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Six people died on Friday, February 17, in a rural town in the US state of Mississippi, in the southern United States.
Mississippi Department of Public Safety spokesman Bailey Martin confirmed the deaths in Arkabutla.not Tate County.
Police confirmed that a man is in custody. According to the information collected, the suspect killed six people, he who went from house to house to kill residents. However, CNN, American television, reported that one of the victims was his ex-wife.
The Tate County Sheriff’s Office identified the alleged shooter as 52-year-old Richard Dale Crum. Authorities have yet to clarify the motives for the attack.
In a statement posted on social media, Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves said the suspect was in custody: “At this time, we believe he acted alone.”, disse Tate Reeves.
This Friday shooting took place just a few days after the one on Monday night: three people were killed. and five were injured in a gun attack at the University of Michigan in the United States.
US President Joe Biden spoke on Friday night, showing exasperation with the shootings: “Enough. Our nation has lived through at least 73 shootings. Gun violence is an epidemic and Congress must act now”, said the President of the United States.
Joe Biden has again asked Congress to reinstate the nationwide ban on assault rifles that existed from 1994 to 2004. An estimated 44,000 gun-related deaths in the United States last year, according to the Gun Violence Archive data.