Two fatally shot hours apart in separate shootings in same city in US
Two people have been shot dead in separate shooting incidents, roughly two hours apart from each other, in the same city in the United States.
Police in the city of Charlotte, North Carolina, responded to an assault with a deadly weapon call on Sunday.
They found a victim with multiple gunshot wounds. The victim later died at the hospital, police said in a statement.
Only about two hours later, police responded to an assault with a deadly weapon called another neighborhood in the city.
Inside an apartment, police found a victim, who was suffering from gunshot wounds.
The victim was pronounced dead at the scene, according to police.
The United States struggles with violent crime as the rising number of gun deaths extends beyond recent high-profile mass shootings in Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, emerging nearly every day inside homes, and on the streets of many cities, according to federal data.
The surge in gun violence comes as firearm purchases rose to record levels in 2020 and 2021.
The rate of gun deaths in those years hit the highest level since 1995, with more than 45,000 fatalities each year.
Guns are almost entirely responsible for an allover rise in homicides across the US from 2018 to 2021, according to n to date from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Last month, President Joe Biden signed into law the first major gun safety legislation passed by Congress in three decades.
The new law is the most significant federal legislation to address gun violence since the assault weapons ban of 1994.
Biden acknowledged last week that the law falls far short of what he and his party had advocated for to stop the alarming frequency of shootings in the US.
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