with multiple magazines is disgraceful, but an all too common situation in America."
9 shot in nation's capital
The string of mass shootings included one in the nation's capital, where at least nine people were wounded early Wednesday in a drive-by shooting, according to police.
The shooting unfolded just before 1 a.m. ET on Meade Street in the northeastern part of the city. Assistant Chief Leslie Parsons of the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department told ABC News a dark-colored SUV was driving through the area when someone inside the vehicle began firing in the "direction of some of our residents that were outside, just celebrating the Fourth of July."
No arrests were immediately announced.
2 killed, 4 shot at Chicago Independence Day gathering
A man was killed and five other people were wounded when gunfire broke out at a Fourth of July gathering in Chicago early Wednesday, police said.
A group of people were standing outside a residence in the city's Englewood neighborhood when a gunman opened fire on them at about 4:47 a.m., according to a police incident report. A 35-year-old man was shot in the chest and pronounced dead at the University of Chicago Medical Center, police said.
A 20-year-old man, who was shot in the head and severely beaten during the incident, was pronounced dead at Stroger Hospital, according to police. A woman and three men were hospitalized with gunshot wounds, police said.
No arrests were announced and police said the circumstances of the incident were under investigation.
Five wounded in Boston
At least five people wereshot and wounded in Bostonearly Wednesday when at least one gunman opened fire on a group of people who were apparently setting off fireworks, police said.
The shooting unfolded around 2 a.m. ET in the Mattapan neighborhood of Boston, police said. All of the victims were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries, according to police.
Boston police said the crime scene was blocks long.
Two men and a woman were arrested on charges related to the shooting, according to police. The names of the suspects were not immediately released.
Baltimore block party shooting kills 2, injures 28
Multiple shooters are believed to have opened fire at a largeblock party in Baltimoreearly Sunday, killing two people and injuring 28 others, police said.
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.
Killed in the shooting were 18-year-old Aaliyah Gonzales and 20-year-old Kylis Fagbemi, according to police.
Among those wounded by gunfire were 15 victims between the ages of 13 and 17, Worley said.
Based on different caliber shell casings collected at the scene, investigators believe multiple people fired weapons, officials said.
No arrests have been announced. A $28,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of the assailants.
11 shot, 4 fatally, at Louisiana block party
An annual block party in Shreveport, Louisiana, turned deadly late Tuesday when a number of armed peopleunleashed a barrage of gunfireat an annual Fourth of July block party, police said.
Shreveport Councilwoman Tabatha Taylor said the shooting occurred just before midnight Tuesday at a holiday block party and birthday event. Taylor said the shooter or shooters showed up at the party and opened fire without warning.
The names of those killed were not immediately released.
No arrests have been announced.
4 shot in Lansing, Michigan
At least four people were shot on a street in Lansing, Michigan, early Wednesday, according to police.
The shooting occurred in the South Washington Square neighborhood near downtown Lansing, according to police. The victims all suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
Police released few details about the shooting.
No arrests were announced.
Child among those wounded in Fort Worth shooting
At least three people were killed and eight others were injured, including a child, in ashooting that brokeout in a parking lot late Monday in Fort Worth, Texas, police said.
The Fort Worth police officers responded around 11:40 p.m. CT Monday to reports of gunfire in the Como section of Fort Worth, where hours earlier the ComoFest, an annual Fourth of July celebration, had wrapped up, police said. Upon arrival, the officers found multiple gunshot victims in a parking lot, according to police.
Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker called the shooting "heartbreaking" for the city and, particularly, the neighborhood it occurred in.
"This community has worked so hard not just to put on wonderful festivities to celebrate Independence Day, but this is also about their community," Parker said.
Police said a child was among those wounded in the shooting.
The shooting broke out when several men showed up and "started firing into the crowd indiscriminately," police said in a statement.
No arrests were announced.
10 injured in Kansas nightclub shooting
Eight people were shot and two were trampled when agunfight involving multiple patronserupted early Sunday inside a Wichita, Kansas, nightclub, sparking a chaotic stampede for the exit door, according to police.
At least four guns were fired during the wild shootout that erupted at 12:58 a.m. CT Sunday inside the City Nightz nightclub in the Old Town section of Wichita, Lt. Aaron Moses, executive officer of the Wichita Police Department, said at a news conference. One of the alleged gunmen was taken into custody and investigators are working to identify others.
On Monday, police identified the suspected gunman as 31-year-old Brandon Young of Florissant, Missouri. Young was arrested on two counts of aggravated battery stemming from the nightclub shooting, police said.
Police expect more arrests to be made.
Wichita Police Chief Joe Sullivan announced Monday that the nightclub where the shooting occurred has been suspended from doing business for 30 days. During a news conference, Sullivan said the shooting would have likely been avoided had the nightclub screened patrons entering the business.
Officers have responded to 12 incidents associated with City Nightz in the past year, including investigating aggravated battery cases and a May 21 drive-by shooting, according to Detective Chris Merceau of the Wichita Police Department.
"We need to take a strong stance in response to what occurred because, in my estimate, I believe it was totally preventable," Sullivan said of the nightclub's suspension.
