At least nine people were reported injured after a suspect opened fire toward a group of people in Downtown Cleveland early Sunday morning, CNN reported quoting Cleveland police. Cleveland Cleveland spokesperson Jennifer Ciaccia said, “No deaths have been reported." “Preliminary information indicates that a suspect opened fire toward a group of people and then fled the scene," CNN cited the Cleveland police statement. Cleveland Police said there are no arrests in this shooting, and investigators currently are reviewing evidence while interviewing victims, news portal 19 News reported.
Officers were already in the area working a weekly detail when they responded around 2:30 a.m. to West 6th Street and Johnson Court for a report of multiple people shot, the statement said. Police “arrived quickly" and provided medical aid on scene.
“Investigators are in the process of reviewing evidence and video, as well as interviewing victims at MetroHealth Medical Center," Ciaccia’s statement said, adding no additional information was immediately available. There were a number of mass shootings elsewhere in the United States. Last Friday the Texas Police arrested two men aged 19 and 20 on suspicion of murder in the shooting at a Texas street festival on the eve of the Fourth of July that killed three people and wounded eight others.
Last Monday, in Philadelphia five people were killed, and a 2-year-old boy and 13-year-old boy were wounded. In Baltimore on Sunday two people were killed and 28 were wounded, about half of them children. There have been at least 365 mass shootings so far in 2023, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which, like CNN, defines a mass shooting as one in which four or more people are shot, excluding the
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