There were at least seven mass shootings in the U.S. between since Friday night and Sunday evening, making it the fourth consecutive weekend in which police responded to multiple incidents involving four or more victims shot, reports ABC News. Shootings left at least five people dead and 27 injured in seven cities, according to the Gun Violence Archive. The string of consecutive weekend mass casualty incidents began over the Memorial Day holiday, when at least 17 shootings left a total of 13 dead and 79 injured in cities including Philadelphia, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, Memphis and Chattanooga, Tn., On the June 3-5 weekend, at least 11 mass shootings occurred, leaving 17 dead and 62 injured.
Since a May 14 racially motivated attack at a Buffalo, N.Y., supermarket left 10 Black people dead and an 18-year-old white teenager charged with multiple counts of murder, there have been at least 63 mass shootings nationwide, an average of two per day, including the May 24 shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Tx., in which 19 students and two teachers were killed. There were mass-casualty shootings this weekend in New Orleans, Detroit, Louisville, Decatur, Ga.; Antioch, Tn.,Gary, In., and for the third straight weekend in Chicago.