At least one person has died and another is in ‘critical condition’ after a shooting took place at an Oakland spa in California on Tuesday.

The victims had been transported promptly to a hospital when the Oakland Police reached the scene of the crime, but one of the victims succumbed to their injuries.

The incident took place around 10am local time at the Kume Spa, located on 614 Grand Avenue near the Lake Merritt in Oakland, and police have put out a statement saying that it does not look like a “random act of violence.”

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Reports also suggest that the gunman fled the scene after the shooting two people, but it has not been confirmed by the police yet.

Anyone with any information about the shooter or the incident has been asked to contact the Felony Assault Section at its helpline number, (510) 238-3426.

An investigation is underway and further details are awaited.

The news comes on a day when a shooting at the South Education Center in Richfield, Minnesota left a student dead and another critically injured. Another shooting at the Bridgewater College in Virginia resulted in two police officers getting shot before the active shooter was apprehended.

Gun violence in the US has soared since the turn of the year, and several shootings have taken place over the month of January, leaving both civilians and police personnel dead.

In fact, data from the Gun Violence Archive (GVA) shows that President Joe Biden’s first year in office was far worse in terms of gun violence than former President Donald Trump’s first year. According to GVA data, the US recorded 20,783 deaths from murders, accidental homicides, and justifiable self-defence homicides involving firearms in 2021, far higher than the tally of 15,727 in Trump’s first year of office in 2017.