China News Agency, San Francisco, January 1. Statistics from the US "Gun Violence Archives" website on the evening of January 1 showed that on the first day of 2023, there were 5 shooting incidents in the United States that caused at least 4 casualties, resulting in many deaths and injuries.

　　Police in Ocala, Florida, said in a statement on the 1st that a shooting occurred in the city at around 4:30 a.m. that day.

At that time, hundreds of people gathered at the scene of the incident.

A 30-year-old man and a 24-year-old man were killed in the shooting and four others were injured.

Currently, the four injured are receiving treatment and are in stable condition.

Police have not arrested any suspects and the incident remains under investigation.

　　NBC reported that two people were killed and two were injured in a shooting at a house in the Clinton area of ​​Maryland on the 1st.

The police responded to the scene of the shooting around 6:00 on the same day. According to Malik Aziz, Chief of the Prince George's County Police Department in Maryland, the police found two dead adults in the house where the incident occurred.

Two other people were taken to hospital with gunshot wounds, police said.

Aziz described the shooting as "family related" and said there was no longer a threat to nearby communities.

　　According to ABC reports, a shooting incident occurred in the neighborhood of Washington Park in Chicago, Illinois, on the afternoon of the 1st.

A gunman opened fire on four teenagers, aged between 14 and 17, who were sitting in the car, killing one and wounding three.

The police found a weapon and multiple shell casings at the scene, and then announced a reward for the murderer.

There were multiple shooting incidents in Chicago that day. A total of 13 people, including 5 minors, were shot and 5 people died, including 2 minors.

　　In the early morning of the 1st, a shooting incident in Columbus, the capital of Ohio, resulted in 1 death and 4 injuries, and a shooting incident in Oklahoma City, the capital of Oklahoma, resulted in 1 death and 3 injuries.

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