Inter-Blog News Update

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2019

5 policemen injured in mass shooting in Midwest US, and 5 lives were lost.

Updated: Feb 16, 2019; Police vehicles drive to the scene where a gunman opened fire in a warehouse in Aurora, Illinois, US, Feb 15, 2019, in this still image taken from social media video. [Photo/Agencies]

IN CHICAGO, it was reported by a local police that a gunman killed five persons and injured five police officers in a manufacturing plant in Aurora, a suburb in Chica, on Friday

Aurora police chief Kristen Ziman said in a news conference that the gunman, who was also killed and identified as 45-year-old Gary Martin, attacked his place of work, the Henry Pratt Company in the city around 65 km west of Chicago, the most populous city in the US state of Illinois.

The Henry Pratt Company is one of North America's largest manufacturers of valves for potable water, waste water, power generation, industrial markets.

The chief officer said that the Police officers responded to the scene of the shooting just before 1:30 pm local time (1930 GMT) and in the process, two officers were shot immediately as they entered the company's manufacturing building

Although, an investigation is going on to know the reason for the shooting.

Sarah Sanders, US President Donald Trump's press secretary, issued a statement. It reads:  "The President has been briefed and is monitoring the ongoing situation in Aurora, IL."

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Federal Bureau of Investigation tweeted that agents from their departments were responding to the scene.

It was also reported according to the Gun Violence Archive that, this is the third time of mass shooting, where five or more people died since the beginning of this year. And this is also the deadliest mass shooting so far in 2019. The U.S. Constitution guarantees its citizens the right to possess firearms.

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