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Two adults and a child died Thursday when

an attacker opened fire in a supermarket in South Florida

, in the latest in a series of mass shootings that have occurred in this southeastern US state in recent weeks.

The incident occurred at a Publix supermarket in the town of Royal Palm Beach, 130 km north of Miami, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said.

"Upon arrival, officers located three individuals killed by gunshot wounds," police wrote on Twitter.

"An adult man, an adult woman and a child. The attacker is one of the deceased

.

"

After committing the attack, the man shot himself to death, Teri Barbera, the sheriff's spokeswoman, confirmed to AFP.

Detectives cordoned off the area and no further information has been released at this time, except that it is

no longer an "active shooting" scene

.

Lynn Waterman, a 61-year-old customer, said she was shopping for cigarettes at the Publix checkout when she heard the detonations.

"Everybody ran out of the store and I stood in the parking lot and thought 'What am I doing here? The attacker can come out and shoot us,'" Waterman told the local

Sun Sentinel

newspaper

.

This is the

latest in a series of shootings that has plagued South Florida in recent days

.

Early Sunday morning, a shooting after a graduation party left three dead and five injured in

Kendall

, a town in Miami-Dade County.

On June 1, three attackers killed two people and wounded 21 when opening fire in front of a party hall in

Hialeah

, west Miami-Dade.

Two days earlier, a person opened fire from his car into a crowd in the artsy neighborhood of

Wynwood

- also in Miami - and left one dead and six injured.

"Insensitive to gun violence"

"We have become desensitized to gun violence," Commissioner

Melissa McKinlay

, who represents the Palm Beach area where the Publix shooting occurred

, said in a statement

.

"Today we mourn the loss of these lives," he continued.

But "tomorrow we must step up and have an honest conversation about why this happened and what we can do specifically to prevent this violence."

This year,

gun-related homicides have risen across the country

.

More than 19,000 people have been killed by firearms since January, according to the Gun Violence Archive.

In addition, some 260 people have been victims of mass shootings, defined as incidents in which four or more people are killed or injured.

The United States has a long and painful history of gun violence, with a constant number of daily shootings and mass killings that have targeted schools, workplaces and shopping centers.

Next Saturday marks the

fifth anniversary of the shooting in Orlando

, in central Florida, which left 49 dead when an attacker opened fire in a gay bar.

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