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2 dead, 1 critically wounded in Washington gun violence

Sunday, 29 March 2015 10:11 AM [ Last Update: Sunday, 29 March 2015 10:15 AM ]

A 29-year-old woman and 2-year-old boy were killed and another was seriously injured in a shooting in Washington state Saturday, police said.

A woman and a young child have been fatally shot and a man has been seriously wounded in the US state of Washington.

Heather Kelso, 29, and a 2-year-old boy, Kaden Lum, were killed early Saturday at the Kariotis Mobile Home Park in Bremerton, Washington, said Kitsap County Sheriff's Lt. Detective Earl Smith.

According to Smith, police interviewed the mother, but she could not clearly describe the killer.

“She did tell the detectives she doesn’t think she knows who the suspect is,” Smith said, adding she was likely “traumatized by the incident and may possibly be able to give additional information later.”

At the time of the shooting, the boy's mother was trying to shield her son when he was shot by the suspect, but the mother was not hurt, according to a newspaper.

The woman who was shot dead was a roommate, reported the Kitsap Sun newspaper.

Police arrived at the scene just after 2 a.m. Saturday to see the woman lying dead and the boy critically wounded. The child was taken to a hospital in Bremerton, but he was later pronounced dead.

The third victim, a man whose age is unknown, was critically injured after he was shot in the lower abdomen. He was hospitalized in a hospital in Seattle with life-threatening injuries.

Each year, more than 32,000 people die as a consequence of gun-related violence, suicides, and accidents in the United States, which is by far the highest among industrialized countries, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The US averages 87 deaths each day as a function of gun violence, with an average of 183 injured, according to the University of Chicago Crime Lab and the Centers for Disease Control.

Gun-related casualties have turned into a “major public health crisis” in the United States, according to a recent report by eight US medical associations.

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