A potential gun buyer inspects a handgun at a US gun show (file photo).
In another US shooting, a man in US state of Texas kills one and injures five, including a police official, while firing randomly from his pick-up truck.
The shooter, only identified as a 23-year-old from the state of North Carolina, was eventually killed in a shootout with local law enforcement officers after driving around and randomly targeting people at multiple scenes early Sunday morning.
Police authorities recovered Å“an assault rifle, a handgun and hundreds of rounds of ammunition” from the shooting suspect, according to a statement issues by the Texas Department of Public Safety.
The shootings began in the in the central Texas city of Eden in Concho County, where half of its population of nearly 2,800 are prison inmates in the cityâ„¢s privately-owned detention center.
The suspect then reportedly wounded two more people a short time later as they sat in their vehicle outside a convenience store in the nearby city of Brady. He then returned to Eden, where he fired on another vehicle and wounded another person.
The person killed in the shooting spree was identified as 41-year-old Alicia Torres, who was found shot to death in her vehicle.
Shooting incidents across the US continue unabated as the nationâ„¢s lawmakers have refused to consider legislation to better control guns and even enforce stricter background checks for gun buyers following last Decemberâ„¢s shooting massacre of 20 children and 7 adults at a Connecticut Elementary School.
Every year, more than 30,000 people are shot and killed in the US.
The United States averages 87 shooting deaths per day as the result of gun violence, with an average of 183 injured, according to the University of Chicago Crime Lab and the Centers for Disease Control.
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This article originally appeared on: Press TV