Two brothers who are suspected of being involved in a rifle that claimed the lives of six people and injured twelve others over the weekend in Sacramento, the capital of California, were in police custody Tuesday.
According to researchersthe two young men were illegally possessed firearms, between them a machine gun.
One of the two brothers, o Smiley Martin, is among the twelve people being treated in hospitals as he was injured in an exchange of fire early Sunday morning in downtown Sacramento. The tragedy may have been linked to a quarrel that broke out as the nightclub closed.
Smiley Martin, 27, who is being treated by police in a hospital with “serious” injuries, is said to have “machine gun”. More than a hundred calyxes were found at the scene of the massacre by the forensic pathologists.
She is his brother Diandre Martin26 years old, who was arrested yesterday Monday for assault and illegal possession of weapons.
A third man, Davion Dawson, was arrested immediately after the exchange of fire with a weapon in his possession, according to the authorities.
Police have not been able to determine the circumstances of this new mass shooting – a violent incident with the use of firearms that has at least four victims, in the terminology of the American authorities – above all, whether the fire had specific targets or if they were shot in the blind.
The tragedy unfolded in the early hours of the morning Sundayaround 02:00, in the center of the Californian metropolis, at a time when several bars and nightclubs in the neighborhood are closing.
Videos circulating on social networking sites depict a major brawl on the road in which many people got involved, followed by shootings and people fleeing.
Exchanges of fire in public places are creepily frequent in the USA – in schools, in shopping malls, in supermarkets, in places of worship, in workplaces …
According to the Small Arms Survey, in 2017 there were about 393 million firearms in the US, more than the population
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