The Iowa incident came shortly after President Joe Biden’s speech on the issue of weapons following the mass executions in Buffalo, New York, Ovalde, Texas, and Tulsa, Oklahoma.
A man shot and killed two women in a church car park in the state Iowabefore turning the gun on himself, police said, as the list of victims of attacks using firearms in the US does not stop growing.
The incident in Iowa was reported shortly after Address by President Joe Bidenon the issue of guns following the mass executions in Buffalo, New York, Ovalde, Texas, and Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Moreover five people were injured, one seriously, from bullets during a funeral in the city of Racine (Wisconsin) yesterday at noon (local time). No arrests were reported.
In Iowa, according to Nicholas Lenny, a Story County police officer, the killing took place outside Cornerstone Church, east of Ames. It is a church of fundamentalist Christians. Mr Lenny spoke of an “isolated incident”, avoiding revealing the relationship between the perpetrator and the victims.
A few minutes earlier, President Biden was shouting “Enough is enough!” during a sermon calling on Congress to ban the sale of assault rifles and large-capacity cartridges and to promote stricter checks on the criminal record and psychiatric history of would-be firearms buyers.
