A wave of deadly shootings rocked several major U.S. cities this weekend in two days of bloodshed which saw at least 40 people killed.
Fourteen people, including five children, were killed as more than 100 people were shot in a wave of gunfire in Chicago over the Father’s Day weekend that produced the city’s highest number of shooting victims in a single weekend this year.
In New York City shootings are up 360 per cent from this time last year – with 55 incidents compared to 12 in 2019 and more than 70 victims in past week, NBC reports.
And gunfire has also erupted in epicenters of the Black Lives Matter protests; in Minneapolis, where George Floyd was killed; in Seattle, where a ‘cop free’ occupied zone has been barricaded; and in Charlotte where two people were killed at a Juneteenth block party