One More Shooting Incident reported in the US, One Killed, Seven Injured
_Vinayak
New Delhi: The extremely-common thing in the US nowadays is shooting and killing people without thinking anything. The latest shooting incident at the Oklahoma festival killed one innocent and injured seven others.
“A 39-year-old woman – was killed,” the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said in the statement. The injuries of those wounded were considered non-life-threatening.
The Oklahoma authorities said that “a 26-year-old man was in custody after one person – was killed and seven people were injured in a shooting early Sunday at an outdoor festival in eastern Oklahoma, where witnesses described frantic people running for cover amid gunfire.”
An arrest warrant was issued for Skyler Buckner, and he turned himself into the Muskogee County Sheriff’s Office on Sunday afternoon, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said in a statement. The bureau said that those shot at the Memorial Day event in Taft, about 45 miles southeast of Tulsa, ranged in age from 9 to 56.
Sylvia Wilson, an owner of Taft’s Boots Cafe said “We heard a lot of shots and we thought it was firecrackers at first. Then people start running and ducking and we were yelling at everyone… ‘Get down! Get down!”
About 1,500 people attended the event in Taft, which usually has a population of just a few hundred. Members of the Muskogee County Sheriff’s Office were in attendance and immediately began rendering aid, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said.
Many shooting incidents have been reported in the last few days in the US. Incident of attack in Texas – where Salvador Ramos legally purchased two guns in the days before the attack that killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School — an AR-style rifle from a federally licensed gun dealer in the Uvalde area on May 17 and a second rifle on May 20.
On May 14, BUFFALO, NEW YORK where A teenage gunman entranced by a white supremacist ideology known as replacement theory opened fire at a supermarket in Buffalo on Saturday, methodically shooting and killing 10 people and injuring three more, almost all of them Black, in one of the deadliest racist massacres in recent American history.
