Two dead, 20 injured in mass shooting outside Florida club
Two people have been killed and more than 20 others injured in a mass shooting outside a club in Florida, police said on Sunday.
Miami-Dade police director Alfredo Ramirez III said law enforcement agents were looking for the assailants who opened fire outside a billiards club in Hialeah, a town to the north of Miami, at 12:30 a.m. Sunday.
“I am at the scene of another targeted and cowardly act of gun violence, where over 20 victims were shot and 2 have sadly died,” he said in a tweet.
“These are cold-blooded murderers that shot indiscriminately into a crowd and we will seek justice," Ramirez added. “My deepest condolences to the family of the victims.”
I am at the scene of another targeted and cowardly act of gun violence, where over 20 victims were shot and 2 have sadly died. These are cold blooded murderers that shot indiscriminately into a crowd and we will seek justice. My deepest condolences to the family of the victims.
— Alfredo "Freddy" Ramirez III (@MDPD_Director) May 30, 2021
Police said a white Nissan vehicle with three people inside pulled up to the location and opened fire with assault rifles and handguns.
CNN reported that about 20 to 25 people were taken to a number of nearby hospitals with gunshot wounds.
At least one of those injured was in critical condition.
The Miami-Dade Police Department is asking anyone with information about the shooters or their whereabouts to come forward.
On Friday, another shooting in the Miami area left at least one person dead and six others wounded.
The incidents are the latest in a string of mass shootings that have taken place in the past few weeks in the United States.
On Wednesday, President Joe Biden renewed his call to Congress to adopt gun control measures to “end this epidemic of gun violence.”
The appeal came hours after at least eight people were killed in a mass shooting at a rail yard in California.
Biden ordered the flag over the White House to “yet again” be lowered at half-staff on Wednesday, just weeks after doing so following shootings in Georgia, Colorado, South Carolina, and Indiana.
The president said authorities “must address the root causes of these devastating acts at every level of government.”
The Gun Violence Archive, a non-profit research group, has recorded at least 200 mass shootings in the country in the first 132 days of this year.
Gun violence claims about 40,000 lives each year in the United States.
Israeli-US estate tycoon brothers charged with decade-long sex trafficking
US, Canadian universities hire Israeli firms to curb pro-Palestinian protests, report says
US nuclear spending cause for concern
VIDEO | Yemenis praise the military for its successful operations against Israel
VIDEO | Israel continues to bomb Gaza homes
VIDEO | An insider's view of the country: Meybod City in Yazd
‘All wars have rules. All of those rules have been broken’ by Israel
VIDEO | Report flags India’s violation of rights of Rohingya detainees
Turkey's foreign minister meets Syria's de facto leader in Damascus
VIDEO | US Syria plots
'Next to impossible' to rescue patients from Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital: Director
PressTV NEWSLETTER
now
This makes it easy to access the Press TV website
