According to the police, at least two people were killed in an armed attack on concert guests in the US state of Florida. The attackers are on the run.
Miami – On Sunday night (May 30th, 2021) at least two people were killed in an armed attack on a concert hall in Florida in the southeastern United States. More than 20 others were injured, according to the police in Miami, at least one person is still in critical condition, according to the news magazine The Hill. Three attackers escaped undetected.
At the end of the crime, the police reported that during the night from Saturday to Sunday, several people were in front of the building in which a concert had just taken place. Suddenly a white SUV drove up, from which three men got out and started shooting aimlessly into the crowd. After a short time, the attackers got back into the car and fled undetected. The two fatalities were pronounced dead on the scene, and the injured were taken to nearby hospitals.
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Police chief Alfredo Ramirez III. gave a statement on the short message service Twitter after the fact and spoke of a “targeted and cowardly act of gun violence” by “cold-blooded murderers”. According to Ramirez, the police would do everything they could to bring the attackers to justice. According to information from the Washington Post, there has been no evidence of the perpetrators or arrests related to the crime.
Deadly gun attacks are repeated in the United States. According to the Gun Violence Archive, more than 43,000 people died from firearms, including suicides, in the United States last year alone. For this year, the site has already counted more than 17,000 deaths. Just last Wednesday, nine people died in an attack on a train depot in California.
President Joe Biden called gun violence an “epidemic” and “international disgrace” last month. However, the Democrat does not have much support in the ranks of Congress for his plans to reform the firearms laws in the USA. There, legislative proposals regularly fail due to opposition from the conservative Republicans and the influential gun lobby. (ska with AFP)
