People march to the Capitol to protest for a ban on assault weapons, in Washington, D.C., the United States, on April 17. Four people were killed and at least 28 others injured in a shooting at a birthday party on Saturday night in the small Alabama town of Dadeville, the United States, authorities said Sunday. This incident took the United States to a bleak milestone of more than 160 mass shootings so far this year, with 12,277 deaths from gun violence, according to a database run by the nonprofit research group Gun Violence Archive. - Pic: XINHUA
AFP reported that two African American cheerleaders were shot in a Texas parking lot after one mistakenly tried to enter the wrong car, part of a spate of similar incidents this week in the United States.
The gunman fired multiple shots at the young women, seriously wounding one, police reported.
