Shooting near the University of Tennessee, 10 people were killed and wounded
According to Webangah News quoted by Mehr News Agency, according to YBC, the American police announced that at least one person was killed and 9 others were injured after a shooting occurred near the University of Tennessee.
Don Aaron, the Metronshville police spokesman, said: “There was a shooting between two groups of armed people near one of the streets near the university.
The police statement states that the person killed is a 24-year-old man, and some of the injured were taken to the hospital due to the severity of their injuries.
At the beginning of July this year, the “FBI” of the American Federal Police announced that there were nearly 50 mass shootings across the country last year.
According to the annual report published by the FBI, forty-eight mass shooting incidents have been recorded in the United States in 2023. These incidents have killed 244.
The US Federal Police report states that although the number of such incidents will decrease by 4% compared to 2022 (50 incidents), the number of incidents Mass shootings have increased by 60 percent since 2019 and have increased from 30 cases in 2019 to 48 cases last year.
According to this report, these 48 shootings in 26 US states and in places such as open air, commercial, educational, health care spaces and residences, led to Dozens of people were killed. The FBI classified nearly a third (15) of these incidents as mass killings.
It is stated in this report that out of 49 people responsible for these incidents, 30 people were arrested, 7 people committed suicide and 12 people were killed. Almost three-quarters of the shootings (43) were carried out with handguns, 16 with rifles and one with a shotgun.
