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Gun violence in the US is more or less part of everyday life. Not a week goes by without a shooting. According to US media, there will be mass shootings in 2023.

It’s June – mid-year and the US database “Gun Violence Archive” currently lists 311 “mass shootings”. To date, 128 children (0 to 11 years) have been killed by firearms. Among the 12 to 17-year-olds, there are more than 700.

Firearms are considered the number one cause of death in the United States. For example, they die in schools and shopping centers – but also for reasons so trivial that you can hardly believe them.

As of 2023, Watson summarizes seven egregious cases where people in the US have been in the line of fire — and even lost their lives.

Ball rolls into neighbour’s yard

It’s a beautiful spring evening in North Carolina, USA. Several children play with the ball in the street, but then shots are fired.

The parents run to their children. A father throws himself over his 6-year-old daughter. Bullets pierced his lungs and liver, but Jamie White could only think about getting his daughter to safety, he tells the American broadcaster “NBC”.

A neighbor had opened fire on the children. Your crime: you wanted to get the basketball out of his yard.

“I was already hit. I lost my breath. I was on fire. I really thought I wouldn’t make it,” says White. But thanks to him, his daughter Kinsley survived. She suffered an abrasion on her left cheek – but the wound in her soul is apparently bigger and will take a long time to heal. need to heal.

The 24-year-old perpetrator, Robert Louis Singletary, also hit the girl’s mother, Ashley Hilderbrand, in the elbow. Meanwhile, Singletary has been arrested by the authorities. According to the American media, all those affected survived the incident.

Ringing the doorbell at the wrong door

In the US state of Missouri, 16-year-old Ralph Yarl wants to pick up his younger brothers from a friend. However, he rings the doorbell at the wrong door. An 84-year-old man then shot him in the head.

According to the New York Times, the man again aimed at the boy when he was already on the ground and hit his arm. Somehow Ralph managed to get to another house near another house, bleeding. There he was told to lie down on the ground while someone called for help.

The case sparked outrage – US Vice President Kamala Harris also spoke on Twitter: “No child should ever fear being shot for ringing the wrong doorbell.”

The Public Prosecution Service is filing a complaint against the homeowner. And the boy? He has recovered from the gunshot wounds. For civil rights lawyer Lee Merritt it is like a miracle, he writes on Twitter with a photo of himself and Yarl.

Play hide and seek on the neighbour’s property

A man shot and killed a 14-year-old girl in Louisiana. The Reason: She was playing hide and seek on his property.

According to the sheriff’s office, several minors played hide and seek, including on David Van Doyle’s property, NBC reports. The 58-year-old allegedly told detectives that he saw “shadows” in front of his home.

He then took his gun, then “he went back outside and saw people running away from his property, after which he started shooting at her, unknowingly hitting the girl»is it[called[genaamd

Van Doyle was arrested and charged with aggravated assault, quadruple aggravated assault with a firearm and illegally firing a firearm, the sheriff’s office said. The girl suffered a gunshot wound to the back of her head, but survived the incident.

Park in the wrong driveway

Young people drive a car in a rural area in upstate New York. The roads are difficult to drive on and cell phone reception is poor. You are looking for a friend’s house. They accidentally hit the wrong entrance and come under fire.

The homeowner fires two shots from the porch. They fatally hit 20-year-old passenger Kaylin Gillis.

The driver of the car later told CNN that he, his late girlfriend and two friends were looking to party. “We had no cell phone reception to find out. When we saw we were at the wrong address, we drove off and that’s when everything happened.”

The perpetrator has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with the girl’s death, sources say.

Car sound too loud

A young woman drives her car in California. A bullet hits her out of the blue. Ground: A local resident is annoyed by the noise of cars racing through his street at night.

According to «NBC», 39-year-old Bernard Jimmerson fires at passing cars with an assault rifle. With fatal consequences: A bullet hits 21-year-old Marie Bedford in the head. She dies at the scene of the accident.

Prosecutors have charged the perpetrator with first-degree murder, firing into an occupied vehicle, possession of an assault rifle, possession of a gun and ammunition by a felon, and weaponry, it said.

Ask for silence so the baby can sleep

A man appears to be firing a gun around his backyard in Texas. His neighbors ask him to stop as the noise wakes up their baby. The perpetrator then opens fire and literally goes on a rampage.

According to “CNN”, several people were shot near the house. Two women are said to have thrown themselves protectively over their children, who survived as a result. However, among the five victims is a nine-year-old boy.

The offender was charged with five counts of first-degree murder.

Accidentally got into the wrong car

It’s easy to confuse your own car in the dark. That became the downfall of a girl in Texas. In a parking lot, she opens the door of a vehicle that looks like hers. Apparently this went too far for the car owner and he started shooting at her and her boyfriend.

Payton Washington and Heather Roth escape with their lives. But according to The Guardian, Washington expects a long healing process.

Washington was shot in the back and leg. On Instagram, she announces that she works every day to make her feel better. The question is, will she ever be able to pursue her passion for cheerleading like before?

The young women are cheerleaders for the Woodlands Elite Cheer Company and were on their way home from practice when the incident occurred.