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shooting took place just before midnight on Monday in a parking
lot, police confirmed on Tuesday.
One person was pronounced dead at the scene and two others died
in the hospital, while an additional eight people were
hospitalized but their conditions were not known, CBS News
reported. An ABC News affiliate said 10 of the victims were
adults and one was a juvenile.
The shooting occurred in the Como section of Fort Worth hours
after the end of the neighborhood's annual ComoFest. The
festival is a celebration of the Fourth of July holiday on which
the United States celebrates its independence.
The motive for the shooting and the number of suspects involved
were not immediately clear. No arrests have been made.
"We don't know if this is domestic-related, if it is
gang-related. It is too early to tell at this point," said Shawn
Murray, a senior official with the Fort Worth Police Department.
The United States has been struggling with a large number of
mass shootings and incidents of gun violence. There have been
over 340 mass shootings so far in 2023 in the country, according
to data collected by the Gun Violence Archive, which defines a
mass shooting as an incident in which at least four people are
shot, excluding the shooter.
In a separate shooting incident on Monday night, five people
were killed and two were injured in Philadelphia, and a suspect
was taken into custody, according to local police.
The Monday night shootings came a day after two people were shot
dead and 28 others injured, about half of them children, in a
hail of gunfire at an outdoor neighborhood block party in
Baltimore, Maryland. Police said they were seeking multiple
suspects in that shooting.
(Reporting by Shivani Tanna in Bengaluru; Editing by Andrew
Heavens, Alistair Bell and Mark Porter)
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