Fourth of July overshadowed by 16 mass shootings across US
by Ed Pilkington in New York and agencies from US news | The Guardian on (#6CQH1)
Fifteen people were killed and 94 injured across 13 states as well as Washington DC
From the nation's capital to Fort Worth, Texas, from Florin, California, in the west to the Bronx, New York, in the east, the Fourth of July long weekend in the US was overshadowed by 16 mass shootings in which 15 people were killed and nearly 100 injured.
The Gun Violence Archive, an authoritative database on gun violence in America, calculated the grim tally using its definition of a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more people excluding the shooter are killed or injured by firearms.
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