This weekend’s spate of violence also included mass shootings that occurred at parties in Virginia, Arizona and South Carolina.
At a party late Friday in Chester, Va., about 20 miles south of Richmond, 20-year-old Taborri J. Carter of Petersburg was killed and seven others were injured amid a flurry of more than 50 gunshots from at least four weapons, the local authorities said.
The injured included five men and boys ages 16 to 21 who were shot, and two girls, ages 16 and 17, who were hit by vehicles as they fled the shooting.
Early Saturday in Phoenix, gunfire erupted at a party in a strip-mall parking lot, killing a 14-year-old girl and injuring eight people, who all sustained gunshot wounds, the police said.
And in Summerton, S.C., one person was killed and seven others were wounded at a graduation party on Saturday night, the sheriff’s office in Clarendon County, S.C., said in a statement.
Two vehicles pulled up to a residence in the town, which is about 77 miles northeast of Charleston. One vehicle stayed on the highway and the other approached the yard, which was filled with about 150 people, the sheriff’s office said. Shots were fired, but it was not clear if the assailants were targeting a particular person or if the shooting was random, the statement said.
A total of eight victims, including a 12-year-old, five teenagers and two adults, were shot, the sheriff’s office said. A 32-year-old woman died on Sunday morning.
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