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Tragic shooting at Arkansas grocery store

Above: Police respond to a September 2020 shooting in Rochester, New York. Image copyright: Joshua Rashaad McFadden/Stringer/Getty Images News via Getty Images

The Facts

  • A Friday mass shooting at an Arkansas grocery store, where a 44-year-old armed with a pistol, a 12-gauge shotgun, and a bandolier killed four people and wounded nine others, was one of at least 14 mass shootings over the weekend.

  • By early Sunday, mass shootings reported in New York, Alabama, Missouri, and Ohio increased the number of such incidents in the US in 2024 to more than 240, according to the non-partisan Gun Violence Archive. That's an average of more than one mass shooting per day.

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