- It is not yet known exactly how many victims there are at Graceland Cemetery in Racine.
- Biden calls for banning assault weapons: "How much more carnage are we willing to accept?"
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A new shooting in the United States has left "multiple" shots this Thursday during a funeral at Graceland Cemetery in Racine, about 30 miles south of Milwaukee, the largest city in the state of Wisconsin.
"At 2:26 p.m. (local time) there have been multiple shots fired at Graceland Cemetery. There are victims but it is unknown how many at this time. The scene is still active and is being investigated," Racine Police said in their account. Twitter. Some local media speak of between two and five deaths.
The Police have asked the public to avoid the area and have launched an investigation to clarify the facts. The cemetery borders Osborne and Ohio to the east and west.
“We were in the grave trying to get ready to bury him, and bullets started flying everywhere,” a witness told the Milwaukee Journal Centinel. The aforementioned media specifies that the funeral was for a man who died shot by the Police.
This event occurred a day after an armed man killed his surgeon and three other people at Saint Francis Hospital in Tulsa, in the state of Oklahoma.
On May 24, another shooting left at least 21 people dead, 19 of them children and two adults, at the Robb Elementary School in the city of Uvalde, in the state of Texas, in the southern United States.
Precisely this Thursday, the president of the United States, Joe Biden, asked the nation in a speech to ban assault weapons and high-capacity chargers.