California: Eight people were killed and several others were injured in separate shooting incidents in three US cities on Tuesday. The most recent of several shootings occurred in the California community of Half Moon Bay, where four people died and three others were fatally injured. Authorities and local lawmakers said a man suspected of the killings is currently in custody. The killings occurred in separate shootings on the outskirts of Half Moon Bay, about 30 miles south of San Francisco, according to California State Representative Josh Baker.
In another incident, two students were killed and a third was seriously injured in a shooting at a youth outreach center in Des Moines, Iowa, police said. Police responded to a report of a shooting at Starts Right Here, which runs a program for at-risk youth, and found three people injured, two of them in critical condition. Paul Parizek, a spokesman for the Des Moines Police Department, said, “Those two people, both students, are now dead at the hospital. The third person, who is a school employee, is in critical condition.”
Meanwhile, two people were killed and three others were seriously injured in a home-bound shooting at a Chicago apartment on Monday afternoon. Police said several suspects fled the scene and were not in custody.
Referring to shootings at schools, the AP reported that this was the sixth incident at a school in the US this year in which someone was injured or killed, but the first according to Education Week, which tracks school shootings.
There were 51 school-related injuries or deaths last year and 150 since 2018. In Uvalde, Texas, the worst school shooting of the year occurred at an elementary school, claiming 21 lives.