After Roger Hartley lost his friend Mark Hummels to gun violence in January, he realized Hummels was the ninth person he knew who’d been killed or injured by a gun. So he posed a question to his Facebook friends: “How many people have you known who’ve been the victims of gun violence? Suicide, accidental, murder. No politics. No judgment. Just a number.”
The responses poured in. Hartley realized that virtually everyone had a number: one, a dozen, twenty. Joe Heim, an articles editor at The Washington Post Magazine, had gone to Berkeley with Hummels, and decided to take the question to various Washingtonians. He found that even the mayor has a number. (Three.)
Aurora Vasquez, whose niece was shot and killed by her boyfriend, counts only one. That is enough.
“Rest assured that this kind of sorrow, it’s the kind of sorrow that quite literally settles into your bones,” she told Heim. “And it never goes away. And nothing is ever the same.”
Here’s today’s gun report. We will return again Monday.
Three people are dead after a shooting at a home in the Watts section of Los Angeles. Officials responding to a domestic disturbance call around 3 a.m. Friday found a man dead in a vehicle in front of the home. A man then began firing at officers from inside the house, creating a standoff. He killed his wife and himself. Three children – 8, 6 and 1 – were rescued from the home.
A quadruple shooting killed two people and injured two others Thursday night in a home in Jackson, Miss. Joshua Hurst, 25, became upset about a dice game when he started shooting. Ronnie J. Williams, 33, who was shot several times, died at the scene. Kendra Hill, 28, died at a local hospital during surgery. Jason Kimble, 29, and Laquintin Carter, 21, both suffered non-life-threatening gunshot wounds. Hurst is a convicted felon and a warrant has been issued for his attest.
—WAPT
Michael Easter, a 3-year-old boy in Liberty Township, Mich., died after he accidentally shot himself in the head while alone in his parents’ bedroom. Police are unsure how the boy gained access to the gun. Michael was home with his mother and two sisters at the time. An investigation is ongoing.
A teenage boy shot in the face while playing Russian roulette has died from his injuries. Brandon Kuiper, 16, who died Friday afternoon in West Olive, Mich., was shot by Richard Usher, 18, at a home in Tallmadge Township. According to investigators, drugs and alcohol were involved.
—WZZM
A woman is suspected of shooting and wounding a man on Friday afternoon in a Seattle parks department building in what authorities believe is an episode of workplace violence. The suspect, Carolyn Piksa, 46, an employee of the Parks and Recreation Department, fled from the scene in north Seattle Friday and was later apprehended.
Two people died in a suspected murder-suicide at a shopping center in Mesa, Ariz., Thursday evening. A man and a woman died from gunshot wounds just before 6 p.m. at Vietnamese restaurant, and another person suffered a gunshot wound to the hip.
Two men are dead and another person was injured in a shooting early Friday at a north Minneapolis party. Officers were called to an “after hours establishment” with 100 people in attendance, where they found one man dead inside the building and another victim fatally wounded outside. A third man suffered non-life threatening injuries and is being treated. No suspects are in custody.
—KARE
According to Slate’s gun-death tracker, an estimated 2,519 people have died as a result of gun violence in America since the Newtown massacre on December 14, 2012.
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