On Sunday, police in Austin, Cleveland, Chicago and Savannah were working on investigation of mass shootings that took place over a six-hour streak that started at about 9 p.m. on Friday and lasted till Saturday morning.
Roy Minter, Jr., Savannah Police Chief, gave a comment at a weekend news conference after one person was killed and eight others, including an 18-month-old baby and two teenagers, were wounded. He said:
"It’s very disturbing what we’re seeing across the country and the level of gun violence that we’re seeing across the country. It’s disturbing and it’s senseless."
On Sunday morning, Savannah police were trying to identify the suspect, who rolled up in a dark-coloured sedan and released a barrage of gunfire around 9 p.m. on Friday against a group of people standing in front of a home in a residential neighbourhood of east Savannah. As identified by Roy Minter, a 20-year-old man killed in the ambush was Arthur Milton from Savannah. According to Minter, two of the adults, who were injured in the shooting, were in critical condition. The baby and the two teenagers, ages 15 and 16, suffered non-life-threatening wounds.
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Chief Minton said that investigators collected 60 shell casings from the shooting scene; three houses and several cars were damaged by gunfire. He said that the targeted home is the same one someone sprayed with bullets on Tuesday. As the Chief said:
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"We don't think it was a coincidence."
According to police, just after the shooting in Savannah, there was gunfire on a street in Austin's downtown entertainment district. It left one dead, while 13 people wounded and one person remains in critical condition. Police Chief, Joseph Chacon, said that one suspect was arrested and a second is being sought. The shooting is thought to be prompted by a dispute between two groups. Chacon said most of the shooting victims were innocent bystanders.
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Steve Adler, the Mayor of Austin, wrote on his Tweeter that the mass-casualty shooting took place in spite of the fact that police initiated multiple violence prevention programs in the Texas capital city:
"But this crisis requires a broader, coordinated response from all levels of government. One thing is clear - greater access to firearms does not equal greater public safety."
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The Austin mass shooting was quickly followed by one that erupted on a sidewalk on the South Side of Chicago that left a woman dead and nine people injured, according to police.
As stated by Chicago police officials, local investigators are searching for two suspects who walked up to a crowd gathered on the sidewalk in a business district in Chicago's Chatham neighbourhood and opened fire on Saturday. Nine adults suffered non-life-threatening injuries. The Cook County Medical Examiner identified Kimfier Miles, 29, as the woman killed in the shooting.
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The Gun Violence Archive, a website that tracks shootings across the country, reports that there have been 270 mass shootings in 2021.
Chuck Wexler, executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum, told the press that the incidents of mass shootings and surging violent crime across the country has police officials bracing for a long and tiresome summer as COVID-19 restrictions continue to be lifted. He said:
"There was a hope this might simply be a statistical blip that would start to come down. That hasn’t happened. And that’s what really makes chiefs worry that we may be entering a new period where we will see a reversal of 20 years of declines in these crimes."
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