June 2 (Reuters) – A man shot and killed two women in a church parking lot in Iowa on Thursday and then pointed a gun at himself, police said, adding three more to a series of recent shootings that rocked the United States.
The shooting in Iowa took place shortly after President Joe Biden delivered a major address on gun violence following the mass shootings in Buffalo, New York; Uwalde, Texas, and Tulsa, Oklahoma, in recent weeks. Read more
Meanwhile, another shooting on Thursday wounded two people attending a funeral at Racine Cemetery in Wisconsin. Read more
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The shooting in Iowa took place in front of Cornerstone Church, a fundamentalist Christian church east of Ames, while inside was a church program, said Nicholas Lenny, Story County Sheriff’s Deputy Chief Sheriff.
When lawmakers arrived on the scene, they found all three dead, Lenny said, adding that he could not provide an identity or reveal what the connection might have been between them.
“This seems to be an isolated incident with one shooter,” Lenny said.
A moment earlier, Biden had called on Congress to ban assault weapons, expand inspections and implement other weapons control measures to deal with mass shootings.
“Enough, enough!” Said the president.
The United States has been rocked in recent weeks by mass shootings that killed 10 black people in upstate New York, 19 children and two teachers in Texas, and two doctors, a receptionist and a patient in Oklahoma.
In Racine, Wisconsin, multiple shots were fired Thursday at a mourning crowd attending an afternoon funeral at the grave, injuring two people, Racine police sergeant Christy Wilcox told reporters.
One victim was treated at a local hospital and released, the other was taken to a hospital in Milwaukee, apparently suffering more serious injuries, Wilcox said. No suspects have been detained.
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Report by Daniel Trota, Steve Gorman and Eric Beach; Edited by Raju Gopalakrishnan
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