Memorial Day weekend: at least 11 mass shootings

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By Annabelle Timsit
May 30, 2022 at 9:43 a.m. EDT

... At least 14 mass shootings have taken place across the United States since Tuesday, from California to Arizona to Tennessee.

This Memorial Day weekend alone — spanning Saturday, Sunday and the federal holiday on Monday — there have been at least 11 mass shootings ...

... the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit research organization ... defines a mass shooting as one in which “four or more people are shot or killed, not including the shooter.” Several of those shootings occurred at parties, and one at a Memorial Day event.

At least seven people have been killed and 49 injured in the mass shootings over the holiday weekend ... Since the Uvalde shooting last Tuesday, at least 10 people have been killed and 61 injured in mass shootings ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/05/30/mass-shootings-memorial-day-weekend-taft-chattanooga-uvalde/

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1. Multiple school shooting threats since Uvalde

BY GIULIA CARBONARO ON 5/30/22 AT 2:39 AM EDT

... A Long Island 16-year-old student was arrested last week after making threats on Instagram of conducting a mass shooting at his school ...

Eighteen-year old Corey Anderson was arrested last week in Lutz, Florida, after posting an image of himself on Instagram dressed in what appeared to be with a tactical style vest and holding what looked like a handgun and a rifle. The post's caption read: "Hey Siri, directions to the nearest school" ...

On Saturday last week, the Lee County's Sheriff Office said it was informed of an alarming text sent by a 5th grader at Patriot Elementary School in Cape Coral ... The boy was interviewed by detectives and arrested on the same day, on charges of making a written threat to conduct a mass shooting ...

https://www.newsweek.com/florida-10-year-old-arrested-mass-shooting-threats-1711262