![]() ![]() At least three shooting suspects were teens. Shooting began after an announcement telling those with guns to leave. When a music speaker fell with a bang at the Alabama party, one person lifted their shirt to display a gun, Thornton said. “It goes from being so lighthearted to pure terror.” “Then immediately, that’s when everything shifted,” Rhone said, citing her son. Louis shooting, told KTVI-TV that partygoers had been well-behaved before the shooting. But indications are tensions rose suddenly in each.ĭonna Rhone, whose son’s face was grazed by a bullet in the St. Louis, Alabama and Florida didn’t immediately suggest motives for the respective shootings. “It’s not a place to drop children off unsupervised.” destination for your 15-year-old,” she said. Louis for late-night parties, with parents sometimes dropping them off. Among the problems she highlighted was a trend of teenagers spilling into downtown St. Mayor Jones said causes of the kind of violence that occurred Sunday are complex. The Switzerland-based Small Arms Survey estimated in 2018 that there were some 390 million guns held by civilians in the U.S., more than those held by civilians in the other top 25 countries combined. Just how many guns are around and available to teens is impossible to know. Fox, though, said the rise in homicides by teens hasn’t correlated directly with the rising numbers of guns. “They’ll pull the trigger without fully thinking about the consequences.”Īccording to FBI data, around 90% of homicides in 2019 by teens 15 to 17 involved firearms, up from around 60% in 1980. “With guns, teenagers tend to be trigger happy,” he said. Powerful firearms became more readily available starting in the 1980s, before which knives and low-caliber pistols were often the weapons of choice by teens who killed, said James Alan Fox, a professor of criminology, law and public policy at Northeastern University in Boston. To lower the risk of being stopped by police while in possession of guns, gang members typically hide them nearby, tucking the weapons into walls and inside tire rims, he said. In areas with high gang activity, some guns are stolen from homes, gun stores or trains. In many cities, illegal guns are never too far out of reach. ![]() Police released photos of two young men clutching apparent AK-style rifles. Afterward, 89 bullet casings littered the scene and there was “blood everywhere.”īullets riddled walls and shattered glass at the shooting in a fifth-floor office in St. “Witnesses said it sounded like a machine gun,” the investigator said. ![]() More firearms, and even more powerful firearms, have enabled teens, or anyone wielding a gun, to maim and kill more people in single incidents.Ī handgun fired at the April Sweet 16 party - in a dance studio crammed with up to 60 people - had been altered to shoot more rapidly, Alabama Special Agent Jess Thornton told a court hearing. ![]()
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