2 women are killed at a church in Iowa, hours after a shooting near Milwaukee

Two extra shootings occurred throughout the U.S. on Thursday, one lethal in Iowa, including to a nationwide toll of of shootings at the same time as President Joe Biden addressed the nation and referred to as on Congress to take motion to curb firearm violence throughout the nation.

Over the span of some hours Thursday, two ladies had been shot and killed exterior a church in Ames, Iowa, simply hours after police mentioned two individuals had been shot at a cemetery south of Milwaukee, Wis.

The Thursday shootings got here someday after a gunman killed his surgeon and three different individuals at a Tulsa medical workplace, and are the newest in a collection of shootings in United States together with the lethal college taking pictures in Uvalde, Texas, and an assault on a grocery store in Buffalo, New York.

The Oklahoma shootings had been the 233rd mass taking pictures within the U.S. this yr.

In Iowa, two ladies had been killed exterior a church car parking zone. The gunman is now useless, although his reason for demise remains to be being investigated, authorities mentioned.

“I can inform you that he was not killed by officers,” Chief Deputy Nicholas Lennie of the Story County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned Thursday night time.

The Story County Sheriff’s Workplace obtained a number of 911 calls about photographs being fired exterior of Cornerstone Church at about 6:51 p.m., Lennie mentioned.

Church providers had been being held inside, however as of late Thursday night time there was no estimation about how many individuals had been within the constructing, Lennie mentioned.

No motive has but been discovered.

“We’re nonetheless investigating to establish if it was a focused assault, or if it was a random assault,” Lennie mentioned.

Hours earlier, at about 2:30 p.m., police mentioned a number of photographs had been fired on the Graceland Cemetery in Racine, Iowa, about 30 miles south of Milwaukee.

Ascension All Saints Hospital, which is subsequent to the cemetery, was treating an unspecified variety of victims, in line with The Related Press.

The AP additionally reported that it was not instantly recognized if any suspects had been in custody.

Throughout his nationally televised speech on Thursday, Biden referred to as for a ban on high-capacity magazines, background checks, pink flag legal guidelines and a repeal of the immunity that protects gun producers from authorized legal responsibility if their weapons are utilized in violence.

“There are too many different faculties, too many different day locations which have turn into killing fields, battlefields right here in America,” Biden mentioned Thursday night. “The difficulty we face is certainly one of consciousness and customary sense… I need to be very clear. This isn’t about taking away anybody’s weapons. It isn’t about vilifying gun house owners.”

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