Memorial Day weekend gun violence kills at least 16, injures dozens: report

At least 16 people were killed and dozens more injured across the country in Memorial Day weekend shootings, NBC News reports.

The shootings occurred in at least nine states at beaches, high schools and motorcycle rallies among other locations, according to the report.

The most recent shooting occurred Monday at around 7 p.m. local time in Hollywood, Florida, where at least seven people including a 15-year-old were shot near the boardwalk. No additional details of this shooting were immediately available.

In Chicago alone, more than eight people were killed and another 32 were injured in separate shootings.

At around 3:30 p.m. Friday, five people were injured in a Baltimore shooting, all of whom suffered non-life-threatening injuries.

In Mesa, Arizona, Iren Byers, 20, was arrested in connection with a series of shootings from Friday afternoon through Saturday evening that killed four people and injured another, police said.

Byers was arrested on suspicion of four counts of first-degree murder and one count of first-degree attempted murder, police said in a news release. He is being held without bail.

On Saturday evening, a shooting at a Red River, New Mexico motorcycle rally killed three people and injured five others, including the suspect, who was arrested in connection with the shooting. The suspect, Jacob David Castillo, 30 of Rio Rancho, suffered injuries that required hospitalization and will be booked into the Taos County Detention Center after he’s released.

A Garden Grove, California shooting at a restaurant Saturday evening injured three people, two of whom were seriously injured. Patrons detained the suspect, but it’s not yet known whether he had been arrested or charged.

In Atlanta early Sunday one teenager was killed and another injured during a “unauthorized gathering” at Benjamin E. Mays High School.

In Washington D.C., one person was killed late Sunday in a shooting on a Metro Transit Green Line train at the Navy Yard station.

Three people were injured Saturday evening in a south Seattle casino shooting,

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