One Weekend in America: Mass Shootings Leave 10 Dead, 74 Injured

The first official weekend of summer was marked by a surge in violence, with at least thirteen mass shootings across various U.S. cities, leaving nine dead and at least 69 injured, according to the Gun Violence Archive and a Newsweek analysis.

While there is no universally accepted definition of a “mass shooting,” the Gun Violence Archive defines it as an incident where at least four victims are shot — either injured or killed — excluding the shooter.

Using this definition, mass shootings took place over the weekend in Vallejo, California; Montgomery, Alabama; Winston Salem, North Carolina; Tampa, Florida; and several others between Friday and Sunday.

Newsweek has created a map showing the locations of the weekend shootings, based on their casualty figures.

The violence started with a deadly incident in Fordyce, Arkansas, where four people were killed and nine injured in a shooting in a parking lot outside a grocery store. The suspect shot eleven people, killing three and wounding nine, whose injuries ranged from non-life-threatening to critical. A fourth person died the day after the shooting.

Later on Friday, a shooting in Meridian, Mississippi, left one person dead and three others injured.

On Saturday, Canton, also in Mississippi, saw a mass shooting at a local hangout spot, leaving five people injured and one person dead.

Also on Saturday, a shooting in Glen Allen, Virginia, outside Richmond, injured six adults.

That night, one person was killed, and seven others were hospitalized following a shooting at a club in Louisville, Kentucky.

Then in the early hours of Sunday, chaos erupted in Vallejo, California, when gunshots rang out a street takeover, injuring four people.

Hours later, in Montgomery, Alabama, a mass shooting occurred at a crowded party, where nine people were shot, and four others were injured. Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed said that more than 300 rounds were fired in the shooting.

Nine hours’ drive north, in Winston Salem, North Carolina, an 18-year-old was killed, and three others were injured in what authorities called a targeted attack.

Then in Tampa, Florida, a well-known local rapper named Foolio was killed in what appeared to be a targeted attack during his birthday celebration. Three others were injured.

In St. Louis, a mass shooting on Sunday left one person dead and five others injured.

Six others were injured in another shooting in Rochester, New York on Sunday.

In Trenton, New Jersey, a shooting injured four victims, including two who remain hospitalized with multiple gunshot wounds, according to local police.

Ten people were shot in a drive-by in Columbia, Ohio on Sunday. A 19-year-old man turned himself in to police and admitted to driving the suspect vehicle involved.

These shootings, occurring over a single weekend at the start of summer — when gun violence typically spikes — are just some of the hundreds that occur across the U.S. each year. In 2023, there were more than 630 mass shootings, according to the Gun Violence Archive, or an average of about two a day.