Six people were killed and 22 wounded in new gun violence that hit Chicago over Memorial Day weekend, UPI reported. On Friday evening, a 17-year-old girl was shot in the head and pronounced dead at the scene, and 18-year-old man was shot in the chest in the same incident. Another man later that evening was shot and killed.
A gunman randomly firing from his pickup truck killed one person and wounded five, including the sheriff of Concho County, Texas on Sunday before the suspect was killed in a shootout with law enforcement. Authorities recovered an assault rifle, a handgun and hundreds of rounds of ammunition by the 23-year-old suspect from North Carolina. The name was withheld pending notification of relatives
Search warrants filed hours after the Aurora shooting suspect James Holmes received six deliveries from an online ammunition vendor in the weeks before the massacre last July, which left 12 people dead and 58 more wounded.
A federal judge has issued an injunction against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his department, blocking his agecy from conducting immigration sweeps and using race. His practices have been controversial for residents in Arizona, and has been widely discussed on social media.
