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Six people were killed by a gunman on Friday in the southern US state of Mississippi, prompting President Joe Biden to reiterate his call for tighter gun control just days after making a similar appeal in response to a deadly university shooting.
According to local media, police in Mississippi claim that a man shot and killed a person at a store in the tiny town of Arkabutla before killing a woman at a home close by.
The woman was his ex-wife, CNN subsequently reported, citing the county sheriff.
Sheriff Brad Lance told CNN that when police followed the suspect’s vehicle to a house they subsequently identified as his, they discovered two more dead men there.
According to Lance, the fifth and sixth victims—a man and a woman—were found shot to death in a nearby home and may have been connected to the suspect, who was apprehended as he tried to flee.
Richard Dale Crum, 52, was named as the accused shooter by the Tate County Sheriff’s Office in a Facebook post, which also stated that Crum was in custody and had been charged with first-degree murder.
Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves claimed in a tweet that he had been informed on the incident.
We currently think he operated alone. It is unknown what motivated him, Reeves said.
Please offer prayers right now for the casualties of this tragic violence and their families.
The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation and the sheriff of Tate County, where Arkabutla is situated, took on the investigation.
— “Enough”
Following a man’s assault on a university campus in the northern state of Michigan that left three people dead, and also with no apparent reason, on Friday, there were two more deadly shootings.
In a statement issued late on Friday, Biden reiterated his irate emotion from his remarks following the shooting in Michigan, saying, “Enough.”
“Our country has experienced at least 73 mass killings by the end of the first 48 days of the year. Praying and thinking about it are insufficient. Congress must move now because gun violence is on the rise “Biden stated.
In less than a week last month, there were also two fatal mass killings that involved Asian Americans and took place in California.
We absolutely require sensible changes to the nation’s firearms laws, Biden said on Friday.
Republicans, who are fierce defenders of the constitutional right to bear weapons and who have a slim majority in the House of Representatives since January, have resisted his calls for Lawmakers to reinstate the national assault rifle ban that was in place from 1994 to 2004.
According to the Gun Violence Archive database, there were approximately 44,000 gun-related fatalities in the US last year, with half of those incidents involving homicide, mishaps, or self-defense, and the other half involving suicide.
