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A r u b a ’ s O N L Y E n g l i s h n e w s p a p e r
Aruba’s ONLY English newspaper
After Uvalde, holiday weekend sees shootings nationwide

BY MICHAEL TARM and COREY WILLIAMS
Associated Press
CHICAGO (AP) — Even as the nation reeled over the
massacre of 19 children and two teachers at an elemen-
tary school in Uvalde, Texas, multiple mass shootings hap-
pened elsewhere over the Memorial Day weekend in ar-
eas both rural and urban. Single-death incidents still ac-
counted for most gun fatalities.
Gunfire erupted in the predawn hours of Sunday at a fes-
tival in the town of Taft, Oklahoma, sending hundreds of
revelers scattering and customers inside the nearby Boots
Café diving for cover. Eight people ages 9 to 56 were
shot, and one of them died.
Six children ages 13 to 15 were wounded Saturday night
in a touristy quarter of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Two
groups got into an altercation, and two people in one of
them pulled guns and started shooting.
And at a club and liquor store in Benton Harbor in south-
western Michigan, a 19-year-old man was killed and
six other people were wounded after gunfire rang out
among a crowd around 2:30 a.m. Monday. Police found
multiple shell casings of various calibers.
Those and others met a common definition of a mass
shooting, in which four or more people are shot. Such oc- Chicago police investigate on the 800 block of South Karlov Avenue, where a 16-year-old girl was
currences have become so regular, news of them is likely among five people seriously wounded in a shooting near Daniel Webster Elementary School in the
to fade fast. Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side, early Sunday, May 29, 2022, in Chicago.
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