Two people were killed and two others wounded in a shooting Saturday night in Rock Hill, S.C., police said.
A 44-year-old woman and a 21-year-old man were pronounced dead at the scene of a block party in the city just across the state border from Charlotte, N.C. Their names were not immediately released.
A 25-year-old woman was shot in the arm, and a 24-year-old man suffered a grave wound, the Rock Hill Herald reported.
No suspects have been arrested or publicly identified in connection with the gunfire.
Authorities responded around 10 p.m. to reports of a shooting at a block party in the city of 75,000 people, according to the Herald. Officers found the two deceased victims and the wounded woman at the scene. The wounded man arrived at the hospital on his own, police said.
Cops release no further information on the shooting or any possible motive.
The mayhem in South Carolina was one of three mass shootings overnight across the U.S. No suspects have been arrested or named in any of the incidents.
Just after midnight at an outdoor party in Akron, Ohio, one person was killed and 24 others wounded when gunfire erupted on the street. Any possible motive for that shooting remains unclear, but authorities said there was not a threat to the larger community.
And in Penn Hills, Pa., an eastern Pittsburgh suburb, two people were killed and seven others wounded when multiple people exchanged gunfire inside a bar, police said.
There have now been 191 mass shootings in the U.S. in 2024, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which counts any shooting with at least four victims as a mass shooting. There were 655 such incidents in 2023.
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