As a result of the shooting in the American city of Boulder, Colorado, ten people were killed.
The local police announced this on their Twitter page.
They added that among the dead was policeman Eric Talley, who was one of the first to arrive at the scene.
The department also reported that the alleged shooter was wounded and detained.
This information during a press conference was confirmed by the head of the police department of the city of Kerry Yamaguchi.
“At the moment, the threat has passed.
A person of interest to the investigation has been detained.
He was wounded, he is receiving medical assistance, ”TASS quotes him as saying.
At a press conference, police representatives clarified that the shooter's motives are still unknown and will be established in the course of the ongoing investigation.
It is also not yet known whether the attacker had accomplices and what type of weapon he used.
His identity is not revealed.
As told in law enforcement agencies, the officers received a message that an unknown person opened fire in the parking lot near the grocery store.
He later moved to the store, and later began shooting at the arriving policemen.
Boulder police urged local residents to avoid the scene.
White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said President Joe Biden had been informed of the shooting.
In turn, Colorado Governor Jared Polis posted a statement on Twitter, in which he confirmed that he was closely following the development of events, and also expressed condolences to the loved ones of the victims and injured.
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He asked residents to be patient while the investigation continues and allow law enforcement to do their security work.
Recent incidents of shooting in the United States
There have been several shooting incidents in the United States in recent years that have resulted in the death of people.
So, in mid-March in Chicago, two people died and at least 13 were injured as a result of shooting at a party.
Police said a gang may have been involved in the incident.
Four pistols were found at the scene.
In early March, a 15-year-old teenager was killed in a school shooting in Arkansas.
According to local authorities, one of the high school students in the town of Pine Bluff opened fire during breaks, killing a minor, and then tried to escape.
The police detained him in one of the neighboring districts.
In February, a shooting incident occurred in New Orleans at a gun store.
Then three people died, two were hospitalized.
In December 2019, at a US military base in Florida, a man opened fire on people.
As a result, three people were killed, about ten more were injured.
The attacker himself was eliminated.
A few days earlier, a similar incident had occurred at the Pearl Harbor-Hickham naval base of the United States Armed Forces, located in the state of Hawaii near Honolulu.
A sailor who served on the nuclear submarine USS Columbia opened fire on people near dry docks # 2 and # 3.
According to media reports, he used a service weapon that he received while on a patrol watching the repair of a submarine at a Navy shipyard.
The incident killed two people.
The attacker committed suicide.
In August 2019, during a shooting in the American city of El Paso in Texas, 23 people were killed and at least 20 were injured.
The police arrested the suspect, he turned out to be a 21-year-old man.
Shortly before the attack, a manifesto was published on the network, presumably written by the shooter.
The author of the text expressed support for the accused of the mass shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand, and called his actions a response to the "invasion" of Hispanic Hispanics in Texas.
Donald Trump condemned the incident and called the attack a manifestation of cowardice.
In February, US President Joe Biden called on Congress to tighten laws around firearms possession.
He published such a statement on the anniversary of the shooting at a school in Parkland, where 17 people died in 2018.
“Today, I call on Congress to reform common sense gun laws, including requiring identity verification on all arms sales, banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, and eliminating evasion of liability for those gun manufacturers. who deliberately spread military weapons on our streets, ”TASS quoted him as saying.