At least two people were wounded when multiple gunshots were fired at people attending a funeral in the\u00a0US\u00a0state of\u00a0Wisconsin\u00a0on Thursday, police said.<\/p>\n
The incident came after deadly mass shootings at a supermarket in New York, an elementary school in Texas and a hospital in Oklahoma.<\/p>\n
Multiple gunshots were fired into a crowd of mourners at an afternoon grave-side funeral at Graceland Cemetery in Racine, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee, Racine police Sergeant Kristi Wilcox told reporters.<\/p>\n
One of the victims, a young female, was treated at a local hospital and released, but the second victim, apparently suffering more serious injuries, was flown by helicopter to a Milwaukee hospital, Wilcox said.<\/p>\n
No suspect was in custody, she said, adding that police were asking anyone with information or video footage that might assist investigators to come forward.<\/p>\n
Asked whether multiple shooters may have been involved, Wilcox said she was “not at liberty to say”.<\/p>\n
And she said she could not confirm initial reports that the shooting may have come from a car.<\/p>\n
Mayor Cory Mason issued a statement saying he had ordered police to enforce an 11pm curfew through the weekend for anyone under the age of 18.<\/p>\n
“Today’s heinous shooting at a cemetery while a family was already mourning the loss of a loved one is a new low for these perpetrators of violence in our community. The violence has got to stop,” Mason wrote.<\/p>\n
Milwaukee television station\u00a0TMJ4 News<\/em>, citing family members attending the grave-side service, said five relatives of the man who was being buried at the time were struck by gunfire, though their conditions were not immediately known.<\/p>\n A man who lives across the street from the cemetery, Rey Brantley, told Milwaukee television station\u00a0TMJ4 News<\/em>\u00a0that he was picking his daughter up from school when he heard gunfire, and that his son was playing basketball nearby and came close to being shot.<\/p>\n “Who in their right mind would go and shoot up a funeral in broad daylight?” Brantley said in an on-camera interview. “Those people were attending a funeral.”<\/p>\n The shooting came a day after a gunman killed four people and himself at a medical center in Tulsa, Oklahoma.<\/p>\n Nineteen school children and two teachers were shot to death on 24 May during a siege at an elementary school in\u00a0Uvalde, Texas, that ended when police killed the 18-year-old assailant.<\/p>\n Authorities allege that an 18-year-old avowed white supremacist, also armed with a semiautomatic weapon, killed 10 people, most of them Black, at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, on 14 May.<\/p>\n Authorities said it was a racially motivated attack.<\/p>\n The suspect arrested in the Buffalo shooting pleaded not guilty on Thursday to 25 counts in an indictment returned by a grand jury.<\/p>\n (Reuters<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At least two people were wounded when multiple gunshots were fired at people attending a funeral in the\u00a0US\u00a0state of\u00a0Wisconsin\u00a0on Thursday, police said. The incident came after deadly mass shootings at a supermarket in New York, an elementary school in Texas and a hospital in Oklahoma. Multiple gunshots were fired into a crowd of mourners at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":22908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[9951,6975,5304,6734,6573,6513,8659,13175,12320,287,9171,11831,2808,7234,5455,12210,7896,9997,9947,8584,9390,6825,11111,11525,11493,6580,9515,5331,6935,990,11804,599,11973,421,6736,9761,11259,11325,6065,6741,5355,8373,6348,6747,9539,8033,12790,6571,6934,594,5140],"class_list":["post-22907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-age","tag-arrest","tag-attack","tag-basketball","tag-black","tag-buffalo","tag-camera","tag-car","tag-cemetery","tag-children","tag-crowd","tag-curfew","tag-daughter","tag-death","tag-family","tag-female","tag-funeral","tag-guilty","tag-gunfire","tag-gunman","tag-helicopter","tag-hospital","tag-injured","tag-injuries","tag-interview","tag-jury","tag-killed","tag-mayor","tag-milwaukee","tag-new-york","tag-not-guilty","tag-oklahoma","tag-one","tag-police","tag-school","tag-shoot","tag-shot","tag-street","tag-supermarket","tag-teachers","tag-texas","tag-tulsa","tag-us","tag-uvalde","tag-victims","tag-video","tag-weekend","tag-white","tag-wisconsin","tag-who","tag-young"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51073,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22907\/revisions\/51073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}