News Desk: No fewer than 12 people were killed and another 54 were injured at least 11 mass shootings in the US over the holiday weekend, when people gathered for Halloween, according to CNN and an analysis of data from Gun Violence Archive and local news and police reports.
In one of the shootings at a house party in Illinois early Sunday, two people were killed and at least another dozen was injured.
CNN defines a mass shooting as an incident with four or more people killed or wounded by gunfire, excluding the shooter.
The number of mass shootings in the US increased during the coronavirus pandemic. There have been 599 mass shootings so far this year, according to the archive. There were 611 in 2020 and 417 in 2019, the group said.
The increase in mass shootings during the pandemic is consistent with the notion that the violence may be influenced by social and economic factors, researchers have said.
Over the weekend, gunfire erupted at house parties, a boxing event and on the streets. These are the mass shootings that took place across seven states.
Two people were fatally shot on Sunday morning in a commercial area of Lakewood, Colorado, CNN affiliate KCNC reported.
Two people died after being shot early Sunday morning in Louisville, Kentucky, according to a news release from police provided to CNN by affiliate WAVE.
An 18-year-old woman was fatally shot and three others, including a 16-year-old boy, were wounded after a shooting early Sunday at a party in Houston, police said.
In Texarkana, Texas, a shooting at a Halloween party left one person dead and nine others injured, the Texarkana Police Department said Sunday.
A shooting Saturday at the home of a city council member in Gilroy, California, left one person dead and three others injured, according to the Gilroy Police Department.
In Sacramento, California, two people were killed and five wounded at a party early Saturday morning, according to investigators.
Police say five people were shot, including one fatally, at an outdoor boxing event Saturday night in St. Petersburg, Florida. One of them, a 21-year-old man, later died of his injuries.
Meanwhile, four people sustained non-life-threatening injuries after being shot Saturday morning in northwest Oklahoma City, CNN affiliate KOKH reported.
