A bank building in downtown Louisville,Kentucky,has become the scene of America’s latest mass shooting.
“We called for you all to ban assault weapons,and you respond with an assault on democracy,” said representative Justin Jones before being kicked out of the Tennessee House of Representatives.
In an apparent suicide message minutes before the rampage,28-year-old Audrey Hale wrote an Instagram note to a former school basketball teammate that declared:“I’m planning to die today.”
The attacker,who police said identified as transgender,wielded two “assault-style” rifles and a pistol in the latest US mass shooting,police said.
The first-time congressman represents the Tennessee district that includes the school where a 28-year-old has killed at least six people.
Dylan Lyons has been named as the American TV journalist who was killed while reporting on the fatal shooting of a woman in Orlando.
The gunman opened fire on two television journalists,killing one and wounding the other before fatally shooting a nine-year-old girl.
In a speech to a raucous chamber Congress,the US President talked up his economic gains,while appearing to lay the groundwork for a re-election bid.
There’s been no shortage of examples to remind me of the grim reality of American gun culture. The closest happened near the doorstep of my Washington DC apartment.
Even after the 72-year-old shooter brought a submachine gun-style weapon into another nearby dance hall,there was still no alert to the public.
As investigations continue,it also emerged the shooter had visited police to say that his family was poisoning him.