Shooting at Wisconsin cemetery leaves 2 wounded; no arrests
By Steve Gorman
(Reuters) -At the very least two individuals had been wounded when a number of gunshots had been fired at individuals attending a funeral within the U.S. state of Wisconsin on Thursday, police mentioned.
The incident got here after lethal mass shootings at a grocery store in New York, an elementary faculty in Texas and a hospital in Oklahoma.
A number of gunshots had been fired right into a crowd of mourners at a day grave-side funeral at Graceland Cemetery in Racine, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee, Racine police Sergeant Kristi Wilcox advised reporters.
One of many victims, a younger feminine, was handled at a neighborhood hospital and launched, however the second sufferer, apparently struggling extra severe accidents, was flown by helicopter to a Milwaukee hospital, Wilcox mentioned.
No suspect was in custody, she mentioned, including police had been asking anybody with info or video footage which may help investigators to come back ahead. Requested whether or not a number of shooters could have been concerned, Wilcox mentioned she was “not at liberty to say.” And he or she mentioned she couldn’t verify preliminary experiences that the taking pictures could have come from a automobile.
Mayor Cory Mason issued a press release saying he had ordered police to implement an 11 p.m. curfew by means of the weekend for anybody below the age of 18.
“At the moment’s heinous taking pictures at a cemetery whereas a household was already mourning the lack of a beloved one is a brand new low for these perpetrators of violence in our neighborhood. The violence has received to cease,” Mason wrote.
Milwaukee tv station TMJ4 Information, citing relations attending the grave-side service, mentioned 5 kinfolk of the person who was being buried on the time had been struck by gunfire, although their circumstances weren’t instantly recognized.
A person who lives throughout the road from the cemetery, Rey Brantley, advised Milwaukee tv station TMJ4 Information that he was choosing his daughter up from faculty when he heard gunfire, and that his son was enjoying basketball close by and got here near being shot.
“Who of their proper thoughts would go and shoot up a funeral in broad daylight,” Brantley mentioned in an on-camera interview. “These individuals had been attending a funeral.”
The taking pictures got here a day after a gunman killed 4 individuals and himself at a medical heart in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Nineteen faculty kids and two academics had been shot to dying on Might 24 throughout a siege at an elementary faculty in Uvalde, Texas, that ended when police killed the 18-year-old assailant.
And an 18-year-old avowed white supremacist, additionally armed with a semiautomatic weapon, killed 10 individuals, most of them Black, at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, on Might 14 in what authorities mentioned was a racially motivated assault.
The suspect arrested within the Buffalo taking pictures pleaded not responsible on Thursday to 25 counts in an indictment returned by a grand jury.
(Reporting by Steve Gorman in Los Angeles; Modifying by Michael Perry and Raju Gopalakrishnan)
