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Six people were hospitalized, one of them in critical condition, after a shooting with multiple shots Friday night outside a rap concert in Oregon , police said. The incident is currently under investigation and no suspects have been apprehended.
Eugene Police Department Chief Chris Skinner reported that the scene is “dynamic” and that “it will take us a while to process”, in a briefing on Saturday morning.
“I would be remiss if I didn’t mention how challenging this is for a city our size,” Skinner said.
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The event occurred after half past nine at night at the doors of the WOW Hall, a concert hall of a community center where rappers Lil Bean and Zay Bang performed.
In statements to the media, the head of Eugene police officer Chris Skinner confirmed that one of the six wounded was in critical condition and explained that no arrests had been made, although one suspect – a man wearing a hooded sweater – was hardly known about. ment more data.
The one from last night in Eugene is the seventeenth mass shooting to occur in the United States since it began 2021, according to the website of The Gun Violence Archive, an independent organization that compiles police data on gun-related events in the United States.
According to this same organization, last year there were 691 mass shootings in the United States. That year they died 15,658 people by firearm in the country and 40.358 were injured, always according to the data on this website.
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