Mass shootings in the United States, which is no longer limited to a specific time and place, has increased in recent days, and in the latest shooting, one person was fatally shot and five other people were wounded by gunfire in a shooting Friday near Richmond in Virginia.
The Chesterfield County Police Department said in a statement that police were responding to reports of shots fired at about 9:38 p.m. in Chester, Virginia. The violence broke out at a party, local news outlets reported.
Arriving officers discovered a man suffering from a gunshot wound, police said. He died at the scene. Five others were shot and taken to local hospitals or other treatment facilities, authorities said.
Two other people suffered non-gun-related injuries, authorities said.
The US Gun Violence Archive reported Friday, that as of June 2, 2022, more than 8,000 people had been killed and more than 15,000 injured in gun violence in the United States.
According to the statistics, 8,085 people were killed and 15,200 were wounded, of which 152 children were killed and 315 children were wounded in the shootings.
According to the statistics, 539 teenagers were killed and 1,399 others were wounded in the armed violences.
The US Gun Violence Archive statistics also show that shootings in the United States have occurred daily since the Texas massacre.
The daily rate of mass shootings in the United States has reached more than 2.4 incidents per day.
US President Joe Biden has called for a crackdown on gun lobbying in the wake of the massacre of 19 school children and two teachers in Texas, admitting the high rate of mass shootings in his country.
