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February 20, 2023

U.S. Logs 80th Mass Shooting of 2023 After Another Bloody Weekend of Gun Violence
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In northern Mississippi, a man armed with a shotgun and two handguns
went on a killing spree Friday, fatally shooting his ex-wife,
stepfather, stepsister and three other people, before police finally
arrested him. The massacre came in a small town south of Memphis,
Tennessee, where on Sunday one person was killed and 10 others were
wounded by gunfire at a nightclub and a nearby residence.

Meanwhile, police in Columbus, Georgia, responded to calls of a shooting
at a gas station on Friday, where they found nine children injured with
gunshot wounds. And in Linden, New Jersey, four family members are dead
in an apparent murder-suicide. Investigators believe the father fired on
his wife and two teenage children on Sunday before turning the gun on
himself. According to the Gun Violence Archive, there have been 80 mass
shootings in the United States since January 1.


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