1 Dead, 8 Wounded in Shooting After Magic City Classic HBCU Game: Police
Police say the shooting broke out among vendors near Legion Field after the largest HBCU football game.
Police say the shooting broke out among vendors near Legion Field after the largest HBCU football game.
The Erie County coroner identified the gunman as Matthew Stone Sr., 45, and named six of the eight people killed, including a pregnant 24-year-old.
Julius Windham, whose 1-year-old daughter was among eight killed in Erie, said the gunman was a grandfather who never seemed distressed.
Erie’s police chief called the circumstances ‘deeply disturbing’ and unlike anything in his 28-year career.
In a significant legislative move, the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, signed into law by Biden on June 25, 2022, addresses the troubling rise in mass shootings involving young perpetrators. According to The New York Times, six of the nine deadliest mass shootings in the United States since 2018 were carried out by individuals aged 21…