警方称，周六晚上，新泽西南部一户人家的户外生日派对在接二连三的枪击中结束，造成两人死亡，12人受伤。
周日上午，在坎伯兰县，对身份不明的袭击者的大规模搜索仍在继续。午夜前，新泽西州费尔菲尔德附近布里奇顿的一所大房子发生了大规模枪击事件，促使派对狂欢者潜入水中寻找掩护或逃命。
据新泽西州警方称，一名30岁的男子和一名25岁的女子被枪杀，十几名受伤的成年人被送往医院，其中一人情况危急。被枪杀的两个人的名字没有立即公布。
一名参加聚会的人告诉美国广播公司电视台，他自称是被枪杀女子的叔叔费城的WPVI他的侄女是个“好女孩”,他“非常伤心”
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2021年5月23日，调查人员在新泽西州费尔菲尔德镇的枪击现场工作。
WPVI直升机的空中视频显示了爆发混乱的证据，帐篷和椅子倒塌，碎片散落在财产上。
警方官员说，枪击的动机仍在调查中。警方要求任何了解该事件的人立即联系州调查人员。
有人看到警察在枪击发生的房子和附近的树林区对面的墓地里搜寻。
据社区领导人说，100多人参加了生日聚会，这是一个以20世纪90年代为主题的活动。
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2021年5月23日，新泽西州费尔菲尔德镇，警察聚集在枪击现场。
附近三一AME教堂的牧师迈克尔·基恩告诉WPVI，“我刚开始听到我以为是烟火的声音，实际上是枪声，而且我听到了连续九声。”。“如果你要去参加聚会，为什么需要带枪?如果你是来玩的，为什么你需要带把枪?这意味着你在期待给我带来麻烦。”
这起枪击事件发生在全国枪支暴力激增之际，标志着47天来至少第三次有多人在生日派对上被枪击。
马特·洛克/美联社
2021年5月23日，调查人员在新泽西州费尔菲尔德镇的枪击现场工作。
警方称，5月6日，六名成年人在科罗拉多州科罗拉多斯普林斯的生日庆典上被一名自杀枪手枪杀。4月5日，一位母亲和她的两个女儿在纽约布鲁克林的一个9岁女孩的生日派对上被枪杀，她藏在一个房间里，打了911，告诉接线员杀人是她的父亲所为，后来发现他在自杀后死亡。
新泽西州州长菲尔·墨菲(Phil Murphy)谴责该州最近的枪支悲剧是“卑鄙和懦弱的行为”，并呼吁美国人要求通过和执行“强有力的常识性枪支安全法”。
墨菲在一份声明中说:“任何社区都不应该经历昨晚在费尔菲尔德发生的事情。”。
2 dead, 12 injured in New Jersey birthday party shooting
An outdoor birthday party at a southern New Jersey home ended in a barrage of gunfire Saturday night that left two people dead and 12 injured, police said.
A massive search for the unidentified assailant continued Sunday morning in Cumberland County, where the mass shooting broke out at a large home in Bridgeton, New Jersey, near Fairfield, just before midnight, prompting party revelers to dive for cover or run for their lives.
A 30-year-old man and a 25-year-old woman were fatally shot, and a dozen other injured adults were taken to hospitals, including one in critical condition, according to the New Jersey State Police. The names of the two people fatally shot were not immediately released.
One partygoer described himself as the uncle of the woman shot to death, telling ABC stationWPVI in Philadelphiathat his niece was "a good girl" and he is "absolutely heartbroken."
Aerial video from WPVI's helicopter showed evidence of the chaos that erupted, with tents and chairs toppled and debris strewn across the property.
A motive for the shooting remains under investigation, police officials said. Police ask anyone with information about the episode to contact state investigators immediately.
Police officers were seen combing through a cemetery across the street from the home where the shooting occurred and an adjacent wooded area.
More than 100 people were attending the birthday party, which was a 1990s-themed event, according to community leaders.
"I just started hearing at first what I thought was fireworks, it was really gunshots, and I heard nine in rapid succession," Rev. Michael Keene of the nearby Trinity AME Church, told WPVI. "If you're going to a party, why do you need to take a gun? If you're there to have a good time, why do you need a gun with you? That means you're expecting trouble to me."
The shooting comes during a surge in gun violence across the country and marked at least the third time in 47 days that multiple people have been shot at birthday parties.
On May 6, six adults were fatally shot at a birthday celebration in Colorado Springs, Colorado, by a gunman who died by suicide, police said. On April 5, a mother and her two daughters were fatally shot at a birthday party in Brooklyn, New York, for a 9-year-old girl, who hid in a room and called 911, telling an operator the slayings were committed by her father, who was later found dead after taking his own life.
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy condemned the latest gun tragedy in his state as a "despicable and cowardly act" and called on Americans to demand the passage and enforcement of "strong common-sense gun safety laws."
"No community should ever experience what occurred last night in Fairfield," Murphy said in a statement.
