At least one person was killed and five others were injured this Sunday in a shooting at a church outside Los Angeles (California, USA), authorities reported.
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Police arrested the alleged perpetrator of the shooting, who shot multiple people at a Presbyterian church in Laguna Woods.southeast of Los Angeles.
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The Orange County Sheriff reported on Twitter that one person died at the scene, while four others are seriously injured at the hospital and a fifth has minor injuries.
“We are working to get information as quickly as possible,” the police explained.
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On Saturday, a heavily armed white youth broke into a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, and fired indiscriminately, killing 10 people and injuring three others, mostly black.
The attacker was wearing a military helmet with a camera that was broadcasting the action live on the Twitch platform.
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The federal agency FBI reported that it is investigating the attack “as a hate crime and a case of violent extremism for racial reasons.”
After that shooting, the president of the United States, Joe Biden, made an appeal this Sunday to “work together” to confront “hate.”
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