Europe 1 with AFP 21:22 p.m., April 29, 2023

Five people of Honduran origin were killed in the night from Friday to Saturday in a house near Houston, Texas. According to the first elements given by the sheriff, the man was practicing shooting in his garden when neighbors asked him to stop the nighttime noise so that a baby could sleep.

Five people, including an eight-year-old child, all from Honduras, were killed Friday night at a home near Houston, Texas, said authorities, who are actively searching for the suspect. According to the first elements given by the sheriff, the man was practicing shooting in his garden when neighbors asked him to stop the nighttime noise so that a baby could sleep, which would have pushed him to turn the gun against them.

Called for "harassment" and then for shooting, the sheriff's officers of San Jacinto County, in the southeast of this US state, found four dead bodies on the spot. Four people were taken to hospital, including an eight-year-old child who also died. Among the ten Hondurans who were in the house, two children were found alive, hidden under the bodies of two women in a bedroom.

The suspect subject to an arrest warrant

All of the victims were shot "like an execution, basically in the head," Sheriff Greg Capers told local ABC station KTRK. The suspect, on the run, is "a Mexican man," the sheriff said in a press briefing broadcast by local channel KHOU 11. Wanted, he is wanted on an arrest warrant and has been charged with murder. This news item is part of a tragic series of similar events in the United States, where guns are wreaking havoc.

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Earlier this month, a black teenager was shot and seriously wounded after knocking on the wrong door of a Missouri home. In New York State, a 20-year-old woman was shot after mistakenly driving into the driveway of a private home. And in Texas, a man opened fire on cheerleaders after one of them tried to open the door of her car, which she mistook for her own vehicle.

49,000 people shot dead in 2021

The United States has more individual guns than people: one in three adults owns at least one gun and nearly 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 deaths in the United States, without comparison with that of other developed countries. About 49,000 people died from gunfire in 2021, up from 45,000 in 2020, which was already a record year. That's more than 130 deaths a day, more than half of which are suicides.