While the national media continue to re-run the various nuance stories stemming from shooter Eliot Rogers (shot 3 people, and stabbed 3 others, killing 6 in California), there have been three other mass shootings the same weekend without so much as a snippet of attention on CNN or other National Media.
• The First non-reported shootings were in Myrtle Beach where 10 people where shot, and 3 killed, during memorial day “Bike Week“. (link)
• The Second silent shooting was in Tampa/Clearwater Florida where a crowd of 15 people at a hotel came under fire from another gunman, again on Memorial day this time four people where shot. Luckily no-one was killed. (link)
• The Third unmentionable was in New Orleans, Louisiana, where a group of 150 people were gathered to celebrate a graduation. A solo gunman opened fire on the crowd killing one and wounding seven others. (link)
Why did you hear about the California shooting but not hear about the other mass shootings ? You decide.
NEW ORLEANS – Police on Wednesday arrested a teenager accused of opening fire into a crowd at a Gentilly graduation party over the weekend, killing a 15-year-old boy and wounding seven others.
Zachary Gibson, 19, (pictured) sprayed bullets into a crowd of at least 150 people gathered to celebrate a high school graduation, New Orleans police say. The boy who died, Tremaine Robertson, 15, was the brother of the graduate being feted.
[…] The gunfire erupted shortly before midnight Friday (May 23), at a single-family house in the 6200 block of Eads Street during a party for JeShan Vail, 18, who just graduated from George Washington Carver High School. He said Robertson was an “innocent bystander.”
Robertson was visiting from Spring, Texas, where his family moved to after Hurricane Katrina. Part of the reason his family stayed away was due to Robertson’s mother’s concerns about crime in New Orleans, Vail told a reporter on Saturday.
[…] Bullets struck and wounded four women, ages 19 to 30, and three men, ages 22 to 25, police said. The 19-year-old underwent surgery, according to police. The others were in stable condition right away. (read more)
