WASHINGTON: A gunman killed six people in the southern US state of Mississippi on Friday, days after President Joe Biden called for tougher gun restrictions after a deadly university shooting. demanded.
A man shot and killed a man at a store in the small town of Arcabotla, then went to a nearby home and killed a woman, police in Mississippi said, according to local media.
JEE News later cited the county sheriff as reporting that the woman was his ex-wife.
Sheriff Brad Lance told JEE News that police then tracked his vehicle to a home that later belonged to the suspect, and found two other men killed nearby.
Lance said a fifth and sixth person, a man and a woman, were shot and killed at a neighboring home, possibly related to the suspect, who was taken into custody while trying to escape. was taken
The Tate County Sheriff’s Office identified the alleged shooter in a Facebook post as 52-year-old Richard DelCrum and said he is in custody and charged with first-degree murder.
In a tweeted statement, Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves said he had been made aware of the incident.
“At this time, we believe he acted alone. His motive is unknown,” Reeves said.
“Please pray for the victims of this tragic violence and their families at this time.”
— Governor Tate Reeves (@tatereeves) February 17, 2023
The case was handled by the Tate County Sheriff, where Arcabotla is located, and the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation.
‘Enough’
Friday’s deadly shooting comes as an unidentified man attacked a university campus in the northern state of Michigan, killing three people.
“Enough is enough,” Biden said in a statement released Friday night, echoing the same desperate sentiments he expressed after the Michigan shooting.
“We are 48 days into the year and our nation has already suffered at least 73 mass shootings. Thoughts and prayers are not enough. Gun violence is an epidemic and Congress needs to act now,” Biden said. Should,” Biden said.
Last month, there were two deadly mass shootings in less than a week, both in California and in the Asian American community.
“We need common sense gun law reform,” Biden said Friday night.
His call for Congress to reinstate a national ban on assault rifles, which was in place from 1994 to 2004, ran into opposition from Republicans, who are staunch defenders of the constitutional right to bear arms and hold a slim majority in the House of Representatives. . From January
According to the Gun Violence Archive database, there were an estimated 44,000 gun-related deaths in the U.S. last year, about half of which were homicides, accidents and self-defense incidents, and half of which were suicides.
