Following a spate of tragic mass shootings at a supermarket in New York, an elementary school in Texas, and a hospital in Oklahoma, a cemetery in Wisconsin was the scene of a new outbreak of gun violence on Thursday, in which numerous people were injured.
The Racine, Wisconsin police department, a suburb of Milwaukee, stated on Twitter that many gunshots were fired at Graceland Cemetery, resulting in an undetermined number of casualties, but provided few other details.
Five relatives of the man who was being buried at the time were struck by gunshot. However, their conditions were not immediately known, according to TMJ4 News in Milwaukee, citing family members who were present at the graveside funeral.
Rey Brantley, a guy who lives across the street from the cemetery, told a television station that he was picking up his daughter from school when he heard gunfire and that his son was playing basketball nearby and almost got shot.
Brantley asked on camera, "Who in their right mind would go and shoot up a funeral in broad daylight," These individuals were attending a funeral.
Trey Brantley, his son, reported hearing "bullets whistling past us" and running for shelter with others.
TMJ4 stated that a local hospital was placed on lockdown for security purposes. A high school dismissed students approximately 10 minutes later than usual after law enforcement officers convinced school administrators that it was safe.
There was no information on the identification of any suspects. Police requested the public to come forward with any video footage they may have of the incident to aid detectives.
The shooting occurred one day after a shooter killed four people and himself at an Oklahoma medical complex. An orthopedic surgeon who had treated the suspect was among the casualties.
On May 24, 19 students and two instructors were shot to death during a siege at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, which concluded when police slew the 18-year-old perpetrator.
And on May 14, an 18-year-old self-proclaimed white supremacist armed with a semiautomatic handgun killed ten people, the most of whom were Black, in a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, in an incident that officials deemed racially motivated.
On Thursday, the confessed suspect in the Buffalo shooting pleaded not guilty to 25 counts in an indictment handed by a grand jury.