Five people, including pregnant woman, killed in 'act of mass murder' in Indianapolis
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Five people, including a pregnant woman, were found dead Sunday in Indianapolis in what the mayor called an act of mass murder.
The names and ages of the victims weren't released, and a motive wasn't immediately known. Mayor Joe Hogsett said the shooting had brought "terror to our community."
"This morning the city of Indianapolis was targeted with an act of depravity that has become all too common across the country and will never cease to shock the conscience," he told reporters.
Hogsett said evidence gathered so far suggested that the killings weren't linked to the "deadly confluence of guns, substance abuse and poverty" in Indianapolis, which he said officials had been working to address for years.
Police found the first victim, a male juvenile, around 4 a.m. local time suffering from gunshot wounds northeast of downtown Indianapolis, a police spokesman told reporters. Officers later found the bodies of five people at a home less than a half-mile away.
A pregnant woman was taken to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead, the spokesman said. The juvenile was expected to survive.
It wasn't immediately clear how the victims were connected, but Police Chief Randal Taylor told reporters that the incident didn't appear to be random.
No suspect had been identified, he said, and there was possibly more than one shooter.
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"...that has become all too common across the country..." Yes, that is very true. Welcome to America, the non-Hollywood version of the Wild Wild West.
"...and will never cease to shock the conscience." That is where I disagree, because if it really DID shock the conscience, something effective would be done about it. Shootings, having become an everyday occurrence, are nothing more than a "ho-hum-so-what-else-is-new" event in America.
In fact, I don't know why the media even bothers to report them.
Can ordinary people in China own guns?
How should the gun problem in the US be solved?
No, and they don't. In all my years here, the only time I've seen guns was when I was out walking and approached the entrance to an army base where there were two guards with guns, and when I was outside of a bank branch and two guards from an armoured money delivery van got out with mean looking rifles. Even the regular bank guards here don't have guns. but then there are no shootings, so that's the consequence.
It won't be. The gun culture in America is too deeply rooted - there is no way in the world that it will be solved.
Anoon Greg. I agree with Buzz. You can't solve it as it is far to late...it is engrained in your culture and nothing as we have seen, will ever change that.
From my window, as I see it, the only way out of having people with guns able to intimidate those without guns is for the American government to mandate thet EVERY American older than 10 years old be issued their own gun and ammunition. That will be a kind of equalization , and what will probably result from that could be such a universal bloodbath that it might cause a backlash of the necessity for NOBODY to have guns, like it or not.
LOL. What a pipe dream THAT was.
Many of us think high price is the gun problem in the US
Which is why China doesn't have mass shootings like we have here...
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The same way they do it in Germany. Or Australia, or the UK, or Norway, or Canada, or quite literally any other developed democratic nation on Earth. Basically any way other than ours. I do not think it is a secret why we are the only developed country on the planet with this kind of problem.
I don't think we are entirely hopeless, just way to lazy to do the required work or put in the effort.
But yeah, we are stuck with mass murder as part of the American way of life I think.
It's part of a package, with insane denialism and abject conspiracy theories.
This is simply horrifying. I wonder how long it will take to get some answers.
Juvenile under arrest.
Damn. I think that what bothers me the most is that people may never know why this kid decided to do this... not that there's any real justification, but what that kid believed was a justification.
New reporting states the killer was the son of the man and wife who lived there, the son was being scolded by the father for going out without asking permission first. What a shame that the family is dead and this boy has thrown away his life.
Thank you for the update though.
I am a little surprised that no one has yet to complain or take issue with the term "unborn child".
I think it's awful all the way around!
It is a stupid phrase that doesn't actually make sense, but meh.
Oh yeah, with the pandemic and everything I kinda forgot that these sort or things are part of America's version of normal. Hopefully we can start returning to normalcy except without this kind of shit.
On a different note, how long after schools open back up before we have our first school shooting? Any bets?