Sun
Jun 16 2024
06:33 am
By: bizgrrl
Nine people were shot at a splash pad in Rochester Hills around 5:11 p.m. Saturday after a "random" gunman got out of a vehicle and unloaded 28 gunshots from a handgun at the streetside park...
"Under no circumstances in this country, particularly in Rochester Hills, should fathers be spending Father's Day in a hospital," U.S. Rep. John James (R) said. "I'm looking forward to continuing to work — without politics. This is an American epidemic that we need to fix, gun violence needs to stop, and we are now most recently hit hardest by it."
Wonder how he has voted on gun safety bills?
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Shootings in 2024
Mass Shootings in 2024
13 of the 25 listed on page 1 were in the South.
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