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At least four major U.S. cities were reeling from an onslaught of mass shootings over the weekend that left at least 39 people wounded, five dead and police officials alarmed that the surge in gun violence is a prelude to a bloody summer as the nation emerges from the pandemic.
Police in Austin, Cleveland, Chicago and Savannah were all investigating on Sunday mass shootings that erupted over a six-hour streak that began around 9 p.m. on Friday and spilled over into Saturday morning.
On Sunday morning, Savannah police were working to identify the suspect or suspects who rolled up in a dark-colored sedan and unleashed a barrage of gunfire around 9 p.m. Friday on a group of people standing in front of a home in a residential neighborhood of east Savannah. Minter identified a 20-year-old man killed in the ambush as Arthur Milton of Savannah.
He said two of the adults hit in the shooting were in critical condition. The baby and the two teenagers, ages 15 and 16, suffered non-life-threatening wounds.
The chief said the targeted home is the same one someone sprayed with bullets on Tuesday, a shooting that left no one injured.
One suspect was arrested and a second is being sought, said interim Police Chief Joseph Chacon.
Austin Mayor Steve Adler tweeted that the mass-casualty shooting occurred even as police initiated multiple violence prevention programs intended to combat a recent increase in shootings in the Texas capital city.
The Austin mass shooting was quickly followed by one that erupted on a sidewalk on the South Side of Chicago that left a woman dead and nine people injured, according to police.
Chicago police officials said investigators are searching for two suspects who walked up to a crowd gathered on the sidewalk in a business district in Chicago's Chatham neighborhood and opened fire just after 2 a.m. on Saturday, according to a police department online incident report. The nine adults who suffered non-life-threatening injuries in the shooting ranged in age from 23 to 46, according to the report.
The Cook County Medical Examiner identified Kimfier Miles, 29, as the woman killed in the shooting.
Those shot in the Chicago attack were among a total of 44 people shot across the city, including six fatally, since Friday, according to a review by ABC News of online crime reports.
The Gun Violence Archive, an online site that tracks shootings across the country, reports that there have been 270 mass shootings in 2021. The site defines mass shootings as single incidents in which four or more people are shot, regardless of whether anyone dies.
One of 14 people hurt in Austin,Texas, mass shooting diesQuote:
One of 14 people injured in a mass shooting in downtown Austin, Texas, has died, police say.
Douglas John Kantor, 25, died from his injures around noon local time Sunday, Austin Police said in a release.
Authorities have arrested one person in connection with the shooting early Saturday morning, Mayor Steve Adler's office said earlier. Officials released no information about the arrest.
On Saturday, Austin Interim Police Chief Joseph Chacon told a press briefing that two of the injured were in critical condition.
Chacon said authorities had identified two male suspects, and added that it appeared this was an isolated incident between the two parties.
Almost all of those injured were "innocent bystanders," the chief added.
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