A man shot dead three people in one Mall in a suburb of the capital of the US state of Indian (USA), wounding two others, before being killed by a civilian armed with a pistol.
Jim Ison, police chief of Greenwood, a city of about 60,000 people south of Indianapolis, said the suspect entered the mall with a shotgun and several cartridges and I started to shoot people who were in the catering area.
Police were alerted to the shooting around 6:05 p.m. Sunday (11:00 p.m. in Lisbon), Ison told a news conference. A citizen who was in the mall and was armed with a gun shot the suspectadded the police chief, who did not reveal the identity of the gunman.
Ison described the citizen who killed the suspect as a “Good samaritan” and said he is collaborating “actively” with the authorities in the investigation of the incident. The two injured were taken to an area hospital.
The debate on the possession of weapons in the United States has been reopened in recent weeks after the May 24 shooting at a school in Uvalde, Texas, where 19 children and two teachers diedand a white supremacist attack on May 14 in Buffalo, New York, that left 10 dead.
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On July 4, during the Independence Day parade in Highland Park, a city north of Chicago, a man shot at participants, killing seven and wounding 39 others. Biden signed a law on July 11 designed to strengthen the regulation of firearms. the most important in almost 30 years, approved thanks to the agreement between Democrats and Republicans.
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Source: Observadora
