Dozens Shot In Spate Of Holiday Weekend Shootings Across The Country

A shooting that left six people dead during a Fourth of July parade in the Chicago area on Sunday marked the nation's deadliest episode of gun violence over the holiday weekend, but was just one of several shootings over the holiday that killed or injured dozens of people.

In Highland Park, Illinois, on Monday, 31 people were injured and six killed during a shooting at a July 4th parade, with a 22-year-old suspect arrested after police identified him as a person of interest.

The Highland Park shooting was one of several in the Chicago area, including two mass shootings on the South Side, and as of Sunday, nine people had been killed in the city.

According to the Gun Violence Archive, 8 people were killed and more than a dozen injured in a string of gun violence episodes in Philadelphia since Friday.

In New York City, police said at least 27 people were shot, three of which were dead.

One person was killed and four others were wounded in a shooting outside a nightclub in California.

One person was killed and four others were injured in a shooting at a residence in Wisconsin with no suspects in custody.

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There are more than 300 A massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, in which 19 students and two teachers were killed, is the deadliest school shooting since Sandy Hook.

Key Background

The Highland Park attack, which authorities say was perpetrated by a suspect who shot from a rooftop into a crowd gathered to watch a Fourth of July parade, was just the latest in a flurry of shootings across the country. The most expansive federal gun legislation in decades was passed by a bipartisan group of lawmakers after the attack in Uvalde, though gun-control advocates as well as some Democrats, who have called for more stringent measures such as a ban on assault weapons, have criticized the new restrictions as not going The laws encourage states to pass red-flag laws that allow authorities to remove guns from people deemed a risk to themselves or others and prevent convicted domestic abusers from buying firearms.

3 major US cities were hit by gun violence over the weekend.

One person is dead and four others are seriously injured in a shooting in Wisconsin.

There were other shooting over the holiday weekend. The New York Times is a daily newspaper in the United States.