2 dead, 5 injured in US school graduation shooting

By Agence France-Presse

Jun 07, 2023 1:21 pm

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Two people were killed and five injured on Tuesday during a shooting near a high school graduation in the US state of Virginia, police said, the latest in an epidemic of mass shootings plaguing the country.

The shooting took place around 5 p.m. (2100 GMT) outside a theater in the state capital of Richmond, where students from a local high school were celebrating their graduation, Richmond interim police chief Rick Edwards told reporters.

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