Topline
Some 20 people were injured and one person is dead after an overnight shooting at a Juneteenth celebration in a Chicago suburb, DuPage County police said Sunday—marking the sixth mass shooting in Illinois this month, and the 310th nationwide this year.
At least 20 people were Injured following shooting at a Juneteenth celebration.
Key Facts
DuPage County Deputy Sheriff Eric Swanson told reporters Sunday that some of the 20 injured people were transported to hospitals by ambulance and others walked in.
The patients’ wounds ranged from graze wounds to serious gunshot wounds, and two patients are in critical condition, Joe Ostander, battalion chief of the Tri-State Fire Protection District, told CNN.
The shooting took place around 12:30 a.m. in the parking lot of a strip mall in Willowbrook, Illinois—a suburban town with about 9,000 residents—where people were gathered for a Juneteenth celebration.
Police have not released information about the suspects or motive.
Key Background
This is the sixth mass shooting—defined by the Gun Violence Archive as four or more injuries or deaths—in Illinois so far this month. Another of those mass shootings also took place early Sunday morning: One person was killed and three others were wounded after a dispute in a Chicago parking garage. A shooting on Saturday left five people injured outside the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago. Early this month, seven people were wounded and one person was killed during a gathering to mourn a victim of a car crash in Chicago. Last week, an incident in Oak Park, Illinois, left four injured after a shooting during a funeral procession. One day after that shooting, four people were injured in Champaign, Illinois, after shots were fired during an impromptu gathering.
Big Number
310. That’s how many mass shootings, defined as four or more injuries or deaths, have happened in the U.S. so far this, according to the Gun Violence Archive.
Tangent
Late Saturday night, two people were killed and three people were injured after a mass shooting at the Beyond Wonderland electronic music festival in Washington. The shooting took place on campgrounds adjacent to the festival stage and organizers of the music festival have canceled Sunday’s events.
Further Reading
2 Dead, 3 Hurt In Shooting At Washington State Music Festival (Associated Press)
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/anafaguy/2023/06/18/illinois-shooting-1-killed-20-injured-at-juneteenth-celebration-in-willowbrook/