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Mississippi: An incident of mass shooting jolted a club located in West Point Mississippi killing one person and injuring 12 others. According to sources, the incident took place on Sunday and the law enforcement officials noted that one woman lost her life in the fateful shooting. The club in question was called Club Oasis. While speaking to CNN, Clay County Sheriff Eddie Scott said that when the deputies arrived at the site they found a 20-year-old woman dead at the site. The sheriff informed that other gunshot victims faced minor to serious injuries with one person even shot in the face.
The other gunshot victims have sustain serious injuries, with one person shot in the face. Scott said, “What we do know is that a party was advertised, and all these individuals came from other counties into our county.” He added, “About 90 per cent of the partygoers were from other counties,” CNN reported. Scott said the club had security and investigators do not know how a weapon was brought inside the club.
Speaking to sources, the sheriff said one security guard called chasing the suspected shooter believed to be holding some type of rifle as they ran across the parking lot and a four-lane highway before disappearing in the woods. Scott said “several hundred” people were estimated to have been inside the club at the time of the shooting. Officials have been working to confirm the numbers and checking whether there is video footage from inside the club at the time of shooting.
Scott said, “Per our ordinance, the club is supposed to have security cameras, but for some reason or another, last night, the club owner said his weren’t working. He said no arrests have been made so far and the probe is being conducted into the shooting.
So far this year, there have been 66 mass shooting incidents in the US, according to the Gun Violence Archive, according to sources report. The Gun Violence Archive considers a mass shooting as one in which at least four people are shot, excluding the shooter.
