当局称，本周末在加州、南卡罗来纳州、密歇根州和科罗拉多州举行的6月10日庆祝活动、费城的一次高中毕业派对和巴吞鲁日的一场音乐会都受到枪支暴力的破坏，有5人死亡，24人受伤。
乔·拜登总统周四签署了一项法案，将6月19日定为联邦假日，以纪念美国奴隶制的结束——正好赶上周六的6月19日纪念日。自内战时代以来，这是美国黑人每年庆祝的一天，这个周末是倡导者十年来为美国历史上的重大发展获得全国认可的努力的高潮。
但是周六下午6点22分左右，加利福尼亚州的奥克兰发生了枪击事件，人们聚集在梅里特湖边庆祝6月1日成为联邦假日。奥克兰警察局称有7人被枪杀，其中包括一名因伤致死的22岁男子。
警方估计，超过1000人在湖边，尽管警方为6月10日的庆祝活动加强了警力，但枪击事件还是发生了。手机视频显示，人们在接二连三的枪击中奔跑和寻找掩护。
据警方发言人说，枪击发生后，警方立即发现并逮捕了两名携带枪支逃离现场的男子。
奥克兰市长利比·沙夫(Libby Schaaf)谴责了这起枪击事件，并赞扬了警察对混乱现场的快速反应。
沙夫在一份声明中说:“我们梅里特湖的欢乐时刻被无谓的枪支暴力行为破坏了。”。「该区警方照顾受害人，并在现场附近拘捕两名携带枪械的人士。调查正在进行，将确定他们是否与枪击事件有关。我们同情受害者的家人和朋友。”
全国至少有三个其他的六月庆祝活动以枪击告终。
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晚上街上有警灯。
科罗拉多六月庆典发射了114发子弹
据警方称，在科罗拉多州奥罗拉，周日凌晨4点左右，一场在一家大型购物中心举行的通宵派对结束，多名持枪歹徒发射了多达114发子弹，造成一人死亡，四人受伤。
奥罗拉警方称没有逮捕任何人。
奥罗拉市长迈克·科菲曼(Mike Coffman)在推特上说，枪击事件促使他与警察局长瓦妮莎·威尔逊(Vanessa Wilson)安排了一次紧急研究会议，“讨论我们社区的枪支暴力水平，以及该部门正在采取什么行动来降低这一水平。”
南卡罗来纳州庆祝会上一名少年被枪杀
据约克县警长办公室称，在南卡罗来纳州的克洛弗，周六晚上11:30左右，在6月10日的庆祝活动中，三人被枪杀，其中包括一名17岁的严重受伤者，他被空运到北卡罗来纳州夏洛特的一家医院。当局表示，枪击中还有几辆汽车被击中。
没有人被捕，袭击的动机仍在调查中。
六月游行中，一名女子在与警察的枪战中死亡
当局说，在密歇根州的弗林特，一名19岁的妇女在六月游行附近被警察开枪打死，据称她向警察开枪。据正在调查此事的密歇根州警方称，枪击事件发生在下午2点刚过，当时这名姓名未立即公布的女子在自己的车里，据称在接近6月份游行时至少开了一枪，当时这名警察正在一个交通点工作。
警方说，这名没有受伤的警察回击了袭击者。这名妇女在医院被宣布死亡。
警方说，枪击的动机正在调查中。
音乐会后2人被枪杀
与此同时，在路易斯安那州的巴吞鲁日，警方正在调查一场音乐会后爆发的斗殴事件。
据巴吞鲁日警察局的小让·麦克凯利中士说，枪击发生在周日凌晨2点左右，当时人们正离开首都公园酒吧和烧烤店的音乐会。麦克尼利说，调查人员认为，在音乐会场地附近的一个停车场，多人拔出枪并开火。
在枪击中丧生的两个人被警方确认为25岁的基伦·沃尔顿和20岁的拉达里斯·亚历山大。警方称，另有四人被枪击受伤。
警方周日正在努力识别嫌疑人并确定枪击动机。
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警方称，在费城，多名枪手向30名参加高中毕业派对的人开枪50枪，导致3人被枪杀。枪击发生在周六晚上7点25分左右，地点在西费城的一所房子里。
警方说，在枪击中受伤的有一名36岁的妇女、一名21岁的男子和一名18岁的男子。枪击事件中没有人被捕。
“显然，这里涉及多种武器，”费城警察局的D.F .佩斯探长在枪击现场附近的新闻发布会上说。“很自然，你有一个家庭正在聚会庆祝他们的一个孩子高中毕业后的进步，他们不得不承受这些。太昧良心了。”
这一事件发生在费城奥弗布鲁克区两名男子被枪杀，一名3岁儿童受伤五小时后。枪击发生在下午2点30分左右的一条街上，警方表示，这名儿童似乎是在交火中被击中腿部多次。没有逮捕任何人，被杀的两个人的名字也没有立即公布。
根据警察局的数据，与全国其他大城市类似，费城2021年上半年的枪击事件比2020年同期增加了27%，凶杀案比去年增加了37%。
虽然该国18，000个警察机构目前关于暴力犯罪的全国数据落后，但在2021年，一些城市的暴力犯罪有了显著增加，如纽约市，截至5月底，该市的枪击案激增77%，谋杀案增加17%。根据芝加哥的数据，2021年迄今为止，芝加哥已有1500多人被枪杀，比去年同期增加了18%。
亚特兰大警察局上周表示，2021年前五个月的凶杀案比去年同期增长了58%。据警方称，巴吞鲁日今年报告了70多起凶杀案，而2021年全年为51起。
据报道，今年至少有137名11岁及以下的儿童死于枪击，另有343人受伤枪支暴力档案一个追踪全国枪击事件的在线数据库。
费城警察局长丹妮尔·奥特洛在一份声明中说:“当我们中的许多人第一次将6月18日庆祝为联邦政府认可的节日时，我们再次发现自己为一个原本美丽的下午被枪支暴力玷污而感到悲伤。”
奥特洛说，她对孩子被枪杀感到特别愤怒。
“每一次枪支暴力行为都是悲剧性的。然而，当受害者是我们最脆弱的群体时，这尤其令人不安和恶心，”奥特洛说。“我们绝不应该容忍针对我们孩子的暴力，因为我们所有人——不仅仅是警察——都有责任保护他们免受危险和伤害。”
Juneteenth celebrations, graduation party, concert all marred by weekend gun violence
Juneteenth celebrations this weekend in California, South Carolina, Michigan and Colorado, a high school graduation party in Philadelphia and a concert in Baton Rouge were all marred by gun violence as five people were killed and 24 were wounded, authorities said.
President Joe Biden signed a bill Thursday making Juneteenth a federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States -- just in time for Saturday's June 19 anniversary. It's a day Black Americans have celebrated yearly since the Civil War era, and this weekend was the culmination of a decadeslong effort by advocates to get national recognition for the momentous development in American history.
But gunfire erupted around 6:22 p.m. on Saturday in Oakland, California, near where people were gathered by Lake Merritt for a celebration marking the first Juneteenth as a federal holiday. The Oakland Police Department said seven people were shot, including a 22-year-old man who died from his wounds.
Police estimated that more than 1,000 people were at the lake and that the shooting unfolded despite a beefed-up police presence for the Juneteenth celebration. Cellphone video showed people running and seeking cover from a barrage of shots.
In the immediate aftermath of the shooting, officers spotted and arrested two men running from the scene with firearms, according to a police department spokesperson.
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf condemned the shooting and praised police officers for their quick response to the chaotic scene.
"A joyous occasion at our Lake Merritt was marred by a senseless act of gun violence," Schaaf said in a statement. "Police in the area tended to victims and apprehended two people with firearms near the scene. The investigation is ongoing and will determine if they are connected to the shooting. Our thoughts are with the family and friends of the victims."
At least three other Juneteenth celebrations across the country ended in shootings.
114 rounds fired at Colorado Juneteenth celebration
In Aurora, Colorado, an all-night Juneteenth party at a strip mall was ending around 4 a.m. on Sunday when multiple gunmen unleashed up to 114 rounds, leaving one man dead and four other people wounded, according to police officials.
Aurora police said no arrests were made.
Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman said on Twitter that the shooting prompted him to schedule an emergency study session with Police Chief Vanessa Wilson "on the level of gun violence in our community and what actions the department is taking to bring it down."
Teenager shot at South Carolina celebration
In Clover, South Carolina, three people were shot around 11:30 p.m. Saturday at a Juneteenth celebration, including a 17-year-old who was seriously injured and airlifted to a hospital in Charlotte, North Carolina, according to the York County Sheriff's Office. Authorities said several cars were also struck during the shooting.
No arrests have been made, and a motive for the attack remains under investigation.
Woman dies in shootout with cop at Juneteenth parade
In Flint, Michigan, a 19-year-old woman was shot and killed by a police officer near a Juneteenth parade after she allegedly opened fire on the officer, authorities said. The shooting unfolded just after 2 p.m., when the woman, whose name was not immediately released, was in her car and allegedly fired at least one shot as she approached the officer, who was working a traffic point at the Juneteenth parade, according to Michigan State Police, which is investigating the incident.
The officer, who was not injured, returned fire, striking the assailant, police said. The woman was pronounced dead at a hospital.
A motive for the shooting is being investigated, police said.
2 shot dead following concert
Meanwhile, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, police are investigating a shooting that broke out when a fight erupted after a concert.
The shooting happened around 2 a.m. Sunday, as people were leaving the concert at the Capital Park Bar & Grill, according to Sgt. L'Jean McKneely Jr. of the Baton Rouge Police Department. McKneely said investigators believe multiple people drew guns and opened fire in a parking lot near the concert venue.
The two people killed in the shooting were identified by the police as Kyren Walton, 25, and Ladarius Alexander, 20. Four other people were shot and wounded, police said.
Police were working Sunday to identify the suspects and determine the motive of the shooting.
3 shot at graduation party
In Philadelphia, three people were shot when multiple shooters fired up to 50 shots at 30 people attending a high school graduation party, police said. The shooting broke out about 7:25 p.m. Saturday at a house in West Philadelphia.
Injured in the shooting were a 36-year-old woman, a 21-year-old man and an 18-year-old man, police said. No one has been arrested in the shooting.
"Obviously, multiple weapons are involved here," Inspector D.F. Pace of the Philadelphia Police Department said at a news conference near the scene of the shooting. "Naturally, you have a family that is gathering to celebrate the advancement of one of their kids having graduated high school, and they have to suffer this. It's unconscionable."
The episode came just five hours after two men were fatally shot and a 3-year-old child was wounded in the Overbrook section of Philadelphia. The shooting occurred in a street at about 2:30 p.m., and police said it appears the child was caught in the crossfire and was hit multiple times in the legs. No arrests were made, and the names of the two men killed were not immediately released.
Similar to other large cities across the country, Philadelphia has seen a 27% increase in shootings in the first half of 2021 compared to the same time period in 2020, and homicides are up 37% over last year, according to the police department.
While current national data on violent crime from the country's 18,000 police agencies lags behind, there have been marked increases in 2021 in some cities, such as New York City, which experienced a 77% surge in shootings and a 17% increase in murder through the end of May. More than 1,500 people have been shot in Chicago so far in 2021 -- an 18% increase from the same time period last year, according to the city's data.
The Atlanta Police Department said last week that its homicide cases in the first five months of 2021 were up 58% over the same period as last year. Baton Rouge has reported more than 70 homicides this year compared to 51 in all of 2021, according to police.
At least 137 children aged 11 and younger have died in shooting this year, and another 343 have been injured, according to theGun Violence Archive, an online database that tracks shootings across the country.
"As many of us began the day celebrating Juneteenth for the first time as a federally recognized holiday, we again found ourselves lamenting as an otherwise beautiful afternoon had been sullied with gun violence," Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said in a statement.
Outlaw said she is especially outraged by the shooting of the child.
"Every act of gun violence is tragic. However, it is especially disturbing and sickening when the victims are among our most vulnerable," Outlaw said. "We should never tolerate violence against our children, as all of us -- not just the police -- are charged with the responsibility to keep them safe from danger and harm."
