Gun Violence Generates Panic Across America on Independence Day
Nine mass shootings occurred on Monday alone, according to the nonprofit Gun Violence Archive. As young and old celebrated the country's 246th birthday, others scrambled in terror during more than a dozen mass shootings and other gun violence incidents over the last few days.
This video from Philadelphia shows a considerable crowd stampeding in panic as fireworks light up the night sky as if they could have been in a movie scene.
During the celebration from Ben Franklin Parkway, two police officers were working security when somebody shot them. In Gary, Ind., a shooting at a block party left three dead and seven injured.
Two Indiana men, 27 and 25, and an Illinois woman, 20, were pronounced dead at the scene, Chicago TV station WFLD reports.In a higher-profile crime, however, north of Chicago, in the suburb of Highland Park, a shooting during a parade Monday has taken the lives of seven people and left dozens more wounded.
