As crowds gathered to celebrate the Nuggets’ first NBA championship, authorities reported a mass shooting in downtown Denver left at least nine people injured, as per CNN.
Police reported that shots were fired after a large-scale confrontation involving numerous people hours after the Denver Nuggets defeated the Miami Heat at the Ball Arena a short distance away.
The shooting may or may not be related to the festivities, according to the police. According to police, they are undertaking a “complex investigation,” as per CNN.
Three of the nine people who were shot are in serious condition, and the other six are thought to have non-life-threatening wounds, according to authorities. Police said a suspect who had also been shot was taken into custody.
According to authorities, the shooting was reported in the 2000 block of Market Street, close to 20th Street. As seen on film, hundreds of fans had gathered at the crossroads and the streets nearby to celebrate the NBA championship.
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According to the Gun Violence Archive, which classifies a mass shooting as an occurrence in which four or more people are hurt or killed, there have been over 200 mass shootings in the US so far this year. Both domestic and public shootings are included in their statistics.
In the past week, there have been two in Texas: five people were killed at a residence in Cleveland, north of Houston, and eight at a mall in Allen, close to Dallas. There have been more than 600 mass shootings in each of the last three years, or about two every day on average.
According to the most recent statistics from the Small Arms Survey, a Swiss-based research organization, there were 390 million firearms in use in the US in 2018.
The US now has 120.5 firearms per 100 citizens, up from 88 per 100 in 2011. This ratio is far higher than that of other nations in the globe.
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More recent data from the US indicates that there has been a major increase in gun ownership in recent years. According to a study that was released in February by the Annals of Internal Medicine, 7.5 million US individuals acquired their first firearm between January 2019 and April 2021.
As a result, 11 million people—including 5 million children—were exposed to firearms in their homes. At that time, 40% of new gun owners were either black or Hispanic, and around half of them were women.
