Seven people were shot and injured during a Caribbean festival in Boston early Saturday, local police said.
The shooting happened just before 8 a.m. and the seven victims “were transported to local hospitals with non-fatal injuries,” the Massachusetts state capital police said in their news release.
“Weapons were recovered and arrests made,” she added.
The shots were fired at an intersection where a Caribbean festival parade was marching.
The United States has more individual weapons than people, in part because Americans have easy access to them.
One in three adults owns at least one gun and almost one in two adults lives in a household where there is a gun.
The consequence of this proliferation is the very high rate of firearm-related deaths in the United States, unmatched by other developed countries.
Two women were shot and injured Friday night in Chicago (north) while attending a game of the White Sox, a North American major league baseball team.