Several people were gunned down in multiple mass shootings in Buffalo, New York; Laguna Woods, California; and Houston, Texas.
"An attack on one is an attack on all," the governor said a day after a gunman killed 10 people and injured 3 others in a racially motivated attack.
According to police, the gunman began shooting in the parking lot and then moved inside the store. Security guard Aaron Salter fired multiple shots, but none penetrated the gunman’s armor. The gunman killed Salter, who was Black, and then stalked through the aisles, shooting shoppers.When police confronted the gunman in the store’s vestibule, he put his rifle to his own neck but surrendered and dropped the gun with coaxing from the officers.
"This was pure evil. It was straight-up racially motivated hate crime from somebody outside of our community, outside of the City of Good Neighbors ... coming into our community and trying to inflict that evil upon us," Garcia said.California churchgoers detain gunman after deadly shootingon Sunday was detained by parishioners, according to a sheriff’s official who called their intervention an act of "exceptional heroism and bravery.
Between 30 and 40 people were gathered for lunch after a morning church service when gunfire erupted shortly before 1:30 p.m. local time, officials said. When deputies arrived, parishioners had the gunman hog-tied and in custody.