Three people were killed and three others were injured on Sunday at a mall in the US state in Indiana, said officials, the latest in a series of weapons violence in the country.
We experienced mass shooting tonight at Greenwood Park Mall,” Mark Myers, Mayor of Greenwood, Indiana, said in a statement.We have three current deaths and three others are injured.”Myers said that the armed man was shot dead by “an armed individual.”
Greenwood police shared posts on their Facebook page asking witnesses to shoot to contact the department with information.
The attack was the latest in a wave of weapons violence that disturbed the United States, where around 40,000 deaths were caused by firearms, according to archive of weapons.
It happened only a few weeks after an armed man fired on the July 4 parade on the suburb of Chicago who was prosperous, killed seven people and injured at least three dozen.
The shooting followed two massacres in May who saw 10 black people shot dead in a northern New York supermarket, and 19 children and two teachers were killed in an elementary school in Texas.
This new surge in violence of weapons has turned on the debate to divide the regulation of firearms. A US Council Representative Committee will choose this week for the first time in almost 20 years with a bill that will prohibit weapons of attack.
